You ever get to the point where...

[Brandon]

you've been hard at work for a few hours, gluing, painting, and assembling, and you look over and you are down to like two or three parts and the thing is DONE? Izzat a really cool feeling, or what? Almost as cool as the first mock-up... lol.

I finished a build last night that began as a late night brain fart more than four years ago.... four. I became refueled on it after getting a three-engined Bison puller tractor, and then again with the decals from the Name Game contest, and then got stalled again... but this week I caught the fever and thrashed it until it was finished. I was applying the decals last night and was more excited than I've been in a while. My girl got a real kick out of it as I was talking to myself and walking around it to eyeball it from different angles....It lives. It went from 'what if' to 'check it out'.... and it's cool... The Psyco Sidewinder lives.... Muwhahahahaha.

I'll post a few pics this weekend, but now I'm all jazzed up and want to leave work early and work on the other cars on the burners.... must.... focus.... on work...... ;D

[Tim Nolan]

I remember the beginnings of your build, look forward to seeing the finished product! (I have a particular interest, because I submitted this name for the Name Game contest!)

I know what you mean about getting to the end. It feels d*mned good. I do the "walk around" too, looking forward touch-ups I missed, checking the stance, making sure the body and tires are straight or if it needs some tweaking. Some people never get to this point, because they never finish anything EVER, so they can't enjoy this nirvana like the rest of us! LOL. You can reach multiple styrenegasms when you use the RULE OF 3, building 3 kits at a time, and they all reach finish in close proximity of each other. It's almost as good as a near frozen beer, taking a healthy sh*t, or getting laid........ ;D ;D ;D

[Starry Eyes]

Name Game Decals Brandon? .. .. hmmmmmmmm.... I'm STILL waiting ........

Starry Eyes

brandon said:

you've been hard at work for a few hours, gluing, painting, and assembling, and you look over and you are down to like two or three parts and the thing is DONE? Izzat a really cool feeling, or what? Almost as cool as the first mock-up... lol.

I finished a build last night that began as a late night brain fart more than four years ago.... four. I became refueled on it after getting a three-engined Bison puller tractor, and then again with the decals from the Name Game contest, and then got stalled again... but this week I caught the fever and thrashed it until it was finished. I was applying the decals last night and was more excited than I've been in a while. My girl got a real kick out of it as I was talking to myself and walking around it to eyeball it from different angles....It lives. It went from 'what if' to 'check it out'.... and it's cool... The Psyco Sidewinder lives.... Muwhahahahaha.

I'll post a few pics this weekend, but now I'm all jazzed up and want to leave work early and work on the other cars on the burners.... must.... focus.... on work...... ;D

[RatRod]

Hey!!! You guys do the same things I do (just ask my wife) Must be a model builders thing. I do everything but stand on my head checking out a finished, or near finished build...It's gotta be JUST right. Congrats Brandon, can't wait to see what you did!!!

[dbash2006]

I can relate too Brandon...I can't believe how fast the time is gone and for me its like I'm on a mission cant stop till its done!!! but I always seem to have parts left over?,,oh that was from another kit!

[scurvy]

I often get burned out on a model by the time I finish it. When I start throwing parts together and cutting stuff up so i can hold it in some new position that it was never intended to hold, each model is the coolest thing ever. When I'm finishing it up, I've usually been looking at it so long that I've forgotten how cool it was when it all began.

After I completed it, I had to put the Mess-O-Schmitt away for a month and take it back out again before I really liked it again. Pretty much the same situation for all but my most slap-dash projects.

My biggest rush is those pre-paint mock-ups, when all the possibilities in the world are still hanging out there, and my imagination is on a full-throttle blast.

[Tim Nolan]

Most folks problem is keeping that Mojo workin'. I'm used to multi-tasking bigtime at my office, at my home, every day. It isn't hard for me to go between working on 2 or 3 different builds, and keeping that energy flowing.

I love mocking up too, unless it ends up being 100 times, like this Challenge Build I've been working on. Usually if it works, it just works. If it doesn't work, it just plain doesn't. You can't force "right". I've ended up not really liking the last few things I've built, for reasons of my own.

The long part for me is bodywork and paint. It's a lot of prep work, then deciding on how I'm going to paint it. I can usually visualize color on something once it's all in primer and sitting there mocked up. Once I start airbrushing, it's all just a blast for me. This build I'm working on now came out EXACTLY how I planned it, right down to the decals, which I ended up doing myself for the first time. Once I get the colors laid down, assembly is just the icing on the cake.

When I was building my 1:1 coupe, it was the same in a big way. I went out there at night and pulled the covers off it, and just sat there staring at it, even when it was just a frame! LOL.

[Brandon]

scurvy said:

My biggest rush is those pre-paint mock-ups, when all the possibilities in the world are still hanging out there, and my imagination is on a full-throttle blast.

Yes!!!

I juggle a few at a time so I don't get burnt out on one.... but the initial mock up where brainfart meets rough draft is the best... that "what if?" question getting a theory of an answer... I'll get out of bed to mock something up.

But there is a lot to be said about getting one off the bench so I can move another on! ;D

[fredmellini]

I do not get too excited when or while I am building, It sorta has become just second nature to build stuff. I love to build, paint, create, so it is just a happy/good time for me. I do not draw out ideas or plans, I do everything by eye balling it and trial and error, fit and finish. It may end up looking like I should have had a better plan!! ;D ;D ;D

I do not really get attached to my builds as I give them away or more times than not they go up for sale. If I had to say what part is a "Rush" for me it would have to be when you guys give feedback on the build, or somebody at a model show gets a kick out one of my builds or the person who bought my model off of ebay and tells me that it is even better than the picture once it is in their hands!! ;D..............It's all good!! ;D ;D ;D

[theflame]

I've got a load of builds all going on at once now, but a little brown primered Deuce is the one I'm closes to finishing. And yeah, it feels good, I'm excited about getting the last few bits painted and done.

If I can finish a model a month this year I'll fall over and die from shock ;D

[gwangiboy]

On those builds that go really good, and its shaping up even better than you first thought, I'll get the opposite feeling and I'll start slowing down a little, because I don't want to finish it ... sort of like trying to keep the fun going.

Finally that last day comes, and I just keep working until it is done (even tho I'm always convinced I'm missing some detail and it really isn't done). Then comes that rush when you can step back and take a look at it and go "wow!" and realize its now ready to be shown off and for the shelf.

[flounder]

I have to say, the mock up stage is the best. Big pieces, get the idea out there to see. All very cool. I would probably finish a lot sooner if I did not do so many mock ups. I actually pin a lot of my parts together so I can mock them up to check for clearence issues.

Sometimes the mock up can kill a project because you see it and get the idea. Now it's time for the detail and that can take a long time. More fun to flesh out the next idea.

I also get a kick out making some cool little part. No surprise there.

Flounder

[theflame]

I agree Scott - I LOVE mocking stuff up. I've got a folder in my Fotki full of mocked up concepts and builds I wanna do. Not to mention the 10,000 ideas in my head ;D