What modelling projects do you think you'll never build or see?

[kerick]

A friend has just retired, and he's going for gold with his build rate. It remains to be seen how that will last with Grandkids, the amount in The Stash and the 'Honey-Do' list...

Plus you end up with zillions of part finished project builds because it's too much faff to sort out some of the problems that arise.

Which is why my 'Project Count' is currently above 50.............................

Time to get brutal with that stack. Sort the things you might truly actually finish and do something else with the rest. Turn them into something else that inspires you, use them for parts or pass them on to others. I should take my own advice.

[Pellson]

A friend has just retired, and he's going for gold with his build rate. It remains to be seen how that will last with Grandkids, the amount in The Stash and the 'Honey-Do' list...

Plus you end up with zillions of part finished project builds because it's too much faff to sort out some of the problems that arise.

Which is why my 'Project Count' is currently above 50.............................

I've packed away most of my Shelf of Doom^TM. What I can't see won't bother me.. 

[PR19_Kit]

Time to get brutal with that stack. Sort the things you might truly actually finish and do something else with the rest. Turn them into something else that inspires you, use them for parts or pass them on to others. I should take my own advice.

I have been, the last time we had a census of them on here, maybe 10-12 yrs ago, I had 62!

[Diamondback]

When thinking of airship models I'm always reminded of the 1/72 scale model of the R100 airship that was in the roof of the Barnes Wallis Hut at the Elvington Museum near York.

The model was TEN FEET long!       

I have dreamt of a 1/72 Zeppelin since my Dad built the Revell Albatros with the box art showing a DIII flying alongside an airship. That was 58 years ago. During Covid I sourced materials and made a "plan" but it remains a dream. A lottery win and a new house would help.

Thorsten Brand designed a free cardmodel in 1/144, just print at double size.

[Old Wombat]

Time to get brutal with that stack. Sort the things you might truly actually finish and do something else with the rest. Turn them into something else that inspires you, use them for parts or pass them on to others. I should take my own advice.

I have been, the last time we had a census of them on here, maybe 10-12 yrs ago, I had 62!

Progress!     

[Rick Lowe]

A friend has just retired, and he's going for gold with his build rate. It remains to be seen how that will last with Grandkids, the amount in The Stash and the 'Honey-Do' list...

Plus you end up with zillions of part finished project builds because it's too much faff to sort out some of the problems that arise.

Which is why my 'Project Count' is currently above 50.............................

I have that problem already, while still in full time work...   

[Diamondback]

A friend has just retired, and he's going for gold with his build rate. It remains to be seen how that will last with Grandkids, the amount in The Stash and the 'Honey-Do' list...

Plus you end up with zillions of part finished project builds because it's too much faff to sort out some of the problems that arise.

Which is why my 'Project Count' is currently above 50.............................

I have that problem already, while still in full time work...   

And if you have a Significant Other, that will expand dramatically once you retire because "now that work is no longer consuming your tie you have all the time in the world for MY priorities..."

Someday I'll post the joke about Tom the modelbuilder and the aftermath of his wedding...

[Rick Lowe]

And if you have a Significant Other, that will expand dramatically once you retire because "now that work is no longer consuming your tie you have all the time in the world for MY priorities..."

Otherwise known as the 'Honey-Do' List...
I don't have an SO, but there are a couple of Sisters who are already pretty free with my spare time...

[Rheged]

And if you have a Significant Other, that will expand dramatically once you retire because "now that work is no longer consuming your tie you have all the time in the world for MY priorities..."

Otherwise known as the 'Honey-Do' List...
I don't have an SO, but there are a couple of Sisters who are already pretty free with my spare time...

I seem to be lucky with my relatives needing help in this respect
I have Madame Rheged who is, I must admit, remarkably competent with an electric drill, screwdrivers etc but won't touch plumbing or electrickery.  Then I've a nearly 98 year old mother-in-law who may have been reasonable at d-i-y in her day, but that day is some time past; every bimonthly  trip to Carlisle (240miles) to keep an eye on her  usually  involves several "little jobs".  Fortunately, little sister and her husband know how to use a toolkit so I don't need to do things for them and No 1 son (Rheged Major)  and his wife are self-sufficient too. 

Some day, I must tell the stories of little sister Alison single-handedly demolishing an elderly unused brick outhouse  and Bridget and her mate Liz taking out an unwanted inglenook fireplace using only 4lb hammers and cold chisels.

[PR19_Kit]

Some day, I must tell the stories of little sister Alison single-handedly demolishing an elderly unused brick outhouse  and Bridget and her mate Liz taking out an unwanted inglenook fireplace using only 4lb hammers and cold chisels.

I could tell a tale of the RAF's Best Air Traffic Controller who, at the age of 6-7, dismantled her grandmother's washing machine with a small toolkit that I'd given her for her birthday.

While it was STILL connected to the water an the mains! 

Of course it was all MY fault!

[zenrat]

My father, the future Dean of Engineering, dismantled and then rebuilt his younger brother's bicycle.  Only he "forgot" to put the brakes back together...

[PR19_Kit]

              

[Rheged]

My father, the future Dean of Engineering, dismantled and then rebuilt his younger brother's bicycle.  Only he "forgot" to put the brakes back together...

By accident, or by malicious design?

[Weaver]

My father, the future Dean of Engineering, dismantled and then rebuilt his younger brother's bicycle.  Only he "forgot" to put the brakes back together...

One day, while I was doing work experience at a motorbike shop following my bike mechanics course, the resident mechanic was making fun of me for my affection for Italian Brembo calipers, he being one of the "everything Japanese is automatically better just because it's made in Japan" types. Then a regular customer pulled up on his Kawasaki GPZ 900R, but still hadn't come into the shop a few minutes later, so I went put to see what the problem was. Turned out the problem was that he was struggling to light a cigarette because his hands were shaking so much.

"I was going down a hill towards a queue of cars and the brakes went! I pumped them and pumped them and eventually they bit but I missed hitting the back car by about 5mm. I've come here at 15mph... I put new stainless hoses on it the other week, but I swear all the connections are good and I bled it properly!"

I had a look at the bike and all the hoses did indeed seem to be good. Then I got a mirror and a flashlight and had a look into the calipers.

"Ah, I can see what the problem is, " I said, "your brake pads have fallen out..."

Turns out that on the Kawasaki calipers in question, the pads are only retained by tabs that ride in grooves in the caliper body, but the grooves end short of the body so if the pad gets worn down too much it falls out! Stunningly good design, just stunning...       Now Brembo pads are retained by one or two stainless steel pins (depending on the version) that pass right though holes in the pad and the caliper and are retained by split pins, meaning you can wear them away to nothing and they never fall out, so this was the perfectly-timed opportunity to throw all this back in the face of the mechanic and his Japanese Gods...    

[Rick Lowe]

Yikes - someone was looking after him, that day.

I left a car I was trying to sell on the property once, and when a prospective purchaser came, we took her for a test spin.
I didn't know the brake fluid had drained back into the reservoir...
We managed to stop at the bottom of the hill, before the T-junction, but it was close.