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Title: Nearly completed........
Post by: pedwards2932 on May 15, 2026, 01:24 AM
I have 5 nearly completed models and have decided to not start another until I clear the backlog.  Some just need a prop and maiden trim flights.  Others need a fiddly bit of design to complete.  How about you guys do you end up with a lot of these nearly completed models?
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: g_kandylakis on May 15, 2026, 01:33 AM
NO! NEVER!
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: pb_guy on May 15, 2026, 03:38 AM
I have about 5 that I am going to get back to ... some day ... maybe ... if it gets interesting again.
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: OZPAF on May 15, 2026, 03:59 AM
I have some still on the drawing board :)

John
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: Piecost on May 15, 2026, 06:29 PM
I have some models aging for 30 years prior to completion
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: Nigel_M on May 15, 2026, 08:40 PM
Yep. Got to the point where I swore I wouldn't start anything else until I'd finished some. Do I need to list my sins them? Ended up flying foam ARTF's  >:(  :(  ::)
Have now put last winter's still-a-project HiFlier PT-20 in a box to clear the building board so I can at least refurbish things into flying condition.
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: TheLurker on May 15, 2026, 08:54 PM
The foregoing all makes me feel really quite smug about the Chiribiri, which is now only 6 months in on a 6 week build.  Oh dear. :)
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: ZIP.58 on May 15, 2026, 11:24 PM
Unfinished models lying around—it's a nightmare.
When I start building a model, I see it through to the end until it's finished and flying.
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: Bargle on May 17, 2026, 03:57 PM
My bugbear is props. If a model needs a prop and a plastic one won't do, I'll often let it set for a long time until I feel like making one. Sometimes that doesn't go well either and I wait even longer before I build a second one.
Sometimes it's something else. I started one model and got the wing and tailfeathers built, but never got going on the fuselage. I would wonder why from time to time. One day I sat down and really thought about. I realized it was because I thought the fuselage was ugly. I switched and adapted a fuselage from another design. The result didn't fly well, but I did get it finished.
Still, I've got a few partly built RC models I need to get on with and a rubber job that needs a built prop. Sigh.
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: Crabby on May 17, 2026, 05:54 PM
Bargle, do not despair. Don't compare yourself to other guys you are your own best bet, and there's no time clock to punch. You are in good company if you count me. I am on my own ass all day long about models and chores. I don't follow my own good advice, til I get gloomy. Then I start to whistle.
Neither losses or gains are permanent, and pass they shall. Don't take yourself personally. You are a cool dude mate. Trust me we do go back a few years.
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: Crabby on May 17, 2026, 07:25 PM
Quote from: Crabby on May 17, 2026, 05:54 PMComrades do not despair. Don't compare yourself to other guys you are your own best bet, and there's no time clock to punch. You are in good company if you count me. I am on my own ass all day long about models and chores. I don't follow my own good advice, til I get gloomy. Then I start to whistle.
Neither losses or gains are permanent, and pass they shall. Don't take yourself personally. You are a cool dudes mates. Trust me we do go back a few years.
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: Knapster on May 18, 2026, 01:31 AM
My problem (aside from being guilty of the original query) is that I'll finally get one (mostly) assembled, then decide I should at least test-glide it before adding a lot of the finishing touches (insignia, antennae, exhaust pipes, etc.).  But rarely does one of these beasts survive the glide-test and initial trim session without damage.  So it then moves to the over-stuffed "repair hangar" where it languishes while I start another build.
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: MKelly on May 21, 2026, 05:18 AM
I used to be really good about finishing projects before starting another.  That's fallen a bit by the wayside the last few years - this is getting embarrassing...

Mike
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: g_kandylakis on May 21, 2026, 10:14 AM
at least yours fit on a desk surface...
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: dputt7 on May 21, 2026, 05:55 PM
Why would you want to cover any of those!
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: calgoddard on May 22, 2026, 02:34 AM
Mike -

Those are really great bones on your table.

That P-38 needs to get covered and trimmed.

Duke Horn used to have a rubber powered P-38 that flew very well. He told me that, viewed from the front of the model (looking toward the tail feathers), the prop on the right nacelle needs to turn clockwise under power and the prop on the left nacelle needs to turn counter-clockwise under power. You probably already knew this.

Over the years I have forced myself to finish one model before starting to build another. However, I have built a number of models before ever flying completed models.

I have a number of models with severe damage. I can only remember repairing one of them. A dust devil blew my HOT BOX P-30 violently upwards when it was mounted on my winding stooge and crunched the fuselage. I just never get around to the thankless job of doing major repairs on my other damaged models.
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: Jmk89 on May 22, 2026, 05:00 AM
Guilty - just started a new project - https://hpa.aeromodelling.gr/index.php?topic=347.msg3860;topicseen#new while Scram isn't finished and the Coupe is finsihed but isn't trimmed. 

What's my excuse?  It's raining today so there's no point finishing something that I won't be able to fly. 

Nah; it doesn't convince me either.  I just do like building.
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: lincoln on May 22, 2026, 09:39 AM
Quote from: Piecost on May 15, 2026, 06:29 PMI have some models aging for 30 years prior to completion
Me too. I also have a project started by someone else in 1972 or thereabouts. Come to think of it, I have one side of a Bostonian fuselage I started in the 1980's. Assuming it hasn't disappeared in a move. And then there are all the models that need repair work.... 
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: MKelly on May 22, 2026, 03:38 PM
Quote from: calgoddard on May 22, 2026, 02:34 AMDuke Horn used to have a rubber powered P-38 that flew very well.

Hi Mike - the larger of the two P-38s is based on Duke's plan. His P-38 is always a showstopper when he puts it up, hope my rendition flies as well as his.

I don't mind repairs that much, but they sometimes lay around for a while before I get to them. I think the Tigercat languished for about four years before I got it back in the air.

Cheers,

Mike
Title: Re: Nearly completed........
Post by: One Cut on May 25, 2026, 03:50 AM
Was gonna ask how many you wanted me to count, but looking at Mike's bench, he beat me by one!  My two flying buddies harass me about not finishing them, but eventually I do.  Glad to know I'm not alone.