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[boathound]

Just curious, how many hours a day do you spend building your current project?


Struggling with mine, a Deans liberty ship. When I get home from work it's the last thing I want to do some days, others I will spend a few hours a night on it- then next day I will redo what I did last time as I must have been to tired or something to concentrate properly on what I was doing and it looks awful!


At this rate I its going to take forever. Do you think that the more time you spend on it the more motivated you feel to complete it and get on with it?

[sparkey]

It sounds to me that you are not enjoying what you are doing and need a break,some projects take a few weeks and some I have been on for years and are not finished yet so it does not really matter,some days I get up and spend all day on a boat and sometimes I don't touch it for a week or so,don't try and rush it or all you will end up with a miss and it will take longer to put right in the end so take some time away from the model and come back to it when you feel like it again, Ray.   

[Stan]

Hi Boathound  When I built mine years ago I would average  around  10 hours per week. If you are having problems it is far better to leave alone have some time off then start again. I have sent you a pm.  If you look in the warship and military section you should find pictures of my model hope this helps.


Stan.

[Bob K]

I totally agree with that.  Some days you are not really in the right mind-set, or get frustratingly stuck on something, or there are too many distractions.  Other days things are going well, progress is being made, and oops where did the day go !  Only work on it when you feel motivated otherwise it ceases to become a pleasure.  You will get plenty of breaks whilst glue or paint is drying.

I have been three months on a boat, off and on, a bit most days. The one I am on now I have been going at almost two years.  At least it helps avoid the endless Forensic Dramas on TV that the wife always has on.

[Brian60]

I'm retired and can devote as much time as I want to my builds- but I don't! If you spend too much time or try to work on it when not in the right frame of mind the enjoyment goes out the window and becomes a chore. 

Some days I can sit and spend 4 hours or more at the desk and then not go near it for days. You have to do things in moderation. I am keeping a spreadsheet on the present build to see how much money and how many hours I put into it, timewise is 97.48 hours since starting on 26th November and cash wise so far I have sunk (apt word that ) £380.85 on materials, I already had the hull- don't let on to the wife!

[roycv]

Hi, I can comisserate with you.  About 30 odd years ago (I was at work ) I decided to build a model boat but had to take into account being tired after a 1 hour commute home.
I reckoned if I could do 90 minutes a day it would progress OK.  So I got up 90 minutes earlier in the morning, I had a deadline of getting to work on time and you end up just getting on with it and doing more.
I do suggest the warmer weather though!
regards Roy

[Jerry C]

I work 8 hours a day, 6 days a week with 1hour for lunch. I only stop for things I have to do but have no control over like weddings, funerals, Formula 1, Moto GP and working on our narrow boat but the latter is just 1:1 modelling isn't it.
Jerry.

[radiojoe]

I only really started the warship builds I do now after I retired in 2010 I built the odd model now and again before I retired but only seemed to get chance at weekends and found it frustrating if something came up at the weekend and had to do something else, these days I can spend as long as I like each day and choose whether to have a break of not what bliss.

[boathound]

I'm at a really tedious bit, the liberty has solid bulkwarks so I'm doing the supports. Just can't seem to cut one exactly like another- whats with that?
Opened up all the freeing ports as indicated on the hull but have discovered that they don't mirror each other on both sides of the hull.   
Its the City of Ely kit, I plan to modify it to resemble a Greek tramp of the late 50s or early 60s. So will look pretty tired and battered.....probably a good thing at this rate.
Its an old kit, got it untouched on ebay- needs a lot of work even before sticking bits together, some of the resin bits crushed etc...

[Shipmate60]

Alex,
It doesn't matter about the time, just work at your own pace and do a little at a time.
If you don't like the freeing ports fill in the hole and cut it where you want.
It is YOUR model so make as YOU please.
It will turn out fine.


Bob

[U-33]

You should try opening up hundreds of flood slots and holes on a Type V11 U-boat, keeping them all in a straight line and all equal in size and shape, with hands like rugby balls and fingers like a pound of Wall's finest pork and herb.


Never again...


Rich

[NFMike]

Opened up all the freeing ports as indicated on the hull but have discovered that they don't mirror each other on both sides of the hull.   
Its the City of Ely kit, I plan to modify it to resemble a Greek tramp of the late 50s or early 60s. So will look pretty tired and battered.....probably a good thing at this rate.

If you don't like the freeing ports fill in the hole and cut it where you want.
It is YOUR model so make as YOU please.
It will turn out fine.

If you are modifying it anyway the ports, and indeed anything else, can be different from the prototype. All they need to be is believable, which in the case of freeing ports means close to deck level.


I've not done anything on my boats for months now - between a hobby car and trying to move house I've just parked modelling for now. I'll get back to it one day.