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[grantl]

I looked around the 'office' tonight and had a count up.

I counted:

Lindberg Blue Devil - Started
Scratch tug - Started
Scratch 12" Puffer - Started
Stand off scale destroyer - Started (this one is for my son)

At the time I was holding in my hand a disassembled Nikko Fireboat of my son's which I have decided (with his consent) to gut and make faster, better looking, quieter & proportionally controlled.

Is this normal? Do others manage to finish one model before starting the next, am I alone in my madness?  ???

Regards,

Grant.

[Stavros]

Not at all my friend I must confess to have the following `

Adhlolf bemphol                                    Unstarted
Billings Coast Guard                                Started
Robbie Marauder                                  Bought started
Sea Commander                                    Restoration Project
Sea Queen                                           Dry Dock refit
Fire Boat                                              Complete rebuild!!!!
Springer Mk2                                         Part built
Vac frored tug unknown make                unstarted
Vernon Caribean Coaster                        Part built not mine but Barty230's
58ins Tanker                                        Might end up as firewood!!!!!!
Marbelhead Yaught                               part built
Pilot boat                                            somewhere between cornwall and north wales

So you are not alone as you see me is a compulsive buyer


Stavros

[chingdevil]

Hope SWMBO does not see this

2 springers  complete
1 springer   under construction
2 plans for springers drawn (biding my time)
1 1/24th scale pusher tug under construction
1 sealight puffer under construction
trying to get plans for a tug I saw in Australia and also a small pusher tug used at Niagara Falls.

You are not alone!

Brian

[Bryan Young]

2. One under way ("Havelock") and a possible (read probable) 7' Blue Flue at 1:48. See Model Shipwright no.140...except that I will get the original plans.

[dougal99]

I recently made a lsit of jobs in hand:

Repair Brittany Trawler
Fit new speed controller to Sea Queen
Amphibian - feasibility of using RC truck as basis
Start Racing Sparrow Yacht
Draw up plans for
    Superstructure for Anglian Sovereign ORSV - use plans for Pacific Buccaneer for Hull (probably half size of plan)
    Dinghy for Trawler
    Steam Tug Mon

Now where do I start?  ???

[SteamboatPhil]

At present
RE-building a 1946 coal fired steam straight runner
New lid under construction for metre class straight runner
New parts for a 5 ft long flash steam straight runner (should be ready for the mayhem weekend)
Re fitting IC straight running metre boat
3 1/2 inch gauge loco (ongoing for the last 34 years)
All wood huntsman hull (24")
Putting radio into a 4 ft long torpedo boat
Building a high speed steam plant
Finsh the twin cylinder steam engine for the new springer
Part way through the construction of a steam springer (Martin challanged me)
Oh and decorate the bl***y hall
So you are not alone
 

[grantl]

Thankyou gentlemen, I feel much better now.

Grant.

[Stavros]

after reding what some of you have got to build I am getting rather worried about myself with all these boats to build    HELP I need saving


Stavros(wondering where to start)

[bigford]

lets see
1) billings banckert  half done
2) billings smit rotterdam  useing it as patterns  for a 1/50 rotterdam probaly never get built
3) my 1/50 smit rotterdam (frames were just enlarged)
4) smit  hunter  half done
5) happy hunter just started
6) amsterdam/tenace temp drydock
7) a 40'' smit nederland hull ???
 

[Philipsparker]

You can never have too many projects. I'm always slighty suprised when I look at the listing down the side of my blog http://philsworkbench.blogspot.com/ which shows all the things I've built or are building in the last couple of years. Most of them are finished...

Anyway, if you ever run out of projects, you'll die. That's how it works. I'm not kidding - look at the number of people who retire and then die a couple of years later. They simply can't work out why they bother living.

So, keep stacking them up. It's good for you !

Phil