Getting started on an Airfix 1/72 Ju87-B1. Some interesting engineering with the wings, sadly let down a bit by acceptable but far from brilliant fit. there's also something funny going on with the plastic, it's rather soft and brittle at once, in one case giving me a brittle fracture where the two sides didn't match up properly afterwards. I'm wondering if there's some serious residual stress in some of the parts. (In theory I kinda know how to non-destructively measure that in crystal lattices, but who the hell would one do that in polymers? Not that I have a SEM lying around.)
>>8237693Maybe go full PhD researcher on whatever it is you feel you so desperately need, allowing you to rally dig into it and get your kicks without actually buying it. By the time you can list the middle school girlfriends of every pilot the specific bird you'd build has ever had by heart the moment may be over and you'll just dump your nots of which kit and what third party stuff to buy in your stash.txt instead of actually adding everythign to your stash. Besides, with some exceptions from smaller makers most kits aren't going to be hard to get in the future. You'll get better interest if you let the seller sit on your kit and the bank sit on your money instead of putting your money in the store and the kit in your stash. Then when it's time to start you get the kit, or a different kit if you've changed your mind,or no kit if your car blew a spark plug through the hood and you need the cash for that instead.
Then for building, well, see if you can simply follow one rule here. Don't start a new build before your current one(s) is finished. Just don't. Before you've cleared the bench nothing new goes on it. Perhaps it's easy for me to say as I'm one of those who get a significant kick specifically out of getting shit finished, but if you can't just not do it nor can stick to a rule like that then I'm at a loss.
