I am currently working on a Beneito Waterloo vignette and it's proving a right pig to do.

What do you do when faced with this situation?
Persevere?
Put it aside and hope to come back to it?
Bin it?
Start another piece and alternate?

I think I will go for the last option because otherwise it won't get completed, but I am interested to get other opinions.

Bill

I would continue until I could absolutely not cope with it anymore,then I would bin it.
I only ever work on one model at a time,which makes me continue to want to finish.
I have not binned many models.
I never stop a model and started another so that what I am working on gets finished.

I am not the right person to ask with my record of finishing pieces but I have found if I start another half way through the first, I rarely go back to it and it stays unfinished and I lose that initial interest

Hi Kev,
The main problem is the fit of the parts but I have also stripped it once. I will persevere for a while but I find that when a piece gives me major greif I tend to go off it.

Bill

Hi Bill
Sorry you are having trouble mate - I often have several pieces on the go and rarely work on one at a time. What usually happens is I work on 2 or 3 until one starts to grip me and then that takes over and I concentrate on that, hopefully till it's completed, but not always I'm sorry to say

Personally I'd set it aside and try something else. If it's a fit/construction issue I usually do that sort of stuff when I haven't got much time or don't fancy painting or in the evenings when painting under artificial lights (which I have problems with)

I've had a few Beneito figures and most ended up in the 'unfinished' pile I'm afraid so I know exactly where you are coming from. Post a couple of pics as Kev says perhaps another view point will re-inspire you, but don't get too worried about it.
(If cash is tight jus drop me a pm and I'll sort something out from my grey army that you can have to give you a break. Like many I've got plenty that deserve to be painted and are just gathering dust. No offence intended, just an offer )
Cheers
Paul

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(If cash is tight jus drop me a pm and I'll sort something out from my grey army that you can have to give you a break. Like many I've got plenty that deserve to be painted and are just gathering dust. No offence intended, just an offer )
Cheers
Paul[/quote]

Thanks for the kind offer Paul but I have plenty of stuff to turn to. (No offence taken).
Strangly enough I have more disposable income now I'm retired than I ever had when working.

I have a couple of nice CGS busts to do which really appeal, so I think a break, then come back to this piece.


Cheers
Bill

Thanks for the kind offer Paul but I have plenty of stuff to turn to. (No offence taken).
Strangly enough I have more disposable income now I'm retired than I ever had when working.

I have a couple of nice CGS busts to do which really appeal, so I think a break, then come back to this piece.


Cheers
Bill[/quote]

Sounds like a plan Bill

Hi Bill
I've done more than a few Beneito figures over time and with one exception, they were all a ball-ache to assemble, so I know where you are coming from. I tend to work on a figure and a plastic kit in parallel as I find that keeps up my enthusiasm for both. Like you I'm retired, so have no real time constraints, but I am not averse to shelving something (but never binning it) if it starts to annoy me. Oddly, I did what I consider to be my best figures when I was working 45 hours a week and commuting 30 miles each way. I'd set it aside and start a bust were I you.

Phil

Decided against the CGS busts, they are a Christmas present from my daughter, she wouldn't know, but I had a prick of conscience. Instead I put in a couple of hours base coating a Pilipili Indian bust that was sitting in primer, It did the trick, got my mojo back. Hopefully I can return to the Beneito with new enthusiasm, but will give it a week or so.

Bill

Whatever you end up doing, Bill, one thing is certain. YOU have to remain interested and engaged with what you're doing. Otherwise it will show up in the end result, which won't be as good.
I have sometimes suffered a catastrophic loss in interest when doing a figure, when for some reason my mojo completely went despite loads of initial enthusiasm.
If you're not having fun, put it out of sight and come back to it maybe. It might not be the disaster you feel at the moment.
When you're at the point where it becomes another chore, it's time to change something... all the best anyway.

Whatever you do, Don't bin it!! In a few months time, you'll find it'll contain something that's perfect for another project. I need to get inspiration after each stage of construction and after each session of painting to carry on doing it, or it's put by for another day. I usually have 3 models on the bench at any one time, so whilst one part is drying, I'll paint something else etc. I'm retired too and so try to do something every afternoon. Ray

Blame Murphy