"Shove It!" Topic

How often would you say that you take the incomplete project currently on your workbench, and shove it aside in favor of a new and fresh project?

* at least monthly
* several times a year
* never

Probably once couple of years – don't start new projects too often (enough old ones lingering around!)

I just find a niche on the table to move it to. That way it can glare at me and make me feel guilty. Sometimes it works and they get picked up again. Other times they are swept aside in a periodic Grand Cleaning of the work table.

Never.

I usually work several "projects" at a time. It allows me to, frinstance, do a base colour on these while the glue on those dries.

That said, I don't usually have a whole "army" on my painting desk as a "project". It will usually be between 10-20 figures from a single force at a time.

There have only been three "new and fresh projects" in the last five years, and two of them were more like interruptions, completed in days. But at least several times a year I complete or put aside current projects to complete or spruce up something else--or just to get things ready for sale at the next flea market.

Like etotheipi, I have multiple projects going at once. I 4 or 5 on the table right now.

Very, very, very rarely …

Much like etotheipi and 79thPA, when I'm painting or modelling, I usually have a few projects going at once. I don't have a permanent spot for projects in our condo, so there can be long periods of no projects going on at all. The recently-extended shelter-in-place order is letting me resolve some of the pent-up demand for painting.

Three hyphenations in one sentence should be worth some kind of prize, shouldn't it?

Three hyphenations in one sentence should be worth some kind of prize, shouldn't it?

The Tack-iest Award?

:)

I couldn't come up with one for dash …

The genius of only one big project is you have no place else to go.

I used to cycle among projects to avoid burn-out and keep it fresh. Now I've only started one new project in the last five years, which continuing to chip away at the old ones.

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Three hyphenations in one sentence should be worth some kind of prize, shouldn't it?

Present a copy of the post and $1.00 USD American at your local Micky Ds Diner to receive a cup of coffee….small.

About every 3 days (the length of my attention span… ;-)

I used to bounce around a lot. My projects tend to be fairly large so I only got a portion done, then moved on, never finishing anything.

I changed my approach six years ago because I got tired of looking at the uncompleted projects.

Now I usually stay fairly focused on the project at hand. I might take a slight detour now and then but its a quick one and I'm back at it.

I am at the 5 yard line on a six year project at this point. Working on last three pieces right now. Then off to the next project.

I am like some of the other respondents, I have a weird selection on my painting table. Right now: Amazons, Pond Wars turtles, WWII Japanese Paras & Apache all in 25/28mm.

Running a painting service for a few years got me used to switching between projects to reduce the tedium of doing multiples of the same figure over and over. Since retiring from that I don't find a problem doing the same with my own stuff.

Sometimes I can concentrate efforts on a single project for a while but I don't feel I'm abandoning it if I switch to another for a couple of weeks.

Recently I blitzed a Crimean Russian army in 6mm for BBB, went back to doing some 1/2400th pre-dreadnoughts and then came back & blitzed the British. I still have the Turks to do before I can play a game but, hopefully I'll get to those in a week or so.

Weekly. I usual have six or seven going on at once…

Almost daily. I was just thinking yesterday, while painting some 28mmAWI figures for a new project, I should probably finish basing the 15mm Samurai that have been sitting on my other work bench for a couple weeks.

Probably monthly. I tell myself that I have a number of projects going at the same time, but in practice some get worked on while the others are forgotten for a while to be resumed a few months later.

Mine is mostly seasonal. I often keep on one subject until the time of year sparks a memory that revives another. Whenever I go to Cornwall on holiday I get the urge to do ECW, for example.

I was doing that, but during this time of being home, I am working on finishing off those projects. I have finished 3 of my partially done projects already, and have another one on my desk right now (along with a relatively new project).