I'm curious here. I really have no average build times for models, and I mean to total completeion. Doesnt matter what youre building really.

Ive stretched builds out up to and including about 4 years! Some, like my current M1 panther II are at about 3-4 weeks, althoguh I'm still not toally finished.

How long does it take for you to finish yours, on average, if there is such a thing?

Lately with work and family keeping me busy about 3 months per kit. I hope this shrinks someday soon.

Hasty

4 days. Churn and turn them out as like an assemble line.

I usually seem to finish in about 4 to 6 weeks, but they'll take even longer come this fall. Not much time for building in college.

Chris

Hmm, my shortest time of building a kit was 1 day? It was tamiyas stug III. I did it all in one night! But ive also had builds that have taken me up to 3 weeks or so. But thats only because I stop and work on somthing else.

Average time.. first I will say this, years back when the kids (5) were living home and a full time job I thought I had no time to build. I was building off a small desk in a corner, but I was able to finish a kit within a 2-3 week time. Now that i'm retired and 4 of the kids have moved on and I have a large modeling room, well I just don't seem to get things built any faster. So an average time today would be somewhere in the 5-6 month time frame

building, 2 weeks or so if I have enough time, I'm not counting painting or anything, although I did build one kit in a day

In a previous life it was two days. In this life shortest so far is 6 months and counting).

Mostly about a week or so.

I think there are two ways to measure this, one being the number of hours spent working on the build and the other, the time elapsed on the calendar between the day you start and the day you finish.

Each measures something different, and I think it's worthwhile to look at both.

I have one kit that's been sitting on my workbench almost totally done, less a few decals, for well over a YEAR. When I finally get to finishing it (and I PROBABLY will), what's the answer for that kit?

I am a "deliberate" builder and usually go to way too much detail. I'll add stuff, scratch build and make changes to things that don't suite me. In terms of number of hours, I will likely spend more on the same kit than most.

But because I find that after a certain time span on the calendar has elapsed, I may lose interest, I make every effort to let no more than about 4-6 weeks go by.

Since I include finishing, painting, decals, etc, in with completion, I don't think I could ever do something in less than a week.

On the other side, I think that from the day I started until the day I said I was finished, my Tamiya 1/350 Enterprise, plus complete airwing, stretched out over 15 years, off and on. (Does it count that I haven't "really" finished the base I'm planning?? :-) :-)

Tom

I say calculate that 15 years into your average! :-)

Man that makes me REALLY slow!!!!!!!

The good news is at that rate, with my present stash in the basement, I get to live to about 236 in order to finish them all.

(Unless..................I buy some MORE!!!!) :-) :-) :-)

Tom

Longest ...from pic to show----Trailblazer---10yrs and shortest............White's Armoured -car ..OOTB(club comp)2days Average time (5yrs 1day) :-) ..............usually 7 -10 days ..depending on commitments or scratchbuilding 2-3weeks
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BARV

I have to admit, I am TRYING to get better and finish what I start, but then again.....

Oh nevermind, I just remembered I have like 6 or 7 things in various states of "completion". Who am I kidding?

Because every model I've built has been a first for me, I have alot of research time alotted to my builds, so at present my average is about 1 month per build

HI, Since I've been building some of the new, and very, very nice and detailed Dragon 1/72 armor kits lately, they have been averaging around 1 week to 1 1/2 each.

The 1/35 scale Trumpeter Morser Karl I did before jumping into some of these small kits took all winter, and maybe some into last fall as well. The two Trumpeter big 1/16 scale T-34s before that took something like 3 to 4 months each, at the very least.

Some kits I've had for years out in the garage, and for whatever reason were never completed, so I guess these could in a way be called: "Still in construction." Ha! Funny how some builds sort of get regulated to the back isn't it.

Take care, Sgirty

This year I am trying to cut my time down a bit and work more efficiently.

My goal last year was one project per quarter. This year its about one every two months or so. Plus there are all the other things in life jumping in , editing, working, kids, wife (doh, better get back to her now)......

Well . . . 1 -2 months per kit, average.

But that's only about 1-2 hrs every other night or so about 24 man hours real time.

N E O

I finish 4 a year.

I average 6 months per model. Mostly I build dioramas and it breaks down to roughly 4 months for the model and 2 months for the rest depending on how intracate the base is.

My longest has been 3 years just for the model. And my shortest has been about 2 months for the model and base.

4 to 5 months. But, that doesn't count stuff started but put on way, way, way back burner. Does infinity count?
capnjock

I'm a slow builder. I can finish an average kit, complete with weathering and detailing, around two weeks to one month, depending on the kit.

The longest time I've ever worked on a model was 1 year on a 1/350 Enterprise. The shortest was one week, building an OOB Jeep for a friend.

I either model or write poems/stories two hours a night on weekdays, as a stress reliever which became a ritual for me.

I am usually free on weekends. If there's nothing good going on outside or if friends don't invite me to go out, I stay home, read, write, sleep, do household chores, or build models.

Angela

I actually tried to keep track of the amount of time I spend on a model a couple times. A typical tank model will take me anywhere from 50 to 80 hours not including a diorama. I remember I had around between 16 and 18 hours on the track alone on my M901 that I did last summer. Those hours are usually spread out over 1 to 2 months.

When I used to do microarmour, I could finish a couple of dozen in a week. And that included adding figures and stowage

Now it seems to be once in a lifetime....