Are you a Plodder or a Flitter?

[RBTKraisee]

I flit to a project, then plod. Then flit. Rinse and Repeat.

That's a very fair point. I'm sure @Bob G would say that two years on the N15 project does qualify as plodding - I just flitted to half a dozen other projects in the meantime

Ross

[Bigmac]

definitely both.  I get a perverse satisfaction in hacking models to something not made as RtR or kit.  Often means waiting for the preferred donor to come up cheap.
Then spending hours / days with it to get to the point ive had enough and flit to something else. But usually to the running stage.

[GrahamB]

I plod until I flit 

Essentially I'll work on something until I hit a snag. Then I'll do something else until I figure out how to resolve the snag. So does that make me a plodding flitter or a flitting plodder?

[Newportnobby]

So does that make me a plodding flitter or a flitting plodder?

Are you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham?

[Southerngooner]

I'm with @GrahamB in that I work on something until I get stuck, but the thing that causes me to be stuck can be minor or major depending on my level of interest at that point! I'm enjoying getting the viaducts sorted at last on Brickmakers Lane, so I'm ploughing on through issues on Inkscape to get it done, whereas I only need to make up some fuse wire handrail knobs to finish off the King Arthur, but can't be a@sed at the moment, dunno why!

Flitting Plodder I think......

Dave

[The Q]

4 layouts in various stages of construction, a diorama of a radar station being built.
There's a 16 ft sailing boat outside, needing its annual maintenance.
And just behind me is a new club foot jib I'm sewing..

Oh and 4 ft from my feet is a new puppy..

Concentrate on one thing?



No chance..

[LASteve]

Are you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham?

Fork handles ...

[Curious David]

I find to do one job I don't want to do : I plan 2 undesirable jobs and then one gets done (or almost done).

[Ensign Elliott]

Definitely a plodder - I hate having unfinished projects. I have tons of projects yet to be started but once I start, I do like to complete them.

[GrahamB]

Are you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham?

Fork handles ...

Got any hose?

[chrism]

Are you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham?

Fork handles ...

Got any hose?

No, O's - "Mon Repose"    

[Newportnobby]

Are you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham?

Fork handles ...

Got any hose?

No, O's - "Mon Repose" 

Got any P's?
(Probably the most brilliant sketch since Monty Python's Cheese Shop or Architects)

[Foxhound]

I plod but also flit.
The main (UK-image but not based on anywhere) single track layout has undergone a few transformations and location moves and is never finished, in fact, last night Mrs Foxhound announced we should give it an overhaul and change the seasons on it, so off we go again.
The Christmas layout (totally fictional single loop, anything goes) runs like an absolute donkey no matter what I do to the track so I may relay it with Kato and see what happens. Or, I may scrap it....
The Euro/foreign twin track layout still lives in my head and although I have a load of rolling stock from Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France (and the US), a controller and some track, I haven't bought the boards yet, and I haven't finished the trackplan.....


Not only that, but I get the whole 'Oh look, shiny' thing. Case in point, I bought a Leicester Modellers D600 body and even got the right Farish Cl47 chassis to go with it. Fully intended to get buffers, nameplates, transfers, get it sprayed and glazed when I got around to it. This was about 4 years ago. I misplaced my Round Tuit and now there's a RTR version of the darned things, finally, and boy, are they shiny.  I just need to see how they run on Kato Unitrack before talking the plunge.

[GrahamB]

Are you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham?

Fork handles ...

Got any hose?

No, O's - "Mon Repose" 

Got any P's?
(Probably the most brilliant sketch since Monty Python's Cheese Shop or Architects)

Just to save time - and save any poor sole who hasn't a clue what we're on about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTM9iM1eVw refers.

[NeMo]

Definitely a plodder - I hate having unfinished projects. I have tons of projects yet to be started but once I start, I do like to complete them.

I totally respect that attitude. I just don't share it!

I think this why I'll never make anything good enough for an exhibition. For me, making the layout -- especially the scenics and buildings -- is the fun part. That's the bit I find challenging and interesting. By the time I'm close to finishing a layout, I can see what I did 'wrong' and want to rip up the layout and start over!

Cheers, NeMo