hworth18

Yes plenty of times. I stick everything aside and take a fresh look at it a few months later. If I deem it not worth saving or I have lost interest, I will list it on the local eBay or Scale Model Graveyard Auction page on FB for $1. I am surprised by how much I get for them most of the time and gives me some money back so it is not a complete loss.

Life's too short.
If you can afford it and it's not harming others do what makes you happy 

Great opinions and a great discussion!! To be a little more specific, I was one that would never throw a kit away. It would sit on a shelf somewhere and collect dust until I finally decided to get it wrapped up because it was money that I had spent and couldn't see wasting. I think my decision to finally just clear the shelf was the fact that I have switched scales to concentrate solely on larger 1/35, 1/32 stuff. The kits being binned are all 1/48 that I just don't have any interest in anymore. The remainder of my 1/48 stuff is being sold at the local IPMS show coming up and I'll be done with that scale.

Great opinions and a great discussion!! To be a little more specific, I was one that would never throw a kit away. It would sit on a shelf somewhere and collect dust until I finally decided to get it wrapped up because it was money that I had spent and couldn't see wasting. I think my decision to finally just clear the shelf was the fact that I have switched scales to concentrate solely on larger 1/35, 1/32 stuff. The kits being binned are all 1/48 that I just don't have any interest in anymore. The remainder of my 1/48 stuff is being sold at the local IPMS show coming up and I'll be done with that scale.

Great opinions and a great discussion!! To be a little more specific, I was one that would never throw a kit away. It would sit on a shelf somewhere and collect dust until I finally decided to get it wrapped up because it was money that I had spent and couldn't see wasting. I think my decision to finally just clear the shelf was the fact that I have switched scales to concentrate solely on larger 1/35, 1/32 stuff. The kits being binned are all 1/48 that I just don't have any interest in anymore. The remainder of my 1/48 stuff is being sold at the local IPMS show coming up and I'll be done with that scale.

That's very much like me, hate clutter, Have a twin engine kit that has been pulled down from the shelf so many times and recently close to the trash can,
         But I am determined to finish it even if it looks like crapolla in the end,  that's not to say some havent hit the garbage, they have.

Yes, many times. Builds that go bad, if i don't return to them in a short time(varies) they get binned. Clutter as a rule disturbs me, so i keep to a bare minimum if at all.
 
Don

This hurts to read, although I’ve been there myself. All that effort, energy, and enthusiasm down the drain. I guess that’s why I don’t do RC, all that work and “SPLAT!”. I remember almost being sick when Ruzlkampf binned his 80% complete 1/32 SR-71. Ugh.

I’ve never binned a kit but have quite a few shelf-queens. I tend to hop about a lot with kits - I love the assembly and making stuff, but often lose interest when it comes to painting. I will occasionally lose momentum with a longer term project if I encounter a problem that seems insurmountable at the time and then put it out of sight and mind for a while - and will then go back to it once I’ve had a fresh look. 
 
I’ve got at least 10 builds in the loft patiently waiting for me to pick them up again - I quite often go up there for a rummage and come across a partly completed build and suddenly fancy having a go at it again… in many instances I won’t have touched it for years!
 
Binning then seems a waste as I never know when the juices will begin flowing for that model again and the last thing I want to be doing is wishing I hadn’t trashed it. But that’s just me!

I cringe at the thought of trashing any kit, partly because I am cheap, partly because I refuse to be beaten by a couple of ounces of plastic, but mostly because there is someone out there - maybe a kid - who doesn’t care about panel lines and would love to have it, partially built, fully built, still in the box.  Whatever.  This is all a bit altruistic but better, in my opinion, than adding to the local land fill.  We’ve all heard that old saw:  One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

As a matter of fact, there WAS a Prince Charming, a long-time friend, now sadly deceased, who’s grown an obsession for my cockpits. He traded quite a few of my unfinished models for NIB (new in box) kits.
Until one day, one whom I long considered as my better half persuaded the weak-willed me to get rid of the newish kits for peanut prices at a local model show.
So it goes!

That reminds me Mike, I have a Bu 131 to finish, must dig it out! 

Actually that's a very poetic description.  Now I think of it, I have sometimes given away a part-finished kit to someone at my model club who has expressed an interest.  So I guess that fits the bill of a "Prince Charming".

Like Thierry and Max, I never bin. I put them to sleep.
Many times after completing and painting the cockpit and doing the necessary structural corrections, I’m facing the issue I hate the most: engraving new panel lines and riveting. For some reason, I’ve never finished a Special Hobby kit even if I started quite a number of them. 
So no Shelf of Doom for me. Rather a cemetery of sleeping beauties waiting endlessly for a Prince Charming to wake them up.

I had that once: mine was ICM's Bu 131 a couple of years ago, and the elevators just would not stay fixed to the tailplanes! 

Actually no. Never. And this also applies to all of my friends. We have issues with tracks? We replace them by other ones. We are fed up of a kit? We put is aside, up to better days. We made a mess with a kit? We keep it for spare parts or give it to another modeller for the same reason! As it is a hobby there are as many practices as modellers and available space may also be a problem. So I'm not criticizing. Nonetheless, trashing something just because you want to do something else looks very weird to my eyes!

I’m with Thierry, I’ve never binned a kit in progress either, just couldn’t to it! I have one or two smaller scale ones “put to one side” but getting rid would be too painful.

Yes.  No sense wasting valuable modelling time on something that has fought back once too often, and is never going to reach my self-imposed standards - which honestly are not impossibly high!  It's a hobby, done for pleasure, so if what I'm doing is no longer giving me pleasure , but has become a chore , then it's time for it to go.  Only very rarely have I regretted it and bought the same kit again: it actually feels cathartic.
 
I should say it will have had a long spell on the Shelf of Doom, I don't just suddenly decide I've lost interest and bin what I'm doing within 6 seconds.  And after that, it usually gets another go, and I have been known to finish it.  And I usually salvage spare parts if they're salvageable

Yes, many times.

1/48 Great Wall Hobby; nearly complete, ran into issues, got tired of the build and it's issues....jammed it back in the box, took the box outside on the sidewalk and walked all over it
Roden 1/48 Turbo porter (see above)\
Airfix 1/24 Typhoon is going that way
Zvezda Boeing 777 gonna get stomped soon
Tamiya 1/35 Tiger buggered up the paint, was going to toss it but gave it to grand kids (same end result)
Trumpeter Mig 15 half done, back in the box, lost parts tossed it.
I'm much worse, or was much worse at saving auto parts that I may need someday, finally cleaned out boxes and boxes of old Holly and, Rochester carb. parts HEI distributors, cams, coils and all that old performance stuff
very therapeutic to clean out old parts kits and crap every now and then
sooooooo ya

My own Gato looks like a condo for spiders;... talk about some serious rigging. As to tossing a project (or projects), yes, I've thrown out any number of them. I have a 1:32 Mirage to Kfir conversion and a MiG-21MF that probably need to be tossed, just haven't been able to bring myself to actually do it.

Have you ever just got tired of working on a kit and just trashed it? Or cleared out the shelf of doom with one big swoop??
I'm contemplating just cleaning out everything and starting fresh.. The kits I'm thinking about doing away with aren't that expensive, so the dollar loss is minimal.
 
Opinions??? 
 

Been there,  done that but still waiting for my T-shirt! 
 
Seriously, I've binned a few over the years when I realized the stress of seeing them on the SOD outweighed any sense of satisfaction i would have enjoyed seeing it through. 

Sadly, I've binned many a kit partway through. 
 
I had a pair of HK B-25Js on the bench and the constant work on the rear half of the  fuselage interior just wore me down. I gave up after a while and eventually tossed them when I knew I'd never go back to them. 
 
The Takom M29C is probably going to share a similar fate. The suspension parts are ridiculously tiny, fiddly and have a vague fit. None of mine line up and the link and length track is off. 
 
Carl

Have you ever just got tired of working on a kit and just trashed it? Or cleared out the shelf of doom with one big swoop??
I'm contemplating just cleaning out everything and starting fresh.. The kits I'm thinking about doing away with aren't that expensive, so the dollar loss is minimal.
 
Opinions???