A modellers quandary

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A modellers quandary

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I wonder how many of you will identify with the quandary that I find myself in.
Lacking a suitable base model to convert, I decided to try an ambitious scratch project. Now, I have an ideal mental image of how it should look and a realistic image of how it probably will look.
I imagined the ideal result would take at the very least 12 hours of work. However after about 3 hours I have something that although not quite finished detail wise, is mainly done, and to a level that I realistically hoped for. The quandary is, the thing is pretty fragile so do I try to improve the very minor 5% or so that I can see in 'Hypercritical Mode' or avoid the risk of scunnering the whole thing and just finish the details that remain to be added?
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A tricky conundrum indeed.....

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I'd say go for it 'as-is'; if you can cover any of the 5% hyper-criticallities with the bits to be added all well and good, if not nae bother!
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I agree with iggie,sometimes less is more.
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'Perfect is the enemy of good'

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Depends on the conditions surrounding the project.

If you want the result, what you have is good enough, and the risk significant, call it done.
If you're trying to push the envelope, and have gotten to a point where you've learned a lot already, call it done, and spend the next few weeks mulling over ideas to get to the current state with more rubustness of the model next time.
If you're trying to push the envelope, and things have only just started to get interesting, keep going, it's only three hours so far. You may well break it, but that's how we learn..
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at the stage you describe, if it was delicate but portrayed what I set out for acceptably... I would say S o D it, leave it, and move on

are you prepared to gracefully accept what happens ... if .. you do a few tweaks and mods ... and find that doing so, then makes matters a lot worse.. and you lose everything ..
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Your work is always inspirational, so from my personal selfish point of view, I would say go for it because moving out of your comfort zone takes you to the next level and it would be excellent entertainment demonstration for us.

Is finishing it as it is, then adding the extra detail after an option ?

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This is the item in question. Basically it is a practice effort that went a lot better than expected so I just continued with it. Compared to the book cover lass that she's supposed to represent, she's a few (scale) pounds heavier....BUT....I think that facially, mine looks more Indian. My Spidey Sense is tingling and saying 'Don't mess about with it, go with the flow'

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That's great, wonderful work Pt.

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I think she looks just fine.
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She does indeed look Indian-very nicely captured!
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That looks like a great piece of sculpting to me PT and is nicely painted. But are you happy with it? I would have another go and then compare the two. It took three hours of your time and you will have learned something, which will hopefully make a second attempt even better. If not then stick with the first effort. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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:wanw

Inspirational what more can I say.

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I believe the term is "rubinesque", well done, carry on.
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Looks fine to me. Nice work.
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