failed projects... I've had a few...
...the flat I had before I moved down to London, I'd lived in for 11 years. two bedroomed, 'ah', thinks I, 'I shall indulge myself with a study - somewhere for all my books, desk, PC and whatknot to go, and just have the living room for hanging out in.' when I moved out last year, there were still boxes in that room exactly where they'd been put the day I moved in in 1997.

£900 on a home study course to qualify me for the (iirc) Windows 2000 MCSE. did about two months work on it and then just couldnt be bothered studying after a full day at work (not that was stopping me from playing games and talking shite on message boards, mind.)

£600 on a brand new mountain bike and all the bits in 2002. took it out twice and decided I didnt fancy my chances in all the traffic near where I lived.

At least three or four pc's that I never did get round to fixing up - including the carcass of one machine I left in the old place when I moved, leaving in it a Creative X-Fi soundcard, Geforce graphics card, 2mb of memory and a 500gb hard drive. (all brand new bits I'd bought to fix it up with.)

not strictly 'projects', but mountains of games for various consoles and generations of pc's I've bought over the years and then never got round to playing. (I know for a fact I paid £40 for syphon filter 2 on the PS1 and I've never played it. As I did for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare on the 360.)

My mate's Aria Pro II bass that I 'borrowed' off him and a Marshall amp I acquired at least five years ago - been sat in the corner of my room ever since. I still can't play the bass.

All these pale, however, next to my collection of plastic model kits. I used to really like the hobby as a kid, and thought I'd get back into it back in about 1999 when I had the money and (so I thought - how wrong I was) the time to indulge myself.
ten years later, I now have approximately £500-600 pounds worth of paint and various tools, and probably three or four grands worth of unbuilt kits (airfix, tamiya, hasegawa, you name it. you could have a decent stab at stocking a shop with what I have hanging around.) as a friend keeps pointing out to me, and as I know, (especially seeing as some of them arent made any more and fetch even higher prices now than they did new), if I stuck them on Ebay I'd make a fair few quid off them.
but thats not the point - I *am* going to get round to making them.

eventually.
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 3:37, 6 replies)

Syphon Filter 2 on the PS1 is/was great fun
much harder than the first one, you could be killed by head shots but you got a warning and a split second to do a roll and take cover. I bought it off fleabay for a penny a few years ago.

Good luck getting back into the model building. I too was an Airfix fan as a young-un, I had all the tiny sable brushes for painting the little pilots.

*click*
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 9:31, closed)

2mb memory...
...awesome.
(Corbo, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 11:29, closed)

oh yeah.
2gb.

duh. mind, that would go some way to explaining some of the reason I was so bad at fixing them up. :(
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:28, closed)

Kits
Similar here; I finally had a clear out a few years back, eBayed a load of stuff. Every now and then I get the urge, so I look at an issue of SAM or SAMI and the standard intimidates me and I lose the will. Yay for quitting!
(kitescreech still here, Sat 5 Dec 2009, 14:54, closed)