When is a MOC finished? Or How do you make it stop?

[Lipko]

A MOC is never finished? Tell me a thing in life that's ever considered finished.

For me the things that help me to stop:
-the drive to publish a MOC
-the speed of parts and solutions becoming obsolete (new parts every year), so it's a bit like an arms race.
-probably a healty project approach to things (I can't express what I mean by this)

Starting a new MOC is not really forcing me to finish the previous, there were occasions when 2 or even 3 MOCs were developed paralelly (I mean 1-2 MOCs were put on hold until another one was finished, say because of a contest), and there are always months of no work at all between projects.

[Rudivdk]

I usually work on 1 MOC at the time (and build time is limited due to other obligations, so it will take months to build a MOC...). During this period I get inspiration from tryouts for my project and some stuff develops in my mind to a new MOC idea. When that idea becomes concrete enough, I want to round up my current MOC to a presentable state, and call it finished, so I can start with the new idea. But there are always things to improve, I just do not do it because I move on to the next thing. 

In the end it is all personal, and since it is a personal hobby (at least to most of us AFOLs), no rules apply except your own rules.

Edited April 25, 2018 by Rudivdk
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