Serious climbers challenge themselves to find "new routes" up frequently climbed mountains. Likewise the serious scale modeler don't usually want to spend a year or longer making a carbon copy of a previous model. So what do you do to make sure your model is something special?

Obviously one solution it to pick an aircraft that hasn't been modeled before. That's almost not an option anymore. Another option would be to do a model in an uncommon scheme. Or a special version. Or a different scale. Or a different level of detail.

What do you do to avoid the "me too blues?"