Every time I see a photo on here of a model in a rubbish bin, I think to myself, “WTF? Why?” I don’t think I’ve ever thrown a model away
I’ve got a different problem in that respect: if it’s bad enough and/or there are enough setbacks, I get frustrated because of the setbacks that cause me to want to quit, and then get more frustrated because I want to finish the thing but am not getting anywhere
The end result is usually swearing, doing something else for a while (say, half an hour), going back for another attempt, and repeating this cycle until I get somewhere. (Though I must add that this behaviour is more likely when trying to write software than with building models.) Unfinished models in my case usually result from finding something else more interesting, rather than things going wrong during building.
Definitely, and I just today found a base I bought something like ten years ago to put a figure on, that will work just fine for this Lightning.