mike_t
Full Time Ride
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Post by mike_t on May 2, 2023 17:37:49 GMT -8
I know everyone gets it now and then but I've been in a nasty one for awhile. I just don't have the drive. I still buy kits, I still read the boards, I spent last weekend at a hobby show but when I sit at the bench, it just ain't there. I get an idea, break open a new kit, maybe put the engine halves together then 3 weeks later, I'll sit and maybe clean off a few parts, maybe do some body work, whatever. I haven't actually completed anything for months. Part of it, I'm sure, is the fact that I'm not 18 anymore and working full time, so I tend to get tired easier than I used to.
It's not that I don't have the time. I've got time to watch movies or play games on the computer but I just don't seem to be interested in building anymore. I guess I could force myself to sit down and do it but then that makes it more like work. I want to build because I want to, not because I have to.
So, any ideas on how to get back in the groove? I've heard that throwing together a couple of simple, snappers will help get the juices going again but there's not really a lot out there in the snap together market that catches my eye. Maybe I'm being picky but again, if I'm going to build, it's going to be for pleasure...
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Post by kyledehart5 on May 2, 2023 18:39:35 GMT -8
I know everyone gets it now and then but I've been in a nasty one for awhile. I just don't have the drive. I still buy kits, I still read the boards, I spent last weekend at a hobby show but when I sit at the bench, it just ain't there. I get an idea, break open a new kit, maybe put the engine halves together then 3 weeks later, I'll sit and maybe clean off a few parts, maybe do some body work, whatever. I haven't actually completed anything for months. Part of it, I'm sure, is the fact that I'm not 18 anymore and working full time, so I tend to get tired easier than I used to. It's not that I don't have the time. I've got time to watch movies or play games on the computer but I just don't seem to be interested in building anymore. I guess I could force myself to sit down and do it but then that makes it more like work. I want to build because I want to, not because I have to. So, any ideas on how to get back in the groove? I've heard that throwing together a couple of simple, snappers will help get the juices going again but there's not really a lot out there in the snap together market that catches my eye. Maybe I'm being picky but again, if I'm going to build, it's going to be for pleasure... I’d say it happens to us all Mike. From time to time. Sometimes for me it’s just not touching or thinking about them for a few weeks. I don’t get into any snap together stuff really either but I will throw together an easy curbside or something I can do in just a couple days sometimes. I like to have at least one ultra simple build going at all times. Something I can toss together with little effort and no stress. But sometimes the only way I feel like building again is to step totally away and do other hobbies until the mood strikes. For me, it has always come back. I agree it should never feel like work. Supposed to be fun after all |
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Post by vintagerpm on May 3, 2023 4:25:06 GMT -8
The last time this happened to me, I switched modeling gears completely. I had been building a bunch of 1/43 race cars when the malaise set in. So I bought a simple non-auto kit, a pair of 1/35 German WWII motorcycles by Italeri. (OK, still automotive related, but not a 1/43 resin race car.) I knew nothing about the bikes and had no references, nor did I look for any - just built and painted the bikes. Turned out to be lots of fun and broke my slump. (Also set me on a path to building more military subjects.)
We sometimes get bogged down in trying to make everything perfect. Or trying to match every available photo we have of the real thing. We forget the joy we had as kids just building a kit as it came from the box.
Mike
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Post by arcticwolf on May 9, 2023 10:15:45 GMT -8
Sometimes things fix themselves if you just sit and stare at them for a while.
I've been staring at about 6 half built projects for a month now, and none of them fixed themselves yet.
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Post by Chris K. Hale on May 10, 2023 7:00:58 GMT -8
See my post on the HO car I built this week. That was a bilding block buster. Hasnt worked yet so I think I will build another HO Car...Lol Chris
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Post by scooterer on May 12, 2023 13:28:30 GMT -8
Sometimes things fix themselves if you just sit and stare at them for a while. I've been staring at about 6 half built projects for a month now, and none of them fixed themselves yet. He's right ya know. I bet any month now, the log jam will break and my builds will start flying off the bench. Then again, maybe I'll just open another box and start a new kit, maybe not just right away  |
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Post by Joel_W on May 13, 2023 5:55:10 GMT -8
Truthfully, I've got 2 hobbies. When I hit that wall in one hobby, I focus on the other one. That usually works for me. If that doesn't work, then I just take time off till I get the urge again to model. That's why it's a hobby, and thankfully not a job.
joel
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Post by arcticwolf on May 15, 2023 7:38:12 GMT -8
I just got this. I bought it for the tires but I think it's all there (3 bags of parts). Hmm, maybe?
Been working on this for nearly 2 years
I just got a Porsche 907 kit. Yep you read it right, 907.
If I could only get a round tuit, I'd be fine.
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