I do something special , I think .
I must admit . I also carve wooden things to relax after doing something on a plastic model .No matter what kind . Lately , though , I seem to be finding lots of ships and boats in blocks of wood .Am I that far gone , that all I can do is look at a block of wood and make that statement starting this post ?
Well , to be truthful I also see hummingbirds and fish in there too .Sometimes a block yields not only a small submarine or destroyer .It also yields a humminigbird (lifesized ) and a fish or two . The ships get super detailed with the same parts I use on the plastic ones , but , applied in a different medium .
Have you worked painstakingly on that plastic figure till you got it right in your eyes ? Try that in wood . Now , I can carve figures 1/35 or above . But I cannot seem to transfer the painting skills I acquired in doing the wooden ones to the plastic ones . I wonder why ?
I blissfully make wood scrap and chips in the shop and get ruffled when I walk through it to get the broom .Funny , I don't react that way when cleaning up plastic debris . It seems that I abhor wood chips , sawdust of any kind and just a general wood mess .Not so with the plastic . Is it because I can't make something out of the " WASTED " wood , But I can from discarded pieces of a plastic model . Hmm .
I will keep puttering in wood though . I know there's a ship in there somewhere . Now where did I put my knives ? Tanker-builder