I think I'm sick. It's a hard thing to admit, but today I finally realized that I'm suffering from a minor mental disorder that has affected my life for a long time. I couldn't categorize it immediately as there was not a condition that characterised my form of illness that I could find in the Medical Dictionary.
OCD? No, I don't think that's it.
Obsessive/ Compulsive Behavior? No, not exactly.
Unable to find a condition matching my symptoms, I did what any good medical professional would do. I made something up! I call it "Attention Superfluity Disorder", or "ASD". I pay too much attention to the small things! Other modelers call it "Detailing".
The realization that I was sick came about when I found myself trying to make a hand-made framework fit into the cockpit of an Italeri WACO CG-4A glider. The cockpit for this particular model is pretty much fantasy, so I had earlier decided to rip out the rather meager attempt at controls and redo the cockpit. With online photos to guide me, I redid the seats, added steering wheels made of wire, found a couple of pilots from a Hasegawa jeep kit, and began to build a steel cockpit frame from some wire as the original WACO gliders had. Today, while redoing a particularly tricky piece of the frame, I suddenly stopped and looked at what I was doing.
This was insane! The model is 1/72nd, and I had to be mad to try to build a cockpit at this scale, even if it probably wasn't totally accurate. Who in the world would ever see it?
So I turned off my work lamps and stepped outside to get some air and reconsider my life. About the only thing I worked out is that I need to extend the framework back into the cargo area if I'm going to show the tie-downs.
I need help! And a better opti-visor...
Gary