How much TIME do you spend?

hkshooter

I've went from five hours a night to and hour three times a week at the bench. Would like to increase that again. How much modeling time do you usually get in a day, week, month?

 

I have way too much time on my hands.  I don't get out very often and I'm disabled so I model to kill the time.  Between my Plastic Modeling and my 3D computer modeling, it wastes a good 7-8 hours a day.  I usually have a couple of kits in progress at once.  That way I can work on a different kit every day of the week and not get bored or frustrated with any one kit.  I think I have about 25 kits in my stash and 6 in progress right now.  I'm taking my time on them since I have to make them last a while.  I probably won't be buying any more kits until next summer after Xmas present shopping for the Wife and Daughter.  I also take my time because my coordination is off a bit and I have shaky hands now so I need to go really slow.

I get about an hour and a half, to two hours a day.

If there is nothing else to do I get about three or four hours.

I'm around this stuff all day but I woudl be lucky if I get 2 or 3 hours a week at the bench.

Thad

Really depends and can vary daily, weekly, monthly, etc.

Being a self-employed, single dad things can cut drastically into my building time. Especially when I got to travel on a contract, etc.

Other times I got the spare time but just don't feel like hitting the bench, others you can't keep me away.

Zip for the past month and probably through the holidays.

I would guess around 5-10 hours a week as a year round average (less in the summer, more in the winter when they let us go to a 5/4 schedule and I have annual leave to use up). 

Except for periods where I have more free time I'm sort of a drive by builder. I'll sit down and work for 15-30 minutes, do some other stuff, come back and spend another 15 minutes, rinse repeat.

My already limited time is gettng ready to be cut. They cut our hours at work so I have to get a part time job to try and make up the difference. That or internet and cable have to go.

Depends......past four months literally zero time at the bench. Okay, okay I did get an hour of time in two months ago but other then that I haven't even sat down at the bench. Heck, I even missed the one local model show around here all year because I simply didn't have the time. Luckily, fall semester of classes is pretty much finished so I have about a month to work night and day untill the spring semester starts.

Depends really anywhere from 0 hours per week to 80+

Combine looking after and homeschooling 5 kids then multiply that by Bipolar (when I get depressed I might not touch my bench for a month or three or manic/hypomanic when every spare moment is either at the bench or researching for a current or planned build taking into account I wont sleep any more than 3 hours a day if at all for weeks/months)

Andrew

More of the same for me as well.... not enough.  Work keeps me busy even when I am off and the Honey Do list is never ending... 

Sounds like most people are in the same boat, not enough time.

Not enough!!

I'm pretty seasonal. Summer is almost a write-off due to the amount of time I spend on the ball field. The rest of the year I seem to be lucky if I can get 1-2 hours on any given night. Weekends are hit & miss, sometimes 4-5 hours per day, sometimes none, depending on house work, yardwork etc.

I usually manage about 2-3 hours a night.

With two small kids, chances of modeling during the day are pretty much non-existant. At 7:30 I take the boy upstairs for bath/bedtime while the wife gets the daughter to sleep. Then we try to sneak in an episode of one of the TV shows we follow. Then it's dishes, dogs, trash, whatever else needs doing. At 10, she goes to bed and I head to the bench.

Working until 1/1:30 and getting up at 6/6:30 kinda blows, but I've found that I get very grumpy if I skip a night at the bench. The decompression is more valuable than the extra few hours of sleep, I guess.

Weekend proves critical to my hobby. I may take up the whole day from morning until midnite to finish most of the work.  Working days proves hard to do modelling since I will be late home becos of works.

Sometime when working schedule is lax. I will even take a few days leave just to do modelling.

Depends on when the wife works. When she is home I don't work on them so I would say that I get at around 5 hours a week on good weeks.

hkshooter

I've went from five hours a night to and hour three times a week at the bench. Would like to increase that again. How much modeling time do you usually get in a day, week, month?

 

Much as I want... I'm retired, and my curent "job" is as an apartment building supervisor, so I only have to commute to the hallway to be at "work"...

I reckon, between building/painting, writing and reading in here, and just being in the War Room tearing down electronics and dumpster-diving for styrene and ABS plastic for scratchbuilding materials,  I spend 60-80 hours a week at the hobby...

Mine goes from nothing when i am at home, weekends or on leave, to upto 5 or 6 hours a night when i am back at barracks. Time like now really do my head in, sat around the house, Mrs is at work, and i have no plastic in front of me.

some not enough would like more better check with wife on that one.  Ron

These days, not nearly enough - to give a figure, it would be somewhere between little & small.

It varies widely for me. anywhere from 1 hour to 10.

...229 minutes per week...