When modeling loses it's appeal

Mike, I was in a similar rut as Bondo (for me it was WWII aircraft - they still had some appeal but the challenge was gone because I had burned myself out on 'em. I jumped into WWI subjects which presented all new challenges (many I'd never faced previously) and it was the best move I ever made. Not only have I gotten hooked on the WWI stuff, but I now look at the WWII stuff in a different light and their appeal is back - so I guess I'm saying "try a genre you've never built before" - you may be suprised.

I go through ups and downs. I`ll be sitting in my work truck, counting down the hours until I can get to my bench and, when I get home, I lose the urge. OR...I`m working on a kit for an extended period of time and I just hit the wall and totally lose interest in the kit. I got back into the hobby after a lower back injury knocked me outta work and I was climbing the walls `cause I couldn`t do anything but sit around. Hey! maybe if I injure myself.........just kiddin` but I know what ya mean about getting in a slump. One day you`ll just snap out of it and be back to building!

Len

Hey Mike try something different like cars. I've been doing ships for about a year cuz I got SICK of airplanes, which for me was a bad sign.

Now I'm doing stuff with simple bases.

Ok.. 23 adult years??

Rookie...

Hans von Hammer

 

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PNGbrat:

   That is sad.  I never lose my desire to build for more than a few days.

 

 

Maybe it's because I have been doing it off and on for about 23 or so years now. Oh well. That's life.

 

 

23 years???

Rookie...

I am just counting adult modeling Mike not childhood as well. I am 50 so there is more than 23 years total.

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PNGbrat:

   That is sad.  I never lose my desire to build for more than a few days.

 

Maybe it's because I have been doing it off and on for about 23 or so years now. Oh well. That's life.

23 years???

Rookie...

Are there any modeling shows or club meetings coming up, near you?  I'll get fired up after our club meetings, or after a show.  Our next meeting is this Friday night, and I'll want to spend all weekend at the bench (but I do have other places I have to be).

Never have i lost the urge to do something at my  workbench  (when i had one!) even if it was just to clean up the clutter that had grown around it...i was constantly fiddeling with one project or the other .. Now with everything in storage i do fine things to do, one is the last model i packed a Mig 25 so i do pull it out and do the basic,s on it. I also have an old kit that found out what gravity was all about and been working on it as a what if .. with no knifes, putty ,dremal , pin vises, sanding sticks just basic gorilla modeling !  As long as i have working hands and eyes to see i will model !

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Thanks guys. I just hate being in a rut when I have models to build.

Now mind you my stash is small but they are all different aircraft and many of them have no representation in my display case.  

mississippivol made a good suggestion.  Join a group build.  They offer good motivation and lots of support.  I've gotten a lot more work done because of the support from the guys in the group builds.  Rick

It comes and goes...at times I want to model, then I want to game on the computer, then I want to do photography, then back to models, etc etc ad naseum

Modeling lost its appeal for me when they told me I had to work out more often, ditch the glasses & shave my hairy elbows.

Just do it, man...

We all go through this phase. Go pop in a good war movie or something, that usually works for me.

I’ll (try to) quote another famous bit of Chinese:

    “Time hurries by,
    Hare and colt jostle each other,
    Old friends with gray hair are few.
    If one has the price of a few cups,
    it’s best to be drunk among the flowers.”

That commentary on the Human Condition was written circa 1100 AD.
(And what does it say about America, where that poem is found more
often on bar napkins than in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations?)

PNGbrat

   That is sad.  I never lose my desire to build for more than a few days.

Maybe it's because I have been doing it off and on for about 23 or so years now. Oh well. That's life.

   That is sad.  I never lose my desire to build for more than a few days.  In fact, I have excuses for every season.  Spring:  it's going to be nice all day-an hour modeling won't hurt.   Summer: too hot.   Fall:  wait for all the leaves to drop.  Winter: too cold.  I would go nuts if I didn't model.  Hope you get better soon.

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I'm with ya, Mike. The appeal comes and goes. I only finished 3 last year, and if it wasn't for the group build threads, they wouldn't have happened. One took six months, another took 3 months, and one only took a few days. Finally broke out the airbrush today after five months. I'm not sure if I'm afraid of messing something up, or if I just don't want the hassle.  I did get a nice finish on that Avenger, though...

Glenn

SNAP OUT OF IT ! ! !