NOT getting old   is even worse  !

Yes, it certainly beats the alternative!

hkshooter

Today I had to put on my readers AND my optivisor  to see what I was doing.

That is all.

Welcome to my world bro'!  Hey, you should see me shuffle through my readers, prescription glasses and prescription shades when I'm shooting.  Just looking for that "magic" combination I guess.  At least it gives me a built-in excuse for those poor groups, lol.

Gary

I find I can always get more powerful optical aids to vision. It is the loss of manual dexterity that is bothering me.  I had begun to only build larger scale, avoiding the real small stuff.  Lately I have felt this is self-defeating and have concentrated on the smaller stuff. Indeed I think my dexerity is improving a bit, though still a problem.

Also find my concentration wanders after awhile, and I have to build for shorter periods and take more rest periods.

Yeah readers and optivsor for me also. Dexterity is still decent but there's a lot of p e I  can't handle

I guess I am lucky(?) to be so near sighted. I take my glasses off to see up close, and can see very well. Blind as a bat when I look up from my work though.

HK, I am near sighted also, so I take off my glasses to read or model

Seeing can be helped, as you have found out,,,,,,but, you are truly feeling your years when you can't find the tool you "know" you just put "right there",,,,,,,then you find it, and if you remember after the long search what you were going to do with that tool,,,,,,,and then Uncle Arthur rears his head, making your fingers "feel bitten" as you,,,,,,,,hmmm,,,,,where was I going with this?,,,,,,,oh well, if I think of it later, I will open FSM and forget to type it then, I guess

Rex

You guys are a hoot!

I'm just B****ing a little. Most of me still works good. Hands work good, don't have much pain from Arthur, just some stiffness. I can concentrate for a long while as long as I leave the TV off and nobody is home. The vision thing started about three years ago and then in the last year kicked in full force. Today at work I broke my readers and thought I was screwed. I can't see a thousandth of an inch six inches from my eyes anymore. At this rate I'll be blind by 50.

To:h k shooter, are you a machinist?

yes

Been doing that for years now---welcome to the club!

I swear the day after I turned 40 my eye went,  had to get readers the next day, after 10 years my readers are at 2.25 strength,  my far vision is still fine.   Too many years staring at little parts I guess, it must be the body's revenge!

John

How's this for a hoot ?

I have to use readers  , optivisors and magnifiers from a special support office chair and  It better swivel so I can hobble in for that cuppa joe ! Then to top it off , how about braces mounted on the tabletop to keep me from shaking  , BUT , I will model til the room darkens from blindness and I need some , young and pretty thing (whom I probably cannot see ) to hold my coffee cup for me . Then I will stop modeling . I believe that will be around 125 - - Hmm ?

Growing old ain't for sissies

I wear trifocals and use the optivisor for detailing, no biggie there.  What really bothers me are back problems that keep me from doing certain normal every day things.  

as was mentioned beats the alternative. i can't use magnifiers for some things, could be i need more practice, could be my eyeball boresight range is wierd. I CAN model without classes, except for safety glasses, though no prints can be an issue and antennas are dangerous. my detail painting has actually improved.

LOL!  Yep!!!  Same here.  I find myself "depending" on them more and more.......hey, at least we can still build!  

Eagle90

I'm 45 and my eyes started in on me 5 years ago. At first it was a "lighting problem". Now I have to use the visor to work with the 48th scale stuff that I love to build. Where there is a will there is a way though.

mustang1989

I'm 45 and my eyes started in on me 5 years ago. At first it was a "lighting problem". Now I have to use the visor to work with the 48th scale stuff that I love to build. Where there is a will there is a way though.

Then you better not let Bish do that Jedi mind trick thing on you and get you doing some of those 1/72 ones!  

Forget that! I've got a lot of respect for him or anybody else that can pull a 72nd scale build off and make it look like 48th or even 32nd scale stuff but that aint me. Bish and Joe Rix and I have gone round and round already with that "Jedi mind trick". lol lol.

mustang1989

Forget that! I've got a lot of respect for him or anybody else that can pull a 72nd scale build off and make it look like 48th or even 32nd scale stuff but that aint me. Bish and Joe Rix and I have gone round and round already with that "Jedi mind trick". lol lol.

John

It didn't work on me because if it did I'd be stuck building 72nd scale stuff from here on out!

Whew!  then I am ok,  cuz all mine are 1/48!

Yep your safe!!!!

Its a wonder those two don't need a hubble telescope just to see after building some of the stuff they build!!

I think they do that fantastic voyage thing and shrink themselves down and work on it 1 to 1.  

Hahahaha! You watch. They'll catch wind of this post and post something back. LOL

I'm going to run and hide and put on my aluminum foil lined hat and hope they don't notice me!!

HAH! I too am near-sighted enough I can pull my glasses off and hold stuff up for detail painting. The drawback? When I'm that close using one eye I have the depth perception of a cyclops! I'm trying to paint some guy's eyebrows and I'm either a couple of millimeters away or SMACK!

And the other bad for modeling thing about getting old- 'hmmm I need to paint this- oh well- I'll do it after a nap...'