Well , Waynec :

   I don't really how to answer you . As the Vice- president of Modeling for our Club and the Museum.  I am responsible for " T'Track (" N "scale ) All of our H.O. Displays, The " O' and 027" " Kids run the train" layout and the " G " scale as well as some very rare Z units . I prefer H.O., because when I go into scratch-building ships I use a LOT of H.O. scale stuff to detail them .

    There's some interest in LEGO scale trains too . Slightly larger than " O " Guage . But Not quite " G " .

tankerbuilder

AHA !

Very well said Mr.Stauffer ! I feel the same way , but then again I will build anything that catches my urge at the time . I am on a train kick right now .     T.B.

hey TB you talking HO or 1/72 and 1/35?

last year i got interested in fire trucks and now have all the revell germany ones plus a tanker and fireboat in the stash. doing a bit of sci-fi and really got into 1/72 just 6 months ago. and weird stuff when i can find it (D9R cat, bucket excavator, maybe ISS, commercial ships. who knows what else will catch my fancy. probably dioramas.

My apologies if I missed a similar comment in your thread.

You might try downloading a free paper model and try building it as a change of pace........FSM now has a Paper Model section and Richkat has been posting photos of his builds.

There are some astonishingly detailed kits available for free download.

I would not be surprised if there is a kit for a yacht available for download.

Chris!

You can have that yacht ! I bet there's someone out there that will sell you a 47 foot Sea - Ray for a cool 50 or 60 thou .  I was taught , to be a yacht ,  it had to be 80 feet or more, and require  a crew . Boy, how times and meanings change .

I mean, shoot , if you want a Caddy or Lincoln you'll come close . Even some Acura's and Pick-Up trucks ! .   T.B.

AHA !

Very well said Mr.Stauffer ! I feel the same way , but then again I will build anything that catches my urge at the time . I am on a train kick right now .     T.B.

I dabble a bit into most subjects, aircraft, armored and wheeled vehicles, ships both surface and subs, figures, even fire engines and even a guillotine. I would love to build a Spanish galleon if I only had the space.

Variety is the spice of life. Though my main love is armor, I also dabble in cars, horses, figures, dioramas, vignettes, etc. Anything that catches my eye. If you "specialize" too much in one area, t will inevitably "get old".

I just finished a longish project on a Takom Soviet tank; right now I"m simultaneously working on an old car model and an F14 Tomcat. Go figure...?

Chrisk-k

By cars, what I mean is Grand Prix cars.  Because there's no way I can drive a Grand Prix car on the streets, I don't want real Grand Prix cars.  However, I do want a yacht.  The problem is I don't have extra $5 million :-)

LOL, no problem with wanting as long as you don't go into debt buying what you can't be having!

I want my own P-47 but I'm not looking to buy one!!!

well chris-k                you can buy a nice row boat and dream

and you can buy a pontiac  grand prix 

By cars, what I mean is Grand Prix cars.  Because there's no way I can drive a Grand Prix car on the streets, I don't want real Grand Prix cars.  However, I do want a yacht.  The problem is I don't have extra $5 million :-)

Chrisk-k

I'm 47 and have been super interested in WWII and Vietnam military stuff for more than 40 years.  I was never interested in cars & yachts until recently.  Maybe I'm going through a mid-life crisis :-)  

I would not consider this a mid-life crisis, unless you want the real cars and yachts!

Since 1989, I've built nothing but aircraft, excepting two tanks.  Hopelessly OCD, I used to have a "system"; build one "classic" airplane (from WWI through WWII) and then, build one modern plane (late '40s through the present).  Then I really fell in love with the '50s jets and built several of those consecutively.   Today, I have the Revell 1/48 A6-E and the 1/48 Tamiya F4-D Skyray about half done and just taunting me to finish them.

When I built models as a kid however, my interests were all over the place, and then in my early teens, it was all cars, mostly drag racers and endurance racers.  I built several funny cars with scratch-built tube chassis made out of Pick Up Sticks.  There were great detail pics and technical drawings in CarCraft and Hot Rod magazines.    I do have a few cars in the stash now though and one of them is likely to get built, the 1/24 Revell kit of Mickey Thompson's Challenger.  I would love to detail those four Pontiac mills!

Gary

I would mostly consider myself to be an aircraft modeler, but also will go through stages where I switch to cars, ships or something else.  Sometimes something random will just pique my interest and I'll shift directions for a few months.

Mark

Will it hurt you to build a couple of autos? If that's what you feel like go with it! As the guys said a little variety is the spice of life. Then you can come back to your military subjects refreshed.

I tend to bounce back and forth from aircraft to AFVs, I build one till I get tired and then switch off to the other.

I went from cars to armor, starting in cars because my dad worked as a body and fender person at a dealership that sponsored some  gasser and stock eliminator drag cars ("Top Cat"  d/gas Cougar). I've just taken back up modeling last year, and find the weathering aspect as related to an art form the current attraction, with weathering most pronounced in armor, hence my interest in such. I like the application of products, how it might flow from top to bottom, or from front to back, and the degree and extent of weathering, based on the field of operation, with an emphasis on how I can devise a substitute to commercially bought, modeling-specific products. Exact historical correctness down to the thickness and color of an antennae is something I will forego, however. It's these things, such as not getting anxious over details, but willing to branch out to different areas, that keeps modeling interesting and under control. Chrisk-k, what you are doing is okay...control modeling, do not let it control you.

I think changing gears is healthy. Keeps the interest flowing. I did it all the time in my modeling days when I was young. Haven't been back long enough to switch interests yet, though. :)

While I am mainly a modern US armor modeler, my other interests are more varied and across several genres. Sci-fi, space, mecha, cars, planes, trucks, etc. I'll move to something else and return when I feel like it.

Indeed.  I have no qualms about switching genres. I do so frequently.  It has never bothered me.  I am a model builder, not an aircraft modeler, car modeler, or ship modeler.

Chris, you're definitely not alone.  I've always built WW2 U.S. aircraft but about a year or so ago, I just got "burned out" by it as well.  I still love them but I found myself staring at my small (25 + or -) stash of kits under my work bench and feeling zero inspiration to build any of them.  I still love them but I felt something inexplicably pulling me in a different direction.  My past few models have all been early U.S. jets.

And just to mix things up, I've got a small helicopter and a couple of cars that my daughters want me to build.  As others above have stated, it's always good to have a couple of oddball kits in the stash just to mix things up.  Don't worry about being in a funk.  It's just nature's way of saying "give something else a try".

Best wishes!

Eric

Definitely count me in.

My main interests are Scifi, movie/TV, and Real Space.

A few years ago I developed an interest in all the "B" bombers from WW2.

I just had to have all of them in 1/48. To date I've built exactly one!

Ditto similar experiences for cars and figures.

Now yachts! I've not been bitten by that bug!

I also enjoy an occasional  Sci-Fi build,  just for a change of pace.

Past that and survived and still modeling, Chrisk-k.  So will you!  Interests just change with time and circumstances.  Plus, your collection will be more, uh, eclectic!

I'm 47 and have been super interested in WWII and Vietnam military stuff for more than 40 years.  I was never interested in cars & yachts until recently.  Maybe I'm going through a mid-life crisis :-)  

not everyone but many of us go thru stages   i do   i build it all but for the last 6-8 months just ships   maybe in 2 -3 months i will shift to just armor for a few months  maybe not   but   i do go thru stages like that

Sort of; I always like planes.  For a while I did nothing but Luftwaffe; then nothing but Flying Fortresses and AAF fighters.  Couple of years ago, got into ships.

I think it's better to move from interest to interest, rather than slavishly building something when your heart is really in it.  You tend to get better results if you're "in the groove."

Not me- I still love WWII aircraft, but not armor.  Cars bore me.  Different strokes for different folks, I guess.