Ok, I have to admit it, for the past 4 or 5 months, I've had "Modelers Block". Go down stairs, turn on the stereo, piddle with a model for 10 or 15 minutes and then pick up a book and start reading. Three hours later go upstairs to get ready for bed and no progress made on my models.
Got to thinking about it a couple of weeks ago and decided there were a couple of reasons for it. Firstly, I've got entirely too may projects started (you really don't want to know how many). And secondly, the modeling room (nay the entire basement) bares a very reasonable representation of an area in which a 500 lb bomb (or 100 lbs of C4) has detonated. (And yes, I've heard my wifes teeth grinding when the subject comes up). So clean up is well on its way to completion (just been working on it on the weekends and holidays) and today I'm starting a system of priorities as to what gets worked on (which means some are going to be stored out of sight until I work my way to them). Anyway, I'm starting to get the urge to complete a model.
So here is where the Maddness comes in. Out of the models of which are closest to completion which do I start working on? The Italeri Hs 129? The PT-19? The Bell X-1? Nope, none of the above. Instead I started work again on the Beechnut Curtiss Wright CW-22 I've had for donkeys years. Anybody out there seen a Beechnut kit? You'd be almost better off getting some blocks of styrene and chipping off any pieces that don't look like an airplane. This one may drive me over the edge.