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Does anyone else procrastinate?

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  • Member since
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  • From: Tulsa, OK
Does anyone else procrastinate?
Posted by acmodeler01 on Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:17 AM

Well, Im not entirely sure how many people here enter contests, but I enter 1 or 2 kits each year at my club's contest, mainly for fun.

I am developing a (bad?) habit of waiting until almost the last minute to finish--or somtimes start-- a build for the show. For instance, it is Friday at midnight, the contest is tomorrow morning, and at 7pm today I began a display base for a dinosaur that I'm entering. Last year I started a car one week before the contest and finished it the night before.

Honestly I kind of enjoy working under the "pressure". I seem to think less about the how, what, why and instead just build and paint. I did the same thing through high school and college; it seemed like I was pulling all nighters once or twice a semester.

Does anyone else do this, or am I as wierd as my wife insists I am?

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Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:25 AM
Well, procrastination and masturbation share the same definition...in the beginning it looks like a good idea....however in the end you are only Censored [censored] yourself.Wink [;)]

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

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  • From: springfield
Posted by prowannab on Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:54 AM

 HawkeyeHobbies wrote:
Well, procrastination and masturbation share the same definition...in the beginning it looks like a good idea....however in the end you are only Censored [censored] yourself.Wink [;)]

LOL !!!!!!! 

Patriae Fidus (FAITHFUL TO MY COUNTRY)
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Posted by ajlafleche on Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:03 AM
I never build for a show and refuse to rush myself to finish something for a show. If it's not ready, there's the next one.

Remember, if the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

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Posted by ben1227 on Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:07 AM

Very nice comparison Gerald Laugh [(-D] ...Procrastination for me is usually saying I'll go to the LHS and get the paints I need to start the next model, but somehow I never get around to it until the next weekend...or the next one.  I never rush my builds contest or no contest, because if I do the end result looks like crap.

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  • From: Indiana
Posted by hkshooter on Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:31 AM

Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?

I'm the worst. Dishes pile up, I run out of clean clothes. I just dusted today for the first time and I've lived here six months.

I don't enter contests but how quickly I build depends on my interest in the subject. The more I like it the faster I go.

 

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Posted by Bgrigg on Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:51 AM

I was going to respond to this thread yesterday, but put it off until today, so I guess the answer is YES!

So long folks!

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  • From: Medina, Ohio
Posted by wayne baker on Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:40 PM
Maybe I'll have answer tomorrow. 

 I may get so drunk, I have to crawl home. But dammit, I'll crawl like a Marine.

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  • From: Tulsa, OK
Posted by acmodeler01 on Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:27 PM

That's great, you guys make me laughLaugh [(-D]! I love the smart Censored [censored] remarks!

BTW, the base I made that I finished at 2:00 AM Saturday helped the Stegasaurus win 3rd in the Misc. category. Not too bad for a rushed job.

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  • From: Smithers, BC, Canada
Posted by ruddratt on Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:48 PM
 Bgrigg wrote:

I was going to respond to this thread yesterday, but put it off until today, so I guess the answer is YES!

Laugh [(-D]

Mike

 "We have our own ammunition. It's filled with paint. When we fire it, it makes pretty pictures....scares the hell outta people."

 

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Posted by Mike H. on Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:00 PM
Yes and no.  I enter contests for fun and to just hang out with fellow modelers and BS for the day.  :D  I tend to FINALLY get that last little detail painted or completed a couple weeks before show time.   
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