modeling as relaxtion?

Now...hiking...that's relaxation.

Heh.. Spoken like someone who's never done it with a 70-lb ruck, K-pot, armor, and LBV, MOPP bag, pro-mask, rifle, ammo, gallon of water, mortar rounds, 4 frags,  2 smokes, e-tool, bayonet, 6 MREs, and a deck of cards that's heavy by two Jokers...

Man, I take the car to pick up the mail at the end of the driveway...

Hans von Hammer

Now...hiking...that's relaxation.

Heh.. Spoken like someone who's never done it with a 70-lb ruck, K-pot, armor, and LBV, MOPP bag, pro-mask, rifle, ammo, gallon of water, mortar rounds, 4 frags,  2 smokes, e-tool, bayonet, 6 MREs, and a deck of cards that's heavy by two Jokers...

Man, I take the car to pick up the mail at the end of the driveway...

ah good times, I remember one real nice NucBioChem (NBC) hump at Camp Lejeune...summer...MOPP4...deuce gear.  My gloves were filled past my fingers with sweat.  Topped off with a lovely visit to the gas chamber and the decon station.  Almost made us think those jarheads didn't like us squids very much.

Lejeune sounds almost as much fun as Fort Leonard Wood in July!! 

Or Lackland in August

I remember one real nice NucBioChem (NBC) hump at Camp Lejeune...summer...MOPP4..

I was usually the one that charged the chamber with the CS, lol...  Nothin' to it.. Now, you wanna have fun, try the CDTF at Ft Leonard Wood.. No CS in the place, anywhere....

Nope, no CS...

Just live blister and nerve agents (HD, GB, and VX)... 'Course, it's air-condtioned, but you'll be sweatin' plenty anyway when the agent pourers come into the room to slime the equipment you gotta decon...

All the NBC stuff was still at McClellan and I went through Basic at Leonard Wood in July '88.  Just CS, chiggers and heat.

We hated it when the air conditioners at Lackland couldn't keep it at 68 degrees. LOL

Sounds like ya had it tough there, Zoomie!! 

RESlusher

All the NBC stuff was still at McClellan and I went through Basic at Leonard Wood in July '88.  Just CS, chiggers and heat.

 

Yeah, I went there while it was at McClellan... They moved the NBC schoolhouse to FLW a few years after I was done with Alabama... 

I haven't been to FLW since BCT in 1976...  Didn't leave a damn thing there, so I never went back, lol...

RESlusher

Sounds like ya had it tough there, Zoomie!! 

Ohh it was awful...I broke a sweat and everything

I agree!  One h---- of a lot better than being at work.   

I think , you have something there fella . Really , I find that at times I want to do the same thing , You know the orbital release gambit . All that does after the fact is make one feel foolish . Model building , if you don,t hurry , and think out each step, make sure it,s the right step, do it and then , when you,ve got a chance to later step back , and look at what you,ve done AHA ,success , and it looks darned good too ! There ,those feel good endorphins got out and made you feel good and yes , relaxed . I guess it,s all in how you look at it as compared to being a couch potato . I for one cannot see sitting in front of the tube when there,s models to be built ! Let,s see , whats next ?            tankerbuilder

I've always liked modeling because I get the satisfaction of creating something vs. wasting my time doing useless stuff like watching TV, military and history channel excluded. It's not necessarily always relaxing but it does get my mind off of other stuff.. Yeah, there's times when I feel like throwing my project in the chiminea , but that's all part of it. I find taking breaks now and then and definitely not working when I am too tired is important. Plus, not many people I know have cool models displayed in their living rooms!

Hans von Hammer

 

Now...hiking...that's relaxation.

 

Heh.. Spoken like someone who's never done it with a 70-lb ruck, K-pot, armor, and LBV, MOPP bag, pro-mask, rifle, ammo, gallon of water, mortar rounds, 4 frags,  2 smokes, e-tool, bayonet, 6 MREs, and a deck of cards that's heavy by two Jokers...

Man, I take the car to pick up the mail at the end of the driveway...

....be thankful you weren't carrying the mortar base plate.............

............just kidding...............

[quote]....be thankful you weren't carrying the mortar base plate......[quote]

Thing is, back in the day, I could hump the base-plate and smoke a "hiker"...  'Course, since I retired, I quit doing PT and I think I'm carrying a base-plate around with me all day, every day, anyway.....

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[quote]....be thankful you weren't carrying the mortar base plate......

Thing is, back in the day, I could hump the base-plate and smoke a "hiker"...  'Course, since I retired, I quit doing PT and I think I'm carrying a base-plate around with me all day, every day, anyway.....

Many of us fall into that classification as we gain model building experience..

Might be one penalty for hobby bench time.

Great topic. To me, modeling serves to  focus my mind into a particular task thereby quieting my brain. If I don't get to build for a while, then I start to get more and more unrelaxed. It's a kind of personal therapy. In my hobby room there is no tv and more often than not I don't even turn on iTunes. I actually enjoy the pure silence, except for my loud ass compressor. 

On another note, for my job, I am a laparoscopic surgeon. In the operating room, I have found myself thinking that some of the fine motor skills I practice while modeling have actually crossed over professionally into some of the fine motor in the OR. Who knew? Lol. 

So, I guess you can say modeling has a therapeutic and real world application for me.....at least styrene doesn't bleed. Yet.

Hercmech

 

RESlusher:

 

Sounds like ya had it tough there, Zoomie!! 

 

 

Ohh it was awful...I broke a sweat and everything

   Me too. that's why I joined the "Chair Force" instead of those other branches. We still did our share of complaining though; probably more!