Why is this?

LOL reggie!! now thats a man with his priorities straight!!

wibhi2 i recently had a 2 week sabatical due to waiting on subcontractors to do there thing, now i did some heavy duty modelling during that period myself!! should have been doing some estimates on future projects, but i was "distracted". my wife finally pryed me from the bench and scolded me til a fly wouldn't land on me, then i snapped back from the realm of plaskit.LOL i've logged about 2 hrs at the bench since i started this thread, so i'm doin' OK. later.

Well as I sit here I look to my right at the HH-65, I am about 1/2 complete on (just paint the main body and glue on the knick knacks), the OS2U I am half-heartedly building... with a A-1H Skyhawk in the box behind me with the cockpit interior done and that's it...

My problem is like all of yours. I don't have kids but wy wife has an active schedule so there is lot of the chores I pick up in the meantime. (cooking, washing etc...)

BUT.... on a day like today when she is outside with the dogs and I could be building, here I am on the forum... or thinking about going to the store etc... it's not that I dont want to build. I think it's like a few others said... I need to wind down first... luckily I have Monday off too... I guess that's when I will finish at least the HH-65...

I have found my people! This is my problem right now. I've got a brand new desk, a stack of kits and even some unfinished business with a couple of projects, but I come here and post or shop for even more kits instead of building. I'm thinking that I'm going to just shelve the ones I've started and take one of my kits and start fresh. I hope that gets me going full steam again. I sure hope so.

I think I should be paying Salty for model-therapy.. after reading this yesterday it made me get up... actually walk the 4 or so feet to the old work bench....

And MODEL!

Decided to can the OS2U...
Got the HH-65 all nice and Futured up and ready to paint tomorrow.
Detailed the cockpit a little more on the A-1H, got some of the interior pieces ready to glue to the fuselage.

Problem is I am 5 hours away from winning a "good" model of the OS2U... I need to stay off Ebay... I know soon as I get it I am going to want to start it...

thats funny tho9900, me too!! when i posted here a couple of times, i actually got over there and knocked some things out!!LOL crazy.......later.

maybe once we knew it was ok to be lazy in modelling it inspired us... lol

LOL.......must have!! later.

Ok Chris I know what my problem is..... it hit me this morning as I am eagerly working on that Aeres cockpit for my F4U....

I love doing the detailing, working night and day on the cockpit... putting the little PE pieces in one by one... but when I get done with that I lose interest.. oh yeah I LOVE to see the finished product, but lately I haven't had the willpower to get them there...

I have 3 models in the build right now... F4U-1A Corsair, about 50% done with the cockpit area...

OS2U - done with the cockpit area, glued together and just waiting to paint it...

Harrier AV-8B ... done with the cockpit and fuselage glued together just waiting on the tanks and external stores and such to be glued on so I can paint it.

I'm sitting here itching to build this Tamiya A6M2 right now... and I know why... I wanna get into that cockpit build and go to town...

(For those of you not from the South or living in a decent sized city, it means to 'get busy' or 'work hard' but also do anything with gusto... when I was a kid I lived in a rural community and once in awhile we got the opportunity to "go to town" .. you put on some nice clothes, hopped in the car for the hour or so drive there... you got to go out to eat at a nice restaraunt, go shopping, drive around in the nice rich neighborhoods and look at the houses etc... no, it wasn't as "Beverly Hillbillies" as it sounds but it was a special thing... So... "going to town" in general is something you do with the same enthusiasm as you had when you were "going to town"

I think I need to discipline myself and go ahead and finish these three than maybe get something with not as much detail that will be fun just to slap together and paint.... and have it come out looking pretty decent despite the lack of detail... I did a (cant remember who made it) F8F like that once and it was a REAL fun build and when you look at it hanging from the ceiling you wouldn't know theres no detail to it... it's nicely painted and weathered and is just a good of an eye catcher as my SBD-5 with it's gazillion cockpit pieces...

i get like that too tom, i get in the cockpit mode and don't want to do anything else. with the recent weather events here, my modelling time has been cut to nill. tomorrow i'm not working, so maybe i can get a few hours in on some styrene between my napping and vegging!!LOL

i know what you mean by the F8F build. i had a couple of kits with raised detail that i wasn't too crazy about, but once they were painted and weathered, they turned out lookin pretty good. later.

good! I bet you are snowed under with work... good for the modelling budget, bad for the modelling...

I'm waiting to see that SBD finished.. cockpit is a dream from the photos I saw... anxious to see the whole thing... I am thinging of building the SBD-3 and getting an 8x10 reduced of my uncle who flew as tailgunner on one, and put it on display with the model...

i try to schedule stuff, but then i realize that the day is only 24 hours long and its 12:00 at night....