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Modelholic?
Posted by Bones-coa on Monday, December 13, 2004 12:49 PM
Modelers, I've been back into this great hobby now for a bit over two years. After getting past college, girls and cars of my late teens and early twenties, I've returned to this hobby to see the internet providing an unimaginable wealth of information and options for a model builder. This has caused me to be much more excited about this hobby that I ever have been.

One may look at this as a good thing. However, in my case, it's somewhat become a hassle. I find myself wanting to put everything else aside just to get home and start working on my latest build. I've been married now for 10 months and do not as of yet have children. However, besides model building, I race R/C cars and I'm also the President of the local R/C club. Everything is starting to take a back seat to my model building. At work, all I can think about is getting home, eating, showering, and getting to that model. My wife doesn't see this and so she doesn't complain. In fact, no one really does. I just know how I am.

Does anyone else have this probelm?


"Hello. My name is Dana. I am a modelholic." "HI DANA!"
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Posted by LemonJello on Monday, December 13, 2004 2:06 PM
I don't understand, what's the problem?
A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm; every meal is a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade... The Marine Corps is a department of the Navy? Yeah...The Men's Department.
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Posted by razordws on Monday, December 13, 2004 2:21 PM
Hi, my name is Dave...

Dave

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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Monday, December 13, 2004 2:33 PM
The hobby will cycle through phases in your psyche. At times, the addiction will run high as you describe, and at times you'll burn out and not want to look at the bench & the unfinished model resting on it. But no matter your urges, don't let modeling interfere with your job or marriage. Modeling is a Hobby for your spare time, Jobs & Wives are real life.

Regards, Rick
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 2:36 PM
Agree with Rick.

For me it also runs in cycles, there are times I will tinker a bit with models but not do anything serious and at other times you can't keep me away from the bench and I will build a LOT of models in a very short time.
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Posted by fightnjoe on Monday, December 13, 2004 2:46 PM
i am a modelholic also. my main problem is when i go into any business that sells anything related to modeling i gravitate to that area. but as has been commented, you have to put modeling in its place. it is a hobby. at least on the level the vast majority of the members enjoy it. i am not one to throw stones (i religiously study the squadron catalog, internet sites, and magazines to make my christmas list. early in jan.) but modeling has to be in its place. that is what makes it so enjoyable.


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Posted by Bones-coa on Monday, December 13, 2004 2:53 PM
Well, I don't want to make it out to sound like I spend my entire paycheck on it or I sit around late at the hobby shops hitting on some skate boarder's girlfriend or anything. It's not like that. I guess I take modelinglike everything in my life. When I get interested in something, I'm 100% that interest.

Heh...but it's also nice to see some other model junkies around here. Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]
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Posted by fightnjoe on Monday, December 13, 2004 3:03 PM
dana i am one who would hang around a hobbyshop from open to close. i would be the one who studies all the models and drools over all the kits. and if i could i would spend all the money on models. thank god my wife has a level head on her shoulders. because of her i have a roof, food, and some of the other things that make life easier.


joe

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Posted by tho9900 on Monday, December 13, 2004 3:57 PM
I used to be a modelholic but have it completely in control now.. <nervous tic> really!


haha no it's the same for me... been back into for almost a yr now.. and have got to the point where I might spend 3 nights straight on a build only to put it aside for the next 3 days... it's levelled out to cycles for me now...

as far as buying things that's another story... but like Dana I try to stay away from the skateboarders girlfriend as well Wink [;)]
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Posted by kaleu on Monday, December 13, 2004 5:22 PM
Hello, my name is Erik.....Welcome to the club, Dana. The desire to build models won't always be this strong, there will come a time where you just can't get motivated enough to build anything. Remember, the models will always be at the house.
Erik "Don't fruit the beer." Newest model buys: More than I care to think about. It's time for a support group.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 5:31 PM
Hi, my name is MM.

My problem is not that I am obsessed with building models, but that I buy them even when I am not in the building mood. Big Smile [:D]

Honestly wait till you hit a slow period and see the stash starting to grow, after that will come a phase where you can't keep your hands off that stash, and so on.
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Posted by tigerman on Monday, December 13, 2004 6:12 PM
I hear you. I think about it at work and so on. Lately, I have a new problem, I buy too much and can't finish anything. It seems the more I buy, the less I concentrate on the one I'm working on, thus less finished models.

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Posted by tho9900 on Monday, December 13, 2004 8:02 PM
yup Eric... between that and the occasional burn out from too much detail it's hard to keep it up on a kit sometimes... lately I am doing better but I hid my stash out of sight so I dont turn around and start wondering which one to build next... or worse, get the urge to stop the one I am on and start another
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Posted by Copterguy on Monday, December 13, 2004 9:05 PM
Ha! Ha! My wife just made me remove the Squadron catalogue and a stack of instruction booklets from the bookshelf beside the toilet! What does that tell you?

Jim Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by diggeraone on Monday, December 13, 2004 11:35 PM
Dana,i would not worry about.It's modeling the healthy addiction,do as Janis Joplin said,"get it while you can."One day it is going to slow down when your wife says to you,"Guess what honey I'm pregnet."So once the kid comes you will slow down and you will look forward to the time you will have to yourself.All twenty minutes...Ha..Ha..Ha just joking on the twenty.So don't worry be happy.Modeling it's my booze of the day.Digger
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Posted by tigerman on Monday, December 13, 2004 11:45 PM
LOL, it finally happened to me the other day, I asked my wife to stop by this new hobby shop while she was at the mall and get me a model "Italeri Panzerjager I" that was on sale and less than online that I saw the previous day, and she gave me the look and said "Don't you have enough?" I just kind of stared in disbelief saying "Well if I get it while it's on sale, that will save money down the line." It turned out she wasn't p.o'd, and she did end up getting it for me. Whew, I think I dodged one. Big Smile [:D]Evil [}:)]

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Posted by armydogdoc on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:44 AM
Try being stationed thousand of miles from the nearest hobby shop. Waiting 14 to 20 days for the next build to get here, man the DT's are painful!!!! LOL I totaly echo what has been said above. You will get a hot model going and nothing else in the world matters. I dont know why, but it seems as though the hot models are getting fewer and fewer. As a result the incomplete builds are mounting. I cant wait to get into the grove again.
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Posted by waikong on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:06 AM
Guilty!
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Posted by overkillphil on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:36 AM
I also go in phases and have for years. Typically, these have been dictated by available time and space since I moved around a lot in my 20's. Now that I'm married and have a workbench, I've been pretty regular in my building (if somewhat slow). For various reasons, I decided that when I got married that my marriage would be my top priority, so it easy for me to set aside models for a week or two to get 'honey do' projects done. But as soon as the coast is clear, I'm heading for my bench.
my favorite headache/current project: 1/48 Panda F-35 "I love the fact that dumb people don't know who they are. I hope I'm not one of them" -Scott Adams
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Posted by rrmmodeler on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:29 AM
When I got back into the hobby when I was in college I was the same way. I didn't want to go to class, didn't want to go the intermship I was doing as well, all I wanted to do was stay home and build. Things slowed down a bit after I moved into my career and now it runs in cycles. Right now I am ramping up on a hot peroid with my thoughts on modeling more. In time I am sure it will cool off for a bit but until then I am going to enjoy the ride. :)
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Posted by LemonJello on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 3:57 PM
Yeah, I was tearing through one of my 1/35 Cobras and then, nothing. I haven't touched it for a few weeks now. Too many other things taking priority away, but I know soon I'll be back at it like a madman and then maybe I'll finally have some pictures to post.
A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm; every meal is a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade... The Marine Corps is a department of the Navy? Yeah...The Men's Department.
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Posted by zokissima on Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:10 AM
give it time, you'll burn out, and then....you'll want more, and more, and more, AND MORE AND MORE!!!
hmm...maybe I should go get some air...
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:53 PM
Hi...My name is carl...and...and...Oh, god, this is hard...well...For a while now iv'e been addicted to model kits. I..I thought it was just a temporary thing, you know? Well, it started out small...One model kit here, another there, but now I just want more and more! I can't Stop! I'm a monster!!! I haven't been building models for a few months now, and I've resorted to painting toy soldiers just to get a feel of the modeling life!
(Starts crying and runs from the room in shame)
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Posted by Tankmaster7 on Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:23 PM
i fail tot he see the problem bones! im exactly like that. get home from scvhool. finish the blasted homework, and straight to the workbench!
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:29 PM
You...You haver of model kits that are waiting for you when yopu get home!!! I despise your kind!! They think not of us that have naught to do except stare at the kits we have built and invent crappy camoflauge schemes with whioch to paaint them! I cast you down to the depths of my cold and cricket-infested basement! there you shall rot as an exaple to all others who have more important things to do than stare at a blank wall!
Can I have my pen back now?
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Posted by Tankmaster7 on Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:08 PM
comrade sergei seems to be a bit of a rabble rouser eh? and a bit insane as well. yes you can have your pen back. lol.
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Posted by tigerman on Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:08 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Comrade Sergei

You...You haver of model kits that are waiting for you when yopu get home!!! I despise your kind!! They think not of us that have naught to do except stare at the kits we have built and invent crappy camoflauge schemes with whioch to paaint them! I cast you down to the depths of my cold and cricket-infested basement! there you shall rot as an exaple to all others who have more important things to do than stare at a blank wall!
Can I have my pen back now?


Confused [%-)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:10 PM
I think Comrade Sergei might be suffering from small-stash syndrome. Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by LemonJello on Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:11 PM
That, or he needs better ventilation when he's using his glues and paints.
A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm; every meal is a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade... The Marine Corps is a department of the Navy? Yeah...The Men's Department.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 17, 2004 3:35 PM
Both, actually. My stash consists of the drop tanks that are not currently on my F-16. I am rationing them so they will last until January, when my modeling desert will end. I will then get 4 new kits, which I will take 14 hours to build each. I will be done with them so fast and they will be so terrible that I will come very close to commiting suicide. Then I will be saved on february 20th by the arrival of new kits, some of which will be dioramma-like in nature. scince I have no clue what to do with diorasmma-l;ike materials, I will be sticken dumb for long enough to postpone my lack of model kits until summer, at which point I will have better things to do.
As to my rabble-rousiness, I have this to say: SoapBox [soapbox] Comrades, even though my lack of model kits is due entirely to my stupidity and negligfense, I blame others, for this is how I have been taught, and this is the way i shall remain for so long as no-one kills me.
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