I don't know what my problem is lately...

[JTalmage]

It definitely doesnt help when a paintjob turns to BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH and I have to put it in the pond and make the whole process take days longer.

[Ace-Garageguy]

When we was young we had more energy and less worry now its the opposite. It happens to many of us and i had it last year. The build bug should return...

This pretty well sums it up for me. The more difficult, disappointing and demanding my life is during a particular period, the less I feel like working on models.

Though I know it's always relaxing because it allows me to focus entirely on something other than real-life issues, I think I feel I'm not really entitled to do something fun until I've sorted the reality-bites.

Same goes for working on 1:1 projects (things that HAVE to get done get done, but my fun stuff just sits)...and I don't even go hiking, which I love. When I'm on overload, I just have a very difficult time getting started doing anything for fun.

Hmmm...now that that's out, maybe it's time for some conscious behavior modification.

[Tom Geiger]

I think we all could build a "decent" model in a week or less back in our younger days, when we weren't so critical of our own work.

That was a nagging question with me for a long time. After spending way too much time on each project, I wondered how quickly I could get a shelf worthy model built. So I tried the "24 Hour Build" that Gary Kulchock and his friends sponsor every year in February. There is the original group that meets in person at Gary's house, but there are now groups and individuals all over who participate and communicate on their FaceBook page and by posting progress photos on Fotki. It runs noon on Saturday until noon on Sunday, following the 24 Hour Daytona race. And it's a lot of fun.

The whole premise is to take a new kit that's expendable and go at it. It's okay to build like a fifth grader! Twist the parts from the trees, spray some black parts without primer. Just have fun. And at the same time, it makes you think and work systematically and quickly. And in the end I actually have had decent looking models! It has benefited my normal building as well since I can build more systematically and accomplish some tasks faster than I did before. It's great to make the challenge of finishing within the 24 hour time frame but if you don't nobody really cares. And did I mention it's fun?

Edited May 22, 2015 by Tom Geiger

[JTalmage]

I like riding my bicycle... but I just dont even feel the motivation to do that anymore. I think I need to force myself to do that too. Maybe I'll feel better.

[Ace-Garageguy]

I like riding my bicycle... but I just dont even feel the motivation to do that anymore. I think I need to force myself to do that too. Maybe I'll feel better.

I've struggled with similar lack of motivation off-and-on for years, and I've found that exercise definitely helps to break the cycle. You just kinda have to force yourself to do it for a few days, as you say.

Edited May 22, 2015 by Ace-Garageguy

[MsDano85gt]

I used to be able to bang out very decent looking models in under a week... back when I was still in high school. I'd get home from school and go straight to the desk. Now I get home from work... and veg out. Guess it comes with getting older too. I'm lucky I can finish 1 kit a year now. I should be able to finish 1 kit in less than a month with my past history. I NEED to thin my stash and get them built. Otherwise I'm just hoarding.

nothing wrong with hoarding!! i mean stashing away like a squrrel..... you and i should jack our jaws jesse on that old thing called a telephone......I find my phone is about 85% fellow mcm members now ones that if they don't want to talk we at least once in awile shoot some texts with model pics back n fourth once in awile and get the model conversations flowing i find this alot of times motivates me.........

we seem to have alot in common

pm me your info (tele) if you'd be interested in jacking jaws sometime........?? talk 5.0's talk models heck talk family whatever i find chatting with fellow members therepudic like bench time.......

yes netflix is now the Devil lol we have the same prob around here veg in front of netflix see who falls sleep first lol

[10thumbs]

Hi Jesse,

What all of the guys are posting here makes sense, and we all have it, especially as age progresses.

One thing though, you're going to have to snap out of it. Life is a bear, and burdens grow out of hand.

Discipline! You should close your eyes and pick out one project you have on the bench. Get the silly thing finished without doing anything else. Pick a smaller-type job. Do it! Get it done and out of you're sight. You have no time to sit around and moan and groan. Get off your butt and get the job done. Get the lead out dude!

I guarantee you'll get things cleared up, and you'll be able to sort things out that are important to you.

Michael