Ideas vrs. talent

[bobthehobbyguy]

Anything artistic develops with practice. To me skills are things like painting and detailing. Talent is being able to look at something and be able to visualze how to make it happen. You either have talent or you don't.

[stavanzer]

This has been one of the best threads on this whole forum!

Uplifting and practical.

To hear from Builders who's work has been in magazines I've read or even seen in person (Scott Colmer), that they struggle too with some aspects of the hobby, makes me a little more willing to just build it, and stop worrying so much about how it turns out.

I'm from the "the Perfect is the enemy of the Good" school of building.

Since what I envision in my minds eye, is never what the finished product looks like, I've just stopped.

This thread prods me to take down some Shelf O'Doom, projects, and work on them.

Thanks.

Alan

[Scott Colmer]

Right on the money, Alan! I look forward to seeing what you pull down from the shelf of doom. I have one or two there myself. Seems like a good idea for an article.

Mike Turk was to first person to talk to me about making parts over and over until he was happy with them. (Light buuuulb!) Remember his chain drive Nash Metro? 80's pro-street to the extreme

Even Clay Kemp talks about making parts more than once.

We all start somewhere....Where we end up is a matter of choice.

Edited July 2, 2015 by Scott Colmer

[Roadrunner]

I agree.

Talent is innate; you can't teach or learn talent. Some people are born with artistic talent, or musical talent. They weren't taught it, it's "in" them. But you can teach and/or learn a skill.

A person with musical talent can maximize that talent by practicing... by learning skills to make themselves a better musician. But a person with absolutely no musical talent whatsoever can still learn to play a piano, for example, by learning skills. He will never be a concert pianist, but he can learn to pound out a song or two.

Talent is what we're born with, skill is how we can improve on that talent.

I recall in a MASH episode, that Charles said something like "my fingers can make the notes, but they can't play the music".

[kruleworld]

. That problem being I have many build ideas that I believe would be cool but just don't have the talent to pull them off. .

My suggestion to every younger/inexperienced modeler is to JUST DO IT! do it badly if you have to, but trying new things is how you learn. You can always go back in a few years after your skills have improved and try again. to experienced modelers, it's hard, but try to be encouraging while pointing out flaws. we don't want people to give up.