paul alflen Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 REAL LIFE ALLWAYS GETS IN THE WAY OF THINGS. ALSO YOU GOTTA GO TO WORK TO PAY FOR MORE MODELS, ETC.
Dr. Cranky Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) I find the things that slow me down are the things I most enjoy like painting, scratch building, mocking up . . . the routine of building ends up teaching you that the beauty of model building is the JOURNEY not the final product, although, of course, the final product is of great importance too. The other thing is stopping to photograph or film the process. Edited July 30, 2012 by Dr. Cranky
Tom Setzer Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 My wife keeps asking when are you going to finish that model! I tell her I will when it's Finished! I build to create what is in my mind, I get an idea of what I want and just start building! Sometimes I have to put a model aside for a few days and just think about it!
2000-cvpi Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 Well for me it's my family, wife and two kids. Our lives are pretty full right now, with a healthy dose of yard work, house related things that need to be finished. We also foster baby kittens for a local animal rescue. I would do almost anything to have a few extra hours in the day for model building. Right now I am doing what I can to stock pile kits that are ready for paint to hold me over for the winter when I won't be able to paint.
ZTony8 Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 A lack of motivation because of being tired after work,too many other necessary things to do on the weekends,and a certain amount of pride to not do a totally ###### build just to say I completed something all conspire to slow me down.
Brizio Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 Probably my feelings...Sometime I fee to build other time not...
Foxer Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 I do lots of things other than work on a build but none do I consider slowing me down as I'm in no rush to complete any of them. I work on them when I feel like it for pure enjoyment. When something like BMF, lost part, or need to figure out how to do something comes up I just leave it for awhile and come back when I feel like it. I'm building only for myself so I'm the only one I have to please ,,, it's just a hobby.
Wagoneer81 Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 Health... Got the muscle disease beaten into remission and am now having other , as yet unknown issues... Elevated, weak pulse, wonky blood pressure and a general feeling of extreme fatigue and weakness. I go for more tests on Monday. It's bad enough, I didn't even feel like turning on the computer yesterday... still very weak today. Haven't set at my workbench in over three weeks.... unheard of... Not cool when you consider my stash is getting no smaller and I have the 1/350 USS Missouri to finish still, it's a commissioned build but my client is very understanding as he's had serious health issues before...
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 1) Work; 2) Other responsibilities; 3) Technical issues that need research or correction (examples: the right period Quick Change, or paint problems); 4) Taking too much time being entertained and posting, not enough time building; 5) Getting in over-my-head, skill-wise, and having to wait 'til my skills catch up to my ambitions; 6) Getting another great idea that I have to get mocked-up, at least; 7) Burnout on the "work" part of a build; 8) Too little self-restraint as to how many builds I have going at any one time, making it difficult to finish anything; 8) Pain; 9) Laziness; 10) Sometimes just not feeling like doing anything at all.
The70judgeman Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 Mood, painting bodies, and summer weather. We only have AC in the bedroom...so we can sleep. Don't think the wife would let me set up shop in there.
Olskoolrodder Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 "What slows down your builds"....time,mostly-but the reason time slows the builds down is almost always ME,but not here lately,life issues since 6-30-11,seems like one thing after another,LOL,hopefully things will/have settled down now though TIME to build
gtx6970 Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 Life combined with WAY to much time of the computer wasting hours away. (plus I run my own shop working of the lifesize versions) My 2 girls are on the middle and high school golf teams ( just got back from picking them up at practice actually ) youngest is on a local rec soccer team and both do Karate class at least 3 nites a week. (oldest tests for her 1st degree black belt this Nov )
Big Daddy Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 Good Weather , and a cold beer(s) slow my builds down
Rob Hall Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 Work, life, other interests competing for time. I'm good at starting projects, not so good at finishing them.
brad4321 Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 I build all kinds of models and each kind have something that can stop me dead in my tracks. Might be something I struggle with or something I just hate doing. Tanks - I hate doing the tracks. Planes - Seam and putty and rescribing eventually start driving me nuts. Cars - I'm poor getting a great gloss finish. But what stops me the most is losing interest in a current project because of my impatient interest to start a new one.
mnwildpunk Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 Rushing when I try to build fast I end up goofing something up and it sets me back
kurth Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 My other hobby - rocketry. Building rockets is a little faster, thus more instant gratification, then they Fly! And my workflow has always been and issue. I usually have to wait on getting parts painted, and getting the airbrush all set up and the paint booth cleaned out always seems to sap my enthusiasm. It is just getting through all the grunt work of painting parts, cleaning up parts, etc that seems to stall projects. Then I end up with a million dirty color cups and bottles because i am too lazy to clean them after painting. I have been half tempted to glue bomb a model like I did when I was kid. Paint optional. With hundreds of Kits on hand I need to get motivated .... I am not getting any younger
Zarana-X Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 Hot & humid weather, (my workshop is in the cellar). Coming home hot sweaty and tired, then having to make dinner and do the dishes. Being angry, depressed, or otherwise in a state that is not compatible with detail work.
Rob McKee Posted July 27, 2012 Posted July 27, 2012 Good Weather , and a cold beer(s) slow my builds down I am guilty of that. I get stuck on the final assembly of all of the little small parts.
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