Words To Live By--Wax Poetic All You Want!

[Dr. Cranky]

I saw this this morning and it made me feel good about making mistakes and falling down and all that jazz that keeps the brain thinking it's okay to be a perfectionist, etc . . . I think this is definitely a healthy attitude to take when building models. Build what you want, they way you want to build and do it in a way that brings you joy and happiness. Is there anything more important in order to enjoy the hobby?

Edited August 30, 2012 by Dr. Cranky

[Lunajammer]

The problem with Warhol's statement, if taken verbatim and especially considering the source, is that it's devoid of any emotional connection. Your interpretation is assuming that doing art is joyful for you, regardless of what others think. Warhol's statement, which is more characteristic of his style, is just ###### out as much as you can and let others assign value. Yours of course, is more healthy.

Lately, my life motto (and detail level motto) has more and more become, "less is more." I'm sure it has nothing to do with ten years of designing billboards.

[Dr. Cranky]

Mike, so I guess you are a minimalist at heart! LOL.

[Lunajammer]

Au contraire mon frere. The burden of not being a minimalist is what got me here. Too much stuff, not the least of which is kits.

Regarding building, after being driven to the edge by trying to top myself with more and more detail, I got burned out. Backed off, drew a line and said this is where modeling stops being fun. Avoid going beyond that line or you'll never finish.

As per another thread, that's why I prefer the older kits with fewer parts count. I can add detail if I want but kit the doesn't require me to. Less is more.

[Harry P.]

"If you hear a voice within you saying 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

-Vincent van Gogh

Not bad for a "crazy" guy, huh?

[Tom Setzer]

There is nothing in Model Car Building that you can't learn to do, if you really want to, but there is also nothing you have to do except BUILD WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY!

[Dr. Cranky]

Nice, I like these. A few words about styrene a day keeps the doctor happy!

[peekay]

"If you hear a voice within you saying 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

-Vincent van Gogh

I've done a lot of painting but I still hear that voice....

[Junkman]

I've done a lot of painting but I still hear that voice....

You are lucky. I don't need that voice, all I have to do is look at my paint jobs.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

(Salvador Dali)

[Aaronw]

I'm a big fan of our accidental 26th President, the very quotable, man of action, Theodore Roosevelt.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

or for those with short attention spans

"...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done."

If TR was a model car builder today his signature line probably would be something along the lines of "shut up and build something".