After my first +-2 years of relentless diy, and my day-job, and the completion of mighty @Zen-mod s Old Soul, I felt a bit tired of this all (still got projects to bring over the finish-line), so I got myself into a meta-procrastination-project 😇
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Something to sooth the nerves? Good idea. But I was kinda hoping you had a cure for procrastination... I need that cure! SO many projects at the 75% to 90% finished stage.
(The hard truth is probably something like: get rid of 75% of the stuff I have laying around for that time I might need it...)
(The hard truth is probably something like: get rid of 75% of the stuff I have laying around for that time I might need it...)
I may habe a wrong understanding of procrastination: doing something to not doing something else…?
And would describe your situation more like „over-enthusiastic“?
Me, if I‘d let go the stuff I haven’t continued for some time, I‘d start over and build up a new pile. So I often just put projects aside (because they scare me, or because I’m not yet able to solve a problem etc.) and more often than not I find the way/solution when it’s back on the bench/in the mind…
But, OTOH, if you completely lost connection to a project, well…
And would describe your situation more like „over-enthusiastic“?
Me, if I‘d let go the stuff I haven’t continued for some time, I‘d start over and build up a new pile. So I often just put projects aside (because they scare me, or because I’m not yet able to solve a problem etc.) and more often than not I find the way/solution when it’s back on the bench/in the mind…
But, OTOH, if you completely lost connection to a project, well…
I'm into plastic modelling and have Airfix and Revell Apollo kits that await my attention.
Time passes unnoticed when you get absorbed in a kit, and the cares of the world are temporarily set aside.
Your Apollo 13 Lunar Module is obviously a papercraft kit. I've attached a photo of the finished product for inspiration!
Time passes unnoticed when you get absorbed in a kit, and the cares of the world are temporarily set aside.
Your Apollo 13 Lunar Module is obviously a papercraft kit. I've attached a photo of the finished product for inspiration!
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Tired of it all huh?
Try 45 plus years 8 to 10 hours a day of dealing with customers, repairing and restoring their broken stuff....
Tv's CRT and flatscreen.... audio, video, turntables, amps, tape decks, receivers, cd players, vcrs, etc etc etc....
Tens-of-thousands of pieces.
Ordering in parts, dealing with distributors, not to mention stuffy customers.
Yes, I'm now retired from all that, thank jeez.
Comes a point when just about everyone needs a rest. I need to put things away for a while.
Yes, that’s the one!
I sometimes look at those sheets of parts waiting to be cut and glued, and am just blown away. Making that thing is one, but designing it must’ve been pure I don‘t know what!
I was very much into plastic models (airfix, revell and of course tamyia) in my youth. Long gone hobby, or so I thought😀 - I vaguely remember the very first ones—or those of the elders—being made of shiny light blue plastic… I must have been around 4, 5 years old then…
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When in my 20's, I purchased a Revell model of the...... Titanic.
Being a busy active young guy, the model only got 1/4 finished.
A shame, I know.... but if you look it up, it had hundreds of little parts, plus needing painted.
I never got "that bored" to finish it.
Being a busy active young guy, the model only got 1/4 finished.
A shame, I know.... but if you look it up, it had hundreds of little parts, plus needing painted.
I never got "that bored" to finish it.
Me, on the other hand, was so hurried that I just clumsily patched parts together and smeared some color on it (that’s exaggerated of course to give you the picture). No wonder no one of those survived…
I recently had a glimpse at what the pros are doing: all they have is plans, if at all! Now that’s mind-boggling!
I recently had a glimpse at what the pros are doing: all they have is plans, if at all! Now that’s mind-boggling!
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Here’s an update of the build…
I had to search for #50 in the 20 pages of parts to cut out, and realized the count goes up to 360+ (many tiny parts being multiple) so I'm at around 10%…
But this is good, as I‘m getting better at cutting and glueing those finicky thingies!
In the images, note in #1 that you can read „NASA“ on the life-supply-package! It’s barely 1 mm!
#2 shows a clamping technique
#3 the glueing process—the glue is like honey, so that I can apply a tinytiny „worm“ of it onto the paper’s edge…
😎
I had to search for #50 in the 20 pages of parts to cut out, and realized the count goes up to 360+ (many tiny parts being multiple) so I'm at around 10%…
But this is good, as I‘m getting better at cutting and glueing those finicky thingies!
In the images, note in #1 that you can read „NASA“ on the life-supply-package! It’s barely 1 mm!
#2 shows a clamping technique
#3 the glueing process—the glue is like honey, so that I can apply a tinytiny „worm“ of it onto the paper’s edge…
😎
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The detail is incredible - and it seems you have been too modest in describing your modelling skills! 👍
Thank you Galu! … Modest is my second name 😇
Best thing is all those thingies will be inside that beast, never to be barely seen again (through the hatch, but else?)
Edit: not quite, the parts can be removed to see what‘s inside, phew!
Best thing is all those thingies will be inside that beast, never to be barely seen again (through the hatch, but else?)
Edit: not quite, the parts can be removed to see what‘s inside, phew!
Many builders of plastic models are happy to spend considerable time and effort in the detailed painting of the accurate interiors included in newly tooled aircraft kits such as Airfix's Vickers Wellington Mk.II bomber.
The vast majority of the interior detailing will be concealed when the fuselage halves are closed, but the modeller will say "I know that it is there"!
They would be advised, of course, to photograph their work before the interior is forever lost to view!
The vast majority of the interior detailing will be concealed when the fuselage halves are closed, but the modeller will say "I know that it is there"!
They would be advised, of course, to photograph their work before the interior is forever lost to view!
I sometimes get into "procrastinate" mood physically, however mentally, I'm pretty much always thinking about something I need to do.
I tell myself: "I'll get around to it, when I get around to it."
At my senior age, after being in employed in the sales/service business for over 4 decades, I now "pace myself", I'm entitled to be a slouch now.
And I want to focus primarily on myself for the time left, after all, I'm turning 70 next year.
I do have too many projects going on, and sometimes a particular project gives me trouble and keeps eating my free time. That is exactly the time to put it in the box and hide it in the closet. Time to move on and work on something else. After some time, for whatever reason, solution presents itself. Either my brain was working in the background or I see some article or schematics or post which gives me an idea how to finish it. This cycle happened few times, so procrastination was a good thing.