Modelling as Therapy.

[Guest]

This is typical of me.

In my therapy session on Tuesday I was asked if I could build and bring in to show to my therapist a model that I have built in the space of sessions. Not one I have just built but a fresh one. Easy I thought! Hang on though I can't do my airliners as they take me ages to do, I've stuffed up two recently, I dropped the 747 and I've gone two steps back, such is life and besides Airliners don't really show off much modelling when you think about it, mainly neatness and he knows that anyhow, though as mentioned before I live in chaos, I can't think of a flat surface which hasn't got some "rubbish" on it. Endless mags and books on the subjects I'm modelling at present. oops...:shutup3:

Sorry...Weds I went through my boxes of kits that are in the bedrooms after a bit of :thinking: I found one that would be interesting and fun as well as showing a little bit of skill. The Airfix 48th Blackburn Buccanner. Brilliant! There was a fight for a while as my three Hasegawa Tomcats were fighting for the right to be built. The Bucc won out.

Okay, so I have my Bucc ready to go then I looked in the nana box we keep kits in and there was the paragon wheels/flaps and a Neo-mega cockpit set. :bigmistake:

So I have spent the last three days painting cockpit switches and dials and cutting out the Airfix transfers of instrumentation, not just the proper one supplied but cutting out the artificial horizon and others, weathering the tub floor and painting cable and oxygen hoses and etc etc...

Some therapy. Maybe I need to be put on section again!

[jspitza]

Ha! I knew it!!! My former therapist (I'm now graduated) was really thrown when I started showing him my creations, especially for someone with adhd! These hobbies are great therapy!! Thanks for sharing, Jeff

[jspitza]

Shoot-forgot to mention that while reader your other post about the German fighters, ect I was also starting toi get some dark thoughts. I'm a stay at home Dad and since having our baby, the images and ideals really hit me much harder now! Only one course of action to take then: I bought a spit as balance the evil energy!

[Guest]

Shoot-forgot to mention that while reader your other post about the German fighters, ect I was also starting toi get some dark thoughts.

Tell me more! I love dark thoughts! You might make me want to wear my Panzerjacke! *giggles*

[jspitza]

I knew that was the incorrect wording! :nono:

[Guest]

Naturally, I am thrifty and I am absolutely filthy in word, thought and deed.:hehe:

[Guest]

Ahh, forum flirting.

[Guest]

Shocking isnt it, a band of pure and virtuous model makers subjected to such depravity and filth... Im appalled, to say the least!

Now we must apply much correction to these two...I wonder if i can rig up a rotary cat-o-nine-tails to my compressor?

:grinball2:"No one expects the spanish inquisition"

[jspitza]

Hey, she started it! :thinking:

[Guest]

Howdy all,

Being a country boy from southern Arkansas, I aint real sure what all this therapy stuff is, but I might want some too .

have a good day,

Greg

[Guest]

Arrrrrr, mein herr Dubbya... let us start with ze begining,

Tell us about your fixation vith your Tamiya supplier, ven do you think zhis unholy fazination started hrrrrm?

And vile ve are about it, vere did you get zat moterzycle you plowed into ze swiss border?

You are going to vish you had never put us to zuch trouble...

:nono: moral... never trust a rest stop on the autobann.

[jspitza]

ok, I give up...........Must have more allied planes, must have more allied planes........

[wonwinglo]

Pan Am Clipper girls interesting task reminds me what a wonderful therapy model building really is,over the years it has brought me into contact with some really interesting people who would have been totally lost without a good creative hobby,from a chap who made models that fitted into a matchbox to a chap who made full sized wooden tank replicas down on his farm ! we use our fingers and hands,our eyes and above all our grey matter,once more how many people come in from work and just cannot wait to get into the den to do some building,all the worries of the day vanish as we become engrossed in our world of miniature,yes it takes all sorts and we expand on our knowledge by reading about our subjects,and we all have our different interests,wonderful as there is never a dull moment in our lives,long live model building as a therapy.

[jspitza]

wonwiglo:

Beatifully stated!

[Guest]

Are autobahn rest stops at all like the rest stops in something about mary?

In all honesty, when things got tough as a boy growing up, I could always escape into building a model. I can't say enough how it helped me to grow and to learn - it still does! God bless the wife for putting up with all of it.