Your pace of model building throughout the year.....

[Guest]

I am also a very slow worker, also methodical, testing a technique new to me so as not to ruin a model. I model about 3 hours 5 times a week, except that the upstairs bedroom where I do airbrushing, and the garage where I do spray-can work, are too cold in the Winter, both for the paint and for me, and in the Summer there is a holiday and days out.

[eddiesolo]

At the moment 95% if my builds will be on hold, have nothing started, my recent builds were just things I could make without a lot of paint and mess. Main reason is I am waiting for a larger man cave, once done all my models, built and unbuilt will be migrating out of the house and into that...along with me. I tend to build when I want to, the summer months we maybe away so then it slows right down or stops for a bit.

Si

[john i am]

I Ron and everyone else I myself don't have a cycle I just do it when the mood takes me around work commitments and all the usual everyday stuff that gets in the way. But I would say I seem to do more in the cold dark winter months rather than the summer as I get outside and enjoy the sun as much as possible as it doesn't last very long.I mainly do my models in the loft which can be quite cold in the winter which sometimes puts me off I'm still awaiting for a spare bedroom as they are all occupied at the moment lol. I sometimes start something that maybe as problems but then leave it and start something else and return at a later date when my patience is better.cheers John

[Guest]

Well I usaully have a very busy build bench,obviously the big B-17 project slowed that to a painful crawl. Now that,that ton of bricks has been lifted off my shoulders I'm hoping to get my build speed back up. The only distraction for me now is flying scale RC birds on the weekends.

[stona]

When I'm at home I can disappear into my little 'studio' and build and paint as the fancy takes me. If I'm away, which can be for substantial periods, as now, I obviously can't do anything.

I have a two week break in my current tour coming up in mid April (we started at the end of January) and plan to at least get something started then

I'm contemplating the Tamiya 1/32 P-51 which is languishing in a cupboard......self evidently a major project and not one which I can knock out in a couple of weeks! It will be June/July before I can finish whatever I start.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Having been retired, sort of, for 10 years I have maximum time for anything I want to to.

My problem is that the amount of time available throught out my life has been not equalled by the amount of things I wish to do. They have always, things to do that is, been exceeded by hugh margins.

There is though a great advantage in this as you are not, being a live wire type, left wondering what to do next letting life push you along than rather definetly taking control of it. Which is I have done from playing cricket boating video making. I would recommend it as having been given only one life I intend, even at the ripe age of 75 going on 76, to fill it all with as much pleasure and interest as is possible.

Just made a resolution to only use my evenings for model making. Plus being a nuisance on various forums.

Laurie

[Guest]

I don't have a "cycle" either, and that usually applies to all matters including model building.

I'm not really into mornings, if I can get away with it, then I will gladly sleep in to 10-11. In winter, here, and in my flat, My best build times are from 10am to 2pm. But I would be lucky if I got maybe an hour and a half. I find my interest to continue any given project gets stronger the closer in time i come to another obligation. (i.e. work), so that's a problem.

In the summer, when the days get longer, I can work well past 6pm on a Saturday, for example.

But I think today will be a good modelling day. I'm up early (gasp!), the sky is clear and sun shining (gasp again!), and after my wife leaves to start her new job, I will have the place to myself for the next few hours. Yeah, with the right motivation, it should be a good day...

[Guest]

By most peoples standards I am a very quick builder, I am lucky at the moment that my man cave adjoins onto the kitchen so I can sit in my cave but still interact with swmbo etc and can usually get a few hours a night in. This may change when I get around to building a shed, in which I will feel like I would be segregating myself away from the family and would spend less time in there

[Ian M]

Well I have a good study where I can work as often and as long as I like, However as shelves fill at an alarming rate, and add to that the fact that We hope to be moving house in the near future, I have chosen to pull the handbreak and slow right down. So it is one at a time and as and when I feel like it....

Summer or winter has no bearing on my tempo either.

Ian M

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Living alone now I tend to spend most of my spare time at my desk either modelling or researching on my PC, last year I think I tended to rush my builds for shows I attended and so decided this year to slow right down, ill health which I mentioned elsewhere helped to slow me down also

Right now I'm taking my time on just one single project rather that spreading myself across 3 or even 4 models a month, I've still set myself a goal of 8 builds this year as I'll have annual leave with nothing else to do

Adrian