discussion When do you all find time for your model building?!!

[Guest]

I'm really struggling to find the time at the moment, started preparing a model for building about 5 weeks ago and not had a moment spare since to pick it up again!

Out of interest, when do you all find time to work on your models? Is it fitting in 10 minutes here and there or do you set aside longer periods to focus on the build?

Cheers,

Barry

 

[Guest]

Quick answer

When that afternoon Jeremy Kyle debarckle and the early evening Australian soap opera farce are on.

Gives me about 3-4 hours per week day, when waiting for paint to dry i nip upstairs and play Gran Turismo on the playstation, yes, i'm nearing 50 but hey ... still a big kid where it matters

 

[Guest]

Being the recent victim of today's economic climate, I've more time on my hands than I'd like!

Lucky I've this hobby really!

 

[BarryW]

Most of mine is done late evening just before bed. I have a large bedroom and my bench is in there, so after getting back from the pub, or getting fed up with the TV, I will do an hour or two before a half hour read of my Kindle.... I do not do a model if I have had more than a pint or two - fortunately I am not a heavy drinker!!!!

Modelling just before bed helps me sleep thanks to the concentration required.

I will also do a bit at weekends.

I have a new lady and I told her on our first date that I might get to bed early and 'do my model' when I got home. She raised her eyebrows and I had to make a quick explanation.... A new ladyfriend is not conducive to late night modelling though, and at that point I will stop...:closed::shocking::emo:

 

[Guest]

I`m arthritic in what they call stage 3 of the progression bones breaking off and what not but hey ho,so when the joints in my hands dont hurt so much i do more for relaxation and to use the hands,wife loves it as i`m not on pc shooting people online.

mobear

 

[Guest]

iam usually lucky when i get home after an early shift which finishes at 11:30 in the morning i get about 4 hours a day and on a late shift i take my kit to work if iam building it and do some of it at work, you don't get many passangers on the late shift.

scott

 

[Guest]

I do most of mine during the weekends, working in the hospital is very tiring so my evenings are spent just chilling, but can get about 5-7 hours over a weekend.

 

[Guest]

I'm semi retired so I can usually choose my time after I've done the chores she's given me. I usually pick an early afternoon for a few hours. I know when to stop when I my eyes stop seeing pieces on the sprue or like yesterday when I dropped a 1:48th Spitfire gunsight on the carpet and couldnt find it till it got dark!

Keith

 

[Guest]

I like to do at least an hour a night and as many as i can at a weekend between shooting and snoozing

Andy

 

[Guest]

Modelling just before bed helps me sleep thanks to the concentration required.

...yes that or the volatile solvent fumes ;-)

Currently I don't have the room to do any modeling, but when I had I did 2-3 hours/day while the girlfriend would be incapacitated by the "...13 channels of sh** on my TV to choose from."

/Daniel

 

[Guest]

Usually sometime on the weekend - Sunday is about the only day (at the mo) when I have the time, although my job is temporary, possibly ending April :emo10: so that may well change

 

[John]

I have all the enthusiasm but no time at the moment, I should make the time to do some modelling but with everything else that I have got going on at the moment I just find it hard to do so.

i nip upstairs and play Gran Turismo on the playstation, yes, i'm nearing 50 but hey ... still a big kid where it matters

I bought a PS3 for xmas for myself, my son said the kids at his school told him I'm too old to have a games console, I'm 43, I'm not sure at what age you become "too old" I still completed MW3

 

[Ian M]

Like a few others I get sticking when the misses is either studying, watching the TV or has fallen asleep in front of it. I used to fish a lot, but since my knees and elbows have started wearing out I use the time sitting at the bench. I get an hour or three most evenings and if nothing in the way I can get a whole weekend some times.

Ian M

 

[BarryW]

I have all the enthusiasm but no time at the moment, I should make the time to do some modelling but with everything else that I have got going on at the moment I just find it hard to do so.I bought a PS3 for xmas for myself, my son said the kids at his school told him I'm too old to have a games console, I'm 43, I'm not sure at what age you become "too old" I still completed MW3

LOL - I have one of those but never play games on it - but it is a great Blu-Ray player, displays my photos on the big screen and pipes music to the lounge from the pc..... Games console - what a strange use for it....

 

[BarryW]

...yes that or the volatile solvent fumes ;-)Currently I don't have the room to do any modeling, but when I had I did 2-3 hours/day while the girlfriend would be incapacitated by the "...13 channels of sh** on my TV to choose from."

/Daniel

Yes but it is a big room and very well ventilated.... says he all light headed:death:

 

[homechild]

I have to wait until the kids are in bed so I can get about an hour and a half in each night. I usually do 4 or 5 nights a week. It's slow going and I have to do it at a 2 foot by 1.5 foot portable workstation but I enjoy it.

 

[Guest]

I work shifts so I get either 3 or 4 days off each week, if they don't fall during the Weekend they're all mine

If I'm doing day shifts I have most evenings, if I'm on nights I sometimes take fiddly Jobs in with me

I have bags of time really, in fact I should be churning them out but there's always a bit more research to do:grinball2:

 

[Guest]

I can invest a few hours, but always in the night. An hour later already I am going to sleep (I get up very early 4 morning). Though this hour is slightly productive, a fodder as doing, I observe the Kit, fodder that to do in order that it stays well and then I think again like must be done so I don't have experience still ... and this way little work I do... My more productive day is Saturday evening, after working I am the whole evening until the night. (With great it calms yes, because of it I am so little productive)

 

[mossiepilot]

My rota has me doing a long week, working 8am til 8pm nearly everyday and when I come home i'm kn**kered, and a short week were I work only a couple of days so I do most of my modelling on the short week amongst the all shopping and visiting I can't do on my long week. So my builds tend to take a while as I only sit down at my desk for a couple of hours a day every two weeks. Still I get there in the end.

Tony.

 

[yambam26]

Well for me i try and fit modelling in after work as the weekend is taken up with the misses With it begins to be lighter nights more time to do things all round so all good

Ben.