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

[spanner570]

I've been thinking on this just recently, and wondered how your own modelling 'Pace' get's affected come the warmer weather?

For my part, as soon as the weather picks up I tend to do other things, and kits take back stage until later in the year......I don't stop making stuff, but more go into snail mode and get to the bench less often.....or if it rains!!

Because of this, I also start to miss loads of builds. Such is the rate of 'Completed' models being posted now, that even a couple of days away from a computer is enough to miss stuff on here.....How do you deal with this?

So, do you have a build cycle, or doesn't it alter right through the year?

Cheers,

Ron

 

[Guest]

My build speed is slow as I'm lucky if I get about 10 minutes a night to do anything with work commitments and children.

 

[bazers]

As i am retired i tend to model every day most of the day.

 

[PaulTRose]

guess im lucky. swambo actually takes an interest in my model making, she moans if i go a month without buying something or disapeering for a bit every day to the bench

im also lucky that i work a 3 shift system so tend to get an hour or so almost every day to get to the bench......although sometimes it might be 9am and others 9pm lol

at the minute im really enjoying building but im careful not to do too much and get bored or burn out,.....one reason i tend to build differing genres, not often i do two similar things on the trot. when i do get a loss of mojo i just leave it all well alone and dont try and force it, although when i dont want to build i still want to log into forums a couple of times a day to see whats happening

dont think time of year comes into it for me........live in an appartment so dont have a garen to worry about, dont have any other hobbies that get in the way

 

[flyjoe180]

I have no build cycle, it's do it when I can and feel like it. Shift work, house renovations, social life, weather, they all play a part. I think I'm more likely to build during winter though, purely because I can't paint a house in the rain, the social side of life dies down over the winter months, and there is nothing worth watching on TV when I am at home. Production has slowed right down in recent times because we moved house and I had more important (in the eyes of SWMBO) things to be doing.

 

[Guest]

I think you've got a point Ron, I've previously found that in the lighter, warmer month's my model building takes a back seat - although I'm so slow I make glaciers look positively hasty!

 

[Guest]

I have no build cycle.

I'm my own boss in the work, and often there is not a fixed "schedule" that allows me to made modelling ever I want. Maybe in winter have some hours more, but then I prefer to be near the fire, observing the snow, with a good book in my hands

In summer the day is much longer and I have more daylight hours...is the best time for me to produce models

 

[Guest]

Before my little Mia came along i was building as often as i wanted, now i have to do my kit building around mia and carrie. When mia goes to bed at 6pm i can get to the shed usually for a couple of hours and as she is at nursery for a full day then if iam off or on earlies or lates a get most of the day then. when i built stuff every day i did not feel pressure to finish things in a rush, now because of how little time i have i sometimes feel like iam rushing my kits or at least certain parts, as i try to set myself a build schedule, to do certain sections in one sitting. Iam afraid to say that it is becoming a bad habbit.

scott

 

[papa 695]

I like to get some modelling in whenever I can/feel like it. It's an escape from the busy life style that I have

 

[Alan 45]

I look after my ill wife so as long as she is taken care of I'm at the bench in the summer I do more because of the lighter evenings but pretty much I get a few hours in every day

 

[ojays]

As the sole carer for my disabled wife and elderly mother with Alzheimer's, also living in a small one bedroomed flat, my modelling time is very limited.

The lighter nights do allow me to get a little more time, and it also gives that feel-good factor.

I probably manage a couple of hours per week if lucky, but that makes it all the more enjoyable when I do get the board out.

That is why my build has turned into a marathon, but the end is in sight as I've started on the electronics side at last.

Gregg

 

[Guest]

I tend to build more in the warmer weather only as it is cold in the outhouse (mind you now I've found plastic again and swmbo let's me do it in the living room) that is likely to change, although I must be careful she was complaining yesterday about the smell of the glue, now looking for a smell reducing nozel, anyone know of one?!

 

[monica]

I have no real build cycle at all, mostly do what i can when i have the time too,or in the mood too as i find if your half harted about it ,just dose not workout

 

[ojays]

I tend to build more in the warmer weather only as it is cold in the outhouse (mind you now I've found plastic again and swmbo let's me do it in the living room) that is likely to change, although I must be careful she was complaining yesterday about the smell of the glue, now looking for a smell reducing nozel, anyone know of one?!

Try 'ZAP' Odourless!

 

[tanktrack]

im usually at the bench every day as I work shift work and everyones out , but I find if im getting annoyed with a kit I walk away so as not to push it and make mistakes , I like to pop in here every day because im afraid of missing something

 

[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