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

[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