I’m returning to the hobby after many years layoff - I’m going to say about 30. I’m a WWII armor and figures modeler and won some County Fair type prizes back in my teens. I’ve been a subscriber to FSM for many years and I am so impressed with the super-detailing y’all do now. I’m not sure I’ll ever have the skills to create the kind of models I see in those pages, but just the same, I always got a unique satisfaction out of completing a kit and receiving compliments on them.
My dilemma is this - I’m really slow. I used to be quite fast, and I don’t quite understand the psychology that is keeping me from completing a project. I’ve got a diorama I’ve been working on for probably about 5 years (70% completed), a figure of an American Marine on Iwo that I’ve cobbled together from various pieces and two-part putty - he’s not got any arms yet and his head is detached - started on him two or three years ago, and a Sherman that is quite the infant at about 7 months into construction (50%). That’s just the “active” projects. There are quite a few purchased but unstarted and even more imagined but unpurchased.
Can anyone relate? Any words of encouragement, cosolation, or empathy?