Get out of? I seem to have gotten into a rut and can’t get out of it. I have been in it now for about three years. Most of my supplies have dried up from non use, I have 3 unbuilt kits I want to finish and just can’t seem to get the energy up to start into it again.
I want to get back into it and get going, I have a vaccuum former that I am almost done building as well.
Frustrated.[:(]
This is a tough one… SOMetimes I feel a bit like that too. When I do I usually start a new model – that may be why I have about 10 in various stages of completion!
Also I have had a little more energy about modeling since I decided to build them the way I want them… i.e. Team naplak Formula 1 cars… and a YF-23 fighter as a racing plane…
And for my 737… my own Airline… IoAir!
Sounds cool. It might be that I am a perfectionist and what I envision in my head rarely translates into the quality that I expect. And I know that I am not the worlds most skilled modeler.
While I know this is unimportant as most who view my work are in awe, I know the shortcomings.
Maybe I am just a little ADD 
Been there Marine1. It took me 5 years to get out of my modelling funk. I tried just about everything to get out of it. Starting new kits, changing area of focus, going on photo shoots @ museums. What got me out of it was just a friend, who had no experience building models, coming over and seeing my old, dusty collection and asking a million and one questions. Picked up a kit the next day and started building again. At a slower pace mind you, but still building. These forums really help too.
I have to agree with Shermanfreak. The quickest way to get energized about modeling is to read this forum on a daily basis! It must get the subconscious mind working on it or something, but I find myself just itching to get back to the workbench. Try it!! [;)]
I am. I remember when I sent an email suggesting a forum for this site. And they did it. Not that I had anything to do with it. They even picked the same snitz program that I use for my website.
I am just so freaken worn out by the end of the day that I just can’t get started and by the weekend, I am what I refer to as recovering and doing yard work.
I love to read the forum when I can and I go on lots of photo shoots.
Hang in there marine1…just make the time and you’ll work yourself out of it. It may not be today, tomorrow or next week, but it will happen. Just stay in touch with the hobby and them juices will start to flow. Play hookie from work one day and glue yourself to your modelling bench and have at her.
I am hanging by all twelve fingers. How do we post a pic in a thread? I have my own website with the pic’s.
Use either “reply to topic” or “post new topic”
Find the insert image icon, it kind of looks like an arrow head pointing at a pic
click on it and you will get this on your screen [img][/img ]
insert your url for the pic on your site between those two symbols like this
[img]this should be your url right here[/img ]
please note tha there is no space between the g and the ] when you go to post a pic, I had to do this to show the sequence on screen.
Hope this helps
Ahhhh, I remember those days. Been used to just uploading pics to the webserver hosting the forum.!
Some hosts will work here, some won’t. That’s why I made my own little site, so much easier that way and I have no problems posting anywhere.
I hear ya marine1. I know exactly what you mean by being a perfectionist and getting discouraged because the finished models are not what you had imagined. It took me awhile to get my head around that but finally I just said to myself, They may not be exactly what you envisioned but you’ll never get any better if you don’t keep building. Just try and concentrate on the one sub-assembly or the one aspect that really turned out better than you expected and that may just give you the push to keep going. There are a lot of good tips in this thread and there is also another thread on this site that deals with the same topic (I don’t recall where just at the moment, sorry). This site had a lot to do with me getting excited about the hobby again. Also, going to a couple of meetings of the local modelling club really got the juices flowing. Bottom line is, you’ve got to want to and if you don’t feel like it that may mean packing everything up and putting it completely out of sight and out of mind for awhile and then one day when you least expect it, you’ll get bit again and nothing will be able to stop you.
Keep hangin’ in there. We’re all behind you, cause we’ve all been there too.
Ray
Yeah, I have my own site, I just have to actually set up the format that I want. I got gobs of reasearch photos that I would like to for people to have access to. Can anyone guess the photo above? It was taken in Mesa, AZ at Falcon Field.
All I know Marine1 is what it’s not…it’s not a Sherman Tank and Ray’s right above clubs too. Be with modellers and see what they’re doing and it will help get over them blues.
Hey Ray…how’s Saskatoon…they got a great club there.
P.S. my real guess would be a German long range recon aircraft…the name escapes me but Condor comes to mind
It is an HE-111. I am looking for a club at here in AZ. Living 20 mile from civilization has its drawbacks I am gonna see who at work is into modeling. Several are into photography.
When I was in Wichita, a friend of mine and I used to get together at least 3 or 4 times a week to work on models. It was really cool and he was real good. I’ll make it. Just gets ya bummed now and then.
I really like this forum and FSM has come a long way from when I first read their magezine back in the 80’s
I still get like that. I’ll leave a kit or 2 for a couple of months while I’m off doing other things.
I usually get stuck during the sanding stage.
2 things usually get me back into it - a trip to the history section of the bookstore or my monthly copy of FSM (unabashed plug- naaaahhhhhh) - this is also assuming I don’t have clients crawling up my backside for work to be done.
marine1, try this, two hours yard work earns you one hour at the model table. Even if you just sit & stare at the pieces, eventually you’ll pick up two bit’s and dry fit them together, then you’ll look for the glue, and with a bit of luck, you’ll be away!
sorry to be pedantic, but the aircraft featured earlier, Isn’t it actually a CASA C-2111, with the Confederate ( Or nowadays Commemorative) Airforce.
Me, I’m working in Riyadh, 3000 miles from home (UK) even with satellite TV there’s not much on and there’s always something on the model desk to do. With all this spare time, my problem is stopping modelling!
Well it belongs to the Arizona wing of the Confederate Airforce in Mesa AZ. They labeled it an HE-111. I have lost most of my aircraft identifying skills over the years, so I just go for the name card on the craft till time to research it. I’ll post up a different shot of it tonight. An overall one.
Yeah, I like that, but I figure one hour of yard work 2 at the table.
looks the same as a fw 200 but…