I’m 47 and about to upgrade my glasses again. One problem I have is needing to go
1/32 or 1/48 for the sake of my eyesight, when my budget only allows for 1/72.
Perhaps auto-focus zoom glasses would be the ticket.[8)]
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while only 22yo, but suffering from the feeling that my fingers have gotten that little bit bigger since I started seriously modeling at the age of 12, and finding each year my eyes suffereing from more & more short-sightedness, I’m starting to feel old! I think my “shorth-sightedness” affects me in the way that I havent really finished a kit before buying another!!!
I can only pray that there’s still hope for me & place my faith in the great men that have gone before me!
I’ve always been nearsighted - that part hasn’t presented a problem yet. I can still work in 1/72 at 41 - even (kindof) detailing pilot figures.
Getting older has only been favorable to my modeling. I have alot more patience, a little more skill, and (though its not huge) a budget that has a little more buying power than I had at 12.
TIME ! (I knew there was something missing.) I could use a little more of that.
I wonder if Dremel do an attachment for nose & ear hairs?
(The big 50 in April!)
Pete
I turned 61 years old in february. My vision is 20/20 both eyes. I use a magnifier when working on small cockpit parts in any scale (1/48 & 1/32). My problem is arthritis in both hands, arms, legs and back. My medication wears off before the 24 hour period is up so I take aspirin to keep the pain away.
My wife says I have a hearing problem. What she doesn’t realize is I am just trying to ignore her when I am working on a model or on the computer.[;)][;)]
C’mon guys (and Courtney too!) we’re not getting older, we’re getting better, right?
51 and still counting rivets,
Bruce
PS:
Mind you, I recently couldn’t tell port from starboard on my ship model …
I thought I was doing okay, until about 6 weeks ago when I started super detailing a Revell 1/570th Titanic, and was proven wrong. In my fifties, and I already have a drawer full of glasses much like Fred Sanford’s, that I have to go through to find the right pair for whatever I’m working on!!! Yikes!! [:)]
Oh well…
Frank
[:D]Oh, well…You know what they say: “Don’t sweat the small stuff!”[xx(][:P][sigh]
“Shold we prosper it shall be as is our custom…by Miracle!”
I just turned 41 on the first of this month, and so far I haven’t really had much problems. I still build in 1/72 scale. I take off my glasses to see and use a flourescent light to light the bench. The only time I have any problems is sometimes after hard work carrying heavy things, I’ll get a numbness and tingling in my hands whenever I’m looking down on whatever I’m assembling. Then I have to look up and drop my hands to recover the feeling in them. Usually after cracking my back and neck back into place, this problem goes away.
Well, now that I’ve posted my 400th post, it’s time to get back to building these five projects on my workbench…
I’ll be 49 in 2 months and most of what I build is still 1/72 and 1/48. I do need an updated perscription on the glasses. I do use magnifiers and a small hand held. Just keep on keep’n on!
I’m 40 and everything still functions today. The one thing I fear is of course losing the old eyesight. Let’s say without contacts, I couldn’t see a Tiger turret from a foot away.
I find that as I get older, the quality gets much better, but the builds take sooooooo much more time… used to pump out at least 1 model a month (or one every two months) - now I’m lucky to finish two or three a year.
I haven’t had to move to bigger scales as yet - 1/72 scale is still good for planes, but I prefer 1/48.
I’m in my early 50s and still model in 1/72… I do find that I have good and bad days… Seems like more bad days of late though…Lots of light helps.
The larger scales just don’t look right…Very “Toyish” They’re getting better but scale color is really a problem on 1/24 & 1/32 kits. The smaller scales are easier to weather and blend colors on. I’ll try to stay with 1/72 as long as I can.
My fingers are a little larger than when I was a teenage modeller, but that a 32 so is my budget.
There has to be a trade off.
Apart from that, nothing a new pair of glasses would not fix.
Karl