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| Subject: | Keeping interested! |  |
| Date: | Jun 17, 2008 |
| From: | Alex Borsboom | |
Hi guys,
For me the hardest part is keeping interested in a project.
You have a new project planned, bought the kit, researched it, bought AM were necesary, and start the build.
The first phases are most satisfying, a box full off seperate parts changes into something recognisable, it takes shape. You get an idea were your going, what it will look like. You plan on changes, extra AM, some extra research when and where needed. You plunge all your free hours in it.
But normal live goes on with its own time consuming requirements. You skip a few modelling sessions for some 'urgent reasons', the half finished kit start to gather dust on your workbench. To this proces is only added when it coincides with some tedious work, like cleaning up a zillion track links or looking at an average Aber PE set.
In the mean time a new kit has arrived, even better and more interesting then the item on the workbench!
And tough you have 'no time' to work on the ongoing project, you still find some spare minutes, or hours to do some research on the new kit. So you get even more enthousiastic about it, start to spend money on AM......
And then the urge to start on the new kit becomes so strong that you 'temporarely shelf' the project on the workbench. Especially made easy if the project on the work bench encounters an 'unsolvable problem' which in due time 'will certainly be adressed by new references or AM'.
And so a new cycle starts!
Some of your shelved projects are so interesting that you'll revive them at some moment in the future. Some never get unboxed again it seems. And so a large stash of half build models starts to grow on you!
Now and then you clean house, 'deconstruct' to salvage expensive AM or add to the spare box. Or you make other people happy with what at one time seemed interesting projects and keep 'only' those you're 'really sure' you gonna finish some day. And off course, you keep on adding new kits, with the last one even better and more interesting then the second last was.
So, off the 10 projects started, perhaps only three or so get finally finished, often taking years.
But having said that, for me the gratification in the hobby is not in the finished product, but in the proces! The proces of building, researching, scouting for parts, finding solutions, etc.. So even when giving away again an half finished expensive AM riddled kit, I still feel not guilty on wasted money and time. I had my fun with it, and spending fun time means spending expensive euros, whatever hobby or pasttime one has.
Though sometimes I do feel a little envy for those whom seemingly care free finish three top notch kits a month and have something to show for all the money spend. Guess they have a better disciplined stance then I have? But the lack of that is the story off my live! ;-)
Cheers,
Alex |
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