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Model Forum / General / Models / May 2006Giving up this hobby is a real b**ch
so I've been talking about unloading all my old mags...have not touched a kit in almost 2 years, (bought quite a few though).....found other hobbies that interest me and have spent a small fortune on it (guitars and saxes) so what do I do? I have spent the last 90 minutes cruising thru megahobby.com and have around 10 1/48 airplane kits in my cart now.... bought the huge 1/8 scale Revell 1965 Corvette yesterday. this damn hobby is like a drug. just keep buying. I feel like a prostitute to Tamiya, but their tricks cost too much.....:-) Craig > so I've been talking about unloading all my old mags...have not touched > a kit in almost 2 years, (bought quite a few though).....found other [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Craig ...heh...I just dropped $2100 on a new Carvin V3 stack. Why quit?  Signature- Rufus > so I've been talking about unloading all my old mags...have not touched > a kit in almost 2 years, (bought quite a few though).....found other [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Craig I have tried to wean myself out of the hobby several times, but there is no way of doing it. I even thought of organizing a Modelers Anonymous and support group, but we would all start talking about the new releases and re-releases and would actually wind up organizing a new modeling club. So, the best thing to do is to sit back and rearrange your storage area and build a model or two whenever you get a chance. What about paints and accessories, that is a whole different addiction of its own. Whenever I buy a new model, I get the paints that I will need to build it, no matter that I already have 15 spray cans of Italian Red on the shelves. We are sick puppies. It even gets worst, I just started building a mobile/portable workbench with all of the creature comforts of my craft room so I can work on models while I am watching TV, might even post some pictures of it on "alt.binaries.models.scale" when I finally complete the thing - about a week. It really is a b**tch, and an addictive hobby. Ray Austin, TX == There's only one way out - accept it as fate and keep it up, plus do the rest. The one thing about this hobby I've found is that you can have it lie dormant while you do other stuff, then once in a while you will need to cut plastic and you should go for it. Keep the stash, the tools, the paints etc stacked away, get on with the axe and sax, and when the urge takes you GIVE IN ! It works, and has worked for me. > so I've been talking about unloading all my old mags...have not touched > a kit in almost 2 years, (bought quite a few though).....found other [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Craig > so I've been talking about unloading all my old mags...have not touched > a kit in almost 2 years, (bought quite a few though).....found other [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > I might have mentioned it before. I think I did, but then, my memory is not what it used to be. Now, what was I going to add? Oh yeah... I stopped building in 1980 after I lost my hobby room to my then 2 year old daughter. In 1984 I bought a house and had plenty of room to build but I never started back up. In 1998, I bought a 1/350 resin model of the USN Cruiser I served on in the late 50s. I went at it for a month or so and then set it aside... for over 5 years. I finally got tired of looking at it on my workbench where I had to pass it every day, so I started back up. This was last month. I finally finished it and, like giving up smoking for a long while, you have a cigarette and then start smoking again, I dug out all my models, both done and undone, from under the basement stairs and started going through them, looking for something interesting to build. SignatureBill In Hamptonburgh, NY To Email, remove the double zeroes after 'at' Ray, As a retired shrink, I'd like to pass along some of the stuff that works for myself and a few other friends. Think of how much you are saving by NOT playing Golf and the membership to the country club, thus putting modeling back into a positive light. In the meantime, while you are building calluses on your fingertips from whaling away on your axe. build a model or two. That's one of the beauties of having a stash, you can pick out what ever snaps your shorts and build away. It's not an addiction, you can quit anytime you want to. And it's OKAY if you don't want to!! It means you're not ready to quit. Send your mags to the troops in Iraq along with what ever you feel like would be needed and appreciated by our troops. I and I'm reasonably sure that others did not walk away from other hobbies when they returned to modeling after a few years hiatus to rear children.... I still have several computers and a rack full of audio gear. Having another diversion is a good thing, it keeps us from burning out. Regards with Good Luck, Bruce >> so I've been talking about unloading all my old mags...have not touched >> a kit in almost 2 years, (bought quite a few though).....found other [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > done and undone, from under the basement stairs and started going through > them, looking for something interesting to build. Okay, Bruce, my shrink friend, how about those of us who race home from the golf course so we can build models? :-) Art > Ray, > As a retired shrink, I'd like to pass along some of the stuff that works [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >> both done and undone, from under the basement stairs and started going >> through them, looking for something interesting to build. Art, Try to find a scale model of a golf cart, then you can build a diorama of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton getting his balls washed. > Okay, Bruce, my shrink friend, how about those of us who race home from > the golf course so we can build models? :-) [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >>> my models, both done and undone, from under the basement stairs and >>> started going through them, looking for something interesting to build. Get this... I stopped building for a long time, moved coast to coast, and had 14 kits in my stash. Fourteen... and I felt guilty about it! Now somewhere between 400-500 unbuilts.... good grief. It certainly doesn't help that I live 3 minutes from an excellent model shop! --- Stephen > so I've been talking about unloading all my old mags...have not touched > a kit in almost 2 years, (bought quite a few though).....found other [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Craig "O.C.D." It's called Obsessive Compulsive disorder. Welcome to the psycho ward! :-) Bill Shuey 1000 kits and counting! Sold my kit collection twice. Now it's many times bigger than ever and I'm really cutting down on new purchases. The first time that I sold it all, moving from Sausalito to San Rafael, the collection was about the size of my current disposal boxes. At about 2000 kits I plan to build them all, especially the really expensive ones! :-) Tom >>so I've been talking about unloading all my old mags...have not touched >>a kit in almost 2 years, (bought quite a few though).....found other [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Bill Shuey > 1000 kits and counting! ...Injective Compulsive Disorder? The gateway disease to A.M.S.? Or Obsessive Collectors Dementia? Signature- Rufus A few years ago, I was strapped for cash and was also tired of having this huge stash (700+) crowding me in my 1-bedroom apartment. So, I started selling them at the local model club for bargain prices. Even after I got a new job and paid off my debts, I still kept selling. I'm now down to 400+. I decided to make some rules for myself. 1. Think of the model shop as an extension of your stash. You just have to pay a fee to take it out of your stash when you are ready to build it. This helps a lot. It's the main reason I have never had Monogram's 1/72 B-36 here. 2. Since my apartment is small, no more 1/35 armor unless it's something small like a jeep. No more big honking tanks or Scuds (well, I haven't sold my Scud yet, mostly 'cause I didn't quite get the alignment right when I glued the missile body. Geez, only 2 simple parts and I still managed to screw up!). All new aircraft kits are restricted to God's Scale (1/72), and even then only small fighters. No B-17s, no F-4 Phantoms or F-111s. It helps that I have nowhere to put large finished models (heck, I knocked over an almost built KV-1 the other day and a road wheel broke off). New armor kits of big subjects will also be in 1/72. I don't know if I can resist the evil callings from Tamiya's 1/35 Char B1 though. 3. I only buy when I'm ready to make it and there isn't an equivalent in my stash. This one is really going to be put to a test. I've decided to try and build a Hawker Sea Hawk. There seems to be an Eduard kit with resin and PE parts (and $$$) but unfortunately I had an Airfix kit in my stash. Talk about the Bad Old Days. Ejection pin marks and sink holes all over. Horribly molded parts with horrible fit. |
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