Re: Banned again....
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:01 pm
A few thoughts...
But 1st...
Without spending time looking through every box for an official count....40-50 at least.
Most were kits I took to the airport (waiting for snow) and just glued parts together...I don't count those as "active".
"Active"...just 8 kits, and another 10 figs/busts.
As far as views vs. comments...while it is nice to get the "atta boys" (and I certainly do appreciate them)...I have never felt any kind of "miffed" by not getting comments. I just hope that others might get something out of my WIP posts...as I do from others...whether they say so or not! There are far better modelers than me to learn from...but even they might pick up something they hadn't thought of.
I don't comment a whole lot....I feel awkward about "Hey, wow, that looks great". I feel equally awkward about saying "thank you for your service" to a service member. To me, it just seems a bit trivial and "tossed" out there...but only for myself to say such things.
Once in a while, the mood hits me right though!
For me...it just kind of happened. Started when I was a kid..."Oh wow, that's a cool plane, I wanna build it"!!! Pretty much continued that way. When I got to the point of "Yeah, that's pretty decent"...I started entering in contests. Then I set goals for contests, which kept me going and trying to improve. 1st, I wanted to "place" in every category(except cars)...then it was 1st in every category...then "best of" in every category....then "Best of Show"...and finally, getting some 1st's at Nationals. (had "runner up" for "Best aircraft" and "Best of Show"....close enough for me!!!). Ultimately, it was a challenge to myself...I didn't build for contests (other than as a "byproduct")...I built to meet my own challenge for myself.
Somewhere in there, I challenged myself to build as many (contest worthy) as I could in a year...got to 50! Yard maintenance suffered dearly that year!!!
Goals/challenges have all been met....now what?!!!
But 1st...
Whatchyer number?!!!Stikpusher wrote:When you start getting above two dozen, call me...
Without spending time looking through every box for an official count....40-50 at least.
Most were kits I took to the airport (waiting for snow) and just glued parts together...I don't count those as "active".
"Active"...just 8 kits, and another 10 figs/busts.
As far as views vs. comments...while it is nice to get the "atta boys" (and I certainly do appreciate them)...I have never felt any kind of "miffed" by not getting comments. I just hope that others might get something out of my WIP posts...as I do from others...whether they say so or not! There are far better modelers than me to learn from...but even they might pick up something they hadn't thought of.
I don't comment a whole lot....I feel awkward about "Hey, wow, that looks great". I feel equally awkward about saying "thank you for your service" to a service member. To me, it just seems a bit trivial and "tossed" out there...but only for myself to say such things.
Once in a while, the mood hits me right though!
OURSELVES!!! (easy answer!)speedgraflex wrote:Whom are we making what we make for, ultimately...
For me...it just kind of happened. Started when I was a kid..."Oh wow, that's a cool plane, I wanna build it"!!! Pretty much continued that way. When I got to the point of "Yeah, that's pretty decent"...I started entering in contests. Then I set goals for contests, which kept me going and trying to improve. 1st, I wanted to "place" in every category(except cars)...then it was 1st in every category...then "best of" in every category....then "Best of Show"...and finally, getting some 1st's at Nationals. (had "runner up" for "Best aircraft" and "Best of Show"....close enough for me!!!). Ultimately, it was a challenge to myself...I didn't build for contests (other than as a "byproduct")...I built to meet my own challenge for myself.
Somewhere in there, I challenged myself to build as many (contest worthy) as I could in a year...got to 50! Yard maintenance suffered dearly that year!!!
Goals/challenges have all been met....now what?!!!