SPA Modeler

My first love was building model cars going back to the early 70s. I stilll love building them - especially muscle cars but... I haven't done a single car model kit going on 3 or 4 years now. Don't know why. There's no accuracy issues building cars as opposed to building aircraft or armor kits. The lack of building car models has been a huge mojo issue as of late. I vowed myself to build / finish what I have put off. And do more since I've acquired quite a few vintage kits from Handiable a few years ago.

The reasoning why I haven't done a model car kit for sp long is because I tend to stray into the world of aviation kits. Aircrafts became my second love building them.

It all depends on my mood what I want to build. With the Viper kit I'm doing now, most definitely I'll jump on the P-51 Mustang next. After that, by late May or the beginning of June, I'll jump on car kits - finish off what I had started then maybe a couple more in the summer.

It's a hobby, not a deadline to "git'er done". Enjoy it.

No Stuart, you are not alone in this. The modeling mojo for me flows in and out like the tides. I’ll have the motivation to go hot and heavy for days or weeks, depending upon the project(s) that I’m working on. Then at their completion or when the projects get too tiresome, the motivation recedes and I’ll step away for awhile, or change gears completely. Right now I have a couple of build projects going, but this 3D printing has really captured my attention for the time being. And that will morph into some painting soon. Which will allow me to circle back and work on painting for other stalled projects. Who knows where it will lead…

Spot on Bruce - I have plenty of mojo, I'm just lacking in focus!

I agree it's a good idea Bruce, even doing a similar subject in a different scale can be a help.

I do do some sci-fi on occasion, although not for ages - I need to do some more at some point.

Yeah I really need to do some more. It's been a good few years since I painted some.

It is a hobby and it should be something you want to do and not something you force yourself to do. I too suffer from the mojo quite a bit. I find that as long as my day is routine I will make it to the bench for an hour or so, no worries. But, if the day is out of sorts or something out of the norm is done then I usually don't have the desire left to hit the bench. This causes me to pile up unfinished kits. I am only allowing myself to work on GB kits and shelf queens until the backlog is done. This will take most of this year for sure. I am not buying any kits until I get some sizeable amount of them built, it just makes no sense to keep buying if I'm not churning them out. Staying focused on catching up is helping me and I am making progress on those kits, but I really want to start others, but I must stay the course. I doesn't look like I have anything going due to not posting much and that suffers just as much and building, I just don't feel like it most days. I am however, making some progress. For me that is gonna have to do for now.