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35GM0060 2022 New tool Multi-topic (2)19 October, 19:06
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All comments (6) » 8 18 October, 22:47
Trez
I think it would be better if you build more and buy less! I thought my stash was unwieldy! 🫨😬
I think it would be better if you build more and buy less! I thought my stash was unwieldy! 🫨😬
19 October, 17:18
Tony May
Haha! I just group my kits together as "projects" rather than collections. I keep the "collections" as conflicts those aircraft were involved in. I will admit that my building has slowed down since 2023 & I'm getting a backlog of models that are set & ready to go. That said I only have an hour or two in the mid-AM & about the same in the early AM if I don't mind being exhausted all day.
The reason ... I guess could be summarized as this; I'm a coward. My son was blinded by C19 last year. He was turning out to be as prolific of a builder than I was at his age & yet he went to bed early evening on February 13th with 20/20 vision (though red/green color blind) & awoke late afternoon on Valentine's Day unable to see anything. This wasn't like what a lot of young folk reported though, temporary blindness that passed in a couple weeks, this was swelling in his eyes that starved both his retina of oxygen. He did eventually gain some vision back but it's still really bad. His vision is bad enough to be considered legally blind twice over. It is as though he suffers from an advanced case of macular degeneration. It's a rare enough side effect that one of the leading medical research facilities in the United States wants to do a case study on him.
I'm sure you wonder what that has to do with my building & being a coward, well, it's like this: I build when he's asleep. He hasn't asked to build together since that fateful day in February of 2023 & honestly I'm afraid to ask him to join me as well. He insists that he hasn't given up on building but he cannot even read large print text let alone an instruction sheet. The other day he signed something at our bank & missed the signature line entirely. Your average 1/72 kit has parts smaller than the words "Sign Here:" I'm afraid of the look & what will go through his mind when he finally realizes he can't build in this scale anymore & likely won't be able to build his newer & more advanced 1/35 scale AFVs either.
I COULD build them for him the way my father did for me when I was still in early elementary school but I know it's nowhere near the same. Furthermore my builds were kept completely separate from his. That means there are many duplicates & a wide assortment of outdated kits which were originally passed from me to him.
Anyway, I've got several projects or portions of projects that I have been working on OR have waiting in the wings. Unfortunately I cannot prove this to anyone until my sister decides to make the journey from her home four hours to the South-East up to my home. Our household is cellular free & the camera resolution quality on the two Chromebooks in the house are inferior to the old cardboard & plastic 35 mm cameras. :lol:
Haha! I just group my kits together as "projects" rather than collections. I keep the "collections" as conflicts those aircraft were involved in. I will admit that my building has slowed down since 2023 & I'm getting a backlog of models that are set & ready to go. That said I only have an hour or two in the mid-AM & about the same in the early AM if I don't mind being exhausted all day.
The reason ... I guess could be summarized as this; I'm a coward. My son was blinded by C19 last year. He was turning out to be as prolific of a builder than I was at his age & yet he went to bed early evening on February 13th with 20/20 vision (though red/green color blind) & awoke late afternoon on Valentine's Day unable to see anything. This wasn't like what a lot of young folk reported though, temporary blindness that passed in a couple weeks, this was swelling in his eyes that starved both his retina of oxygen. He did eventually gain some vision back but it's still really bad. His vision is bad enough to be considered legally blind twice over. It is as though he suffers from an advanced case of macular degeneration. It's a rare enough side effect that one of the leading medical research facilities in the United States wants to do a case study on him.
I'm sure you wonder what that has to do with my building & being a coward, well, it's like this: I build when he's asleep. He hasn't asked to build together since that fateful day in February of 2023 & honestly I'm afraid to ask him to join me as well. He insists that he hasn't given up on building but he cannot even read large print text let alone an instruction sheet. The other day he signed something at our bank & missed the signature line entirely. Your average 1/72 kit has parts smaller than the words "Sign Here:" I'm afraid of the look & what will go through his mind when he finally realizes he can't build in this scale anymore & likely won't be able to build his newer & more advanced 1/35 scale AFVs either.
I COULD build them for him the way my father did for me when I was still in early elementary school but I know it's nowhere near the same. Furthermore my builds were kept completely separate from his. That means there are many duplicates & a wide assortment of outdated kits which were originally passed from me to him.
Anyway, I've got several projects or portions of projects that I have been working on OR have waiting in the wings. Unfortunately I cannot prove this to anyone until my sister decides to make the journey from her home four hours to the South-East up to my home. Our household is cellular free & the camera resolution quality on the two Chromebooks in the house are inferior to the old cardboard & plastic 35 mm cameras. :lol:
19 October, 19:03
Stefan L.
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Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. HNew: 19 October, 19:01 1:35
Added some dents to the fenders, especially the front ones always seemed to have some bending towards the outside, judgi...
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