Select a kit from your stash that calls out to you. Something different from your usual is best; I chose Revell's 1/48 scale P-38 Lightning. Start to work on it, but concentrate on the basics of shaping, assembling, and brush painting.
If while you're working on the first kit, some other kit catches your interest, start working on it too. Try to pick something in a genre different from the first kit - I chose Walthers Backshop. This gives you some different types of parts to work with as a change of pace. If another kit makes its presence known, don't hesitate to start that one too - AMT's GMC Jimmy called attention to itself. You now have a few kits in different genres to fiddle with, presenting you with a variety of pleasant tasks. For a bonus, toss a wood kit into the mix for extra flavour.
Don't worry about deadlines or completion. Focus on the activity itself.
Or, stamp collecting.
ReplyDeletelol. What are these 'stamps' of which you speak?
DeleteOh, I remember now, philately.... :-)
DeletePerhaps that was too deep a (paper) cut. Here:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDl8aOoaXcU
Model Railroading Unlimited with your esteemed host and imagineer, Ward Kimball. The aforementioned philatelic reference occurs in the first three minutes if you're pressed for time. Only twenty minutes in total, or twenty-five if you watch the version with the dancing girls. Comedy Gold for the model railroader, moderately funny for anyone else.
Thanks for the link! I'll take a look.
DeleteIt looks like stamp collecting was the only hobby mentioned that didn't require special headwear :-) Also, it was great to hear it narrated by Hans Conried - his voice is seared in my memory from too much tv watching.
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