tetsujin
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For the last several years I've been really struggling in the hobby and have produced very little completed work. Some of it comes down to the demands of family life, some of it is due to a basement flood that destroyed a bunch of gear and threw my studio into a chaotic state I still haven't recovered from (now about 4 years later) - and moving all that chaos to a new, smaller studio in a different house, which is now a bit overloaded. Basically there's a lot of work to be done to make the space really organized and functional again...
But in the mean time I've been trying different strategies to just re-engage with the hobby. My wife took on a "hundred day challenge" with her artwork: I tend to avoid things like that (model show deadlines, group builds, etc.) usually because I feel like it diverts me from projects I may already have started, and desperately want to finish (but tend to avoid because the project starts to feel impossible...) But I thought the "hundred day" thing sounded like a good way to approach my problem: the idea isn't necessarily to finish the project in a hundred days, but rather just to work on the thing every day (or as close as possible) for a hundred days. Instead of saddling myself with a deadline that will loom over me and then fly by - instead it just gets me to engage with the project. So I'm going for it. 100 days of a project that's been in the pipeline, and avoided much more often than not, for about 17 years now. I'm-a try to finish my Zaku Kai.
This is day 4, and on the first 3 days I did some things - mostly casting work and design work gearing up for scratch-building some parts. Some of my casting supplies have gone bad, too, so a little bit of false starts all over the place. But so far, 3 out of 3 days working on the project again. I'm going to try to stick to that, work on the project every day and post an update.
Project Overview
Project Design Plans (June, 2006)
January, 2010 build update (kind of a good representation of how it'll look)
Week 1: (Feb. 13 - Feb. 19, 2022)
"The beginning of the end (day 1)"
Baby Steps (day 2)
My Resin is Too Old, But It Doesnt Matter... (day 3)
Making Straight Parts Crooked (day 4)
Something Something Forearm (day 5)
Integration Over Forearm (day 6)
Technically It's Progress (day 7)
This ends week 1: Progress updates for week 2 will appear in a reply to this thread.
But in the mean time I've been trying different strategies to just re-engage with the hobby. My wife took on a "hundred day challenge" with her artwork: I tend to avoid things like that (model show deadlines, group builds, etc.) usually because I feel like it diverts me from projects I may already have started, and desperately want to finish (but tend to avoid because the project starts to feel impossible...) But I thought the "hundred day" thing sounded like a good way to approach my problem: the idea isn't necessarily to finish the project in a hundred days, but rather just to work on the thing every day (or as close as possible) for a hundred days. Instead of saddling myself with a deadline that will loom over me and then fly by - instead it just gets me to engage with the project. So I'm going for it. 100 days of a project that's been in the pipeline, and avoided much more often than not, for about 17 years now. I'm-a try to finish my Zaku Kai.
This is day 4, and on the first 3 days I did some things - mostly casting work and design work gearing up for scratch-building some parts. Some of my casting supplies have gone bad, too, so a little bit of false starts all over the place. But so far, 3 out of 3 days working on the project again. I'm going to try to stick to that, work on the project every day and post an update.
Project Overview
Project Design Plans (June, 2006)
January, 2010 build update (kind of a good representation of how it'll look)
Week 1: (Feb. 13 - Feb. 19, 2022)
"The beginning of the end (day 1)"
Baby Steps (day 2)
My Resin is Too Old, But It Doesnt Matter... (day 3)
Making Straight Parts Crooked (day 4)
Something Something Forearm (day 5)
Integration Over Forearm (day 6)
Technically It's Progress (day 7)
This ends week 1: Progress updates for week 2 will appear in a reply to this thread.
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