WHEN YOU FINISH
As I write this, I’m gluing a model on to its base and I will attach the dust cover later today.
I’ve been working on the model in question for some months. Unlike some, I have no deadlines to keep which can be a good and sometimes a bad thing.
Most modellers are in the same boat as me and produce what they want when they want, but here lies the problem. If you have so much freedom, most tend to waste time and I am no exception, but the big payoff is cleaning the bench and throwing all the unwanted plastic and paper into the bin. Yes, that is oh so satisfying.
We modellers are mostly an untidy bunch.
Engrossed in the build we tend to leave paint and tools scattered all over the place. I’m a bit of a tidy freak and tend to get upset when I see a mess. I know when I get bogged down in a build, which I did many times during my latest build, I tend to tidy up the workbench and start over. It gives me impetus to get going again. When the build is over, which again gives me great joy, is to disregard all the unnecessary stuff on the bench - you know the stuff, unopened kit boxes that you open up and look inside and dream of what you can do with it, to the specific tool that you were after and had to empty out the whole storage area to find it and now the tools are now somehow scattered all around the workbench.
The same could be said for paint. They are scattered all around the work bench making your build and paint space smaller and smaller with each addition to the paint selection. I have a fairly large work area but as I build and paint, I would swear that the area I work in gets exponentially smaller and smaller as the build progresses to the point when I am working in an area that is only millimetres in square area!