Zen......
I have to think back a bit on my youth but I can remember times when I felt at one with the universe while I was assembling or detailing a model. It was like all the other things in my life were switched off and only "the build" was forefront in my mind....the small details became the important objects and I could manage them all. I could cut and scrap and glue and paint my way to the whole. There was a sad moment when it was done. But it was brief and replaced by happier moments from that time forward where I could look at my work and reflect on my creation.
As much as this hobby is about replicating things, it is fundamentally about creating them. We take a bunch of molded plastic, resin, or other synthetic material....we put our hands to work in an attempt to piece them all together in some pleasing way. For most of us each project is always different. Even if we build the same kit more than once. There must be some level of personal achievement in it all to make the hobby worthwhile. And to me that comes from making the kit my own. My own version of what the box cover depicts. Similar... yet so different.
Stepping down now.
Jim
