Hi guys & gals

I know this post will either get moved or otherwise be gone but, I need to know something. Where do you guys find the time to do most of your building ? Between family, work and everything else I'm lucky if I can get to my work bench 1 to 2 times a week. I've even started getting up a couple of hours earlier during the week in a attempt to get some build time in. The problem with this is it means getting up at around 3:00 - 4:00am. Plus it's hard to build when you're half awake.
I know I'm not the only one with this problem. I'm just looking to see how others deal with it.

This is way off topic, But can anyone tell me what this emoticon has on it's head ??

Harry

Well, I usually am able to get between 5-10 hours of GOOD building time in a normal 7 days. As you said with family, jobs, etc. There is not a whole lot of time left. I usually replace TV with model building, except for Fridays on the History channel and NASCAR on Sunday.It is OK though, some is better than NONE.
capnjock

Same with me, i swap the t.v for some build time. Now that the football (soccer) season is over i should get more models completed ( well thats the plan :-) )

Why... It's a emoticon from the 5th SS Wiking Division!

Seriously... It's a viking with a viking helmet... I think...

Well my work shift is 11-8am so I usually eat round 5pm then build models from 6-9/10 , S>S>S, then OFF to work. I dont have cable, so the TV is limited , so I replace TV w/ models Todd

I'm in the nice position of daughter having left nest, so in one fell swoop she leaves me more time and a bedroom to convert into a workroom! If I'm at home, I'm probably modelling, since I can't just sit and relax but need to be doing something all the time, and that something is usually modelling.

Vinnie

Modeling is my full time job. Hehehehe... :-) :-)

Seriously, I spend two hours everyday modeling on weekdays. Usually, I wake up at 7am and work from 9am to 6pm. I don't have a car so I commute for an hour. Dinner at 7p.m. and exercise from 7:30 to 8:30 pm.

I start to model from 9 pm to 11 pm. At this time, too, I may like to read or watch TV (I don't watch much TV).

I spend more time modeling on weekends although usually, my afternoons are spent going out with friends.

Angela

No you're definately not alone. I go to work at 4:00P.M. and usually get off work around 4:00A.M. to 5:00 A.M. And my workbench is in the bedroom, don't want to wake up Linda; she works days. I try to work on a model or two on weekends but lately free weekends have been a rather rare if not extinct beast. So I definately feel for you Harry.
But at least I did get to start my Tiger project this weekend.
Jerry

I hardly watch TV, so at the weekends I get up to 6 hours a day, though how much of it's straight building depends on drying times etc. as I only ever work on one project at a time. During the week it depends on whether or not I'm in another room hiding from those darned awful soap operas and detective programmes my wife likes to watch!

Yep, never enough time!!!

That's why I started "rationalising" or working at several models around the same theme at the same time.

It does speed things up a bit; certainly for those jobs that require (atleast in my case) a lot of preparation and moving like airbrushing.

Time is the fire in which we burn....

Weekly I have 1 or 2 evenings of 'buildingsessions' with two good friends. We sit at the diner table talking and glueing. We do this for over a couple of years now and it's very stimulating and it gives you time specially reserved for modelbuilding.

Hey, are you guys really wake up that early?
Man.....

Well at the moment I have to squeeze the minutes in here and there... in a few weeks I'll have a lot more time, untill the new semester starts again...

I'm afraid I over estimated the time I would have to build, in my younger years. I stocked up on kits I was interested in and now have a "stash" that will take me a hundred years to get though, even with 3 or 4 projects underway at the same time.

Since I'm pushing sixty, I don't think I'll make it through the "stash", damned suppliers keep coming up with kits I'm interested in so I have to add them too. Oh well what a way to go. :-)

Between getting up at 05.00 to be at work by 06.30 until 16.00 and getting home at 17.00 (on a good day)... and then preparing dinner and trying to fit in studies, DIY & home maintenance, spending some sort of quality time with the missus... and then get 6 hours of sleep... not much time at the moment... the studies have now subsided a bit for month or two, so I might complete that figure I have planned for Bosworth Field...

Oh for a 25 hr day and a 4 day working week... or even if I could just work my 40 hours a week in one stretch...