David......
You really got me to thinking. But as for an answer as to why I cannot sit at the work table? I really cannot answer that. Started out strong back in 2006, but for some reason, lost the urge to continue....why, I don't know.....maybe for one, I do not have an area to spray paint with rattle cans (tried a simple airbrush back in the early '80's, but do not like the clean up afterwards) When i was big into building back in the '70's I set up an old briefcase on the floor of my 1st studio apartment and had at it......but, by '79 I was more or less burned out, and that strong desire just really hasn't come back all the way.
Being in a rental house, has not improved anything, as the house does not have a garage to work in.....no spray booth, if I could find away to somehow vent things outside....even then, not sure of spray painting in the basement, when the furnace/ac runs almost year round. House owner is very particular on things in her house. Not even allowed any pets (not that I'm complaining about that)
Even brush painting as issues for me. 1. No LHS close to me. 2. No real form of transportation to head for a Hobby Lobby, as the nearest one is not in a direction I can regularly take at around 40 miles or so away.
Not sure how to approach craft acrylics as to how, to thin them down and thin them down to apply to kit parts. Apple Barrel is I believe is main one Wal-Mart carries. But there again, don't always have ways to get to the nearest W/M.....have not checked out what the paints are like that I bought, primarily back in 2006. Both enamel (Testor small bottles) or acrylics (mostly Tamiya)....
Actually one of the 1st builds I got started on in 2006, went so far, then lost interest. Another board member currently has most of that build, as he has worked on getting the much cut up body to look nice, but, as I've told him, there is no hurry in getting it done to where he can send it back to me, as I know, I won't jump in and finish it, right away once it comes back to me......
So......maybe it's time to quit collecting kits and start selling them off and give it all up......
But, can I sell off kits I've spent time tracking down over the years.....not just yet..(Key word: yet), but maybe that day is much closer than i realize......
And yes, cost of kits these days, is not helping my cause. I'm to the point I cannot justify the expense of a new kit, just to I can raid the body or whatever for basically what was known as, Kitbashing.......
and last but not least, my other hobby, that allows me to watch TV (as in DVD's) comfortably in a recliner............and there are times when I don't do much with that one either......with that hobby, there have been so many things that I've started but have NEVER completed there either....
So......there's my "answer"......so to speak......
So, David, there is my story, excuse, thoughts and feelings as to why I cannot seem to move about 3' from my computer chair to the chair at the work table.....the building bug just had not sunk its teeth into me enough to start projects or finish ones I've started, including one from 1979!!!! Think that was posted at FRW over 10 years ago (one of the VERY few WIP or unbuilt kits to survive all the purges that started in late 1980.........one one big purge in 2005, just prior to leaving FL for NM......
Thanks, David for your "wake up call"......I really do appreciate it.....!
Ed