The Sickness Grows.....

[Jim Patrick]

OK, a little off topic but my wife and kids just finished telling me just how really sick I am. What brought this on? In short, moving. I'm in the middle of moving to a larger set of quarters on post (Don't forget, I'm in the military). Well, for the most part everything is in the house ecept for a few small items with all that remains is cleaning my old quarters and setting the new one up. It's here that the problem begins. This morning the wife and kids went off to work, school and daycare. Explicit instructions were left for me to follow (yes, I do wear the pants, she tells me which ones :lol: ). Well, the more I looked at the house the more I began to hear my model room calling me. In no time flat I had the model room together, war trophies hanging and all! I began to work on finishing Indianna Jones for my motorcycle thinking to myself this is great. Or so I thought. The wife and kids came home and now I'm banished to the family room. I had to sneak off several times in order to get this typed (pecked) out. Now what I'm trying to ask is, Am I the only one that has it this bad? Come on guys, don't let me down please. My only consolation was telling my wife that all the model guys are like this. Come on..... please?

Back to hanging crafts and womanly stuff!, Jim

 

[RobH]

Jim

Yes!!!!! you are not alone my friend. My room calls me all the time! My problem is sitting in there and getting nothing done!

Oh well

Rob

 

[Lou Masses]

Yes, but the key to staying married is to fight the temptation! :lol:
I went through the same thing 2 years ago when I moved, but my wife was on to me. The whole house was gutted and it was my task to "finish" the basement. Of course one of the rooms in the basement was my future workspace packed with all of my modeling boxes. I was flatly told that if my son's playroom / her office were not completed first (the other room in the basement) that I might as well not unpack and just keep moving.

Needless to say, her side was done first. On the bright side I was able to take my sweet time and do it right. Also, on the positive side, if it's set up and ready for painting, and you are forced into other manual labor it just teases and beckons you in knowing you can't. I'm hearing those voices again.....

 

[poetwarrior]

Hey Jim,

Since you are in the military you shouldn't have any problem choosing what pair of pants to wear, as long as they match the camoflauge jacket! :lol:

I think we've all been there. I've been so busy, I haven't seen the inside of my hobby room in months. It's hard making time for a family and making time for a hobby.

Dave

 

[John Long]

When we moved two years ago hobby room was job #2. It's what I worked on when all the heavy lifting was done.

 

[Guy]

Hey Patrick......been there....done that.....got a tee-shirt and a pennant for it too. I think we have all gone through this and I can only tell you......it gets better. My kids are grown and gone......wife is at work......let the painting begin!

 

[jitch0t]

my addiction... when i'm at work, i want to get home to paint and i just can't stop visiting planetfigure.com, lilliputmodel.com and the rest of fig related sites

i go to bed with a fig magazine and i even dream with figs (the other day i painted my first horse... in a dream )

i love this addiction

 

[Lou Masses]

Daniel me too. I just hope I don't get caught!

 

[Edson]

Ok Jim let me show you something, ....

:lol: when im thinking in the hobby (i mean all the time) lol im looks like these.....

so don`t worry buddy, and show the pic to your wife hahaha

 

[Jim Patrick]

:lol:

Good one Edson!

 

[bobparker]

Married 37 years, modelling 30( Must have been the 7 year Itch) My Beloved used to say "off to play with your toy soldiers" now just raises an eyebrow as i back out of the room , it gets easier, Honest.
Bob

 

[Brad S]

Jim,
I can totally relate. my busiest modeling time is during the winter when I dont work. ( I own a lawn spraying and weed control business). So during that time I'm suppose to help out more with the house work during this off time. I try, but the kitchen table and my ott light starts calling for me. ( I dont have a modeling room or workbench). Thank goodness my wife is understanding and supports my hobby. Her only requirement is that I cant have a ps2 or xbox. I can deal with that!

Brad Spelts

 

[yeo_64]

Jim,I totally sympathise with you,my friend On my end,it's the kids first,followed by the errands that the Missus hands out to me on an almost daily basis.It's getting so my only effective modelling time is after 11 pm on weekdays and,if I'm lucky, a whole day on Sunday We all so need our medication ! Cheers.
Kenneth :lol:

 

[Pete_H]

Sickness? Doubtful. If anything, I believe it's a "sickness" to not have such a release from everyday life, if not reality, than we have with our hobby. If it weren't for the 1-hour minimum I spend each day painting, I think I'd go out of my mind. Perhaps this is mostly due to my job - try dealing with 248 college students of which most are Freshmen (248 is this semester's amount, but my all-time high is 394) and keep your sanity in check - coupled with the stresses of everyday life. But I seem to recall the Zen philosopher Lou Masses once writing, "when I paint it is just me, my figure, and my paintbrush." Nothing more, nothing less. Everything else comes later. I'm grateful for such a release.

P.S - As far as my "painting space" goes, I'm lucky enough to have a "den" dedicated exclusively to my hobby.

 

[Lepman]

I to have received a lot "flack" over the years from the better half complaining about the time spent modeling. It can have devastating effects on a marriage. Remember, this is a hobby, a leisure time activity. Never let it interfer with obigations that come with a realtionship with any significant other, especially where children are concerned. Family first ... hobby, pastime, second.

Ken Neil

 

[Lepman]

I to have received a lot "flack" over the years from the better half complaining about the time spent modeling. It can have devastating effects on a marriage. Remember, this is a hobby, a leisure time activity. Never let it interfer with obigations that come with a realtionship with any significant other, especially where children are concerned. Family first ... hobby, pastime, second.

Ken Neil

 

[bobparker]

I agree wwith you Ken but you should make time for you as well as the family, I managed to always get a hour or two a day(plus extra shifts at work to pay for their upbringing) 30 odd years later and 7 grandchildren,plus baby sitting, fishing, soccer trips that Grandads are expected to do I still get my hour a day, but now the results are worse due to failing eyesigt ,shaky hands etc, wish now that i had spent a little more time when the kids were younger!!!!!

 

[Robin]

Sharpie

when you get back you have to say hello to the neighbours it aint polite otherwise, then the modelling bench

My wife just accepts it now, I mean when we were just going out the number of times I was late after about 4 she started saying did you get that bit done then.

Robin