Hi All You "S"-heads: :-)
Mentioned in a passing thread about facing stagnation.
Any of you been there?
I thought S scale was going to be just the stimulus I needed to nudge me
back to the benchwork and the world of scale model railroading... and it was
great at first. Great size. Much more hefty than iddy-biddy HO... but not
nearly as gargantuan as space eating O.
But now I find myself stagnant and wondering "why?".
I'm having a hard time distilling the "why". It could be many things... but
I don't know how to, or if, the issues can be fixed.
The actual product isn't the issue at all. I really like the size and
quality of the S that I've purchased. I love the SHS SW series... great
little engines. Shoot, I even like the old-Athearn-blue-box-wanna-be
American Models cars. The PFS cars look nice ONCE assembled... but
assembling such a car seems to require much more effort of me "now" than
back a decade or so ago.
I think my problem is in the creative/modeling "energy" needed to sustain a
"hands on" hobby. Seems as though when I AM home (I railroad for a living
and have really, really screwball hours), I find it much easier to just sit
and surf about things that interest me, or sit and visit with the wife and
family... or surf and daydream about this n' that. Very lazy stuff. It
would be VERY easy for me to become a model railroad "acquirer/accumulator"
only, in regards to model product.
It would be nice if that would change. I still like to think I could enjoy
creating models. However, seems kind of dumb to consider "disciplining"
oneself to "model", doesn't it? Supposed to be a hobby, me thinks, and
hobbies are supposed to be something you do because you want to, right?
So... my S projects sit and gather dust, and I continue to stay in the "sit
n' surf" rut.
I'm really beginning to suspect the internet has been VERY counterproductive
to productivity!!
Okay, enough of my whining... just thought I'd air it out.
Andre "Sits In OK and Does Little" Ming
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
