Hi Andre and All, Stagnation can occur in any scale or hobby. I have been batteling it for many years in all of my hobbies. I believe it has more to do with our aging, than interests. With age, we know more, so some of the learning excitement is gone.
As a manufacturer of S products, I worried that I would burn my modeling interest out and loose interest. After more than 5 years, it has not changed my interests. It has change how much time I have available to build a model for myself though. So I stagnate in progress on my railroad. Virtually no progress on my layout at all. But the dream still exists. It is important that we never loose our dream or let anyone take that dream away. We stack kits in the closit, go to shows, read magazines, surf the web and talk trains with great interest, but no modeling gets done. For some, its not important that anything ever gets done. We have the dream! In my other hobby, I have several friends who have an old car sitting in their garage or back yard. The wife sais "Get rid of that old thing, your not going to restor it". It is the wrong thing for her to say. He has the car and the dream. She should never take that dream away. Life can sometimes destroy our dream, if we have to sell the car or trains to pay bills. So... If we think we are stagnating in our hobby, getting old and slowing down. Keep your railroad goodies and keep the dream. We will be very depressed if we sell them and later feel the old flame burning to go back. Go to the layout and just start tinkering with something and you will soon find that, hours have gone by and a project is done. That is how all the kits get produced here at Pine Canyon. We eat the elephant one bite at a time! Hope this cheers you up, Keith Blanchard http://www.pinecanyonscalemodels.com --- In [email protected], "Andre Ming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All You "S"-heads: :-) > > Mentioned in a passing thread about facing stagnation. > > Any of you been there? 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/
