[JohnReid]

I have come to finally realize if you want to be more productive as a dioramist you have to learn where to spend your time.If you insist too much on chasing the perfection genie ,you can get too bogged down in unnecessary detail that will never be seen anyway.( except maybe by the camera lens ).If you want to be more productive and tell more stories, then you have to be selective in your choices of where to spend the majority of your building time.I used to "model for God" (ie:HMS Victory) but it took me 20 years to build just that one diorama.
Well that experience got that out of my system.Now I am more selective.At 65 I have to be.
Yesterday I spent most of the day making a small screwjack for jacking up the axle of the Jenny, where I will be depicting a tire change going on.This is an example of time well spent.Just think of where your viewers eye will be drawn to and that is where you want to spend your time working, not on some piece under the bench in the corner.This all seems quite obviious but it is easy to get lost in the details unless you sit back and ask yourself what is really important from your audiences perspective?Besides, I dont want to be 85 in the old folks home and still working on this diorama.