Modeling Poetry 301

[StephenLawson]

As we begin class let us consider our site of deepest inspiration. *The place where we go to create our poetry as it were. Where the muse falls upon us. *Consider your Workbench, it should be a place where you can lay your head down and nap. *(Please turn off all power tools first.) *In the twilight moments between REM and full conciousness you will reach Modeling Nirvana.

[PeterL]

Sump'n wrong here! That can't be a real workbench it looks like an illustration from a book on Feng Shui! Where's all the clutter?

[stringbags4ever2]

Maybe that is why Stephen's models look so cool..... because he is neat and organized most of the time. You'll notice that there aren't any WIPs on his bench in this picture. When the models are all built, he most likely takes the time to put everything where it belongs so he can readily locate it again. Makes my little table look sick. Most of my modeling stuff is in tool boxes and Rubbermaid bins. But when my table is clear, I can rest my head and dream about Albies and DH-2s and Fokkers and...... zzzzzzzzzz......Ohhhhhmmmmmm, Ohmmmmmmm. Nirvana is not hard to reach, Peter.

[topgun56]

Beautiful work bench/shop.

I have a 3 bedroom house but because of the unbuilt kits and the built kits I no longer have room for a cool bench/workshop.

The AZ weather just caused my outdoor work bench to fall apart.

Did you get a spray booth with that shop?

And wheres the tunes? Got to have tunes to create.

[NeilE]

Hi All;

This is clearly a workbench of someone fully in control of his AMS. Notice the lack of half finished conversions, models part done and set aside, bits of old sprue, tooth picks, used microbrushes, paint tins etc.

The Good Herr Doktor would have shed a tear....

However I wonder about his Compulsive Model Acquisition Syndrome...look at all those Eduard kits!

All the Best

Neil

PS: of course, this is very different to what the Good Herr Doktor's modelling bench looked like...especially after Dymphna had called around for a 'quick visit'

N.

[NeilE]

Hi All;

Revellus of Padua tackled this topic in his meisterwerk Modellus Modellissium.

To quote the Hoary Old Monk:

"Modellus spiritus sanctum
Lieum et globbus petrololium,
Eet sol sweptus avians
Et centorum micrus thingy et placum
Allus givum modellus spiritus

Et al SWMBO inspiritorum modellus sanctorum
Sanctus,
Eu gastronomicus postus meridian externus maximus,
Lo modellus spiritus et globus"

Which roughly translates as:

The sacred spirit of modelling is to found in a glob of oil,
the sun on a swept wing,
in a hundred little things and places;
All may have the sacred spirit of modelling

Even SWMBO may be inspired by the sacred spirit of modelling,
If the night out to dinner is great,
The modelling spirit is everywhere"

Some great truths of modelling never change...

All the Best

Neil

NB: A controversial translation by Jan Smer of Prague replaces the word SWMBO with the Latin name "Dymphynus". Dymphnus was, of course, Revellus' distant paramour....

N.

[stringbags4ever2]

Hey Neil_E,

By a "quick visit", do you mean just a visit, or a "quickie" between the good Doc and Auntie?

[Richard_Schrader]

Stephan;
A awesome modeling room, it shows great planning. The amount of work space you have is a great feature. I have a smaller room, but when I get home I will be looking at a way to increase work area. Thanks for the inspiration!

Richard

[topgun56]

That Latin, ?????


Can you say knock out walls. I thought about it after seeing the bench. Wouldn't work, I already have selves on all walls.

TG

[StephenLawson]

Alright class:
To begin with.  Each of us has our own needs.  We primarily express these needs in our creativity.  The bench was built in 1999.  After 20 plus years of working on makeshift tables and benches.  I needed a place where I could be available to my family yet out of the way of general traffic.  NO ambling pets (other than the occassional foray by my sons red slider-turtles and Guinea-pigs.)  Its higher than 36 inches tall as I spend hours working on kits I can actually use the top for supporting my elbows to keep me from getting tired too quickly.  See the future topic Healthy Modeling 202 (this class will be overseen by a fellow modeler and Chiropractor.)

'Balance' is the key word here as was discussed in a previous class.  Half of my desk is used for building the other does double duty as the area  for research materials  and paying bills.  It forces me to clear my desk to do one or the other.  At 50kb the photo won't show the finer details but you get the general idea. (and 50kb is generously plenty, thanks to the all high,lord imperial pooh-bah, our venerated webmaster.)

'Balance' is also the key word for building a model. As mentioned previously in the last class (Modeling Psychology 201) the text for our current class comes from the venerated ancient script 'How to Build Dioramas' by Shepicus Paynius.  To build or create an eye-catching piece it doesn't have to be a diorama.  But looking at a piece as if it we're 'doing its own thing' (original quote from the Monterey Pop Festival 1966.)  one sees the plausible idea and allows one to let the fantasy take over.  (No drug induced stimuli needed here.)  Thats why family and friends say 'neat' when they view your work but fellow modelers stand entranced at a wood veneered fuselage