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Manic/Depressive Modeling? OC...M?

Modeling
#1

Not those ultra skinny things in their skivvies – that’s Anorexia.

This has happened to me several times in the last couple years… you’re doing your everyday stuff – even in the middle of some other project – when, for lack of a better description, your muse bites… You suddenly have this GREAT idea, and you just HAVE to drop everything else and start it… Then it kind of consumes you for days. Stupid people at work piss you off, because you COULD be home working on this project instead. You work far into the night, and awaken with “Eureka!” moments on how to do some detail, and get out of bed to do it before you forget. You snap at SWMBO because she wants to disturb you to take her shopping, etc, etc…

Then, when the last detail has been added, the last tiny bit of touch up done… you start to get this sick, blinding headache somewhere behind your eyes, and all you want to do for the next three days is sleep…

Yes, I know it isn’t exactly ‘normal’, more something Van Gogh-ish, Yes, there are probably medications that would make it go away, so that everything would be everyday muted greys and pastels… but all the creativity might go with it. No, I don’t think it’s contagious… I just want to know if it happens to anybody else. Bart? Is this how your ‘mojo’ works? anybody?

#2

That would be me. Im the one when I get an idea or need something nothing will stop me from doing or getting it. It drives the boss crazy. LOL I think it has something to do with my ADD

#3

Can’t say things go like that for me.
Although I always do have several projects going at once.
And will drop one, when an idea for another pops up.
Monotonous tasks can also bounce me to another project.
After painting a dozen window sashes, I want to do something else for awhile.
Consumed? Not me. More like I need a kick in the ass to finish the projects.
Ralph

#4

A gallery of the children of my affliction… A gon, built, painted and weathered in 3 hours in the middle of the night.

(http://www.the-ashpit.com/P1005.JPG)

An 8 ton Climax, built in 3 days

(http://www.the-ashpit.com/P3300001.JPG)

The saw rig, built in a long afternoon

(http://www.the-ashpit.com/mik/P6230004.JPG)

Daleks… and the truck, too

(http://www.the-ashpit.com/mik/P2260001.JPG)

The Erie crane

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/Erie%20Crane/P9120001.jpg)

The Sawmill

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/sawmill/P8050004.jpg)

And the last one:

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/mother%20hubbard/P1120001.jpg)

Some of my ‘best’ work was done that way. But it takes a LOT out of me.

#5

I’ve got unfinished projects from back when I got into LS Trains 5+ years ago…kids

#6

That happens to me. In fact that’s what it was like when I first started my layout. I was completely on fire to do it! That lasted for most of the first year. Now it comes and goes, and sometimes I go through periods where it’s hard to get interested in doing anything.

#7

Not manic-depressive. Definately extraterrestrial!!! Remember the movie Encounters of the Third Kind where Richard Dreyfuss compulsively built a Devil’s Tower in his living room? I rest my case… :wink:

#8
C. Nelson said:
I've got unfinished projects from back when I got into LS Trains 5+ years ago....kids
Who you going to blame your shortcomings on when the kids are grown :lol: You didn't have all those kids 5 years ago ;) My girls are old enough now, I can't blame them for anything but my receding hairline :D Ralph
#9
Richard Smith said:
Not manic-depressive. Definately extraterrestrial!!! Remember the movie [b]Encounters of the Third Kind[/b] where Richard Dreyfuss compulsively built a Devil's Tower in his living room? I rest my case..... ;)
That's one movie I never managed to sit through... got bored goofy and left. All I remember of it was that obnoxious repetitive "Don't eat yel-low snow" tone code
#10

Okay Mik, I’ll bite. What is a SWMBO ? I glean from the context it’s meaning is similar to an HH6 or XYL, but I cant figger out the acronym.

#11
David Hill said:
Okay Mik, I'll bite. What is a SWMBO ? I glean from the context it's meaning is similar to an HH6 or XYL, but I cant figger out the acronym.
She Who Must Be Obeyed ;) By the way, like the avatar :) Ralph
#12

not blaming the kids, just they get all the “time”…Homeschool, then our Biz, my Radio Gig, other interest and all…

#13
C. Nelson said:
not blaming the kids, just they get all the "time"...Homeschool, then our Biz, my Radio Gig, other interest and all...
Just "yankin" your chain a little :D I'm down to two at home now. But you'll have to double that four to catch up to me in days past ;) Ralph
#14

I have bouts of the same. I write it off to being a hobby and not a job. Do what you like, like what you do. Enjoy!!!

#15
Mik said:
Richard Smith said:
Not manic-depressive. Definately extraterrestrial!!! Remember the movie [b]Encounters of the Third Kind[/b] where Richard Dreyfuss compulsively built a Devil's Tower in his living room? I rest my case..... ;)
That's one movie I never managed to sit through... got bored goofy and left. All I remember of it was that obnoxious repetitive "Don't eat yel-low snow" tone code
Gee! Sorry!
#16
Richard Smith said:
Mik said:
Richard Smith said:
Not manic-depressive. Definately extraterrestrial!!! Remember the movie [b]Encounters of the Third Kind[/b] where Richard Dreyfuss compulsively built a Devil's Tower in his living room? I rest my case..... ;)
That's one movie I never managed to sit through... got bored goofy and left. All I remember of it was that obnoxious repetitive "Don't eat yel-low snow" tone code
Gee! Sorry!
Don't be

As far as movies go it can get MUCH worse — my mom got my kids hooked on “Santa Clause Conquers the Martians”…

#17

‘Nazi Surf Zombies meet Billy the Kid and the Seven Dwarfs - Part 3’.

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#18

My New’s Year’s resolution this year is to go back and finish some of the unfinished projects. Actually I’ve run out of room to start any new ones!

#19

Whatever it is Mik - it’s working :smiley: I wish I had that drive. I tend to fade out long before a project gets finished.

#20

“The guy said I’d feel better if I finished some of the things I’d started. So I finished that 5th of scotch. Felt so much better, I next finished the vodka. Felt even better after that, so I finished the…”