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Lost the Mo to my Jo
- Thread starter JSteinman
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Look under the desktop with flashlight on the floor. Having it on the floor will create long shadows. Another option is to take a pair of stockings (hopefully one of the girls won't mind) and place it over the end of a vacuum cleaner tube to catch it.
Otherwise, blame the dog!
Regards,
Otherwise, blame the dog!
Regards,
paddy
Well-known member
You will find it again, it usually turns up unexpectedly anyway but try reading a few build blogs and that can often fire you up again 
I lost mine with my current Stuka but i also got the Airfix Bently re issue the other day and have been researching it on the web, looking for detail pictures and at other builds and i am quite fired up about it now... need to finish the Stuka though, i never have 2 kits on the go at once, that would be brain overload for me.
Good luck
I lost mine with my current Stuka but i also got the Airfix Bently re issue the other day and have been researching it on the web, looking for detail pictures and at other builds and i am quite fired up about it now... need to finish the Stuka though, i never have 2 kits on the go at once, that would be brain overload for me.
Good luck
Flyingbabydoc
Well-known member
I have got the MO, lots and lots of JO but I am missing a very important protein:
TIM-E
TIM-E
Wish I had some spare, running low here.
Alex, same problem here. I am trying to force it but then my work shows that...
Regards,
Rhino
Super Moderator
Turn off the horrible news first! Find a copy of Kelly's Heroes to watch. Follow that with Cross of Iron. Take your kids to play in the water somewhere. A car-ride to eat your favorite food. Do something nice for somebody else. The dynamic nature of Life means we are always in motion. You can't back up, however you can "Catch a little Neutral" and coast for a bit. (Thanks Mike, for Jimmy Buffett's book!)
The funny thing about Model Mojo is that it's always in the last place you look.
My 2 cents.
The funny thing about Model Mojo is that it's always in the last place you look.
My 2 cents.
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
What I have been doing lately is to just go in and at least do "1" little thing. Glue a part on, paint one color on something, just do something small. I have found that if I do that, and don't have any other commitments, the next thing I know, a bunch of stuff is done and I have been in there for several hours. All that even though I just didn't really feel like doing anything.
For me it is the getting started that sometimes kills the mojo. If I get started the rest follows. If after doing one or two small things I still just don't feel like doing anything I can walk away, but at least I did "something", and then tomorrow is another day and I will try again.
For me it is the getting started that sometimes kills the mojo. If I get started the rest follows. If after doing one or two small things I still just don't feel like doing anything I can walk away, but at least I did "something", and then tomorrow is another day and I will try again.
I think I know where it is....I've been at my bench quite a bit this past week after a month+ of nothing. The week before that the wife and I went to Savannah for several days and it did us both wonders. I wouldn't say I have a full tank of MoJo but its at least at half. So I think Rino's advice is the way to go.
To be honest i've been totally distracted with life. We're putting Ma-In-Law's house on the market this week. Mom's house has been empty and we're looking for land to build on.
But I do have a play day with the buds tomorrow. 1pm guys!
But I do have a play day with the buds tomorrow. 1pm guys!
Rhino
Super Moderator
I left out mix a good, strong, cold, Drinkie of your choice and watch a sunset, just quietly. 20 minutes of The "Lord's Artwork" does me a world of good.
Once when I knew my own motivation to enjoy my hobby was at an ebb, I visited good, old Chuck Sterns gravesite. I brushed off his stone, straightened his US Flag and just sat quietly for a minute. I SWEAR I could hear Chuck and Tommy Bly laughing at me from On High. After all the stellar models they made in their lifetimes, did I imagine they didn't have set-backs? Did Life not happen all the time for two of my most respected old friends? Sure it did.
Are we, as discerning modelers (perfectionists) , not ultimately our own worst enemies and best friends simultaneously? You can bet your sweet bippy, I AM!
Something new in my world, is a Sweetheart that doesn't begrudge me my Hobby. I had become programmed to believe my girlfriends thought my model time was selfish, wasteful or dumb. I started making model resin model ship kits to bring extra $$ into my economic equation because I was with somebody who hated to pull her own weight. That Twat is long gone!
Teresa gets it. She tells me I can model anytime I want. She means it. Playing by myself has been part of my make-up since I was 5 years old. She shakes her head and laughs every time another new kit idea pops into my addled head. We can be unabashedly honest with one another. She is very easy to love. It's VERY freeing to a time honored model geek like me.
at 1:38 is where my favorite bit starts.
Once when I knew my own motivation to enjoy my hobby was at an ebb, I visited good, old Chuck Sterns gravesite. I brushed off his stone, straightened his US Flag and just sat quietly for a minute. I SWEAR I could hear Chuck and Tommy Bly laughing at me from On High. After all the stellar models they made in their lifetimes, did I imagine they didn't have set-backs? Did Life not happen all the time for two of my most respected old friends? Sure it did.
Are we, as discerning modelers (perfectionists) , not ultimately our own worst enemies and best friends simultaneously? You can bet your sweet bippy, I AM!
Something new in my world, is a Sweetheart that doesn't begrudge me my Hobby. I had become programmed to believe my girlfriends thought my model time was selfish, wasteful or dumb. I started making model resin model ship kits to bring extra $$ into my economic equation because I was with somebody who hated to pull her own weight. That Twat is long gone!
Teresa gets it. She tells me I can model anytime I want. She means it. Playing by myself has been part of my make-up since I was 5 years old. She shakes her head and laughs every time another new kit idea pops into my addled head. We can be unabashedly honest with one another. She is very easy to love. It's VERY freeing to a time honored model geek like me.
Steve Ski
Well-known member
Ah, no worries John, it'll show up eventually, lol. I recon we all go thru that from time to time. Watch a few good 'ol war flicks, like "Bridge too Far", "The Great Escape", "The Eagle has Landed", "Patton", "Saving Pvt Ryan", "The Longest Day", among just a few, you'll find it.
Spring is fast approaching, which means outside work, YIKES! Hurry, hurry,...............................
Spring is fast approaching, which means outside work, YIKES! Hurry, hurry,...............................
i knew a guy who could smoke a cig like that. Hangin' from his lip while he talked and the ash never dropped, I swear the entire cig was a single cinder when he was done with it.
Cut both yard, weeded, sprays some chemicals to either kill or help grow. Lost track. thought about cutting a tree down but since we're probably selling soon screw it.
Barney
Well-known member
Maslow speaks of a hierarchy of "needs." Safety, Food, Shelter are the basic needs we all require. Somewhere up the chain is self-fulfillment. I discovered that music was my one thing. Everything else can go to hell in a handbasket as long as I can sing. Maybe the MoJo is somewhere in the basement, but I go to the Man Closet, put on some tunes, sing and break out the plastic, glue, and paint. We have Mojo!
