With Christmas around the corner, What are your model railroading plans?
For me, its to keep working on the layout when I have time. Most of us have family get togethers to go to or host. This can take time away from our modeling. Is this ok?
I was talking with a good friend the other day and he is building a 1" scale GP60M. It is at the painting phase as we speak. He was expressing how he is somewhat frustrated as he is going back and forth with his painter on how to paint the lines and such. I know he has a goal date for it to be so far along for a train show. As he was expressing this to me, it got me to thinking about a couple weekends ago when I did absolutely nothing on the layout. I didn't even go down to the layout with the excetion of recording an episode for the podcast that weekend.
After explaing this to him, I also noted that that weekend is what I needed. A break. We can easily get so consumed in our projects and wanting to get them done that we can allow our mind to get clogged with thoughts that make seeing the end goal difficult or even impossible.
So your probably thinking, "what's this have to do with the holidays?". Well, if you find yourself not being able to model as much as you would like during the holidays, don't look at it as a negative. Look at it as a pause to help your sanity. Yes, a pause in modeling is always good. I know for myself, it helped me by when I went back to modeling after that weekend, I was more focused and actually got more done in a shorter time than I was doing before the "pause".
So in the end, Keep your head up and use this time, or pause, during the holidays to clear your head and get back on the right track.
"Keep Your Train on the Tracks!"
MRT
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