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Thanks for the nice comments. Makes me happy.
My patience with bigger projects came with age....when I start a big project I accept that I don't now when it will be finished, and I don't set targets when it has to be finished. I work when I feel like it and I don't, when I'm not in the mood. That, combined with limited time (during normal weeks I can spend an hour a day in the workshop) does it for me. And: even if I get impatient and want to do something, I usually have a CAD side-project or a little build as a side project. When something has to dry or I have to wait for the next print, I sit on the couch and draw or research a topic. It's hard for me to rest my brain, so I keep me entertained by researching and drawing and thinking about new projects while the physical one slowly progresses....so I can detail a CAD model to a hugh dgree and kep building another project.
And an important part about detail...I use a psychological trick: I start a new drawing with a part that I detail to the level that I want to have in the complete build. When you the continue the design work, you don't fall below that level, because that wood look bad and incoherent. Drawing the whole thing with the intention to add the details later bears the inherent danger that you get impatient and leave it at that....With this build e.g. I started with the Diesel, detailed it, build it, and then it was impossible to fall behind that level of detail.
Cheers Andreas
My patience with bigger projects came with age....when I start a big project I accept that I don't now when it will be finished, and I don't set targets when it has to be finished. I work when I feel like it and I don't, when I'm not in the mood. That, combined with limited time (during normal weeks I can spend an hour a day in the workshop) does it for me. And: even if I get impatient and want to do something, I usually have a CAD side-project or a little build as a side project. When something has to dry or I have to wait for the next print, I sit on the couch and draw or research a topic. It's hard for me to rest my brain, so I keep me entertained by researching and drawing and thinking about new projects while the physical one slowly progresses....so I can detail a CAD model to a hugh dgree and kep building another project.
And an important part about detail...I use a psychological trick: I start a new drawing with a part that I detail to the level that I want to have in the complete build. When you the continue the design work, you don't fall below that level, because that wood look bad and incoherent. Drawing the whole thing with the intention to add the details later bears the inherent danger that you get impatient and leave it at that....With this build e.g. I started with the Diesel, detailed it, build it, and then it was impossible to fall behind that level of detail.
Cheers Andreas
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