The Little World

Are you organised enough? Or too much? Are people diving down side streets to avoid you when you ask them about organisation? Is it time for an intervention?

I ask this in the wake of a day spent organising my modelling boxes. Note the plural there – it indicates that we are, as Kinky Friedman might say, out past where the buses run…

I expect to do my model building to a schedule; every two weeks as a guest at a chap’s home, every week at our Tuesday men’s shed, and every day in my own little workshop. To do so needs kits, tools, paints, and solvents. And brushes – air and stick. I have found that while one good set of the above is fine, you must be prepared to pack it all up every week to take it elsewhere. This is a pain.

I progressed from one set of tools to two, and have now come to three. Kept in separate boxes with the kit of choice for each venue, it means that I can do what I was going to do without re-packing. The inevitable duplication has been achieved fairly painlessly by picking up inexpensive Ustar starter kits that contain a good selection of tools. Tamiya and Ustar supply refills and spares for the consumable bits and all I need to do is hive off the paints for any particular build into the model box and I’m ready to go.

I suppose real organisational luxury would be to pre-position entire modelling kits wherever I plan to be and just drive from place to place. I must stop thinking these things up…