The Little World

Or the stashless spark. Is it better to have no kits but brilliant plans, or plenty of kits but no interest?

There are any number of people with big stashes who lack the motivation to build anything. They look listlessly at the shelves of plastic in boxes and nothing at all calls to them. It is happy hunting ground for the hobby shop – after all, once they make a sale, they’ve fulfilled their basic function. Whether you build the thing or just slide it into the pile in the spare room is immaterial.

I could look at the boxes and have nothing at all jump out at me. The boxes themselves have been seen so long that they have no meaning. It might be prime time to go buy more to hide the ones I can see.

Yet, I could reduce this ennui, one kit at a time, by just opening a box, washing the contents, and starting the cutting. There was a reason they were clicked past the till in the first place, likely on the spur of a moment – together with 3 more bottles of paint. Now to figure out what it was before the decals curl up and crack off.