Building Sunrot, Miscast, and Gardens of Hecate Minis

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I don’t know what it is about building models. Painting is meditative and it feels good to get lost in it, but building specifically is on another level.

Full Autopilot Mode

I’m at the point where I’ve probably acquired the most skill I could in building kits. I don’t mean that as a flex—it’s just that after a certain point, you’ve done it so many times it becomes very easy. When I sit down to build, I’m on full autopilot. Full meditation mode. I can blank my mind out completely, and at the end of it I come out with a built model. That feels really good.

Painting isn’t like that for me yet. I don’t know if you can ever fully get there with painting because there are always so many decisions to make. And if you’re kitbashing and doing conversions, that same opportunity for creativity creates an opportunity for stress—you might mess something up, or at least your brain tells you that you might.

The Simple Joy of It

With building, you can totally zone out and get in the flow. It’s simple. Scrape the mold lines. Fill the gaps. Glue it together. Try not to cut your fingers too many times. Try not to glue them together. You know you’re going to cut them. You know you’re going to glue them. And you stop caring about it. A couple hours go by and you have no idea it happened.

Decompressing

After a very hectic week, I really just wanted to turn it off—not worry about all the problems going on in my life right now and just zone out and build some models. And that’s what I did.