joemichaels70 wrote:
pfft. amateur.
I was literally getting ready to tag you in this thread.
Yeah, we've talked about this on the podcast quite a bit. I love when one of us will share a picture of something or someone else's custom and then there's good ol jm70 chiming in with whatever wip number that just got added to his list.
"What a cool concept. Nice parts choice.
#211"
Personally, I've found keeping a list on my phone has been helpful. It lets me prioritize the WIPs or add notes for things I want to work on next. In turn, that has led to more batch spray painting, sculpting, and dremel usage, which tend to be the major time crunch hurdles usually preventing me from completing things.
The other benefit is that it has maken me take stock of whether I still want to work on those things or not. There are at least two I waffle on every time I look at that list, both repaint/touch-up work that I can never quite get jazzed up enough to bang out. I find myself still liking them enough to want to someday call them finished, but I think I still need the reinforcement that they are worthy, I guess, to keep ahead of other ideas.
That doesn't mean that the occassional idea won't cut the line. Ultimately, you have to follow the passion and if an idea is good enough to make you burn the midnight oil until it is done, then so be it. I find I get amped up for the engineering side of the custom, the parts and how to make my vision into reality. But I'll let something languish forever if the current boots don't quite do it for me, or I can't nail down the likeness, or it requires a tedious paint job and one of the colors dried out so I have to go buy another bottle. Oh man, having to get new supplies is my Achiles heel. It will stop a project dead in its tracks until I compile a big enough list to bother making the trip or ordering online.