The Average Modeller Blog was started in early 2017 while I struggled through a build review of a Diopark Mercedes for Darren at Armorama, it has entertained and enabled me to express my thoughts feelings and frustrations about a hobby I love and for being at best an average modeller. To some modelling comes naturally and others see it as some kind of expressive art form, there are those that do it for a living and those who use it to relax, me I find it a frustrating distraction from the normalities of life that has me smiling and banging my head against the wall in equal measure. Modelling for me is a bit of a journey, the battles and frustrations that I go through to find the time and inspiration to get myself to the workbench, my annoyance at the limited opportunities to be consistent in a hobby where practice definitely makes perfect, most of which are of my own doing. So the blog just represents me, my modelling thoughts and just trying hard to express myself in a fantastic hobby full of fantastic modellers and maybe one day I will be a bit more than just an average modeller.
As I sit here on a chilly and windy Saturday evening wondering where the day has gone and why on earth I have not got any modelling done yet again and my thoughts also turn to the fact that I have not blogged for the best part of 4 months so after hanging my headContinue reading “A sad modellers tale…..”
