Too Many Projects...?
Sunday, April 2, 2006
...or just more money than sense? Not that I've got much money, mind, I just clearly don't have much sense.
The Spitfire is costing me a small fortune, which was to be expected, but I can't seem to stop dreaming. I really struggled to stop myself buying a cheap Chevy Blazer restoration project on eBay last week, and I've been pricing up some off road modifications for a Toyota Hi-Lux or similar. I really need some self control. Or a smaller project that I can get on with gradually, so I don't get distracted so easily.
I used to have a Hornby layout in the loft when I was younger, but the fun for me was always in the modelling and construction, never in running it. I did it gradually over a year or two, and then ripped it apart when it was finished and sold off all the track and rolling stock. Never even ran it.
Pondering last week, I mentioned to my brother-in-law that I could build a small scale layout inside a glass topped coffee table. Being a signalling engineer, he would probably be frustrated to find as much track as possible crammed into the metre square table, with plenty of intertwining loops and points, yet not a single signal. Might have to look into that one, would give me something to do, even if I don't ever play with it when it's finished.
Of course I could always get a cheaper hobby - I notice there are a couple of adverts for line dancing classes in the local paper...
Posted at 11:47
