Resolve is too harsh a word...
I want to spend more time modeling than reading and writing about modeling. This does not necessarily mean I will spend less time on this forum (however, I am spending much less time on other modeling forii. They seem more like grammar school than fun and informative conversations).
I want to continue modeling more slowly and enjoying the process more instead of taking short cuts and skipping a thing here and there to get to the "completed model" stage. In fact, I plan to absolve myself of guilt over my little stash of partially finished "orphan" kits and just go ahead and finish them. Slowly.
I want to continually remind myself that the completed models I remember most fondly were those that I built at a leisurely pace, sometimes only spending a few minutes to lay on another decal or attach a landing gear leg. Then, one day, I discovered that there was nothing else left to do and I had a finished model on my hands. One, a Hasegawa 1:32 scale FW-190, required that I fix the overspray on my mottling paint job. This must have consumed a leisurely week, but it turned out so well that I couldn't tell where the bad parts had been and that was one of my most satisfactory model builds.
I want to plan ahead more and add the amount of detail I feel is needed and not worry about what anyone else may think I "should have" done.
I might actually try to build one of Lukaz' Oberusel kits. When recall just how small 1:32 scale is for one of those engines, I think, well, maybe not.
I do not plan to buy more kits in 2015, unless the Wingnut Wings gang actually releases a Fokker F.1/Dr.1, then all bets are off.
And, I plan to sell off the rest of my modest model stash (maybe ten or fifteen kits) and keep that money for additional Wingnut Wings releases, tools and the occasional detail and scratch materials. (Yes, I know that goes against the spirit of the previous sentence, but these aren't resolutions as much as fond intentions.)
I finally plan to absolve myself of any guilt involved in not accomplishing these notions.
