DocRob

Hello Wolf,

I´m glad you liked my P-38 build. The main reason, I chose Wicked Women was, it needed no masking over the applied rivets and NMF.
My initial intention was to build Virginia Marie Margaret, because of the vivid scheme, which I may do in a future build. That´s why I´m sorry to tell you, I will keep the decals for that occasion.
Generally I can say, they behaved very well and had only minimal carrier film, splendid Cartograph quality. They are still available. I bought mine from Hannants, where they are still in stock.

Cheers Rob

Hi Gary,

except bad manuals, nothing written kept me ever from modelling. Quite the opposite is the case, I often read books connected to actual builds and it fires me up a bit, like in the case of the Duchess of Kingston.

I can't really grab the reason, for your loss of mojo considering ship builds. Glory, a difficult subject, specially for many Germans, me included, when it comes to times of Nazism. It's not only modeling for me, but it's part of family history as well. I was born in West Berlin and had history surrounding me.
My families roots go back to some Hugenotte lower nobility, who had to flee from France and settled in Prussia, where they were welcomed. 
I have a deep fondness to the Prussian humanitarian education and partly for the Prussian politics and military orientation.
The time you refer to was, when things got complicated and I can only guess, that had a huge effect onto Stumpf. Like many others, he was changing political views and positions often.
I haven't read his diary, but I've read a lot about the time of the revolution and what lead to the situation. There also was a good four part documentary in German TV about this time, often referencing to Stumpfs diary.
His way is so typical, partly sympathizing with the revolution, later being a member of a right wing Freikorps and regretting being a member, after seeing what was done by this Freikorps.
It was a time of infinite uncertainty in Germany and besides hunger and unemployment for many, not to name inflation and decline in old values. It was an atmosphere, which was prone to create radical mindsets.

I will not go too deep into it, but my own approach is shaky in times. I'm for example absolutely fascinated by an Arado 234 or Horten 229 from a technical standpoint, being ahead of their time at least a decade, but when I build one, I can't really forget for what they stand, that prisoners laboured to death, building these, only to name one aspect.
It doesn't put me off, building these, but it's always in my mind, there are other aspects.
I'm plainly no militarist, but as an ex engineer, I have a deep love for advancing technologies and their effect on the society.
I guess, being a German doesn't make things easy sometimes, being always a bit ambivalent .

I guess, this all will not help you, restoring your mojo, but it shows, how different our approach to the same hobby is. 
My main trigger in modelling is fascination for an object. Without, I wouldn't do modeling. The reasons for the fascination can be based on literature, technology, science and of course history.

All the best

Robert

Hi Oz,

not much benching time due to other things that keep my mind occupied.
Actually my last build was a wooden shelf for a round little room in our house :-)
It is a present for my wive.

Cheers Rob

Hi Ozzy, everytime I see the box in the stash I open it, look for the parts and the AM and think about that same question. But there are so many other great kits in my shelves and on the bench.... I have to finish my contribution to the Resin Group Build (Red Star 47) and the started BF-109 and it is not only planes I'm interested in, so there might be a tank or some Sci-Fi stuff in between. Many words for an 'I don't know', eh .

Hope to let you not too unsatisfied with that.

Cheers Rob