Reply To: Why I do not like hobby butterflies

[kiranamida 5791xp 1]

I feel your pain on the soace issue. My “hobby space” is also my Work From Home office as well as being my wife’s hobby space and the smallest room in the house.

I do find this has the effect of making me focus on at most one or two projects at most as it’s a pain in the rear to move things back and forth from the garage where a lot of the projects that I have started (like terrain for our local club that built and primed to make it available but will one day get a bit more love hopefully) so I tend to focus on what can fit on the limited footage on one side of my desk on the window sill.

 

That being said: if anything I have never been a hobby butterfly and more of a hobby slug. With so little space, I found myself building everything and maybe priming but then sort of accepting that it was good enough to put on the table against friends and moving on the next things.
So I joined a slow-grow league. 250 points of Warhammer 10th ed a month for eight months resulting in a 2,000 point army at the end. Not my favourite ruleset but I love the Guard even I take them into other games and take about a means of focus… I made set up a little painting tray so that, even if I have to get stuff out onto my desk and tidy it away for work it’s from the front of the desk to the side of the desk, not away onto shelves and into drawers around the room.
I have painted as much in the last 5 months than I have painted in the last 5 years and I am still going.

I wouldn’t say that it would work for everyone or their situations but having a defined goal and friends along for the same journey has been great for finding both my focus and my mojo.