Today is New Years Eve as well as my birthday. Because my birthday coincides with New Years the importance of resolutions have become more important as my age is pretty much front and center on the day. This new year especially is one where there I have some pretty big resolutions that have to do with change. The main one being that I am changing professions and will be going back to school. The Path I have decided to go is one of medicine and as an artist the amount of work will probably be somewhat foreign to me.
I will probably have to cut down on the amount of Gunpla I do this year mostly relegating myself to doing OOB’s and slight modified models but I doubt any dioramas will be possible. Luckily competitions don’t look like they will be as nonstop as they were this year. With the mecha lounge doing a group build instead of a contest I don’t have the pressure to compete with what I did this year. Additionally if the HLJ contest that will probably happen next year is anything like the one they held this year I am not sure if I will even take part in it. I like many other modelers I really hated that WIP’s weren’t allowed and the lack of discussion and communication that came from that rule made me come away from that contest with nothing. It was really sad because in most competitions even if you don’t win anything you usually come away learning something but not this one. Other contests like the Summer War are so far away I can’t even imaging what my situation will be by then.
One thing I can say though is no matter how busy I am I will still be doing Gunpla. As a person who has done art his entire life I always have to be doing something artistic.