What's the longest amount of time you've stayed awake?

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**WarMill**

mullet_steve wrote:Cruch time as an architectural modelmaker 34 hour shift with three hour long breaks to stuff food down my throat plus a couple of hours travel either side and staying up for a few hours once i got home soo from about 5am Tuesday untill ten PM wednesday... I was totaly ruined physicaly, emotionasly and mentaly by the end of that day at work.... But i had been working 100 hour weeks and in that last week (which lasted three days) I worked over 40 hours... Stupid UCLH model... Stupid deadlines and unreasonable expectations.....

Oh the wonderful world of models and crunch time! Trying to get stuff glued together without knackering the paintwork or glueing yourself to your model. My worst was over 60 hours without sleep finishing the sculpt and painting this guy for a Uni project. I decided to airbrush him despite having never airbrushed and having already been awake for about 36-odd hours. Never again.

Harry - Warmill

**WarMill**

Lol don't say that I'm trying to work up to going self-employed! There's a laser cutter in the UK with my name on it

I've heard stories from friends in the Architecture biz of long weeks and all nighters trying to finish a model only to be told it's going in a cupboard because the architects don't need it any more! Crazy world...