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2011/03/09 16:49:35
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Ultramarine Terminator with Assault Cannon
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Just a small rant...
I swear I get motivated to hobby at all the wrong, most inconvenient times. Right now for example. I have a strong urge to work on my latest terrain piece, but I can't because I'm at work... And I know by the time I get home all I'll want to do is crash on the couch and watch TV. I can't be alone on this... Anyone else? I dream of a day when I can hobby while at work. In the meantime; back to the grind.
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2011/03/09 16:54:00
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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oni wrote:Just a small rant...
I swear I get motivated to hobby at all the wrong, most inconvenient times. Right now for example. I have a strong urge to work on my latest terrain piece, but I can't because I'm at work... And I know by the time I get home all I'll want to do is crash on the couch and watch TV. I can't be alone on this... Anyone else? I dream of a day when I can hobby while at work. In the meantime; back to the grind.
i thought i was the only one who suffered this strange affliction.ill be at work and ill get all these cool ideas and when i get home BLAM im to knackered. lol
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2011/03/09 17:31:16
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Enginseer with a Wrench
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Same here, except most of my motivation comes when I'm out somewhere with the lady.
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2011/03/09 18:13:17
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Jovial Plaguebearer of Nurgle
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Much rather be painting than working, although when I do get time to paint I do pretty much anything to delay the first meaningful brush stroke.
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2011/03/09 19:05:30
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Krazed Killa Kan
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oni wrote:Just a small rant...
I swear I get motivated to hobby at all the wrong, most inconvenient times. Right now for example. I have a strong urge to work on my latest terrain piece, but I can't because I'm at work... And I know by the time I get home all I'll want to do is crash on the couch and watch TV. I can't be alone on this... Anyone else? I dream of a day when I can hobby while at work. In the meantime; back to the grind.
Gonna throw my brush into this brush-holder as well, all i think about in work is warhammer, and i work 6 days a week so by the time I get a day free i'm too knackered to do anything except play minecraft/fallout new vegas...
Put it this way, I've got 2 paintjobs to do for a friend, 1000pts of skaven, an ork painboy, a warboss conversion, a mordheim zombie pirate warband and a Dystopian war's battleship all waiting to be painted!
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daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
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2011/03/09 19:07:30
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Courageous Silver Helm
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I hear you on this. My inappropriate urges to paint and make stuff tend to strike at 4 in the morning, or when I am at college or job interviews.
Then when I get home I have no desire to do anything at all.
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2011/03/09 19:16:39
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Krazy Grot Kutta Driva
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If I could work on 40k at work I would post a lot less on Dakka.
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Poor orks... Why can't they be the good guys for once?
All they've ever really wanted is whatever you have... 
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2011/03/09 20:10:52
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Ultramarine Terminator with Assault Cannon
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Bullfrog wrote:Much rather be painting than working, although when I do get time to paint I do pretty much anything to delay the first meaningful brush stroke.
Funny how true this is.
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2011/03/09 20:19:48
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Navigator
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Vandil wrote:If I could work on 40k at work I would post a lot less on Dakka.
This.
At work I get great ideas. Upon arriving home they all don't matter....
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2011/03/09 20:46:54
Subject: Re:Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Best kind of motivation: make painting and modelling your day job. So that even when you're at work, you're still painting/working on something. Best part of it is that you're forced to do it, otherwise no food for you.
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2011/03/09 21:23:52
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Eternally-Stimulated Slaanesh Dreadnought
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Nu11nV01D: I know the feeling. I'll get a great idea into my head at the start of school. it will distract me for most of the day and when I get home I do jack sh*t about it 
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2011/03/09 21:28:13
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Nu11nV01D wrote:Vandil wrote:If I could work on 40k at work I would post a lot less on Dakka.
This.
At work I get great ideas. Upon arriving home they all don't matter....
I do stuff at work on my planning period. I should be writing lesson plans though.
As for motivation at the wrong times, every time I see a Fisher price plane, I want to convert it into a fighta bomma. So I will be walking down Wal-Mart and I see a cool toy that says for ages 36 months - 8 years and I instantly want it for my ork army.
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2011/03/09 22:09:12
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Lol when I seen the title I imediately thought id read a story about sexy time + warhammer = funny but thats jyst me lol.
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2011/03/09 22:21:00
Subject: Re:Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Ork Boy Hangin' off a Trukk
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I get this to, but mainly realy late at night (like i can wake up around 1AM and realy want to paint [i must paint in my dreams ]) or when there is no hope in hell of me even geting home, for example in school or work, but as it has been said befor i get home and just go " what da zog i might as well go and play on my xbox or minecraft or just crash infront of the T.V with some fungus beer!"
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2011/03/09 22:21:16
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Death-Dealing Devastator
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Bullfrog wrote:Much rather be painting than working, although when I do get time to paint I do pretty much anything to delay the first meaningful brush stroke.
Shouldn't you be finishing those terminators rather than procrastinating on the boards?
But yeah, every time I seem to get a flash of proper inspiration, it disappears by the time I can get round to picking up a paintbrush.
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2011/03/09 22:23:31
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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KaloranSLC wrote:Same here, except most of my motivation comes when I'm out somewhere with the lady.
I actually paint more on the job than at home, but the above is definitely true - especially when I leave my painting kit at work.
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2011/03/09 22:32:34
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Stealthy Space Wolves Scout
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Vandil wrote:If I could work on 40k at work I would post a lot less on Dakka.
I work on my 40k while I'm at work...no one there really cares either...doing credit card apps isn't really that busy
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2011/03/10 03:33:15
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I find the best way to get into it when you get back home is to start making a list of all the things you want to do, convert, paint etc. The point is the list to be fun stuff you want to see finished to see what it would look like, not a chore-list of things that need to move off the table. (That list should exist too, appended beside the cool-stuff list, but in small font)
Eventually my list of concepts and ideas got so long I just started cracking when I got home. That list of ideas was enough to start getting me going, but to keep the motivation high, while im working on the new project, I work on as much and as many old things as I can so I dont suffer burnout from too many unifinished projects. Once I get started, no problem. Its the getting started that bothers.
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2011/03/10 03:36:37
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Powerful Chaos Warrior
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I find I lose motivation at home as well, but if I think about it it's because of all the damn options for leisure I have: video games, netflix, posting on boards...ah, feth this, I'm going to go paint.
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2011/03/10 07:52:09
Subject: Motivation At All The Wrongs Times
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Jovial Plaguebearer of Nurgle
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The_Happy_Pig wrote:Bullfrog wrote:Much rather be painting than working, although when I do get time to paint I do pretty much anything to delay the first meaningful brush stroke.
Shouldn't you be finishing those terminators rather than procrastinating on the boards?
Actually, I'm procrastinating so I don't have to start the red cape on my Nurgle guy....who I'm painting so I don't have to do more Terminator yellowing.
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