This blog was really born out of the COVID-19 pandemic. To be honest, I hate being sick and had and in particular, I tend to try and avoid anything that can kill me. So, even after the pandemic restrictions were lifted in the U.S., I tried to limit my exposure, as much as possible, to work and only made other essential stops, like the grocery store.
All this created a lot of free time for me. As a kid, I always enjoyed putting together model kits. So, I purchased a few and started work on them. To be honest, I wasn’t really pleased with the results. They actually didn’t look a lot different from the models I made as a kid. But, as an adult, I had a particular vision of how the models would turn out. And, they didn’t turn out that way.
So, before embarking on another model project, I spent a lot of time watching YouTube to learn how to construct better models. There are a lot of different aspects to scale modeling and the videos I watched gradually expanded to cover a lot of different aspects of scale modeling – from scratch building, making molds, texturing, and especially painting.
There are a lot of talented and creative people that produce content on YouTube. Watching videos made by those creators gave me a lot of inspiration as well as helped me to tap into my creativity a lot more than I do.
As 2022 arrived, I decided to start a blog detailing some of my projects as well as my progress on those projects. For me, the blog is a tool to help me measure my progress from project to project as well as a way to ensure I meet my deadlines on those projects.
While the blog will mostly focus on different aspects of scale modeling, I’ll most likely include a steady dose of content on knotting. As a child, I was heavily involved in the Boy Scouts of America. Many of the lessons I learned in the BSA have stuck with me for life. One of the skills I learned in scouting was knotting. Since I learned to tie my first three-lead, four-bight Turk’s Head, knotting has always fascinated me.
My hope is that anyone who stumbles across this blog may find something interesting and take a little inspiration from it.
Thanks,
Huck Treadwell
Boondock Bight 