Life is busy. And I feel the ADHD effects all the time. Thus, I’m trying to keep myself anchored by focusing my efforts on a single project.
Since that doesn’t work, I’m trying to keep some multistage projects ready to be worked on.
My son is now eight, back to school post-Covid, and old enough that I’m going to run a D&D game for him (my wife will play support-class) when I’m not too burned out. I’m juggling his more complex needs, my wife’s medication trials, my 3-year-old willful daughter, and a massive wave of burnout from post-Covid teaching of students who went feral for a year.
I need something to divert and soothe, some project I can develop over time. Or I’ll just be a big ball of stress, a grumpy bear who can’t let it all go long enough to be my best self at home or at work.
Last year, my brother got me a 3D printer. I’d been looking into it as a possible hobby after finding myself with more extra money than I’d expected, after selling the Warhammer projects I knew I was never really going to get to. He got me a resin printer — a Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K — though I’d been looking into filament printing. So when Amazon had a flash sale on the Voxelab Aquila X2, I snapped it up.
This has sufficed as a learning/tinkering project, much like I imagine my dad and I would have had in a jalopy if we’d had a little more time and money when I was a teenager.
Then, the new project took form.
There are so many files to print and paint. My backlog is now infinite.
So… with a delay for a much-needed fan upgrade, another set for Grand Jury service, another for a ruptured hot water heater, and then the whole family weathering Covid, I finally learned how to rewire electronics with DuPont connectors and a crimper, found a US-based eco-friendly PLA source, switched slicers, and started printing again.
My current project? 3000 points of Death Korps of Krieg, 100% printed.
I will update as it proceeds, post the list, and provide pics in process.
