An Airfix Spitfire, a 1/72 scale kit and also a form of marriage guidance.
This is the first post on The Case for Kits blog with plans for many more to follow.
The reasons for making kits are many and varied and the following quote from Randy Cohen in his New York Times article Elegy for the hobby nicely sums up why many people take up kits as hobbies.
‘True hobbies require a particular -- even disproportionate -- intensity of attention. They provide a strong counterbalance to work. They are classically a marital aid, a mechanism for spouse avoidance. They involve the accumulation of equipment and lore; i.e., irredeemably specific information. This gives the hobbyist a pleasing sense of progress -- or pseudoprogress, because hobbies are conservative. Here is the prime law of hobbies: Absorbing but Not Transforming. They fill the mind without altering it.’
Kits and hobbies can be an absorbing diversion and a way of keeping you sane that might even make your marriage run more smoothly. So next time you see a kit maybe think of it as a three dimensional Relate session.
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