Yeah, me too!
Real life stuff, like our furnace conking out in the worst part of the winter, dealing with work, keeping my wife alive in the 3rd year of her chelation treatment… kinda slows one down a wee bit.
And best of all: The Scratch Builders Curse!
-make your best guesses because lack of references,
-get the work completed…
-and like an evil magic curse, long-lost references which you had desperately needed suddenly appear!
-which naturally show your best guesses were off.
Fortunately, my pace had already slowed down due some of the above-mentioned stuff plus a touch of modeling burn-out, so, I was not yet done when (circa 1977) build pics of the filming model started to surface in mid-2022.
And while they are some awesome pics, they really don’t much affect where I was already going: I had made some reasonably correct guesses based on what had been already figured out for the kit availability
Worrying about current-day lack of some of those vintage kits doesn’t really apply to me, as I’m going half-studio-scale – meaning I already had to make it or fake it with each individual piece anyway, but, it’s always good to have what was used back then mostly figured out.
This is all a really long winded way to say that I haven’t quit, and really want to get it up to Wonderfest this year!