The modeling underdog

A bit over 3 months ago, I wrote the last installment for TMU's 2008 season. Having improved both in health and time and since I'm enjoying a week-long holiday, it came to my mind that something had to be done about TMU: may be pass it on to somebody else's more capable hands or even shut it down. But, in the light of not having done any modeling at all in the last 3 months, it became painfuly obvious that modeling was no longer one of my havens in dairy life. What to do about it? Well, many times you read that one article about changing your modeling subjects of liking in order to relief all the stress of "serious modeling". And yes, it goes over cynicism and into caustic irony that a hobby intended to relax people, may end up stressing them out. So I went for an old and never really quite fulfilled modeling passion, that of submarines. I know it's a huge difference beetween subjects, but the TMU approach of "The less the better" came in handy t...

As odd as it may seem, and being in front of the computer at 2.04 AM, I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and hope that you´re spending a lovely night with the ones you love. To the ones that provide me support, love and friendship, I can only say a big THANK YOU for all you do for me and because of me: My dad and sister, Ducky (my own, personal, immortal beloved), Zeta (who's stylish Modelmod Blogspot is a haven of good taste), Gabriel and his never diminishing ability to make me rant about everything, Adrian "Oh, thy great master of masters", Gustavo "Ben Ali al Majadu" and his astonishing Arabic Air Forces, the Hrubisko dynamic duo (both Raul and Santiago are plain great guys and modelers), Martin Lucero (I owe you so many e-mails that starting to write to you would be an excercise of style itself!) and all of the modelers and everyday people who have to endure my most verbose and contradictory nature. Blame it on the genes!!! And since we´re t...