Monday, June 15, 2020

Stress and Modelism

The Stress, according to the main researcher on the subject, Dr. Sapolski, is due to a lack of control over a person's life, either because they are in a subordinate position, or because they lack control over what happens in their life From having to do things you don't like, from not having power over your actions, the key word is Control.


That is why Modeling is so useful to combat Stress, because it is an activity in which we control everything, and it is done for pleasure, there is no responsibility towards others, what happens with our model only concerns us, from The same choice that we are going to buy until the last details of painting, we have everything under control, that is why it is such a relaxing therapy, when you take your brushes, each stroke on the plastic gives us a relaxing tranquility.


And so, no matter what happens day by day, in the office, traffic, work, family, we can always have a part of our lives under control, and that activity causes a discharge of beneficial endorphins in the body, which can keep the toxic cortisol under control and keep our health in balance.


Because Stress is a physical disease, it is now known that Cortisol causes damage to different parts of the body, depending on the sensitivity and genetics of each person, which is why everyone responds differently to it, some of them it affects the heart, others the nervous system, others the gastrointestinal, etc .; That chaotic reaction was what kept medicine so confused for decades, so much so, that there are still doctors who think that Stress is a mental illness or that it does not exist.

Monday, June 1, 2020

P-38M Lightning, Airfix

Night fighters were a specialization that existed until the eighties, it is an exciting story, from open-cabin biplane fighters with no instruments other than the pilot's eyes, to specialized gadgets with the best technology of their time.


The P-38M was the night fighter version of the Lightning, with two crew members in piggyback, the radar operator sat in that tiny cabin behind the pilot, to operate the radar that was on a pod in the nose of the aircraft.

The model is the Airfix P-38F, modified to represent an M, with a thermoformed cabin and radar left over from a Revell model. The painting is old Marino, almost everything by brush, the only decal is the one on the Boom.