Burnout and You - Badgunpla

Everyone gets a little burnt out sometimes. Here’s how I help people deal with it. Thanks for watching.
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[@dmr2044]

I just suffered a 4 month burnout while halfway through making the mg Avalanche exia. I completed it two weeks ago. I started in December after Christmas. I gotta say that during said burnout, I felt a lot more stressed. Yet whenever I built a bit of the kit, it sparked again for a little. This was my first burnout and will probably not be my last. But I know that continuing building but at a slower pace helps both relieve a bit of stress and help get rid of the burnout. (Thanks for reading this far if you did) I just now realized that this was less a burnout and more a prolonged break.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

my secret is that i can't get burnt out if i can't afford any of the kits

[@YBPaladin]

Fam, I’ll send u some of my backlog lmao

[@JomasterTheSecond]

@@YBPaladin don't expect them back

[@vienlacrose]

Yes you can. Try generating ideas for customs that require out of print base kits in order to even be aesthetically coherent whilst also saving for school. Or hell, try being a fan of an unpopular series.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

that's why I said *I* can't get burnt out, not that *you* can't get burnt out everyone's different as we know

[@МатвейСтрыгин-т5п]

haha *weeps*

[@Gumi_wuewuewue]

I had a 2 year burnout once. Lol i just cant get myself to build stuff. I tried to force my self to build something in that 2 years and lol, just getting the box out of the storage made my motivation to build it totally disappear. Now im back at the hobby and honestly, there is no way to really avoid this. There will come a time that you will get those occasional burnouts. But you can overcome that. I watched a youtuber named miniac. He is a miniature hobbyist. And in a particular video he said that "to avoid getting burned out, dont always give your best at the hobby" he means that, dont just put your entire motivation or heart and soul on a kit that your building. Put something like 80% of your motivation to work and dont over work something. Something like "im gonna build the torso on this day, then the next day i will build the arms" 7 months in and i dont feel a single hint of burning out. Try it, it might help u guys :3 keep on building!

[@ceeme03]

Hi BG It's that guy who wrote about finishing 70+ kits due too being housebound and depressed :) I actually had burnt out (naturally) I'd been building and painting solidly for 2 years. I spent 2 months of not doing anything and I replaced it with exercise! Daily walking, being in nature, while thinking about what I wanted from my hobby and other aspects of my life. Returning to the hobby after reassessing what I wanted from the hobby. I wanted an expressive outlet with something to show from it. And I went back to building and decided that simply building, detailing and painting small details was my current limit. So after coming back I found the love again and decided that I wanted to learn about airbrushing and I did and its added a while new appreciation of the hobby and has added even more "stress" lol but the good kind you get from all sorts of newly opened door. But it also taught me how to plan my builds better and to take my time and mind my approach. It actually helped me grow as a builder and a person. So your video is incredibly true from a personal aspect and I'm glad you've addressed this because I know other will have had the issue. Sorry for the long msg. Keep up the good work dude :)

[@ariffapa9528]

Been sort of in the same rut, my Sinanju stein ver Ka has been on my backlog for a year. But coming back thinking of trying new techniques and picking up painting also gave me that spark to push myself again. Hopefully it'll therapeutically help bleed into making a positive improvement on my own personal life.

[@ceeme03]

@@ariffapa9528 Its great to hear you've comeback with a new perspective, I hope it helps you come back from a break like it did me. Honestly, I think it was just what I needed. The activity of learning a new skills has also been really rewarding and if you chose to I hope it has the same effect for you. I finished my first fully painted build last night and enjoyed doing it so much. If you wanna check it out -www.reddit.com/r/Gunpla/comments/bt0p9n/hgac_leo_desert_type_custom_first_time/?

[@TracksuitChic]

a) yep, know that burnout feeling, I say, a year into my first RG sitting on the bench b) I watched this video and now I keep getting ASMR mental health recs, which is definitely a thing I never expected this channel to lead to

[@Advanced_Hazel]

I would actually love to hear your thoughts on the design language of IBO and how those designs might fare in an MG format. IBO got me interested in Gundam in general and by extension modeling as a hobby so I have a soft spot for it. Very nice video my man, keep it up.

[@Keitaro13]

It's been a while since I last checked on your videos even though they keep poping up in my homepage, it's been a tough season for me in a lot of ways and yeah... can't say I am as enthusiastic for gunpla or neither Im building as much as when I last commented on one of your videos, but watching this one helped me realize that feeling like that is normal... Thanks again for your content man it was something I needed to hear.

[@gomine5971]

I’d love to hear you talk about MG design.

[@MrRe-pg7fj]

SurgeTheReploid I THIRD THIS.

[@dreadpooled]

Man, this is the 12-minute-long video from Bad Gunpla I never thought I needed so Badly. Thank you so much.

[@TheHrod87]

This hits home so hard for me :(

[@KiwiOuiOui22]

I had burnout once. I took like a month long break from building a kit. Watching KZbin gave me the inspiration to go on. I finished the kit a couple weeks ago. Nice video though. I usually try building one part like a head, arm, or leg everyday when I have a kit. I still somewhat suck at building kits.

[@s3d17]

Another tip for not getting burn out is to never accept comission builds. Build Gunpla for yourself at your own pace, people can buy your prebuilt kits when you don't want them any more 👍

[@zachthedes4321]

Finally someone makes a video about this issue.

[@morgansableye2489]

When I'm burned out I usually just wait for someone to slap me so I can finish the Gundam.

[@zeonicdude3514]

You need a Bright 'The Hand Giveth' Noah of you're own.

[@zaynkor2670]

I legit just got over burnout. I took a few months to catch up on some TV shows and video games, and now I'm ready to get back into Gunpla. Can't wait for my MG Nu Gundam and MG Dynames to show up.

[@ezrauniversal7239]

Yo I'm just a new subscriber, but I appreciate this Channel. Thanks for always making a very motivating videos for all gunpla builders out there.

[@angem.6717]

Great vid! And yeah taking a break is a good option, I had a point where I had too many kits to build but I decided to take my time and build only when I wanted to, I had a strike rouge that stayed untouched for months and when I saw it built after looking at the sealed box for weeks and weeks it felt so good!

[@J4Y-DC3]

Building is my escape from having anxiety, so I haven't had this burnout feeling and will most probably not ever feel it since I've been a fan of Gundam for more than 15 years.

[@Neobelmont1]

For me it's school and work combined! All study stressed me out. Luckly, I am done tomorrow. So I can catch up and flow again.

[@tresdinaznable]

Been through a burnout or two, Always come back to the hobby. But it kinda reminds me of my relationship with dota 2 played that game for 5 something years. every now and then I put it down and come back once a few patchs hit. But for Gunpla it was getting kits that I always wanted or very complex kits. Used to get kits every week, now it's more like every few months. I think it also helps if you become more picky over kits. Guy's it's okay to put things down figure stuff out and come back to something!

[@trentv4162]

"Depression or worse" a little voice in my head went "HEY THAT'S ME"...

[@Jacqthepossposs]

this video may be about gunpla, but it emotionally helps me think about my illustration work. thanks for that. ^^

[@roastpork5437]

"Can stop buying and building -> no more room... buys 4th PG unicorn* For me, nobody needs to care because I care and that's good enough.

[@MisterSiza78]

Burnout is good, because without burnout there's hardly going to be any space to display them all.

[@jacobiannava]

I needed to hear this for reasons other than my gunpla hobby. Thank you

[@siramik3813]

I legitimately needed this vid, thanks Jason.

[@Ohmygodiamonfire]

I think one thing that helps with burnout, just in my case at least, is to try and seek out new modeling experiences. Like, for the longest time I was just building HGUC stuff, and I ended up being bored and burned out at the general building processes being pretty standardized and such. So I switched up and started building Kotobukiya kits and ended up LOVING building kits again. And then when I returned to HG kits, it was back with the IBO stuff, and with how radically different that stuff was compared what I was used to back in the day. Point of the matter is, if you're in a burnout phase, try expanding to stuff that you don't usually do I guess.

[@jasongarcia9529]

06:47 I knew it!! lol!! If im burnout I take the damn break!! hahaha

[@zachthedes4321]

Damn you kind of sound like Amuro Ray my guy, how you do that? 🤔

[@MechaPriest86]

Breaks are important, its a hobby not a job. If you are enjoying it, take a time until you feel like coming back.

[@NekoNinja13]

I have Gunpla burnout for a couple of reasons. The biggest one is that ones it's done, its it's done. Unlike with build fighters after I finish a kit, and preferably either customize it and or pretty it up, I cant then take it to the local non-existent game center and battle other like minded hobbyists in intense life-like high-speed casual duels with my personal precious gunplas. So it's a little underwhelming after I build my newest child and have no way to play with them or show them off. The second reason is that Bandai is the sole legal maker of gunpla, and most other mecha series have alot less kits and or are from more exclusive and expensive brands like kotobukiya (not that I particularly mind since other brands can sometimes have better kits than Bandai's, so it's a tradeoff). So I am stuck with whatever they decide deserves a kit or not, whether or not they gave it a good mechanical design that functions better than the hg unicorn, whether they decide to make it an easily available retail kit or a limited stock p-bandai or other exclusivity kit, and also whether or not they allow the parts to be easily used amongst many other kits or if they strangely decide that certain kits need to use specific connectors and ports. The third reason is my lack skill. I dont want to flex, especially because I dont have much to flex with, but I can make a decent gunpla most of the time, and I also have tools to paint with. However I definitely lack the skills, know-how, and specialized tools to make the kits of my dreams. For example I want to make a gunpla version of Blitzgreymon from Digimon. I have an idea to use the G-Self Perfect Pack version as the base kit since the Perfect Pack functions in a roughly analogous way to the way Blitzgreymon's Electric Verniers work. But even just a glance at Blitzgreymon's design and you'll see that I'll need to either scratch build ALOT of parts, or sacrifice ALOT of gunpla to get roughly analogous parts from them (by the way if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them, and if you decide to take on this crazy challenge yourself I'd love to see what you can come up with!). And the fourth reason is the more minor one, I'm lazy. My room is far from organized because once I set something down it often just sits around for a long time, because I often get dragged into my other hobbies, find interest in another things (currently into yu-gi-oh for example), or simply wish to take the easier path and lay down while playing a videogame. But as I said this reason is a minor one and is easily outweighed by any of the other ones. Burnout in anything can be difficult to handle, this is a good video, and it helps to reiterate thus stuff into my head. P.s. I recently finished my own 1/100 Babatos Lupus strangely enough. It's a good kit!

[@thesteellegionnaire4570]

Yeah, I feel this. I’ve been slacking on my RE:100 Jagd Doga for a few weeks now.

[@Bluelyre]

I've had mine up to frame built for months, because i can't be bothered to figure out a good color scheme for it.

[@fishpop]

I've yet to experience burnout but it will probably happen sooner or later. Usually i'm able to complete a kit the same day it arrives. (Mainly cos i collect HGs) Only exception was the Ver Ka Nu as that was my 3rd ever kit and i needed to go to bed so he had no pelvis, legs, backpack or weapons overnight. He was finished the morning after, give-or-take. There have been at least two others iirc: the Ver Ka Sazabi, understandably as that boi be MASSIVE, and... i can't remember the other one... if there even WAS one... I've been collecting since very late 2014 so my collection is fairly sizeable by now. I have almost 200 kits i think... comprised of both HG & MGs along with all retail RGs (but only from RX-78 to the Tallgeese for now) and the Mega Size Gundam.

[@lostonessoul8435]

I have taken a fairly long break from building gunpla for...I believe four key reasons: 1: I'm too rough with my kit(s): I am not exactly the most..."gentle" person when it comes to kit building. In fact I'm hesitant to even build my first custom out of fear of breaking it(btw my first custom is a Lunagazer custom called the starlight waltz) 2: I'm a noob: I have literally built three kits. Each time I felt I missed something or did something wrong. 3: building a suit I don't know: I know very few suits in the gundam multiverse and most of the kits I get I don't know but their the only ones I can afford. 4: finding the right suit: there are a lot of suits as I previously mentioned. What I'm trying to do is find the right one for me.

[@PsycheTrance65]

i spent almost all of 2018 on a building hiatus because of burnout lol slowly getting back into it by building SD Barbatos Lupus though I just need to get a new batch of white paint because stickers are the devil

[@FoxyFatePresents]

I find this very helpful. THanks!

[@dylanbaur5449]

I seriously needed this. Thank you

[@vali69]

I too am burned out of gundam... not building models cause ive never done that and probably wont do untill i get my own house to live in... but just looking at reviews of gunpla or watching the shows just got boring for me more then a year and a half ago so i just stopped caring about gundam completely untill my intrest came back... thats what i do with each of my "hobbies"... and eventually I'd get back into it... just how now I've started to look at what I've missed out gunpla wise(cause there havent been any shows tbh... build divers seems like ads turned into shows for me)

[@doorbladder5735]

1:11 aged like fine wine.

[@vali69]

Wouldn't be surprised if they released most of the gundam frame mobile suits in mg... apparently they named all the runners of the frame of the mg barbatos just simply "gundam frame", right?... implying they will use those runners in other kits that arent for barbatos... welp we'll see what they are planning...

[@doorbladder5735]

V. N. I believe we’re getting the Flauros next. Now I’m wondering if it’s gonna be the Ryusei Go Flauros or CW Flauros.

[@tonezone117]

I’ve been in burnout for like. A year. And I still have my Gerbera Knight to finish

[@Necroflare]

I came here to laugh not to cry.

[@JohnTheMod1]

I feel like I needed to see this. Thank you.

[@PsycheTrance65]

considering the MG Barbatos was announced recently, is it safe to say that IBO video is never coming out?

[@sburk49]

Great video dude. Thanks for the help. Even if it was from someone who wasn't a Psy. D.

[@RuneTrips]

Relevant video staring at a custom leo I never finished

[@ZappaSlave]

I went by that store a month ago, drowned my losses in Calpico across the parking lot. Let's hang out. Were in the same city. I work near that dead shop.

[@abmanci1]

I am like inverted on this hobby. I only have motivation to build like 2 months every 2 years. Im always waiting for the desire to build to come around though.

[@krylancelo23]

Thank You. I needed to hear this.

[@jmc2830]

is it really "burnout" i can't think of single aspect of gunpla building that is either stressful or requires a huge amount of work. any major projects within gunpla as a hobby are always self imposed because even the most complicated or big kits wont take longer then a day or two to snap build and line. i think it's just that people's interests change. and sometimes it takes something your truly passionate about to bring you back. so the easy answer is just wait. wait until you find something that lights the fire again, or find something else to fill your time.

[@theos17]

3:45 Buh I wish I have a backlog. Too bad that's still a dream

[@johnnymovie7484]

thought I burnt out while building the hguc gabaldy beta, turns out I really just don't like the design of the kit and wasn't looking forward to building it.

[@Pikminer-5087]

I actually want to see that IBO video.

[@SlytherpuffHouse]

I bet deciding not to do that video on why we'd never get a Master Grade IBO kit is feeling like a pretty good decision right now.

[@RicQuintanilla]

Thankyou

[@ZarlLarlack]

That's my secret Jason I'm always burnt out

[@olivermatthews1009]

Your comment, I love it 3000

[@carloRX78K2]

I don't care, ill build gunpla even my money runs out because i love them all, heck i build already 15 MGs and a bunch of HGs and ill buy more and more.

[@johnnyreese1022]

not to be an ass but I really want that IBO video!

[@Reverseslayer217]

So burnout is builders block

[@senteintrootbeer3214]

That's not me I'm just to busy to build

[@jackiehenry3883]

lol we got an ibo mg

[@soggykimchi509]

Cool! New vid!

[@zaiddiaz3811]

Lol they just made a mg barbatos

[@joshthefreakinlegend5455]

I like daddy bg

[@UpDownAndUnder]

*Actually.*

[@mpregmafia]

HA! Foolish builder. I never get burnt out. Because I can only get one kit every two months!

[@whychunter]

I am burnt out on badgunpla-ing

[@d.3465]

Same man, just got on my gunpla high on February and I used to buy kits and build each month