My pre-baby prepa­ra­tions have involved many things: sup­port­ing Kelly, money stuff, insur­ance stuff, scour­ing the house for things we are going to place out of reach, etc. The thing that is tak­ing up the most time, how­ever, is hobby stuff. I’ve been try­ing to quickly learn some of the most time-intensive stuff while I can still get extra sleep. This month, I decided to get seri­ous about my Gundam mod­el­ing since my robot army has grown past the point where I’m sat­is­fied with just putting them together. I’ve been learn­ing how to plan cus­tom col­or­ing, pre­pare the model, air­brush col­ors and clear-coats, and use real paint for panel lines. It has taken lots of online research, try­ing to under­stand videos that aren’t in English, and some very messy mis­takes but I think I’m get­ting the hang of the whole process. I will post my progress when I fin­ish my first cus­tom paint job.