I really like building plamo, and this is a place for me to dump all my pictures of my cool little robots.
To get a bit more into the 'why' of it, I really needed a hobby unrelated to my practice. Just about everything I do creatively can (and will!!!) be incorporated into the work I do and live for. Games are shambling multi-media aberrations, spliced and grafted using everything I've done ever. It consumes creative output with a BIG hunger.
To me, or rather -the way- I engage with plamo and gunpla, isn't creative. I construct the kit as nicely and tidily as possible, going through processes like panel-lining, cutting, filing, and stickering with empty-minded focus. There's rarely a decision for me to make, and I don't think I'd like that in the first place. It is nice to do things mechanically sometimes, overthinking leads to exhaustion and this is a way for me to busy my hands while taking a rest in the mind.
When it comes to the art, movies, series, games, and books these dolls are based on I find them deeply romantic. The relation between man and machine is made so intensely literal it's almost comedic, but that doesn't take away from the complexities that come with that (especially when paired with warfare ethics and identity). Subgenres like mechsploitation do interest me greatly in a creative sense (the short story 'I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter' caught my attention intensely), and the themes often discussed do overlap with those I aim to convey myself, but that's where it ends.
If anything I can call it an inspirational ritual, where I can zone out and stop thinking so much just for a little while.
The difficult part is not feeling guilty for taking this time, but thats another beast.