Nobody likes SPAM. Well, we can't speak for the stuff in a can, but we do know that nobody likes e-mail SPAM. We want you all to know that we do not intentionally SPAM you--we think SPAM is annoying too. That being said, if you feel you're getting SPAMed by us, we apologize, it's not something we control manually, it's something YOU control.

If you consider getting e-mail alerts about activity on your Hobzob account SPAM, you just need to change the settings on your account. Hobzob functions just like Facebook; when you sign up, you are automatically registered to recieve e-mail alerts and just like on Facebook, you have to unsubscribe from these alerts if you don't want them. Some people like them if they don't always have time to get to Hobzob so they can still see what's going on. Others, prefer to not get alerts and just see what's new when they actually get to the site. It doesn't bother us one way or the other which you prefer, but we do care if you feel that you're getting SPAMed by us. To stop receiving e-mail alerts, all you have to do is:

1. Click "edit account" in the gray box under your profile picture on your workbench.

2. Scroll down until you see the zip code box. Under the zip code box are two smaller boxes that have check marks in them.

3. Read those options by those boxes and choose weather or not you want them to apply to you. If you don't want to receive e-mail alerts about activity on your Hobzob account, simply uncheck the first box--it's that easy. The second box you can uncheck will unsubscribe you from our weekly newsletters.

4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click "update/save changes."

If you choose to stop receiving e-mail alerts, it should solve your "SPAM" problem. If at any time you change your mind, you can always begin to receive e-mail alerts again by re-checking those boxes.

As far as messages that you receive in your in-box on Hobzob from groups you belong to, we cannot control those messages (unless they're coming from one of our groups, but we make sure we don't send them often). We just thought we'd pass along those helpful tips so nobody feels like they're getting SPAMed by anyone on the site because that's definitely not our intention. If you still feel like you're getting SPAMed please contact us to help you resolve the issue.

Thanks to all our members, we love having you here and we want to make sure Hobzob is a pleasant place for you to spend your time!

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Sorry for our absence last week, things were a little crazy!

You think you know the whole to this picture? Post the link in the comments section and we'll be the judge of that!

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Hey Hobzobbers!

Starting off, we'd like to congratulate Bear on winning February's challenge contest. He'll receive a free one year subscription to Hi-Torque's R/C Car Magazine courtesy of...well, R/C Car Magazine!

March's contest is really fun and easy, it's called "Comment and Win." We've posted three different pictures in an album on the Official Hobzob Contest Group (http://contests.hobzob.com) page. All you have to do is write the caption for one or all of the pictures in the comment section. There will be one winner for each caption/picture.

What do you win you ask? A $30 Visa gift card sponsored by Woodland Scenics, Bob Smith Industries or Southern Hobby Supply.

You have until March 21 to write your comments (as many as you like for each one, but as separate comments). The winner will be announced on March 29.

Some of the pictures we found on Hobzob, others we found on Google, hope you enjoy them, they made us smile!

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Think you know the whole to this picture? Post the link to the comments section and we'll be the judge of that!

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Post the link to the picture if you think you know!

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Post a link to the whole photo if you think you know. Maybe we were a little trickier this time.

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Since returning to the modeling hobby 7 years ago, I've thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn't expect to be doing any other hobby. A goal for myself, I set some 3 years ago has finally been achieved. I got published. Not because I asked to be, but because I was approached by the art director and editor of the IPMS Journal to do a 3-4000 article on the '50 Chevy pickup I'd built and posted in-progress pictures of on the IPMS forum. I submitted the article, along with all of the necessary pictures and how-to's that I used in the creation of the build, plus gave creidt to a couple people that assisted me along the journey. The kicker is that my build made the cover! Never in a million years have I ever thought I would have a build featured on the cover of a magazine of any type. Much less the IPMS Journal. I'm grinning from ear-ear and my supportive wife is more geeked than I am about it. I haven't received my copy yet, but it's posted on the IPMS site. It's really great to be recognized for something you truly enjoy doing. My IPMS chapter president wants to do a press release after he gets his copy to help bring more attention to the club and hobby locally.

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I appreciate all the comments I received about finding the motivation to work on your model. I haven't had the time or the ability to search through other people's work for inspiration (as suggested), due to my laptop battery completely biting the dust, so my computer doesn't last very long these days, but I'm hoping those pictures will give me the motivation to get some work done on my own model.

I'm also left wondering: with what time do you get to work on your models? I find that even though I have my evenings free, I often end up running a million errands or am just flat out too tired to work on anything that requires any amount of accuracy. So when do you work on your models? Do you usually hammer out a build in a few weeks, or is one model a longer process than I expected it to be?

I always appreciate and enjoy the feedback, thanks for reading!

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So you think you know the whole picture? Post the link to the whole photo in the comments section and we'll be the judge of that!

Also, let us know if you'd like to see these more often (Monday and Wednesday?) and if we're going to easy on you all...

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So it seems I've hit a little motivation road-bump. I finally got all my prep work done, but now I'm having trouble convincing myself to actually start working on the model. I'm not sure why, maybe it's just the winter doldrums that've got me down. I get home from work in the evenings and I see the box with the model packed neatly inside on my bedroom floor, just waiting to be assembled, but I can't bring myself to do it. I try to convince myself that I'll work on it over the weekends when my brain isn't so tired, but that almost never happens--I'm always so busy trying to catch up with friends and family that I can't break away from them for a couple of hours to get some good building time in.

I wonder if model building is for me if I can't find the motivation to even start building the model, let alone doing all the other little detail stuff they require. I will keep trying though. My goal is to get the big stuff put together in the next week, maybe not the whole thing, but at least part of it!

Where does your motivation come from?

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