Mturpin013 - It's not only on this site but across all really. I first got into the hobby about 7 years ago and all the forums I frequented were busy with builds and other posts.
Since then, apart from during Covid, there has been a steady decline. On Mahem during Covid for my main area of interest, namely Faireys, there was quite a number of builds being undertaken but soon after and now there are none. Ok, Mahem on Facebook has one now and then but they are not conducive to build blogs due to their fragmented nature. Facebook forums are Ok for showing your model or obtaining an answer to a question but not for reference.
As has been mentioned before the reduction in forum activity and model building has been due to members dying and not being replaced but forum activity has also been affected by all the aforementioned Facebook groups.
For my part my model building has been affected by my mother suffering a stroke and dying 12 months ago and also by one of my sons buying a flat and me spending a large part of the last 9 months working on it - still a bit to do but he's moving in this weekend. As said, family come first.
As per my recent Build Blog all my builds so far have been Faireys and they are detailed on the Model Boats Magazine forum but my intention is to post my 2 new Fairey builds and my modified Stiletto/Rapier water-jet project on here as well as completing my on going Fairey builds.
Chris
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