midlife
Guru
Not a plastic model, but an RC rocket powered glider, I have had one un-built for the past 30 years now, I must get around to it soon.
Takes me back to my Jetex days
Shaun
Calling all model kit fans - she's finally done
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Takes me back to my Jetex days
Shaun
bikingdad90
Guru
I used to love Airfix, Revel, tamiya models and then came along little kids and all my kit dried up.
I cannot wait until the oldest is old enough to start building (another 4 or 5 years yet) with me so I can have an excuse to take over the kitchen table and build his and mine kits. I have my eye on a battle of Britain kit that would look great flying from the garage ceiling, just hope Stockton Modeller keeps going strong.
I also used to dabble in RC stuff but that was even worse then bikes with brushless motors, spectrum controllers and endless tools!
I cannot wait until the oldest is old enough to start building (another 4 or 5 years yet) with me so I can have an excuse to take over the kitchen table and build his and mine kits. I have my eye on a battle of Britain kit that would look great flying from the garage ceiling, just hope Stockton Modeller keeps going strong.
I also used to dabble in RC stuff but that was even worse then bikes with brushless motors, spectrum controllers and endless tools!
arranandy
Legendary Member
I used to make a lot of Tamiya kits back in the day. Mostly the 1/35th scale military vehicles. Used to buy them from Argyle Model Dockyard in Glasgow or mail order from a place in Hemel Hempstead. Many a happy hour was spent getting covered in glue and olive drab paint
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I had two die-cast Space 1999 Eagles as a kid - played with them to death.
Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
- Location
- On the edge of reality
Mrs B bought me a model of Triumph Herald to make whilst I was off work last year with a bike accident. (I used to have one and have another big Triumph in the garage)
Problem I found is where once I was happy dousing petrol from my Dad's lawnmower over a model 'plane and watching it travel all too quickly from my bedroom window, before smashing on my parents rockery, now my OCD is critical of the interior of the model.
Problem I found is where once I was happy dousing petrol from my Dad's lawnmower over a model 'plane and watching it travel all too quickly from my bedroom window, before smashing on my parents rockery, now my OCD is critical of the interior of the model.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I used to do a load of Airfix as a kid, and my lad has done a bit. We've got some very tricky models of Ferrari's - one has been done, but the others are only part done.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Wow !!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
If you want your patience testing, try doing the rigging for the Airfix HMS Victory.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
How the heck have you actually painted that..... looking at the track joints... OMG
Took us ages to do a soft top ferrari.....that looks new.....
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Thanks.
My brother in law and I went to a Plastic modellers exhibition a few years ago. It was most depressing there wasn't a glue finger print cockpit canopy in sight neither were there any seams with glue bulging from them. They were good! It was a bit of an eye opener to see the workmanship that had gone into those models.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I remember the glue finger prints....
My lad didn't like doing the transfers. As an older person, I learnt, only put the transfers you want in the saucer of water, not the whole lot.
Try at mid 40's, putting a Ferrari dash speedo etc in place. It's like 4mm in size and has to be picked up with tweezers. Off went my glasses. So hard. We haven't started the two F1 McLarens when I saw the stickers... OMFG.
My lad didn't like doing the transfers. As an older person, I learnt, only put the transfers you want in the saucer of water, not the whole lot.
Try at mid 40's, putting a Ferrari dash speedo etc in place. It's like 4mm in size and has to be picked up with tweezers. Off went my glasses. So hard. We haven't started the two F1 McLarens when I saw the stickers... OMFG.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
If you use a small airbrush you can achieve pretty good results. It is also economical, paintwise as you only need a small amount of paint . By dusting a light coat of paint on you can replicate dirty weathered effect.
rb58
Enigma
- Location
- Bexley, Kent
A little wipe of dirty thinners on 'chrome' car bumpers, hub caps etc. gives a much more realistic effect.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
When I was 14 I got this
Which built up into this
That wasn't mine but almost identical, I didn't have the wee figures.
I did a doubletake when I passed the museum in Tobermory a few months ago. Taking pride of place in the window was another HMS Bluebell, again identical to mine. Turns out the corvettes used to anchor up in Tobermory between convoys and the whole of Mull was effectively an armed camp.
Which built up into this
That wasn't mine but almost identical, I didn't have the wee figures.
I did a doubletake when I passed the museum in Tobermory a few months ago. Taking pride of place in the window was another HMS Bluebell, again identical to mine. Turns out the corvettes used to anchor up in Tobermory between convoys and the whole of Mull was effectively an armed camp.
