I have a question, how did you guys all get into the modeling world? what made you guys start modeling with armor. ill start
I was 11 a few years ago when I started building theose 99 cent models i go tat the 99 cent store with elmers glue. I liked it so much, that i really wanted to try the big stuff. With a passion for aviation, i final went to Savon and bought a blackbird by Revell, and some real glue and paint from testors. I started to accumulate quite a collection of paint, and other aircraft models when just about 1 year and a half ago i decided to go with armor. My first was a Demag D-7 with a flak 38 mounted on the back by Italeri. I liked it so much i just couldnt go back to airplanes, unless they were the free ones that someone really messes up on and gives you. Well here I am at 15 building some pretty advanced models. what is your story?
When I was a kid I started building because my dad built balsa wood airplanes and was a huge history buff. He would take me to Wright Patterson AFB museum and to
Ft. Knox. After seeing the planes and tanks I wanted to build models of the vehicles that I had climbed on. WW2 reenacting as an adult got me back into building models about 11 years ago. Seeing all the uniforms (and buying them for myself) and photographing the vehicles at events put the modeling bug back into me big time.
Its interesting. When I was a teenager, I had a friend who was heavily into model railroading. Whenever I came over he would always be working on his trains and working over his diorama that he had for it. I was very amazed at what he had and wanted to do some sort of modeling myself. I basically started with 1/48th aircrafts and tanks. Later my same friend suggested that I might like the 1/35th scale instead. My first tank was an Sherman (which was as basic as hell) [(-D][yuck][V] LOL but then the rest is history. Now I cant stop building. As I said in a couple of other posts soon after getting started with serious modeling, my first diorama was a battle scene of Waterloo. Then after that all I built were tanks. I stopped for a while because my wallet needed a break from the hobby. Now with in the last two years or so I picked it back up again. Right now Im slowly getting interested in artillary (we’ll see how far that goes, LOL) and then it will be back to tanks again. [:D][:D]
I was about 8 when I first saw Tora Tora Tora and that got me interested in military history. I started out on planes and ships and then graduated to armor with the old 1/32 Monogram kits. Took the obligatory on and off period and back into the hobby when I joined the forums. My passion for the hobby burns just as strong as when I started.
3 years ago this coming july, Me and my cousins wer spending time at my grandma’s house for a couple of weeks. We do this every year, the year before we painted army guys, and so the next year we went higher. My cousin bought a model at the Hobby store so I decided to too. I got Italeri’s 1/72 m4 Sherman, loved it. I found model building so fun that I built the model in 2 days and then I had to go back to the hobby store for another, this time- this time and aircraft. It was horrible. Italrei 1/72 AC-47 gunship, made me sick when I learned that this kit was OOP.
So for awhile I continued to by aircraft, until about march the next year, built Tamiya 251/1 and havent built and aircraft since. [^]
(although I kinda have been wanting to build a Stuka[:O] Must resist!)
My grandmother used to babysit me over night occasionally when I was 8 or 9. She lived near a mall that had a small drugstore that sold kits. My mom would leave me $5 to get something to do, whether it be a model or those Prestomagic thingies. Well, I bought a Monogram B-25 (that’s a plane!) and I was hooked. My first tank was about a year later- it was a Tiger…I am thinking it was 1/48th scale
My dad got me started with balsa wood planes, then the old Cox PT-19 Trainer with an .049 engine in it. You’d start it and hold on the tether and start turning in circles until it ran out of gas! Dizzy! The next you know I was building plastic models. A model of the USS Hornet with a motor inside the hull. It ran on batteries. Then a Nike missle battery by Hawk? Not sure. And the rest is history! Thanks Dad!!!
Well as I was growing up, I had two uncles who served in Europe in WWII. One was a tail gunner on a B.17G and he survived after being shot down and finishing the war as a P.O.W. My other uncle was a co-pilot on a B.24 who survived 25 missions and perished in a crash in Scotland on the way home after hostilities ended in Europe.I was always mesmerized by history, espescially WWII. Our little town had a D&C store that had a back wall full of kits so I started at about 7 building my uncles types. I was bit by the bug and though I didn’t build for awhile for different reasons I’ve always loved the hobby. This forum has really rejuvinated my passion to do what I love. I know it’s alittle off topic but here’s a link to the memorial of the crash site of my uncle’s plane. If you click on the plaque thumbnail his name is second down from the left. Jack H. Spencer http://www.threeshoes.co.uk/liberator/lib_grave_main.html
Well, I first started out a long long way back when those tamiya racing cars were a hit over at where i’m at. That time, I was only 10. From then on, I started to change to scale vehicles, 1/700 battleships, then 1/35 amour.
My aunt who turned 84 last Tuesday bought me a model for my 7th? birthday. It was Wiley Post’s Winnie Mae. Don’t remember the scale or mfg (this was 35+ years ago), but I do remember thinking “what does “fuselage” mean?” Well, that was the beginning, the hopefully is far far down the road.
[:D] when i was 9or 10 i went to a friends house ,his brother was into cars and trucks ,so i started to hang around more often ,by watching him i lerned how i build kits.[:D]
Hehe, haven’t seen one of these threads in a few weeks [:p]
Well, it’s a weird way to be influenced, but when I was a kid, I watched Top Gun, and fell in love with military aircraft. However, being a young kid in former Yugoslavia, I didn’t even know what plastic model kits were. When we came to Canada, a family friend gave me a Revell model of the Space Shuttle. Once I found out these things existed, I discovered a hobby shop close to my residential area, and went on a slew of Revell / Monogram 1/48 aircraft kits, the first, of course, being the F-14. I always saw the armor models on display, but since I did not have an airbrush, I never thought to build one myself. Then about two years ago, I decided to give it a try, first with an Academy 1/48 Merkava to get a feel for things, then with an Academy M-60, all painted from a rattle can. I had rediscovered the joy of model building, which I find is much more involved when building armor than aircraft. I was hooked. [:)]
was 3 years ago, when i was playing in the USSSA Baseball World Series, we had just beat everyone in pool-play, so we drew 2 byes in a row…had 4 days off.
My family took me to meijers to try to find something to do, and i bought a Revell F-15E Strike Eagle…and a bottle of glue.
Put the whole thing together in 1 day (no paint of course) and i’ve been hooked ever since.
After 3 years…I still haven’t bought myself an airbrush, i just can’t push myself to spend that much money on something like that when my models look the way they do just using a regular brush.
I started when my parents bought an old Aurora kit called The Wurst. It was a 1/32 scale old fashioned fire truck that had been retooled into a beach type hot dog vending truck. My dad built that for me and he also built the old Monogram M48A2 for me. My first kits that I built were the Aurora Phantom of the Opera, Saber-toothed Tiger and my first tank was the MBT-70.
My dad was building kits ever since I can remember. Mostly tractor-trailers, but he had a Skyraider that I was floored by, and a couple of stock Cameros that he kitbashed/scratched to look just like the 1/4 mile dirt track racers he worked on for his boss. I was hooked then, started with a P-40 and a Spitfire, then dabbled with a little of everything, took the usual break from it during my teen years, then dabbled in college again with airplanes and really started seriously to give me something to do in the barracks instead of spending all my money on booze and women. Now, I’m trying to get my son involved, I’m thinking with Gundams first, since he’s into that kind of stuff (at 8).
A buddy got me started ages ago when we were in high school…I think it would have been '88 or '89. Progressed badly for a couple years, then gave it up when I started college in '91. Got back into it briefly in '96 and gave that up after about a year. The current evolution of modeling for me started last December ('03 actually) when my wife started working nights at a new job. It progressed quickly from being a “hobby” to an “obsession”. [:D] It gave me something to do from the time I got home at 5pm to the time she got home at midnight (about 5 hours a night, after eating and talking to my cat). She switched to days last July, but I still model about 2 hours a night; she has her hobbies and I have mine. [:D]
Since that fateful day that I walked into the LHS in December 2003, I have completed 39 kits (10 of those for other people): 10 fixed-wing aircraft, 4 rotary-wing aircraft, 8 cars/trucks, 10 AFV, and 5 mechs (Gundams).
I picked it up when I was about 7 or 8. My brother and I would occasionally get kits as gifts, and that would be that. Being the day when Lincoln Logs and Legos were about all we had to build with, the old snap-tite Monogram B-25s and P-51s were what we needed to bomb and strafe our plastic soldiers (that everyone had a huge collection of, used to love the old airfix box sets).
I moved into armor when I was a teen. Gave it up for a while and picked it back up after I got married, it was something to do to keep me out of trouble. I quit then got back into it after a two year break.
I probably would have stay quit, or at least not be as motivated if this forum wasn’t here.
Well thats an easy question,I was 6 at the time.My Dad bought me a model of the Red Baron Fokker,help and show me how to put it together.He bought some paint for but forgot the brush.So in the morning I woke up before my parents did and painted it all red just like the box showed.There is one thing about this,I used my Moms finger nail polish brush and boy was my butt sore for a few days but it was worth it.Thats how I got started and have enjoyed ever since.The year was 1967,Digger
My Father being a WWll Veteran, and a career Air Force NCO, my interest of course began with aircraft I can’t remember when I started building models, but I would be at the PX each weekend to see what kit I could by with my allowance.I used to hang them from the ceiling…I thought that was so cool. After Dad retired from the Air Force and we moved to Oklahoma, I started building cars…cars…and more cars. My cousin got me started on that. I quit the hobby for several years, but when I started again it was WWll wheeled and tracked vehicles. Now I’m in the dark side and loving it.[(-D][(-D]