I guess it’s been about six years that I’ve been back at it. Used to build as a kid, a little of everything, then the usual distractions came along, still managed to build a couple kits in college, then joined up with the Rod & Gun Club I’m in now and dabbled with some car kits, just didn’t have the money as the family started to grow to really keep in it. Then over the last 5-6 years I’ve really gotten going again. Built up my stash and started trying new techniques and AM parts.
Oh, it’s been about 10 years, maybe a little less. THere were periods in there where I didn’t build much, but my first was that long ago. I started with a 1/48 Revellogram F-14.
Built my first kit in 1973. Been in and out of the hobbie for years, the last three years I split my time between this and r/c flying.
Thad
Been messing with it since I was 7 or 8, along with model rockets and R/C planes. Joined the Air Force in '89, got married in '91, started having kids in '92, divorced in '98, finally could afford to get back into it last year! Now it is my only hobby!
I started building models around 1970, but I’d have to say I’ve been “seriously” building since about 1995. Didn’t get an airbrush until 1999! Not that you need an airbrush to “seriously” model, of course…
I started when i was a kid, stopped when i was a teenager to chase girls then was on and off for a while,injured my back about 10 years ago and while iwas off work i started again and ive been plodding along since [8-]
I built my first kit, with the help of my step-father, sometime in the late 70’s. Continued building through High School till I graduated in '91. After that none of my apartments had any good modeling space until after I was married in '99. Started building a little bit then on the kitchen table. Bought a house in 2002 and set up a proper bench and have been going ever since. Long, strange trip.
We all started as beginners some time! Nothing wrong with that.
I started in 1969 with my first plane, but I didn’t really get going until 1971. Took a small year-and-a-half break in 1983-1985 when I first moved out of the house, and that was my only break. So, I’d say I’ve been continuously building for 32 years or so without any break, except the one mentioned above.
I only took that break because it was before Internet, I didn’t know about mail order, and was living in a small town that didn’t have a hobby shop for that year-and-a-half.
You silly man, you… [;)]
Fade to Black…
Haha. I agree with J-hulk. It just so happens however, that the time I started seriously modelling coincides exactly with the time I got an airbrush.
I started at about 10 (1974), while living with my mum. I built tanks, planes, ships, all without paint but the decals looked OK. This lasted till 1976 when I started work/college and discovered girls and beer. I recall the day thay my bedroom turned from a workshop into a bachelor pad with, custom paint job, stereo, TV etc. All of my models were sent to the bin.
I started back a couple of years ago,16 years married, 2 good sons with no major problems, when I built a large shed/workshop in the garden and I needed something to do instead of watching TV, lounging about and going out with the lads for pool/darts nights and risking a drink driving charge every morning.
My wife thinks I am boring, but I enjoy what I do and it doesn`t harm anything. Now I buy kits on impulse and build anything that looks interesting.
Almost 40 years, and I still don’t have it down yet. Anyone know where I can get a clue?
Gip Winecoff
That’s how I think of it too. However, it took a quatum leap when I started weathering.
Oh about 2 months now.
I’ve been at it for 25-26 years. My first model was one of the Monogram 1/32 scale Snap-Tite big rigs, I think around '78/79. Then built trucks for a few more years when high school and other things forced me to cut back for a few years. When the Gulf War broke out, I started building aircraft, mostly USN and USAF, and I’ve been at it steady ever since.
Always a great thread…makes you realize how long some us ‘old timers’ have been hacking away at styrene!! As for the rookies, well, you couldn’t have picked a better time to get into the hobby. With the quality of the new kits on the market today, you guys have it EASY compared to the old days of Frog, Airfix, and Matchbox (back me up here fellas).
As for me…I build my first kit in 1972 or so…a Revell Missouri…floated it in the pond and sank it. My poor dad was forced to drive to the LHS to get another one, which I sank a few days later in the same pond…
Unlike many of us, I never stopped building for school or other reasons…even in college I had a toolbox in my dorm and would build on those night when I couldn’t afford to be out partying. You can just imagine some of the uses my college buddies thought up for an airbrush and compressor that had NOTHING to do with paint…
Jeff
Jeff
Jeff, you are right there is so much choice today compared to when i started we had airfix,revell and sometimes the little japanese kits with the little tube of glue in it
ahhh takes me back
Ok someone needs to tally a these numbers up and give us the collective years in the hobby [:D] Oh yeah started at seven and never gave it up so 29 years. Man it just occurred to me how much money that equates too[:O] Oh no…I buy even more plastic when I’m depressed. Its an endless cycle… PLEASE NO ONE INTERVENE![8-]
…a multitude of years
got the bug back in the mid to late 60’s…and became anal retentive about it all in the mid to late 80’s…
and really begain worshipping the modelling Gods in the mid 90’s and haven’t looked back since…