high im andrew im fourteen and have been modeling for three years
oh and im from mt. airy north carolina yeah the same place as the andy griffith show
Welcome Andrew. This is a great place to learn, laugh and generally waste time you should be spending on building models!
how lo0ng have you been modeling i cant constantly be working on a kit to the lack of funds in the piggy bank
Andrew, it’s best you assume that everyone here is old and reasonably well off, in fact, think retired, eccentric millionaire, heavy on eccentric. Check out the thread about buying a $229 model.
Most of us have had an off-again, on-again relationship with modeling. It’s an addiction, a lot cheaper than boating, maybe about as expensive as adult bicycling. We’ll drift away for a while, usually because other interests (AKA life) ate whatever spare time had previously been available, the world turns, then the urge to sniff styrene comes back.
I build my first model, a Monogram AT-6 Texan, back in 1955. (Scary, ain’t it?) I see eBay has one for $26; I doubt it cost my father more than $2 plus 5-cents for the glue. Not to scare you, but when you’re my age (man, do I hate that phrase!), I suspect that the glue might cost $25.
What are your resources? By which I mean, from where are you obtaining your kits, paints, tools, and other supplies? Do you have a local hobby shop (you’ll find that abbreviated as LHS in most posts involving sources.)? Art supply store? (That is, something other than your LHS than sells paint.) Hardware store? (Believe it or not, back in the late 50s, long before Big Box Stores crushed the life out of small hardware stores and five & dimes in the 80s, you could buy kits there. I bought many at my local Rexall pharmacy; for the day they had a reasonable selection.) Use the Internet, the Yellow Pages, and anything else you can lay hand to, to help locate what’s locally available. Then there’s the Internet itself… but that’s a topic best left for another time.
[snWcm] to the forum.
Ron
Hello Andrew… welcome aboard. Feel free to ask questions… there is a wealth of information / assistance among the forum folks.
All the best…
Bill
Hey Andrew, welcome aboard. If you have been building models for 3 years you are well on your way to being hooked for life. TomZ2 is right, most of us drift in and out but you really never get it out of your system. I started a kit just this week after about a 6 year layoff for various reasons but when I went somewhere that there was kits I looked EVERY time.
Modeling is way cheaper than golf but not as much fun as girls. Wait… sometimes way more fun than girls as well.
Slim
Best place to buy kits is at a hobby show or model contest.
At a certain point us old guys realize we have not enough time left on this planet to complete all the kits we have been hording over the years. So we rent a table at a show and sell everything cheep!
Take cash, I bet my last stashed kit you can get 5 or more really good kits for 20$.
Also complete each build, so many get into one kit, box it and start another.[^o)]
Howdy and welcome, good to see some youg people who like to model. Magoo
Welcome, Andrew. I’m diggin your picture. Beatles are still one of the best bands ever and, in my opinion, that’s one of their best albums.