[:D]The thread about your least favorite part was interesting. Let’s take it from the other end. The part I like most is putting fuselage halves together and you see the cockpit and other interior places like this little window into another dimension and the model begins to look like more than a pile of parts.
I have to agree with you there Paul.
I agree with you on that one as well.
I also enjoy some of the research/planning…though it has to be something of high interest for me to really enjoy that part
For me it’s the build … once I’ve gotten the entire kit together I start to stuggle with it a bit. See other thread !!!
That’s easy…airbrushing! [:D]
Does that come as a surprise? [;)]
Mike
painting!!!
The adding of the wings and tail to the fuselage. It then starts to look like an aircraft.
Scratchbuilding little bits, for me. I get the most satisfaction when I improve or replace a mediocre detail. I also like the fitting and assembly of the kit parts.[;)]
I was really surprised to see decaling on the “least favorite” string. Painting and decaling are my fave’s. I do alot of hand painting. I just have a coarse airbrush - haven’t gotten into the fine detailing type of airbrushing yet - hmmmm maybe Santa can help me there.
My favorite is when you start puting down washes, that’s where the model really comes to life.
Watching the ink or thinned out paint creeping off the fine brush and into all the little nooks and crannies of landing gears and tailpipes is truly an experience to be savoured.
I feel the same about dry brushing. Watching the knobs and switches in the cockpit start to jump off the consoles with the application of a bit of lighter paint is quite something to witness.
Those subtle finishing techniques are what seperates a simply completed model from a truly finished one.
The assembly.
Moving on to the next one!
Getting down that base coat of paint to hide all the sanding and glue etc. Then it starts to come to life.
“It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”-R.E.Lee
Sitting back and admiring the completed model.
My favorite part is after all the subassemblies are painted and put togther to complete the kit; The rust streaks, the periscope lenses, the worn to metal and bare rubber tracks, the weather and mud… Then I know it is truly finished (until i find a decent 1/35 AM accessories kit to add on, that is… :))
I enjoy doing all of the subassemblies, and watching them come together into the finished project.
Lee
It’s the researching that I may like best. Just building up expectations, you know…! Once I get started, it’s the detailing, except if I build a diorama, when I have a great time in making the model an simple accessory to the story my diorama tells…
Decals. Sure they can be frustrating, but it’s when a plane begins to look something like the painting on the front of the box [:)]
Figuring out how to build a needed piece for replacement or superdetailing (without using PE). The recuperator tube on my Italeri 105mm howitzer is awful, so I need to replace it. Figured out how to do it using styrene and brass tubing.
Gip Winecoff
I LOVE making a big mistake, then finding out that actually, it looks better than before!! [D)]
Oh, and then, along with styrene above, finally being able to figure out that “problem” that has been plagued me for days, weeks, years. Heh, my wife likes that too…cuz then I finally stop being obsessed with it.
Here’s how it goes:
wife “honey, do you want some maple syrup on your french toast?”
me “do you think I could make a gear shift housing out of a piece of linen?”
wife “what???”
me “yeah ya know, do you think it would look real?”
wife “I don’t know, why don’t you just eat.”
me “hmmmm I’m just trying to figure out how to do that.”
wife “sigh”
me honey, I’m getting kinda hungry…is there anything to eat?"
[wife throws french toast in lap]
Guilty as charged [:p]
-jonathan