Over the course of the last year I have inducted my fiance,her nephew and my two nieces and nephew into the ranks of armor builders!That’s five new geeks to support our hobby.Can anyone top that?Also,my brother’s wife has a bun in the oven.I’ve got a paintbrush and a kit in the stash for that kid too!
you have me beat so far just my son and my nephew but hey at least that is two more modellers 
That’s great! If just one member converts someone over and they convert someone over, and so on…we will one day rule the world! [}:)]
Sadly, I have a son that part-time models. The rest of the time it’s video games and computers.
Between the three of us,that’s eight converts.Not a bad start.In all seriousness,ALL the guys I grew up with built models.My brother is six years younger than me and NONE of the guys he grew up with were model geeks including my brother.What happened there?
Both my boys are building in small increments - my 9 year old an F-111E in 1/48, and my 6 year old an Iraqi Type 69 in 1/35. My little guy has confided in me that “I like building tanks best Daddy” so another Chinese Type 59 awaits in the stash (Chinese Armour is dirt cheap over here, heavily discounted due to lack of sales I guess). We should be finished in time for Xmas.
wow! that’s harsh!
I’ve converted me, myself, and I.
Hey, I enjoy playing with him and his x-box, so it’s not all bad. He goes in spurts with his building, much like his old man. [:-,] However, if it weren’t for me, he’d never had even looked at a model. [V]
Wow … three more![#wstupid]
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Sorry… I thought the point was to take out new modelers to bring down the ranks, decrease the demand and lower the prices.
I guess I should apologize to the 3 younger dudes that I whupped Saturday at the show in San Antonio. My bad.
Let’s see now, in the past 9 months I’ve
- discovered modeling for myself [:)][:)][:)]
- lured my 13 year old into the hobby
- lured my 10 year old into the hobby
- got one guy at work to take an interest in it (in my eagerness to entice him, I gave him my Shep Paine modeling book, a Tamiya Stuart kit, and some basic tools). He seems quite interested, but has not started building. I need to find a way to push him over the edge…so to speak.
- another guy has joined the company recently. Cool thing is that he is freshly out of the US armed forces…where he was a tank commander. He thinks modeling looks too difficult, but I’m trying to convince him otherwise. He recently finished a Sherman (the real deal) restoration project while stationed in Germany.
I recently got my boss at work into armour ! he is now a serial buyer of Universal carriers ( Bren carriers ) and Churchill tanks ! and he’s not to bad at painting and finishing.
Pete
I gave my nephew a couple of kits (M1036 HMMWV and M113A1) and gave the neighbor’s son a HMMWV and M1A2 Abrams as well. I’ve sent a couple of kits to a youngster on Armorama (6 pdr anti-tank gun, Heller H-35) too.
My daughter’s won awards with her armor kits, a couple of Jeeps among them.
I built A******T ( the things with wings [:O]) for many years and converted myself to armor . I have two grown sons and neither of them build models . They like what i build but just dont have the desire for building models.[:(]
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Nobody but I thought that I should reply as the two muppets I work with have convinced me to build a wodden boat. The three of us on our floor all are experienced model makers with years of local and european competition behind us, but I’m the only one who has never build a boat. Where do the indy tracks go on a wodden boat, do dragon do one in plastic. Will I complete it, will I swap it for a return ticket on the Titanic, this version of my future is not sure.