Who Is Into Scale Modelling?

[duff beer]

Yes, but did you get up to 800+ kits?

 

 

sorry doc, not that close . i started when i was in 4th yr. high school. i was stop when i enter in college, totally stop. i only return in scale modelling when i already have a family. like u said, my wife also supported my hobby.

[Dr_PepPeR]

A boat?

 

 

 

What scale is that? Looks big!

sorry doc, not that close . i started when i was in 4th yr. high school. i was stop when i enter in college, totally stop. i only return in scale modelling when i already have a family. like u said, my wife also supported my hobby.

 

You're lucky then. My wife says my hobby is actually collecting unbuilt kits.

Edited November 2, 2006 by Dr_PepPeR

[Leibstandarte]

Wow Doc! 800+ kits, that is really a big collection!

 

I envy you, your wife supports you with your hobby, mine thinks that modelling is a waste of time. Even my sister refers to my models as "Puzzle Toys"! hehehe, spoil sports. Also, you seem to have a diversified collection. I dont know but I cant seem to leave the WW2 1/35 stuff. Oh, once had a 1/48 Mi HIND by Revell or Monogram (cant remember) and my cousin threw it out the window thought it could fly! Poor Hind! :cry:

 

Hey Phorzhen.Khold, that is a pretty Yamato you have there. Is that 1/350 scale? I like the way the wooden deck ids replicated. Nice touch! :cool:

 

Hey duffbeer, are you into 1/35 armour also? It seems you too got into the buying thing but never really got a chance to build! Sometimes I waste too much time looking a the kit's box art and endless browsing of the manual! poor me!

 

regards to you all!

[duff beer]

What scale is that? Looks big!

You're lucky then. My wife says my hobby is actually collecting unbuilt kits.

 

 

yeah!, she said if i'm planning to put up a store . the ship maybe bigger than 1/350 scale.

[duff beer]

Wow Doc! 800+ kits, that is really a big collection!

 

I envy you, your wife supports you with your hobby, mine thinks that modelling is a waste of time. Even my sister refers to my models as "Puzzle Toys"! hehehe, spoil sports. Also, you seem to have a diversified collection. I dont know but I cant seem to leave the WW2 1/35 stuff. Oh, once had a 1/48 Mi HIND by Revell or Monogram (cant remember) and my cousin threw it out the window thought it could fly! Poor Hind! :cry:

 

Hey Phorzhen.Khold, that is a pretty Yamato you have there. Is that 1/350 scale? I like the way the wooden deck ids replicated. Nice touch! :cool:

 

Hey duffbeer, are you into 1/35 armour also? It seems you too got into the buying thing but never really got a chance to build! Sometimes I waste too much time looking a the kit's box art and endless browsing of the manual! poor me!

 

regards to you all!

 

 

hello Leibstandarte, yeah i'm into 1/35 armour, mostly my stash are armor, but i have also some gundam, cars, plane, heli.

[Dr_PepPeR]

I checked dannychoo's website out and this is the kind of modeling I want to try my hands on:

 

http://www.dannychoo.com/images/photo/4970.jpg

[taxi508]

Well, my wife supports my hobby enthusiastically nowadays. It keeps me at home most of the time. Like many others I started to build at around 8 years old and then stopped sometime in high school when other interests beckoned. I only started to really seriously go back to the hobby in 1997. So my stash is the result of 10 years of buying more than I could actually build. I just can't seem to give any of my kits away, it's like parting with children. I'm sick, really sick.

 

Sabi sa iyo Doc, AMS iyan.

 

Since a lot of you guys have told your history, allow me to state mine. My Dad bought me my first kit, 1/72 P40 Warhawk by Monogram, way back in 1967 and made it for me. I also recall my mom building a Huey Cobra and this Multi-jetengine tanker(both Aurora) around that time too, so I must have started into the hobby at about 4yrs of age. I was into building them, no paints til most of my elementary schooling. Funds limited me to using elmers glue and watercolor so that I could build and rebuild them. I was partial to airplanes, especially since a teacher of mine, Mr. Joe Abando had brought us to BASA Airbase where I first saw our retired F-5's and touched our aging Sabres. But my Lola got me an SU-100 by MRC-Tamiya in 1977 thus starting me with my armour phase which ended when I graduated HS in 1981. With girls and cars as my major pre-occupation in college, I must have made an avarage of only one kit a year until I graduated from Law School. As a graduation present, I purchased a 1/6 Scale Porsche 911 Turbo (National Bookstore Quad) and thus got my priorities straight. This was further strengthened when I parted ways with my wife, I thus found myself buying kits almost every week. I was then appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board (Deputy Exec Dir) so being around planes made me an airhead once more.

 

Tama ka Doc, my real hobby now, according to apparent priority is (1) collecting tools related to scale modelling, (2) collecting paints - acrylic, lacquer, enamel, pastel chalks, even nail polish, (3) collecting partially built kits, (4) collecting unbuilt kits. All of these are under the general mbrella of bitchin' about never finishing anything, yet buying just the same.

 

And that's why, I resolved that, during this holiday period, I must at least make an attempt to build something. Buti na lang at nakapag-paint ako ng Alclad sa SR-71 variant ko, same with my Starfighter, Tomcat, and Eagle. Hmmm, though none of them are really near completion at least that's something. Maybe tonight I'll look into my stash of Fokker Dr. Is, 1/72 1/48 or 1/28 scale. I just love going to the office in my barong tagalog with hands tinted with paint.

 

All this is mental.

[Boelcke]

Doc,

 

The Bradley you see in the pics is actually in 1/72 scale.

 

 

Taxi,

 

Thats the spirit! Get back into the groove! I just had the same sudden motivation last night when I got back into the jet fighter currently gathering dust on my workbench. Didnt go to bed till 2am.

 

Suggestion ko post progress pics of your project here, so we can all discuss it and maybe we can help one another finish our works.

[Leibstandarte]

I checked dannychoo's website out and this is the kind of modeling I want to try my hands on:

 

http://www.dannychoo.com/images/photo/4970.jpg

 

You guys should check outthe models being sold at Miniature Park (www.miniature-park.com), they sell a line called Atelier It. Figures are 1/16, 1/6, 1/5 and 1/4. The models looks so lifelike! They even have models for sale that have been painted by the sculptor (Mr. Hiroki Hyashi) himself. Prices go as high up to 75,000 YEN!

 

check out the models! akala mo tutoong tao. Cool!

 

HAD TO REMOVE ONE OF THE PICS AS IT WAS A BIT BIG AND WAS DISTORTING PAGE DIMENSIONS.

 

PLEASE RESIZE AND REPOST. THANK YOU.

Edited November 7, 2006 by Wyld

[Dr_PepPeR]

Sabi sa iyo Doc, AMS iyan.

 

Since a lot of you guys have told your history, allow me to state mine. My Dad bought me my first kit, 1/72 P40 Warhawk by Monogram, way back in 1967 and made it for me. I also recall my mom building a Huey Cobra and this Multi-jetengine tanker(both Aurora) around that time too, so I must have started into the hobby at about 4yrs of age. I was into building them, no paints til most of my elementary schooling. Funds limited me to using elmers glue and watercolor so that I could build and rebuild them. I was partial to airplanes, especially since a teacher of mine, Mr. Joe Abando had brought us to BASA Airbase where I first saw our retired F-5's and touched our aging Sabres. But my Lola got me an SU-100 by MRC-Tamiya in 1977 thus starting me with my armour phase which ended when I graduated HS in 1981. With girls and cars as my major pre-occupation in college, I must have made an avarage of only one kit a year until I graduated from Law School. As a graduation present, I purchased a 1/6 Scale Porsche 911 Turbo (National Bookstore Quad) and thus got my priorities straight. This was further strengthened when I parted ways with my wife, I thus found myself buying kits almost every week. I was then appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board (Deputy Exec Dir) so being around planes made me an airhead once more.

 

Tama ka Doc, my real hobby now, according to apparent priority is (1) collecting tools related to scale modelling, (2) collecting paints - acrylic, lacquer, enamel, pastel chalks, even nail polish, (3) collecting partially built kits, (4) collecting unbuilt kits. All of these are under the general mbrella of bitchin' about never finishing anything, yet buying just the same.

 

And that's why, I resolved that, during this holiday period, I must at least make an attempt to build something. Buti na lang at nakapag-paint ako ng Alclad sa SR-71 variant ko, same with my Starfighter, Tomcat, and Eagle. Hmmm, though none of them are really near completion at least that's something. Maybe tonight I'll look into my stash of Fokker Dr. Is, 1/72 1/48 or 1/28 scale. I just love going to the office in my barong tagalog with hands tinted with paint.

 

All this is mental.

 

Yes of course. Pretty clear case of AMS. Strange how the stories are mostly alike, starting with the hobby at a young age, putting it aside when girls are discovered and then going back to it when you have the funds to splurge on it. I remember using Duco cement as a kid. When I was assembling a 1/48th plane, the instructions said to put some weight on the nose so it wouldn't be a tail sitter. Of course, I glued a rock inside the nose cone with a generous dollop of Duco cement (the more the merrier right?). The next day I found that the nose on the tabletop, looking as if it had gone limp, thanks to all the Duco cement.

[Leibstandarte]

whoa Taxi! you are one lucky dude, at least you are able to do some modelling!

 

seems a lot of you guys have the AMS. With the PE detail sets in armour I seem to find it too fidly to handle. you would need to solder it or heat and roll it to replicate the detail you want. dont want to invest in PE forming tools though. hope the plastic manufacturers would exploit the better plastic injection techniques so we could have more/better pronounced detail even in styrene form.

 

doc, your story reminded me when I was building my Tiger I and Panther. since Tamiya used to supply the vinyl (rubberband) tracks, I couldnt get the tracks to achieve a "natural sag". I tought, why not put glue on top of the road wheels where it touches the tracks and put a weight on top of the track to make it sag! I used rocks for that. hehe, for a high school kid selling models to his classmates pwede na! some of my friends said "uy okay, parang yung naka dispaly sa National Bookstore sa Quad!" hearing that made me smile, but deep inside I felt napakarami ko pang bigas na kakainin!

 

back in high school i was able to sell a King Tiger, a couple of Tiger Is and Panther (tamiya) and build and assemble an Italeri Marder III. those were the days, wala pa airbrush, pa gaangan lang ng hawak sa Tamiya spray can!

[Dr_PepPeR]

Doc,

 

The Bradley you see in the pics is actually in 1/72 scale.

Taxi,

 

Thats the spirit! Get back into the groove! I just had the same sudden motivation last night when I got back into the jet fighter currently gathering dust on my workbench. Didnt go to bed till 2am.

 

Suggestion ko post progress pics of your project here, so we can all discuss it and maybe we can help one another finish our works.

 

OMFG! 1/72 yan??? Kala ko talaga 1/35. Galing ng detailing. Master!!!

 

 

You guys should check outthe models being sold at Miniature Park (www.miniature-park.com), they sell a line called Atelier It. Figures are 1/16, 1/6, 1/5 and 1/4. The models looks so lifelike! They even have models for sale that have been painted by the sculptor (Mr. Hiroki Hyashi) himself. Prices go as high up to 75,000 YEN!

 

check out the models! akala mo tutoong tao. Cool!

 

Thanks! This is what I was looking for. I wonder if any are available locally. I need a break from olive drab paint.

[driftingman]

hello guys....

 

my problem seems to be the same as what some of you have described. it was something that my dad and I did when I was little. main interest was the jet fighters.

 

then of course life got busy.

 

couple of years ago - I decided to get back into my hobby. went in and bought a number of kits. but never got around to assembling them.

 

don't also want to give them away. and too busy to work on them. am wondering if someone can do it for me. I know that this is not how it supposed to be. but better than those kits going to waste.

 

any guns for hire?

[Dr_PepPeR]

whoa Taxi! you are one lucky dude, at least you are able to do some modelling!

 

seems a lot of you guys have the AMS. With the PE detail sets in armour I seem to find it too fidly to handle. you would need to solder it or heat and roll it to replicate the detail you want. dont want to invest in PE forming tools though. hope the plastic manufacturers would exploit the better plastic injection techniques so we could have more/better pronounced detail even in styrene form.

 

doc, your story reminded me when I was building my Tiger I and Panther. since Tamiya used to supply the vinyl (rubberband) tracks, I couldnt get the tracks to achieve a "natural sag". I tought, why not put glue on top of the road wheels where it touches the tracks and put a weight on top of the track to make it sag! I used rocks for that. hehe, for a high school kid selling models to his classmates pwede na! some of my friends said "uy okay, parang yung naka dispaly sa National Bookstore sa Quad!" hearing that made me smile, but deep inside I felt napakarami ko pang bigas na kakainin!

 

back in high school i was able to sell a King Tiger, a couple of Tiger Is and Panther (tamiya) and build and assemble an Italeri Marder III. those were the days, wala pa airbrush, pa gaangan lang ng hawak sa Tamiya spray can!

 

Ditto for the photoetch. One time I ordered an Aber photoetch set for my Italeri Puma. Footah! It has hinges and locks for the compartments. And the hinges are workable. But damned if I know where to hire the elves to bend and glue those things for me. It even came with a chain to be assembled. Off it went to the 'stash' to be completed when my eyesight gives out entirely.

 

Man, you were thinking of sagging the tracks way back then? I was happy just trying to heat the vinyl pins properly. A lot of my neighbors asked me to assemble their kits for them. I never thought of asking for a fee since I was too happy building. Ah the memories......

[Dr_PepPeR]

hello guys....

 

my problem seems to be the same as what some of you have described. it was something that my dad and I did when I was little. main interest was the jet fighters.

 

then of course life got busy.

 

couple of years ago - I decided to get back into my hobby. went in and bought a number of kits. but never got around to assembling them.

 

don't also want to give them away. and too busy to work on them. am wondering if someone can do it for me. I know that this is not how it supposed to be. but better than those kits going to waste.

 

any guns for hire?

 

Hahaha. You're tempting me... I could do it for as long as you can give me the paint... what kind of kits are they and what scale? I hope its not a 1/144 Goshawk.