Why did you start modeling

I was wondering why everyone here builds models, because im sure there are going to be a ton of responses, do not say that one persons reason for modeling is stupid or whatever, even if it is...

I got into modeling because i was looking for something with more detail and i wanted to push the limits and hopefully expand my skills in fabrication. I also love the feeling of finishing one, knowing that is unique and special in its own way. I started off with 1/43 scale modifiers, and i did those for quite some time. I bought my first one because i thought it looked cool, and it would be fun to mess around with and changing out the engine, interior, and body parts it comes with, but then i got bored and started making my own parts and then move onto alterthe body and whatnot, then i just transfered these ideas and skills over to models, and here i am today. Hw about you guys? I am really looking foward to see what you guys have to say :sunglasse

i started becasue when i was about 7 i saw these little 1/35 scale model guns, i was different then, and thought they were cool. i spent hours playing with them and wiht toy cars. wow i have changed (but sometimes i sercretly want to play with toy cars....)

I was six years old and got an astronaut with a Mercury capsule as a christmas gift from my grand father. At the time being my father did some modeling to and starting with planes and armour I altered to civilian vehicles of all sorts. Today I build almost anything that seems exciting enough but still I build most civilian stuff.....and yes I give almost all my project a dry run to try to figure out how the subjects looks like in action and no I don't make engine noices At least not out loud :lol2: The coming christmas I've been into modeling for 35 years and still I'm trying to learn how to make a decent kit and develope my skill further. I LOVE this hobby.

Niclas

to be honest
at first i tot modeling sucks cause it consume time. but now i think that modeling is great cause it can polish my skills. i am new here though...don't shoot me around :D

I had a period of about a year or so building model planes when I was eight. After some disasterous results I gave up. But 23 years later, after buying christmas presents for my nephew last year I stumbled across n Airfix Focus going at half price. As it contained paints glue and a brush I thought I'd have a go "for a laugh". I was instantly hooked and haven't looked back.

My passion grew once I found this site. I've learned so much from all the peeps here. Man, when I built that half-price focus, I brush painted the body!!!! I didn't know any different :(

I has always loved motorcycles and when I four years ago found out there was bike models I had to try one. Did a Taira Racing Yamaha R1 and got hooked, found a model forum and from there it has just grown.
/Joel

I started out because i had always been facinated with cars....ever since i helped (as much as a 5 year old car) my dad re-build his 1964 mini. The about 7 or so i got a tamiya cooper S kit. So dad gave me a had and built that, diverted off to warhammer for a while until i received a tamiya S13 as a christmas gift...been hooked again ever since....
But i never seem to finish a project...or get around to posting one up. Go figure.
Cheers, Troy

i build to have the cars i cannot afford.
its also a good way to relax and waste time

My dad used to build models when he was in highschool, and kept a couple around even when I showed up on the scene. One year when I was a kid I got terribly sick and came home from Boy Scout summer camp and there was a 1:48 P-38 waiting for me. I built planes for a while, getting slightly better, then moved to model railroading where I couldn't afford anything, then dabbled in car modeling and got fairly serious at it. After AF, well, my skills and ambition grew exponentially and now I actually consider myself a modeler, but I've got a long way to go yet. That's why I continue, too, because there is always that next kit which I can do better than the last, the challenges never cease.

im just like astro ill never own a toyota powered bmw or a JDM spec 1g-gte powered cresta so il here to build them!

My mom made me.

I started building LEGO's when I was about 3 or 4, then started to want more detail in my creations and built my first model with my Dads help at the ripe age of 6. It was a Testors metal body Corevette (EDIT: Apparently back then I didnt know how to spell Corvette either). From there I have built more and more models.

Now I build because I have ideas that need to be transferred into a design. "If its in your head, and its not on paper or a model its not a design...its and idea."

Like many here, a father with a motoring interrest planted the seed; at age 6-7-8 i remember my dad and i built a few AMT models. I scan still remember the `37 Chevy with the see-through hood, i thought that was amazing. A see-tru hood :eek2: !!
Those models my dad sprayed and built, and i looked on, but at my early teens,other interrest took it´s place.
And about when i turned 20, the polystyrene-virus struck again :uhoh: .. This time it was chronic !

I now hade the patience,skill(??) to make cars that i would like to have in 1:1 or make some creative,whacky idea. My dad was real into cars and aeroplanes and he made R/C models `cause he could not take a certificate(medical reason). I build cars because it lets me try out ideas that are too crazy for real life ( -Hm, how would a `29 pickup with a midengine layout, and F1 front suspension look like..) or simply because i want that car, but $$ is in the favour of 1:24-25..

I liked buying 1:18 diecast cars, and never looked at the plastic model cars. Then one day I decided I would give it a try, and bought a Revell Saleen Speedster. After building that, I realized that I didn't have a scale model of my favorite car, the Supra. So I ordered the Tamiya Tom's Castrol Supra online, and built that. Even up to this point, I hade no intention of making this a hobby. Then my friend bought me the Tamiya Minolta Toyota, which I built. And then he bought me the Fujimi Toyota Supra, which I built. I found this forum while building those last two models, and seeing other people's works inspired me, so here I am with too many kits for my own good.

Hey,

I've always seen automobiles as an artform. And modelling really shows that. I used to draw cars alot, but that wasn't enough. Legos were involved along the line, but they didn't cut it. Then I was in the mall and say a frickin GTS Viper kit. It was the prototype version with the side exhaust. I brush painted the body and didn't even paint anything else.:-/ lol...O well..It was so much fun tho. I wanted to make cars I can't have in real life. And even cars I can have. I just love autos as art. Models are also art. So there.

Frank X.

i started in millatary models, 1/35th dioramas in particualr, i loved the vehicles in particular the hummer. then one summer a few years ago i visited a model shop in the small town of berwick and saw a kit of a car i loved - ferrari enzo, i made the kit the same day then went back the next day, bout an airbrush and an evo and never stopped makin them since

I have alway really been into cars and as a kid I fooled around with (and broke :nono: ) models my older brother had built. But I could never figure out how the models on the box looked so nice and shiny but mine didn't. When I was little I even tried wiping vaseline on a model car to try to replicate the shiny paint. :lol:

Later when I grew up I bought a general lee kit just for fun and put my and my roommate's name on the doors, race-car style. That experience re-ignited the building fire and I have been hooked ever since.

I began to look around and discoverd that there were so many different kits of modern american and import cars available now, not just the muscle cars we built as kids (although I still like muscle cars, too). It is such a difference having this forum, as now I can look up or ask all the questions I couldn't find the answer to as a kid.

P.S. I have now found out how to make my models shiny. This does not require vaseline!!

Don't know.
My dad did some modeling when I was young (maybe 8 years old) I did some modeling, probably to do like my dad. I stoped at maybe 14 years old and restarted at 20. It been 4 years and I never loved this hobby more than today.

My uncle is the one that influence me to build models. He builds a lot of models and any type (cars, planes, ships, bikes, etc) and I look forward each time my parents wants to go to his house because then I can look his models displayed in a big shelf. He's the biggest influence that sparks my interest to build models.

My mum used to be an art teacher and decided I should be doing something with my hands when I was about 4 years old. Well that was 32 years ago...

I got into model building years ago, when I was still a teenager. I’ve always had a thirst for building, and I was also a fairly decent artist. I found a love of drawing cars from photos I got from car dealers, but this wasn’t enough, I needed to see the car in a more “real” form. So I too turned to Lego bricks, this didn’t satisfy the love of cars, as the lego models looked nothing like real cars. Model building is an art form and can produce with skill a great work of art that looks like the real thing and displays someones true creative style, and I love to paint and so I do have a creative side, some used to say I was born a paintbrush. Art can express your creative side so well, and my love for cars, my love for paint and paint brushes and my love for building its so easy to see why I love model cars. It's like all three of the things in life I love so much in one package.

I brought my first Tamiya Kit (my first model car) from a toyshop with my pocket money at the tender age of 13, and brushed the whole thing, it was quite horrific really. Glue on the windscreen, brush marks etc. But I homed my skills and become pretty decent. I loved to glue, paint etc these little miniature works of art, however I also found it consumed a lot of time, money and effort. Money was short, time was also equally as short, so I abandoned model building (for a VERY long time) in pursuit of a well paid career. This meant long hours of study, working extra hours to pay for college fees etc.. No time for model building.

I nearly returned to the hobby a few years ago, as my flare for wanting to do 3D art was still in me, I don’t think it ever goes away. A personal tragedy saw me loosing ALL the models I had ever built around 12 months ago, including all my artwork etc. I was upset to loose all my creative work from so many years ago I could never really replace any of them. So in December 2004 I decided to rebuild my collection but not only rebuild them, but really make them look special using airbrushes, spray paints etc, and I have promised I will not stop building until I’ve at least got some of my collection back. 40 models..!! 3 done, 37 to go..!!

its was sometime in 1988 or 1989, when I was 5. and havent stopped since then. my first kit was a 1/32 Monogram Bronco my parents bought me at Wal-Mart

well i started because it looked to be a fun hobby .............but turned into an ubcession :biggrin: jk

I would say it was my dad that got me started.

Got started by walkinh though town one day and saw a kit made up in the LHS shop window. Had a look at it and thought..."I can do that".
Been a endless money-drain ever since!

started this hobby, because i like the fact that i can customize each and every kit that comes my way. unlike collecting diecast, though i still do in occasion.