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Learning to build
No, not your usual "how do i do this" topic...
I have an opportunity to take the last month of high school off and do whatever proect suits my fancy, because I guess my school's administrators figured out that by May, no senior actually cares about high school anymore. So after the AP tests, we're encouraged to do something we'd enjoy, usually something we'd learn from. People make films, learn to fly or cook, shadow professionals at work, learn arts, etc. I have to figure out what I'm going to do soon so I can register the project with the school.
I'd like to learn how to build models, beacuse I look at some of the work good model-builders can make and it really excites me. I love cars and I love custom cars and making models seems like a way to make exactly the car I want in miniature. So I want to learn to do it.
Do you think I could, given a month of time and a reasonable financial investment? I don't really want to spend more than a few hundred dollars but I realize that the "entrance fees" may be pretty high and model kits aren't necessarily cheap. I also realize that by the end of the month most students have slowly but surely stopped working on their projects for sheer laziness, but I'd like to give modeling a shot. The last time I tried to build a model from a kit, it turned out terrible, but I was using a paint brush, super glue, and my bare hands. Given a little more effort and concentration, I think I could get some decent skills by the end of the month, but I have no experience.
Any opinions? Thanks in advance.
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