How did you get into this hobby and how did you learn?

[Hawk312]

I saw an `82 or `83 Trans Am kit on the shelf at a toy store. At that time, it was a new release. I really loved that body style, and always watched Knight Rider. I built that kit without painting anything, and finished it in a few hours. From then on, I would save my allowance (i was in first or second grade at the time) and try buy a model every weekend with it. I just never stopped building for some reason. I learned mostly through trial and error for a while, then around `94 I picked up "Scale Auto Enthusiast" and my models improved dramatically.

[Bas Carwash]

I was 6 when I started. I got a 1/24 Hasegawa Toyota Celica GT Four (old type, not with 4 round headlights) for Sinterklaas. That's some sort of Santa in Holland Just glued it together. No paint and decals, but hey, I liked it, and I still do

[EMAXX]

I remember my first kit. I loved that thing. It was a snap-tight Dodge truck. Then I just really got into it, and I learn things as I build.

[2.2 Straight six]

built model trucks like italeri kits and spent a year on one kit that is a combination of about 5 different kits just ask it you want pics. only 15 love modelling and spend all my money on it you just learn through trial and error only found AF about 2 months ago

[weaponCIVIC]

actually i hated plastic models, i was like " why the hell would i buy a cheap plastic model and build it myself when i can buy a metal one already built?" lol i was foolish, my friend actually got me into it when i was 12 or 13...when he showed me how cool it was cause you can customize them.

soon his models looked like crap compared to mine.
i thought me and him were the only ones who customized model cars until i found www.lowriderbike.com then this website just blew my mind at how many people actually do this.

[tmathew]

Like many people I was always into 1:1 cars and had built a bunch of non painted sloppily glued-together muscle cars in the 1990s. I always wondered how the cars on the box were so shiny!

Anyways several years later I bought a Dukes of Hazard General Lee and put my and my roommates names on the doorsills as a joke. Everyone thought it was funny and I had so much fun that I investigated car models more deeply. I started off on a yahoo groups model page and then stumbled onto this site.

I must say, I have learned more on this site than all the books and magazines I ever bought. Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge. I'm now addicted!

[weaponjoe]

my dad used to love building scale funny cars and hot rods, and I got into it because of him.

my first model was an F15 fighter jet, that fell apart because I used crappy glue.


just got back into it after I discovered the half built Revell 1/25th scale Shelby Series 1 in my closet in my old room in Hawaii.