Why are model cars so fun???

[Joe Blyth]

The reason I model is mostly because I love to build/make things, as well as loving cars. I also build airplanes once in awhile, that stems from my love of airplanes and building things. I tend to focus on the process of building the model rather than thinking "it would look really cool if I did so-and-so".

924_CarreraGTS: Where are you going to school? I'm doing ME at Colorado State.

[924_CarreraGTS]

Originally Posted by wanderlust

I'm about halfway through my first model in 16(ish) years: a 2006 Corvette Z06. Having a good time with it, and it's turing out well.

Just a heads up, I hear the hoods on those Revell 'Vettes don't close right because of the radiator, so it needs modified. I have that kit too, but haven't gotten around to it.

Originally Posted by Joe Blyth

924_CarreraGTS: Where are you going to school? I'm doing ME at Colorado State.

George Fox University near Portland, Oregon. It's a small, private school with a good engineering program. Plus it's close to home (I live in Washington)

[zak78]

Originally Posted by gionc

But I think I'm worst: sometime I love something in 1/24 and just ignore the 1/1 stuff.... are we talking of a kind of sickness?

You are not alone!

But man, sometimes I think back to how much I spent on minor upgrades to my 1:1 cars, and how it cost all the money I made at the time . We can have an entire year's worth of hobbying fun for less than the price of a 1:1 cat-back exhaust and a CAI .

I like models because they are my fantasyland. For me, getting the details right usually involves imagining what it's like to be inside the car, and what it was like to experience it wherever it can (or could be) found. I'll have these cool (ok, nerdy) daydreams about zooming through Italian alleys in a Maserti Merak in the 1970s or cruising to the clubs in Munich in the latest AMG ride. There's a fantasy ride for every mood, and I want to somehow build all of them.

I agree with everyone who said that building models is a great escape, too. Even when I can't perfect anything else about my life, there's always plastic.

Plus it's creative, since even the "easiest" model usually presents a number of issues for you to conquer. The end result is always so far from where you started...it's fun to see something cohesive and complete emerge from that jumble of sprue trees.

Nick

[cyberkid]

I started modeling when I stayed in the Uk at the age of 9~10. The school that I went to had a 2 hour period called 'motarny' (I think, can't really remember that long ago)...Anyways, during this period the school had around 50 or so 'clubs' and I chose handi-craft. I think it was the second or third project that was building a military diarama.

At the age of 11 or 12 I got into cars, and hence started building model cars. Building cars gave me a satisfaction that other topics can't really give... the SHINE!!

Originally Posted by zac78

I agree with everyone who said that building models is a great escape, too. Even when I can't perfect anything else about my life, there's always plastic.

Steve

[drunken monkey]

...because it lets people experience a sense of achievement. It also lets some people experience a sense of superioity over others....

Like most things, there are good and bad reasons.

[MPWR]

Hey, don't knock my sense of superiority!

Like they say, everyone needs a hobby....

[klutz_100]

Why do I build models? It must be because I have subconscious masochistic desires.

Thanks to building models, in one go I can satisfy all my needs for stress, angst, frustration, disappointment, inferiority, over spending, public failure and self-inflicted wounds

[MPWR]

Originally Posted by klutz_100

stress, angst, frustration, disappointment, inferiority, over spending, public failure and self-inflicted wounds

Yeah, everyone needs a hobby. But I suppose as long as modeling keeps you off the streets begging people to beat you up, we can consider it a 'healthy release'.

[zak78]

It beats running with scissors.

And for the goth kids, it's a great alternative to cutting oneself

[brady_381need72c10]

Originally Posted by zak78

It beats running with scissors.

And for the goth kids, it's a great alternative to cutting oneself

AMEN!!! we need to grab a few of those "goth kids" and put them in church so they can see the light!(reminds me of one of my cousins!!!)