What got you into modeling??

[modelcarmaster16]

wel what got you into modeling guys??? for me i was just searching for this crx pixs on yahoo ....then i pressed the link and it went to AF..i saw those kool models you guys make..so that brought me into modeling.

[Deejay360]

Got hooked on from my bro
I think this has happened here is the link
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...hreadid=101873

[supratuner]

hahahhaaha boredom, and an AMT camaro i saw that my brother left half unbuilt so it used scotch tape and put it together.

after that i just started liking cars and the cars i liked were the carss i built

[bah humbug]

I heard someone in school talking about car models.

I was curious, and looked what happened.

Next time I hear someone over talking I'll just leave it to them.

[(_S200_)]

i started out modeling airplanes with my dad when i was little and have been making model airplanes and armor for awile then i bought a S2000 model afew months ago and i was hooked...just finished a 911 GT3

[Purpura Delujo]

My dad got me into models, but I got helicopter models. A hind and an Apache. But I've always loved cars, my first car ride was in a done up split screen Kombi I was only 5 hours old or something. So being a revhead from young age I got into the car kits, giving all my respect to old cars I find nearly no interest in building new car models. They just don't have the styling or class that an old car does.

[freakmech]

ive always been one of those people that have to know how things work. when i got a new toy i would rip it apart and put it back together (not as easy as ripping it apart though). anything i got.... clock radio, stereo, bike, any thing i could find to take apart i would but putting it back together was the best, though, rarely successful. so as a kid (and poor really) my mom would go to hobby stores for craft stuff or K-Mart for clothes or whatever and when i saw all those pieces of a model kit it was much cooler then a Matchbox car... can i build this? so thats where it came from i guess... now im going to a racing mechanic and driving school and models are a learning tool. but ultimately i have to know how things work and modellling is the best way to find out. not to mention cars are what i think about most. in america they reprsent so much in peoples lives and there obsessed with them as neccessity and i like to see what makes people tick so when is see a new car i ussually cant take it apart but through modelling i can put it back together!

[cyclone1410]

I was in it (making model cars) as a kid but came back to it as a mature ?? adult on the recommendation of my doctor. She reckoned that it was a great way to relieve stress and reduce blood pressure.

There is another activity that has a similar effect but my wife is not as accommodating as I would like!!

[chipanggo]

it was right after college, and i bummed out for a couple of months before i started working. it was at this time when i was vegetating that a friend of mine talked me into car modelling. been hooked ever since.

[primera man]

I got interested because i thought it was cool to be able to build cars that i'd know i would never probably own.

[Guido]

As I kid, I lived near a military airfield - they closed it down 7 years ago - and seeing all those jets all days, I tought it was cool to build them as plastic models, so I started at the age of 10 making Airfix and Matchbox kits. Then I went to the military school - to become airforce pilot (yeah right ) and got more and more interested in cars. Especially Honda at that time, but it was not before I finished my training there, 4 years later on, that I got back into modelling and started doing cars. Mercedes only came into play 7 years ago, at the time they started supplying McLaren with engines.

So there you go, the whole story

ps. never became a fighter pilot though

[simdel1]

well i did a couple of box stock kits quite some years ago...but i simply did them because i love cars. a few months ago i was browsing the internet from school looking for decent die-cast models of the ferrari enzo...one of my searches took me to p'mans enzo on this site...from that moment i was hooked. i now have the tamiya enzo sitting on my shelf, and i am in the middle of doing a lotus 7.

oh and there should be warning on this site about how expensive it is once you join

[Harlock]

My dad also more or less got me into modeling. He has a wall in our basement filled with model cars, and I always thought that it would be cool to build some of my own. So I am into anime and bought a gundam kit and built it and since them I have been hooked. I have built 8 gundam kits, 1 mitsubishi zero, a japanese war ship, and, finally, the tamiya bmw 320i racing. And know I am working on tamiya's audi quattro. I love this site and visit every day. You guys all give me really great ideas, thanks.

[Hawk312]

I started it to get girls.

Seriously though, I think it was the show Knight Rider that got me started. I loved the car in that, and I saw kits being made of the `82 Trans Am so I decided to try. My first kit was $5.29 at a toy store, the going rate for a model kit back then. Ever since then, I`ve been building cars that like that I know I will never have in full scale.

[exhaust smoke]

Again, my Dad was the on who started this all off. As usual the main theme was planes (Airfix). It was literally out-of-the-box build with not paint or preparation, just stuck together.

A very long hiatus insued then I got into cars and paid a visit to the local model shop. I saw the Tamiya kits, and was impressed by the quality of the box art, but they were too expensive. I started with an AMT ERTL Dodge Viper instead. It was cheaper and had full engine detail. I've still got it somewhere in the loft. As soon as I could afford a Tamiya kit, I did not turn back. As they say about first impressions and stuff.