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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Nov 9, 2017 6:07:43 GMT -6
How else will you learn, if you don't try? 
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Post by JCON on Nov 9, 2017 9:19:02 GMT -6
I still remember my glue bombs and they make me laugh...
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Post by BUCKY on Nov 9, 2017 13:45:57 GMT -6
How else will you learn, if you don't try? Baby steps, OZ!! HAHAHA I remember back in the late sixties, I would try to glue every piece in the box on one!! |
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Post by JCON on Nov 9, 2017 14:51:41 GMT -6
Yup, me too at first!!!!  |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Nov 9, 2017 15:26:26 GMT -6
One thing I would say to any potential model builder is.... Don't succumb to the box art alone, understand a little about what you are buying! In the world of Armour, with the possible exception of Tamiya, many even fairly basic vehicles can have a parts count of over 1000, probably too much for a first time modeller with little or no experience under their belt. Start with a simple, modest parts count build and learn from what you are doing, the importance of cleanup, dry fitting first, sparing use of adhesive etc. This way, the kit you initially build while not necessarily being the sort of thing you will in future focus on WILL teach you a lot about the whole modelling experience and with any luck, won't put you off before you properly get started. This is true. Back when I was a kid, my mother helped me build my first model: an Aurora 1/48 scale F-86D Sabre Dog on our kitchen table. With all the small parts on it, she felt it was too much for a kid like me. So, later on she bought me a 1/72 scale model: an old MPC Focke Wulf FW-190D-9 which I built and painted by myself. It was certainly much easier. And because a friend who later moved in taught me about consistency in scale; I have never left 1/72 scale; at least in armor and aircraft. There have been a few notable exceptions; most of them commission builds. I still remember my glue bombs and they make me laugh... I still have almost all my original glue bombs. |
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Post by JCON on Nov 9, 2017 21:11:05 GMT -6
I actually do wish I still had mine...
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Post by BUCKY on Nov 9, 2017 21:14:01 GMT -6
All my early stuff left my possession in the mid eighties.  |
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Post by JCON on Nov 9, 2017 21:15:50 GMT -6
My brothers got into mine and who knows what happened to them...
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