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What are your most and least favorite parts of the hobby? ...discuss...
I am into sailing ship's , but have a very limited knoweledge of their working's , the help I get from the forum member's is just outstanding .from all over the world it come's , love the modeling community .
steve5
Not crazy about bodywork and taping canopies can be a chore..Love to airbrush a cool cammo job with my VL!
My favorite,decaling a big jet,all those colorful decals bring it alive.
Least,painting roadwheels on armor.
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Yes doing a Panzer IV can be a pain!
Most favorite - Airbrushing since I learned how from my friends on the Forum.
Least favorite - Filling seams on models with slightly raised panel lines.
Jim
Main WIP:
On the Bench: Artesania Latina (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II
I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.
The best: Starting a new kit. Seeing it finished. Getting things to work right. Learning new techniques.
The worst: Having things not go right, and not being able to see a solution. Cleaning the airbrush.
I dig the assembly and scratchbuilding parts. Otherwise, I don't much enjoy every other individual aspect. But, it's all just part of what has to be done to get the finished product that I saw in my head, which is the most enjoyable and gratifying part of it all.
"How can you have any pudding, if ya don't eat your meat"?
My best; detail painting the cockpit ,making it come alive with PE and paint.
My worst; scraping and filing all the parts to eliminate mold lines,mis-casting and flash..tedious ,too time consuming and should be unecessary. I gotta buy better kits.
I'm finally retired. Now time I got, money I don't.
I love decaling. On rare wood kits I love carving (or, when scratch building or major modification I carve a lot of wood).
I hate masking, and removing masking tape. Can't get it off my fingers. When I pull off a piece from one hand, it sticks to fingers I pulled it off with! I hate cleaning the paint jars for the airbrush when I have completed painting.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
An outside observer would say that I probably hate actually finishing kits.
I love researching the subjects, probably my favorite part.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
I'm just ecstatic to be able to do a model kit. A few years ago, I would be incapable of this. As for cons? I have none as I enjoy the entire process that goes into a build!
Toshi
On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell
Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world. Mrs. Toshi
Love buying a new kit and watching it gather dust on my shelf, hate buying a new kit and watching it gather dust on my shelf. But seriously sanding seams and mold lines drives me nuts. Satisfaction reigns supreme when said kit replaces it's box on my shelf and what else collects dust.
we're modelers it's what we do
Favorite: buying and oppening a new kit, rummiging in the box, looking at the instructions, gluing, painting...
Least favorite: bringing the new kit home and hearing the "another one???" from Mrs.C.....................just kidding................sort of
Scariest: trying a new technik that I read about on this forum but modified for my budget (cheap) and equipment (super basic). I am always afraid that I will srew up something beyond repair.
Toshi I'm just ecstatic to be able to do a model kit. A few years ago, I would be incapable of this. As for cons? I have none as I enjoy the entire process that goes into a build! Toshi
Time flies on the bench you can get lost in
this hobby which is great. Airbrushing is 10
on the fun meter. Amazing how a bunch
of loose parts turn into a 3D model "fruition"
Seam lines and putty are no big deal I use the
mask tape method which uses very little putty
and sanding.
Not a big fan of waterslide decals, they should go with
lite peel and stick. The markup on model paints and glue, tools
up here in Canada is outrageous. maybe it is our dollar ?
On the bench: Revell Euro Fighter 1/32
Ontario, CANADA
Best part for me would be the peeling off of masks after spraying. Like peeling the plastic sheet off a new phone. Haha
Worst part is, believe it or not, opening that box. Its here where I usually get modeler's bloc. To build, or not to build?
No bucks, no Buck Rogers
Most favorite part: Holding the newly purchased kit in my hands and opening the box for the first time and looking at the pieces inside.
Least favorite part: Painting canopy frames as well as attaching missiles, gear doors, antennas and all the little fiddly bits at the very end when all I want to do is call a project "done".
Eric
Least favourite part is the masking. Seems to take forever and your no closer to finishing.
Favourite part is unmasking.
"Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional"
" A hobby should pass the time - not fill it" -Norman Bates
Hmm:
I would say the least favorite is the prices of everything Today ! Favorite , best part, All those beautiful P.E. sets and Slide Molding ! T.B.
My favourite part is the thought of how this will look once finished, and the different options available to us now without having to scratch build/make our own parts for more authenticity. The colours available to us now without having to mix paint. I have a VL too, and I love painting with it, and of course I hate having to clean it. I don't use a lot of paint when airbrushing, especially when I know I'm getting to the end so that I don't have a lot of paint inside my airbrush jar to clean out. The least favourite is when you buy a model at todays prices whether it be new, or old and unwrapped either at the hobby shop, or on evilbay - especially when you open it for the first time only to find that there are parts missing!
>:( <--- angry face
~ Cobra Chris
Maybe a picture of a squirrel playing a harmonica will make you feel better?
Yeas I heard that!when you buy a kit that you built when you were a kid for 3.50 and it is now 25 bucks and the only diffrence is the markings on the decal sheet!
Likes: Visualizing the build into reality and doing every step that gets it there.
Dislikes: Doing every step that gets it there takes too much time.
Best = Remembering the weight in the nose prior to joining the fuselage.
Wost = Remembering the weight in the nose AFTER joining the fuselage.
"Ahh the Luftwaffe. The Washington Generals of the History Channel" -Homer Simpson
Best: Building to display the powerplants in my builds (a close second is interior/cockpit building)
Worst: Filing, sanding and body prep. Yuck!
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Thank goodness my dad boght all that lead birdshot years ago.The old coffee can full of lead has been weighing my models for close to 40 years!
My favorite part of modeling? painting perhaps, or completing a major step in the build (for example, gluing together the fuselage halves and a model plane starts to look like a plane).
My least favorite aspect: Filling stubborn seams. You fill, you sand, fill and sand, fill and sand, fill and...
"Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"
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