20 questions for modellers

These sort of things used to be really popular when blogs were big and places like myspace existed. I thought we might get some fun out of it while we're all stuck in doors sniffing glue.

>Year you started building

1959

>First kit built

Douglas rocket from Tomorrowland

>Last kit built

Italeri Norton 750 Commando

>Current project

Revell Midway

>Kit you're most proud of

Resin 1/9 Nemo. Published in FSM.

>Kit you hated the most

Too many to count.

>Favourite kit you ever built

Too many to count. The Trumpeter USS San Francisco is one,

>Most memorable kit you ever built

Tamiya 1/48 Beaufighter for my F-in-Law.

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

Probably 100 to 1 ratio.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

63

>Favourite genre

Railroad, ships, aircraft.

>Least liked genre

I don't build those, but I don't much like older car kits.

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

Sci-Fi

>Favourite step in a project

Research.

>Most hated step in a project

$$$

>Most used paint colour

5-N

>Least used paint colour

There would be a joke here but I can't come up with it right now.

>Favourite tool

Airbrush

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

Respirator

>Tool you wish you owned

A good set of eyes

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

4 to 8 hours a week at my little desk in the kitchen hallway.

>Year you started building 1969

>First kit built Aurora "The Wurst" 

>Last kit built Revell Poe's X-Wing

>Current project some sort of Japanese robot

>Kit you're most proud of an ancient Aurora MBT70

>Kit you hated the most Zvezda T-60 light tank

>Favourite kit you ever built Tamiya M113, because it was my first high quality kit

>Most memorable kit you ever built A Monogram converting model (shuttlecraft to lunar lander)

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time Dozens

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate) Hundreds

>Favourite genre Modern US Armor and Star Wars

>Least liked genre Figures

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at German WW2 Armor

>Favourite step in a project Final Assembly

>Most hated step in a project Painting, which is where many projects stall

>Most used paint colour Tan/sand

>Least used paint colour white

>Favourite tool Xacto knife

>Least used tool on your hobby desk Hold n Fold

>Tool you wish you owned unsure, I'd buy one if I wanted it

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it? Once a week, dining room table

Year you started building

1969/1970

>First kit built

Pyro Brontosauraus

>Last kit built

Monogram 1/48 A-7B

>Current project

Dragon 1/35 M46

>Kit you're most proud of

Monogram 1/48 B-26B

>Kit you hated the most

Oh that’s a tough one... many fought me, but I never hated them... just the build process

>Favourite kit you ever built

Revell 1/32 Hawker Hunter FGA.9

>Most memorable kit you ever built

 Monogram 1/48 B-26... I added a nearly complete scratch built interior for some reason...

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

Since I was a young boy, somewhere over 1000 completed. Currently sidelined, 30+

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

The stash? According to Scalemates, too many... it’s classified as I do not want the wife to see the exact number!

>Favourite genre

Military Models: land, Air, and sea

>Least liked genre

Autos

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

sailing ships

>Favourite step in a project

the beginning and the final additions

>Most hated step in a project

mold seam line clean up

>Most used paint colour

olive drab?

>Least used paint colour

pink

>Favourite tool

Rotary motor tool... don’t use it that much, but it’s always fun

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

soldering iron

>Tool you wish you owned

riveting wheel

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

almost daily now. I have a workbench set up in my garage

This is quite interesting.

>Year you started building: around 1976/77.

>First kit built: Monogram Cessna 180 kit#6825

>Last kit built: Tamiya M3 Grant

>Current project: Matchbox SH-2F Seasprite

>Kit you're most proud of: Tamiya P-47

>Kit you hated the most: AMT/ERTL Death Star.  OMG!  It was horrible!!

>Favourite kit you ever built: Tamiya P-47, Tamiya 335

>Most memorable kit you ever built: Revell History Maker Saturn V 1/96

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time: Hundreds!  About 7 are still waiting.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate): Excel Spreedsheet says 397.

>Favourite genre: WWII aircraft

>Least liked genre: Hummmm....I don't have one.  Maybe cars?  Just because I haven't done many.

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at: Cars!  LOL!

>Favourite step in a project: painting/weathering

>Most hated step in a project: landing gears!

>Most used paint colour: Tamiya

>Least used paint colour: enamels.  LOL!

>Favourite tool: My glue and Micro Set/Sol stands!!!  Thank you Bish!  Saving me loads on glue and Set/Sol.  LOL!

>Least used tool on your hobby desk: Punch set

>Tool you wish you owned: Bigger, better extractor for the airbrush.

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?: Almost everyday.  In my bedroom.

New modeler so some repeat answers.  I like this.

-Year you started building.

probably around1978.  However I was a kid and didn’t start again until Oct 2019.

-first kit built

No way to remember all those years ago.  I remember building many NASCAR models then.  Funny thing I wouldn’t build one today.  First model back as an adult modeler is Revell 1/48 F18E Super Hornet.

-last model built

The Super Hornet

-Current project

Tamiya 1/48 A6M2 Zero

-kit most proud of

Hopefully the next one

-Kit I hated the most

well the Zero kit has been more enjoyable than the ill fitting Hornet

-Favorite kit

only completed the one

-Most memorable

since I’m new I’ll answer this way.  I remember removing the tape off the Hornets canopy and being really nervous.  It had to look good to be anywhere near a convincing model.  It looks great.  I feel if this step is ruined on aircraft forget it.

-How many kits have you finished/ given up on/ shelved

None.  I know those kits are coming.

-How many kits in the backlog

I love buying them!  And of course we buy them faster then we can assemble.  4.  All Tamiya.  Ferrari F189, Wildcat F4F, f14 Tomcat, and F16.

-Favorite genre

modern jet fighters

-least liked genre

sailing ships.  However my dad loves them.  Go figure.

-genre no interest but enjoying looking at

helicopters

-favorite step

detaling an aircraft cockpit

-Most hated step

sanding, filling, sanding, sanding, sanding 

-Most used paint color

grey.  Looks like it’s going to be a lot of various greys

-least used paint color

cant see using much pink but I think some of the Russian jets have pink canopy frames.  ill for sure build a mig or two.

-favorite tool

my hands.  Nothing beats them.  

-Least used tool

when i first started I bought a light/magnifying glass at Hobby lobby.  Thought it would be a life saver.  It sucks.

-tool I wished I owned

I think a 1:1 scale Ferrari 458 Italia would be great for reference. Lol

-How often do I get to model/ Where?

im sure a popular answer.  Weekends.  Recently Ive found myself getting up early on weekdays and getting an hour or so in.  A typical week is probably 10 hours or so.  sadly I don’t have a true bench.  I model at the kitchen table and need to bring equipment from the finished basement.  painting is done in the garage with adequate heaters if necessary.

I very much enjoyed that.  Thanks.

>Year you started building

Late 60's, probably 1968

>First kit built

Corvette C-3. Revell I think. It was yellow.

>Last kit built

Star Trek TOS Galileo shuttle

>Current project

Star trek TMP Enterprise

>Kit you're most proud of

Hmm. Probably the Hasegawa 1/48 F-104 I converted over to the NF-104 in 1991. Last I knew it was in the Dover AFB museum.

>Kit you hated the most

I guess the Japanese Stingray sub kit. I could not anything to fit. It's still in the basement

>Favourite kit you ever built

2001 Moonbus

>Most memorable kit you ever built

My John Long Star Trek TOS Communicator. It is/was a grail kit for sure

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

Finished? probably 300 over the years. Lots are in limbo, some for decades, but I keep telling myself I'll finish them. Maybe 20.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

Approx 230

>Favourite genre

Science Fiction

>Least liked genre

Probably armor, but only because I haven't built any in decades. 

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

WW1 aircraft

>Favourite step in a project

Gluing the 1st 2 pieces

>Most hated step in a project

SEAMS!

>Most used paint colour

Grey

>Least used paint colour

raw umber

>Favourite tool

My xacto number 11

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

my small table saw

>Tool you wish you owned

a lathe. I have no use for one but...

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

Now? every day. Ussually 3-5 hours a week.

I have a set up in the basement.

>Year you started building : 1971

>First kit built : Monogram Street Cleaner Snap kit

>Last kit built : 1/48 Eduard (Squardron) F6F-5

>Current project - Hasegawa 1/48 F-4J

>Kit you're most proud of - 120MM Jaguar British Captain WWI - scored a 2nd place at the IPMS Nats

>Kit you hated the most - ESCI 1/48 KFIR ... nothing went right on that kit

>Favourite kit you ever built - 1/48 Tamiya A-1H Skyraider

>Most memorable kit you ever built - 1/72 Hasegawa S-2 Tracker converted to an S-2T Tanker 

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time - 61 built ( this go around - had a bunch that got 'recycled' ) and 3 on the shelf of doom.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate) - 60

>Favourite genre - 1/48 aircraft (with 1/24-1/25 cars a close second)

>Least liked genre - scifi

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at - realspace

>Favourite step in a project - cockpit

>Most hated step in a project - filling and sanding

>Most used paint colour - MM dark anodic gray, so usefull

>Least used paint colour - Yellow

>Favourite tool - xacto

>Least used tool on your hobby desk - scale rule

>Tool you wish you owned - PE bending tool (on order :) )

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it? - 4-10 hours a week in my wifes and my 'multi-purpose' room.  

Robotism

These sort of things used to be really popular when blogs were big and places like myspace existed. I thought we might get some fun out of it while we're all stuck in doors sniffing glue.

 

>Year you started building   1969

>First kit built   Airfix Bristol Beaufighter

>Last kit built     Dragon  P-38J

>Current project     Dragon, Italeri, Academy, Airfix, Hobby Boss  P-38Js at same time

>Kit you're most proud of     HAsegawa  P-51D with scratchbuilt details

>Kit you hated the most      none

>Favourite kit you ever built    Airfix B-17G

>Most memorable kit you ever built    ESCI F-5A

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time          100+/   10

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)        200+

>Favourite genre       US WWII aircraft

>Least liked genre     WWI aircraft

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at      armor

>Favourite step in a project     applying the decals

>Most hated step in a project    puttying and sanding

>Most used paint colour       Gunze 11 Silver

>Least used paint colour       Dessert Pink

>Favourite tool     Scalpel with blade #11

>Least used tool on your hobby desk     hobby saw

>Tool you wish you owned      punch & die tool  

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?     occasionally in my modeling corner

 

 

>Year you started building

1979

>First kit built

Airfix 1/72nd F-86

>Last kit built

Accurate Armour 1/35th Snatch

>Current project

Revell 1/72nd S-100 & Hase 1/72nd Me 262 B-1a

>Kit you're most proud of

Takom 1/35th FV 432

>Kit you hated the most

None, just a few i had no interest in

>Favourite kit you ever built

Any Stuka or Sd.Kfz 251

>Most memorable kit you ever built

None

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

103 not including all the completed kits i have lost/none and none

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

266

>Favourite genre

WW2 German armour/Modern British armour

>Least liked genre

Auto's

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

Sailing ships

>Favourite step in a project

Decals

>Most hated step in a project

Seams

>Most used paint colour

RLM 65

>Least used paint colour

Plenty

>Favourite tool

Optivisor

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

PE Bending tool

>Tool you wish you owned

If i find one, i'll by it.

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

20 to 30 hours a week. Spare bedroom come mancave

>Year you started building

76/77

>First kit built

Monogram Snap Kit - I think is was a Charger

>Last kit built

1/48 Hasegawa P-51 D

>Current project

1/48 Hobby Boss TBF-1

>Kit you're most proud of

1/48 Hasegawa F-4U

>Kit you hated the most

None

>Favourite kit you ever built

1/48 Tamiya Mosquito 

>Most memorable kit you ever built

All of them - Good or Bad

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

Hard to say but at a guess 40/2/none

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

14 and growing

>Favourite genre

Military Aircraft - Mainly Prop

>Least liked genre

None

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

Ships - Sail or Power

>Favourite step in a project

Cockpit and Radial Engines Detailing

>Most hated step in a project

Decaling

>Most used paint colour

Black (not really a colour)

>Least used paint colour

>Favourite tool

 Iwata Airbrush

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

PE Bending Tool

>Tool you wish you owned

Vinyl cutter - To create my own paint masks

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

Not often enough / multipurpose room i,e. MY hobby space

>Year you started building

If we are talking about when I got hooked 1998

>First kit built

Some Revell snaptite race car

>Last kit built

Tamiya 1/35 Panzer II Ausf. C,

>Current project

1/35 Tristar Panzer Ausf. A, Tamiya 1/35 T-55A and Dragon 1/35 Sherman II

>Kit you're most proud of

Turning this old Tamiya1/35 King Tiger I built poorly from this

Into this

>Kit you hated the most

Esci 1/35 7.5cm Infantry Gun bad plastic bad fit. Ended up throwing it against the wall felt like a rip off even at .99 cents

>Favourite kit you ever built

Tamiya 1/35 Panzer III Ausf. L

>Most memorable kit you ever built

Tamiya 1/35 M1A2. I spent a lot of time scratch building parts to make an accurate version of a Marines used version in Iraq in 2003. Really sad it got smashed to parts in a move. It’s still the best model I’ve ever made.

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

I don’t know maybe three hundred I’ve finished. I’ve probably shelved forty or so kits so far.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

Fifty seven if you add in figures double the number.

>Favourite genre

1/35 armor

>Least liked genre

Civil aircraft

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

Ships that aren’t wind powered

>Favourite step in a project

Painting

>Most hated step in a project

Link to link tracks

>Most used paint colour

Dark Yellow

>Least used paint colour

Gold

>Favourite tool

#11 knife

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

Soldering iron

>Tool you wish you owned

PE bending tool

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

I try to work three or four times a week. I turned a spare bedroom into my hobby room.

Year started: as an adult 1982

1st kit: Tamiya Pz IV

Last kit: Trumpeter Graf Spee

Current projects:Hasegawa Akagi,Tamiya F-16,Riich M-109

Most proud: many Meng T-90,GWH Mig-29,Dragon Stug III

Most hated:Hasegawa F-14

Favorite:Dragon Tigers + KT's

Memorable: Tamiya CVN-65 Enterprise

Finished:hundreds

Back log,I prefer stash :35-40

Favorite genre:1/35 Armor

Least: ??

Enjoy to look : Sci-Fi

Favorite step:painting+dealing

Hated: Sub assemblies

Most used color: Dunklegelb

Least:??

Favorite tool: airbrush

Least used: stupid PE bender

Wished for: custom paint booth

I guess we now know how we feel about PE  benders...

This is fun!

>Year you started building

65

>First kit built

Hawk Cessna Skymaster

>Last kit built

Bandai AT-ST

>Current project

1/350 Trumpeter North Carolina

>Kit you're most proud of

Musashi Wreck. Totally scratch built from Yamato hull

>Kit you hated the most

Fujimi 1/24 BMW M5

>Favorite kit you ever built

Too many to count

>Most memorable kit you ever built

1/350 Prinz Eugin at Bikini

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

Over 1000 - 2

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

190

>Favorite genre

Ships

>Least liked genre

Figures

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

Figures

>Favorite step in a project

Painting/weathering

>Most hated step in a project

Filling sanding

>Most used paint color

Black

>Least used paint color

White

>Favorite tool

PE bender

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

Scale ruler

>Tool you wish you owned

Rivet tool

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

5 days a week, spare bedroom converted into a hobby room

>

The year you started

1965

>first kit ever built

Aurora 1/72 jet.

>last kit built

monogram A-37

>current project

monogram AV-8B

>kit most proud of

monogram rommels rod.

>kit you hated the most.

czech model grumman goose.

>favorite kit ever built.

tamiya p-47 in 1/48.

>most memorable kit ever built.

aurora the forgotten prisoner.

>how many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time.

76 to 8.

>how many kits in back log.

100+.

>favorite genre.

air planes.

>least liked genre.

ships.

>most hated step in a project.

bare metal foil.

>most used color.

black.

>least used color.

red.

>favorite tool.

magnification lamp.

>least uesd tool.

dremel tool.

>tool you wished you owned.

pe bender.

>how often do you get to model and where do i do it.

about an hr or two a day and in my shop in the house.

Year you started building - 1969

First kit built - 1/72 Spitfire - make unknown

Last kit built - 1/48 Revell 'Blue Angels' F-18 Hornet

Current project - 1/32 Revell P-51D-NA5

Kit you're most proud of - 1/32 Kinetic F-86 depicting the aircraft my uncle was KIFA

Kit you hated the most - 1/24 AMT 73 Mustang Mach 1

Favourite kit you ever built - anything Tamiya or Hasegawa F-104's

Most memorable kit you ever built - my uncle's Sabre above

How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time - finished - 200+, given up on - 5

How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate) - 65

Favourite genre - WWII to present aircraft

Least liked genre - anything space / steampunk related

Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at - armour

Favourite step in a project - attaching the last piece

Most hated step in a project - painting

Most used paint colour - Alclad II Aluminum

Least used paint colour - who knows?

Favourite tool - lighted magnifier

Least used tool on your hobby desk - photo etch bender

Tool you wish you owned - spray booth

How often do you get to model and where do you do it? - in my model room as often as I want.  I'm retired.

>Year you started building

  1970

>First kit built

  Revell USS Pittsburgh

>Last kit built

  Love Love Garden Black Knight

>Current project

  Wave Seapig

>Kit you're most proud of

 DML 1/48 Me-262 V056 nachtjager prototype

>Kit you hated the most

  DML 1/48 Me-262 V056 nachtjager prototype

>Favourite kit you ever built

  Bandai MG 1/100 Ramba Ral Zaku I

>Most memorable kit you ever built

  Imai Thunderbirds Mole - the only kit I didn’t feel the need to alter in any way.

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

  Too many to count.  I have around 80 finished models in my display case.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

  Too many to remember, too many to admit.

>Favourite genre

  Japanese robots

>Least liked genre

  Lowriders, tuners, ratrods

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

  Ships, especially old ones with rigging and sails.  The nutty 1/700 steel ships with insane amounts of detailing too.

>Favourite step in a project

  The opening of the box and that fresh, unspoiled kit smell

>Most hated step in a project

  Painting

>Most used paint colour

  Flat black

>Least used paint colour

  Metallic lime green, or any candy colored big flake metallic

>Favourite tool

  God Hand cutters

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

  The True Sander

>Tool you wish you owned

  3-D SLA printer

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

  I can work on kits in the evenings, but airbrushing is usually reserved for the weekends.  Construction takes place on my desk, painting is outside in the patio or yard.

Wow, this is some insightful information from everyone. It almost lets others build a profile or image of the person based on the information. I suppose it is my time to throw my hat in the ring, per say:

>Year you started building: I believe it was 1966

>First kit built: Honestly, I cannot remember, but I believe it was a 1/72 Airfix Tank

>Last kit built: Last completed? 1/24 Modelers kit,  Lola T89 F3000

>Current project: 1/350 USS Arizona (still a work in progress in our group builds)

>Kit you're most proud of: For me pride is not the right word, more "satisfaction". That would be my 1/16 Tamiya Kubelwagen

>Kit you hated the most: There has been only one kit that I put back in the box after starting it. It remains unfinished, and that is a very old AHM 1/25 Corvair Monza GT. The plastic is so brittle that it almost desinegrates. 

>Favorite kit you ever built: Hard question, difficult to answer. Should I select it as a favorite regarding subject matter, build quality, kit that fit together the bast, obstacles or challenges overcome, favorite out of box, etc? I cannot answer this one...

>Most memorable kit you ever built: 1/18 Tamiya Prince/Nissan R381. It was a toy with no details converted into a detailed model. The relationships I made with people in Japan who helped me authenticate the conversion, along with the result, has to make it one of my most memorable:

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time: Finished 898 est. Shelved 1 (see above).

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate): 350

>Favourite genre: Competition / Race vehicles 

>Least liked genre: I really like everything, but I would rather call this the least exposed to, and that would be "Fantasy Figures".

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at: Fantasy Figures

>Favourite step in a project: scratch building

>Most hated step in a project: filling gaps, seams, ejector pin marks, etc.

>Most used paint colour: black

>Least used paint colour: pink

>Favourite tool: Quality sprue and PE cutters

>Least used tool on your hobby desk: IR and OD Calipers

>Tool you wish you owned: 3d printer

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it? 4-5 days per week (1-3 hours) and my lair is in the basement of my home.

Ben 

You asked for it!

> Year-1954

> First Kit-Comet D.C.6-B wooden airliner

> Last Kit- Revell's Firefighter

> Current-Sd.Kfz>-7( Bandai1/48)

> Most Proud Of- Revell Offshore Oil Rig

> Most Hated-Palmer-Buick Le-sabre

> Most favorite-Perkasa Patrol Boat by Tamiya? Original Issue

> Most memorable? M.P.C.1/24 Scale "General" Locomotive!

> Most Finished- Probably about a thousand? Given up on 40

> Backlogged- Over two Hundred 

> Favorite Genre- Working Vessels (Tankers,Tugs,Container Ships etc)

> Least Liked -R.R.Scenery

> No Interest, But enjoy? Dios

> Favorite Step-Last stroke of paint from a brush.

> Most hated? Decalling !

> Most used Color-Waterline Red (M.M.Rust)

> Least Used Color-Gloss Anything

> Favorite Tool-X-ActoKnife

> Least Used-Fold-Mate P.E.Tool

> Would Love to Own- 3-D Printer

> How often do I model?-Just about every day even if only for an hour or so.
 

I've been pondering this subject for a few days.

Year started.  1959   

Fist kit   Strombecker USS Ruderrow Destoyer Escort. 

Last kit   Tamiya 1/35 Panther Aust G Last production

Current  1/48 Tamiya Firefly  (tank)

Most proud of.  Too many to list.   I have almost every thing that Tamiya, Revell, Monogram, Italerei, Academy, Tasca, DML (Dragon), made.  Many Hasegawa,  ESCI and many others.  Some a few times. 

Most Hated.  None,  I like them all.  At the moment

Most Favorite.   Let me get back to you....  Okay a kit I remember as not too great to do is the original NCC 1701 USS Enerprise.by AMT.   Bad fit.  You can see this model on the original Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine".  It becomes the USS Constellation.

Most memorable.  Revell  Large scale USS Constitution.  Yes I built it 1967, but I loved the rigging I did on it.  I weathered the deck, painted the crew, etc.  It didn't survive when I moved to an apartment in 1973.

Most Finished.  1000+  could be more

Backlogged.  1500. 

Favorite Genra.  1/35 Armor. All types, all nations.

Least Liked.  Cars

No interest.   Cars

Favorite Step   Painting,  air brushing.

Most hated, disliked.  Painting A/C canopies

Most used color.  Toss up between German Dark Grey, German Dunkle Gelb, or Olive Drab.l

Least used.  Metalic car colors

Favorite tool.   Airbrush

Least used tool.  Scale ruler

Would love to own.   More shelf space

How often do I model.  Everyday,  2 hours more or less.

>Year you started building-Built some as a kid, early 1970's

>First kit built-As an adult 1/350 Titanic

>Last kit built-1/350 Titanic

>Current project-1/350 Lusitania

>Kit you're most proud of-Titanic, it's the only one lol

>Kit you hated the most-Same as above, Minicraft Titanic, junky parts

>Favourite kit you ever built-Current one

>Most memorable kit you ever built-N/A

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time-Built one, shelved none

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)-2

>Favourite genre-Ocean Liners

>Least liked genre-Sci-Fi

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at-Sailboats

>Favourite step in a project-Research

>Most hated step in a project-Brush painting, followed closely by photo etch

>Most used paint colour-Flat white

>Least used paint colour-many

>Favourite tool-Airbrush, Compressor, Foredom tool

>Least used tool on your hobby desk-Styrene saw

>Tool you wish you owned-Lathe/Mill

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?-Daily, kitchen counter for now

Man this topic took off like wild fire. Time to do it myself.

>Year you started building

Some time in the early 90s

>First kit built

A box of Games Workshop Space Marines where I glued the guns on backwards.

>Last kit built

A Star wars diorama with battle droids from Fantasy flight games.

>Current project

Deqoo LBX from Bandai. Doing it as a police anti-riot robot.

>Kit you're most proud of

HGUC 1/144 Zaku. It just turned out so damn well.

>Kit you hated the most

RG Refined barzam conversion kit. It didn't fit at all and the plastic felt cheap.

>Favourite kit you ever built

HG Ginn from Gundam SEED. Love the design and the kit just works.

>Most memorable kit you ever built

Resin kit of Eva 02 I'm still working on. It's the size of a football.

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

Probably 20 kits I've finished to a degree I'm happy with. I'm not counting snapfits, just full paint jobs. I've given up on countless kits, I like experimenting and often find it doesn't work out.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

50 not including miniatures and board games I want to paint up

>Favourite genre

Mecha.

>Least liked genre

Boats

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

Armour. Find the craftsmanship to be legendary but I struggle to build tanks myself.

>Favourite step in a project

Decals. They're simple and fun to apply.

>Most hated step in a project

Seam filling. I need to improve my technique here. That's my next experiment.

>Most used paint colour

Vallejo's iraqui sand or Camo black brown.

>Least used paint colour

Anything by army painter that isn't black. Poor coverage.

>Favourite tool

Scalpel. I like scraping over sanding.

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

Soldering iron. I need to learn to use it properly.

>Tool you wish you owned

3D printer. So good for diorama details.

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

At my desk and it varies greatly. Poor health can mean I don't get to model at all for weeks or can spend a full day modeling no problem.

>Year you started building? Can't remember but some time in the 70's

>First kit built? Can't remember but probably one of the Lifelike/Lindberg 1/32 car kits from the local 5 & Dime ("Motts")

>Last kit built? The last one I finished was probably a 1/35 Bronco Hotchkiss H35/38

>Current project? A 1/35 BA-6 Armored Car/Sci-Fi Death Ray conversion and a 1/35 Polish 7TP Tank from a company called Spojnia (I think)

>Kit you're most proud of? Probaly my 1/400 Eastern Express Pre-Dreadnaught Potempkin (it was my 1st kit that I did since restarting building a few years ago)

>Kit you hated the most?  Nothing recently, though when I was young I remember really messing up some 1/32 scale car (I think it may have been their 1936 Ford Roadster) - it wasn't really the kit that was a problem I was just having a hard time and my brother and his freind kept pestering me.  I think I ended up throwing it in the trash, but later dug it out and tried to repair it the best I could.

>Favourite kit you ever built?  Probably my 1/426 scale USS Arizona, when I was a kid.  I think it was probably my first really big kit (at least it seemed big when I was younger)

>Most memorable kit you ever built?  I remember getting a 1/72 B-17 one year and a Revell/Monogram USS Constitution another time.  I didn't really do either of them justice but they were fun to work on and looked impresive to me when done (at least from a distance )

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time?  Right now I have a handful of shelved stuff I think mostly because real life intervenes, or I hit a point where I'm not sure how to proceed.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)?  Too many (Dozens)

>Favourite genre? Probably ships, though I do have a several planes in my stash and lately I've been on a WWI/interwar/Early WWII armor kick

>Least liked genre?  Hard to say.  I guess I never got into much Japanese Anime or Giant Robot stuff.  Also, although I like SciFi in general, I never really got into building any Star Wars, Star Trek or Battle Star Gallactica stuff.

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at - Not sure

>Favourite step in a project - Starting

>Most hated step in a project - Finishing

>Most used paint colour - Primer Gray and Primer White

>Least used paint colour - Yellows and Oranges (I tend to have trouble with them)

>Favourite tool - Exacto Saw

>Least used tool on your hobby desk - Not Sure, maybe my tank track link aligner, but that may just be that I've only haad 1 kit to use it on so far.

>Tool you wish you owned - Don't know,  maybe a mini lathe or the tools to make my own decals or photo etch

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it? - Right now its been very erratic.  At first working from home left me with a little extra time, but lately work has been eating more and more into what would normally be my free time, so I have two kits in suspension for the last couple weeks right now.

Pat

>Year you started building

Approximately 1970 when I was 3-years-old

>First kit built

Monogram P-40B Flying Tiger 1/48

>Last kit built

Hobby Boss F-105D Thunderchief 1/48

>Current project

Monogram F-106A Delta Dart 1/48

>Kit you're most proud of

Trumpeter SBD-3 Dauntless 1/32

>Kit you hated the most

Guess I'll go with an AMT-Ertl P-40E that I built a few years ago

>Favourite kit you ever built

Kinda tough question, but I'll go with the Tamiya F-4U Corsair, with the old MPC X-Wing that I built probably half a dozen times as a youngster a close second

>Most memorable kit you ever built

Gotta say the Moebius Iron Man Mk. VI that I built around the time of the first Avengers movie that I lit up with LEDs for the eyes, chest ARC reactor thing, and the repulsors in his hands

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

Over the course of my building life from age 3 to now, a rough guess would be more than 1000.  I gave up on 3 within the last 10 years (and when I say gave up, I mean I brought down Thor's hammer on them).

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

In the stash? Roughly 150 - 200.  

>Favourite genre

WWII aircraft, any nationality

>Least liked genre

Automotive subjects

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

Ships (but have built two)

>Favourite step in a project

On a WWII airplane, when I do the markings (decals or paint the markings with masks), that aircraft starts to look right

>Most hated step in a project

Masking the really complex WWII canopy framing, as in on a Ju88

>Most used paint colour

Gonna say Model Master Metalizer Aluminum

>Least used paint colour

I have a bottle of Model Master Acryl Skin Tone that I rarely open

>Favourite tool

I recently acquired a set of Pixnor precision tweezers, and my annoying habit of seeing tiny parts fly off to Never Never Land has just about gone hopefully forever

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

A stand with a magnifying glass and a couple of alligator clips

>Tool you wish you owned

Would love to get a miniature punch-and-die set

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

Being unemployed has had its one benefit, which is ample time at the bench.  I have a 3-car garage with one bay set up as my workshop, where I do modeling and wood working.

Year you started building

Early in 1952 with a balsa model diorama of a destroyer refuelling fron a RFA tanker. I wanted to join the RFA

>First kit built

A German Loco kit produced, I think, by Airfix.

>Last kit built

1/90 scale RC tug.

>Current project

Two on the go: Trumpeter 1/35 BR 86 Locomotive and Tamiya 1/350 HMS Hood

>Kit you're most proud of

A balsa and tissue glider that flew gorgeously out to sea from a cliff and crashed spectacularly!

>Kit you hated the most

Tie between USS John Brown 1/350 liberty ship and Resin Shipyard HMCS Haida.

>Favourite kit you ever built

Don't have a favourite. A submarine kit I built is in a museum display.

>Most memorable kit you ever built

Don't have one.

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

No idea on how many but right now I have about 4 or 5 shelved.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

Two for sure - two more basically incompete in detail (RC Ships)

>Favourite genre

Ships

>Least liked genre

Airplanes

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

Airplanes

>Favourite step in a project

Opening the box

>Most hated step in abits left to do! project

When you are almost finished and have

>Most used paint colour

Probably some shade of navy grey!

>Least used paint colour

?

>Favourite tool

My Micromark table saw.

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

Extra Hands

>Tool you wish you owned

None - I have them all!

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

At home in my downstairs shipyard just about every day given the Covid situation!

-Year you started building:

2014.

-First kit built:

1/35 Academy 35(t).

-Last kit built:

1/35 Tamiya Horch 1a.

-Current project:

1/35 Dragon initial Hummel.

-Kit you're most proud of:

1/35 Academy Tiger I( plenty of inaccuracies but the paint job came out alright).

-Kit you hated the most:

The Italeri "General" Patton but I probably messed up.

-Favourite kit you ever built:

1/35 Tamiya King Tiger, everything fit together perfectly and had crisp detail.

-Most memorable kit you ever built:

Probably the Academy 35(t).

-How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time:

About 30-35 and 2 currently shelved.

-How many kits do you have in the backlog:

15.

-Favourite genre:

WW2 German armour.

-Least liked genre:

Civil aircraft.

-Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at:

Aircraft carriers and old cars.

-Favourite step in a project:

Weathering and recently scratchbuilding.

-Most hated step in a project:

Filling gaps.

-Most used paint colour:

Dark yellow.

-Least used paint colour:

Bright pink.

-Favourite tool:

Xuron sprue cutters.

-Least used tool on your hobby desk:

Styrene saw.

-Tool you wish you owned:

3D printer.

-How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

8-12 hours a week depending on work. I model in my shed at 2 desks.

Too new to modelling to really justify this, but it seems like fun.

>Year you started building

September 2019

>First kit built

Tamiya Honda Ajinomoto (YouTube just made me want to start off with a superbike, so I chose the coolest looking one on the shelf).

>Last kit built

Tamiya Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.D (my 2nd try)

>Current project

Revell F1 BMW Sauber/Revell USS Arizona

>Kit you're most proud of

Tamiya Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.D (it's the only model currently displayed).

>Kit you hated the most

Tamiya Marder III (No problem with the kit per se, but I used it as an experiment to see if I could build the entire model AND THEN paint (which someone told me I could), and it turned out to be a disaster.

>Favourite kit you ever built

Fujimi Ford GT40 MKII (Binned, but I just received my 2nd one. LOVE the look of this car!!)

>Most memorable kit you ever built

Same 

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

I've attemped about 6-7 kits. Gave one away (it looked terrible), displaying one currently, and binned the rest.

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

Three

Tamiya McLaren MP4/5 (big Senna fan!)

Tamiya F1 Ferrari F310b (Lesser Schumacher fan, but it was cheap!)

Fujimi Ford GT40 MKII

>Favourite genre

Formula One cars. I love the hobby, but it would be such an honor to get paid to make them for others (not sure if I've said something sacrilegious, but that's truly how I feel). 

>Least liked genre

Airplanes. They seem like the hardest models to get looking right.

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

Models based on movie franchises.

>Favourite step in a project

Cutting, sanding, glueing.

>Most hated step in a project

Finishing. This is the part that separates the beginners from the moderates/pros.

>Most used paint colour

Black

>Least used paint colour

Probably yellow. My bottle is actually black since I use it to hold pieces for airbrusing.

>Favourite tool

Airbrush is cool but it comes with a lot of cleaning, so I'm going to have to go with sander. It's the calm before the storm. 

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

Putty maybe. If you're talking about actual tools: I don't know.

>Tool you wish you owned

Maybe a better airbrush someday, but for the moment I'd rather go through more models.

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?

About 4-5 hours a week, dining room table.

1974

Yellow indy car

Shot down OH-6 loach diorama

1:350 Trumpeter Nimitz

1:32 F-14 Tomcat

1:48 B-29

Maybe 75% finished, 25% scrapped.

One in-work, none waiting

1:48 planes

Paper models

Wood ships

Gathering supplies, researching

Freehand Detail painting, suffer from CSS

MM36320

Light blue

Magnifying visor

Pin vise

Airbrush (in the works)

All afternoon (now) / dining room table

Robotism

These sort of things used to be really popular when blogs were big and places like myspace existed. I thought we might get some fun out of it while we're all stuck in doors sniffing glue.

 

>Year you started building

>First kit built

>Last kit built

>Current project

>Kit you're most proud of

>Kit you hated the most

>Favourite kit you ever built

>Most memorable kit you ever built

>How many kits have you finished and how many have you given up on/shelved for another time

>How many kits do you have in the backlog (estimate)

>Favourite genre

>Least liked genre

>Genre you have no interest in building but enjoy looking at

>Favourite step in a project

>Most hated step in a project

>Most used paint colour

>Least used paint colour

>Favourite tool

>Least used tool on your hobby desk

>Tool you wish you owned

>How often do you get to model and where do you do it?