My model building focus will stay on 1/35 armor same as it's been for the last thirty plus years. Small detours to an occasional 1/48 aircraft or a rare ship model are possible.

Armor models primarily basic out of the box style with basic aftermarket improvements.

Occasionall, kit bashing for fun.

Rare super detail project on older kits with good bones.

Zero interest in kits with 1,000+ part counts.

Zero interest in armour kits with interiors 

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How will I know what my tastes will be in the future without precognition or a TARDIS???

All joking aside my tastes HAVE changed over the years.

Back as a teen and in my twenties I was a big Wehrbaroo (sp?) I built German and not much other than German planes and armour. I also built a fair amount of Trek stuff and NASCAR.

As I got older I moved onto a lot of Soviet stuff.

Then to British/Commonwealth subjects.

And finally largely to Japanese and American stuff.

Lately I've been on a big Cold War/post Second World War kick. It's all been pretty consistant on 1/35th armour and 1/48th aircraft though. 

And figures, lots more figures. I used to paint lots of D&D type 28-32mm miniatures. But as the gaming group broke up and my eyesight has gotten worse I've moved into painting much more 54mm to 90mm figures plus some 1/6th scale stuff.

Tanker-Builder

Hi;

 I think the Biggest"Small" Liberty is the John Brown or there's another name. Now that's 1/350. I know of nothing bigger except a LARGE wood kit.

 

Well I was thinking something upper 20" range. But that probably won't be this year anyway. Maybe I'll have to whittle out my own hull ! Course then you got the whole super structure thing going on, although I've done worse many moons ago.. Maybe it won't be a liberty at all then.

well it hasn't changed in 57 years . LOL its a mix of different subjects.

For me I started out with model cars then I went to aircraft but realised they tend to take up a lot of space. I gravitated to armor. I builtquite a few,  tigers,panthers ,panzers and armoredcars. My new love is 1/35 construction equipment thanks to Mini art and Hasagawa. Now Geco has the skidsteers coming out.

 I have tried making an M 2 excavator from scratch( still trying) modern cat for military. Hard finding rollers/wheels. Anyway I am working the Hasagawa snowplow front end loader.Must be getting older an had to tear it down several times to get it right . Oh well that is my modeling history to date.

When I was in my teens, I built giant robots. Macross, Gundam and anything I could get cheap. I stopped building till 2006, when I was 35. From there I went full bore into WWII aircraft with a lean towards German, then Luft 46, then X planes. Now I pretty much will build any warplane but I am still favouring WWII.

I do see myself doing some Star Trek starships as I have a few in my stash. Otherwise I am gonna continue building WWII planes with the occasional Cold War Jet tossed in.

Hi;

 I think the Biggest"Small" Liberty is the John Brown or there's another name. Now that's 1/350. I know of nothing bigger except a LARGE wood kit.

Tanker-Builder

Hi OMG;

 Hey I had that one in my stash. brought it out after reading your comment. I forgot I was engineering it with no Show Hinges and Doorlatches( In other words, In Scale) and leather glove material for the seats and door panels.Now I have to finish it. I am still trying to figure out the movement of the top bows so I can put a painted linen top on it! Well, maybe after I finish the ship!

 

Speaking of tops and ships.

1 I've contemplated making an up position rag top for the 1/16 Model A roadster I'm working on. It only comes as a top down model. Not sure this will happen but I have two of these roadster kits and would like one to be top up.

2 And a ship is in my future, haven't built a ship since the 1960s. Not sure what yet but leaning towards a plastic liberty of some sort. Not huge but not small. That's down the road a ways assuming I'm still kicking.

Hi OMG;

 Hey I had that one in my stash. brought it out after reading your comment. I forgot I was engineering it with no Show Hinges and Doorlatches( In other words, In Scale) and leather glove material for the seats and door panels.Now I have to finish it. I am still trying to figure out the movement of the top bows so I can put a painted linen top on it! Well, maybe after I finish the ship!

I'd like to get ahold of the Monogram Conneisseur 1930 Packard Phaeton ( 1/24) in a complete or better yet unopened kit at a decent price. And the Entex 1937 Packard roadster in 1/16 also in good condition complete kit.

I find the old Monogram classic car kits very close to present day quality and still a joy to build.  I find them among the most popular kits in sales at shows.  I currently have three in my current stash- A Mercedes 540K and two different Duesies.

Currently building a Johan Mercedes- nice kit except headlight mounting holes misplaced- will have to drill at a new location.  This will be hard since the hole is at a considerable angle from surface.

Most of my friends in the Classic Plastic Model Club like to build any of the older AMT/MPC kits and I never hear them complain about how rough they are to build.  I have tried a few and they are rough with no positive mounting surfaces and parts mounted too close to the sprues.  I still have a couple of AMT kits to build so I will have to psych myself up for them! 

I'm mainly doing the aircraft that I have been around with the rare exception, Air Force vehicles, mostly the M-113 and XM-706 armored car, some ships. Mostly WWII, and science Fiction.  Sometimes the ships and S.F. combine.

I'm also starting to look into doing the figure kits that I have acquired over time.  For me this would be novice level projects.

I don't see much of a change. I build what interests me, so keep on keeping on.

For the last couple of years I have been trying a scheme to overcome my loss of manual dexterity.  I have been concentrating on smaller scale kits- 1:72 and 1:144 airplanes, 1:700 ships, etc.

This seems to have reached the limit of effectiveness.  I spend almost as much time hunting for small parts I have dropped as I do actual building.  Back to larger scale.  Problem is, I am already out of display space.  After seventy five years of building models, I am having to get rid of older finished models every time I build one.

I may do more scratch building too, since I can control the parts count and how many parts I chose to use in a subassembly- cars may be curbside, aircraft with no engines and fewer cockpit details, etc.

My tastes will be about the same. On subjects I really "care" about, I will go all out and super detail the heck out of it.

But on kits that happen to catch my fancy; perhaps I saw a build of it somewhere or in a movie, maybe it was the box art or it could have been on sale (like a $30 kit for $8), I'll buy it and build it OOB, maybe with just a little bit of intermediate detailing, but nothing fancy.

I have always built whatever strikes my fancy at the time and my wallet says OK. I have a varied stash that will keep me supplied with whatever I wish to build for as long as I'm able. A few days ago, I got into a conversation on the airplane section about stick and tissue planes. When I awoke the next morning, I decided to try one of the old Sterling Peanut Scale planes a WWI SE-5A for a diversion. It's turned out to be a lot of fun. The wings, and tail surfaces are finished and covered. Working on the fuselage now. With all the improvements in tools and glues, it's moving along very quickly. It's great being able to switch back and forth between groups and brings back a lot of great memories.

Jim 

Stay Safe.

treehuggerdave;

          Hello; Hey you know I was wondering about the same thing. What with the card models and all. It seems my building ethos is if I build it I will enjoy it!

     Sooo, I just grab ahold of something and have a ball! I have even built some oddities like " Leaky Boat Luey ?" and others of that ilk. They helped me out of a "Plastic Dam" That's when I get so involved with a plastic project I can't seem to finish it and it eventually winds up on the " Shelf of Doom"

     Not anymore though. I am even having fun building 1/35 Machinen-Kreiger figures now. Even some Monogram, Jo-Han and M.P.C. Classic Cars again, in all scales!

Maybe at some point, as a teen I built primarily ship, cars, and aircraft, in that order.  Didn't build my first armor kit until my early 20s, and that is mostly what I have built over the last 15 years now.  My stash has an eclectic selection of all genres though, acquired through the years.

If I have any future focus shifts, it will probably be more towards figure and tin flat painting.

I was just remarking that years ago they had to be fighters and race cars.  Now I really enjoy trainers, airliners, fire attack planes and admire those that can build a period correct car off the factory floor.  Still like the fighters and race cars though.

I too am less concerned about perfection and more about enjoying the hobby and some experiments resulting in failures or flaws at the least.  I don't compete anymore, that drove me crazy so not sure what the future holds, but I do have my first couple of ships....

I noticed my tastes have gone more colorful - I used to dislike day-glo schemes on aircraft but now find them attractive.

I swing from intense building to OOB quick builds. I don't see myself changing in the next several years. I'm always looking to improve even to the end.

    I feel that my stash is very well rounded over many genre, I can conceivably never buy another kit and still have some to donate when I head to the big bench.

      With that I don't see my taste changing more so what I feel is "acceptable" becoming less rigid. Sit back enjoy the build, seams...so what, heck may even do "naked builds".