Hi all,
I've been posting over at Titanic-Model.com, so forgive the duplication if any of you are regularly over there. A little while ago my son got into the Titanic and I - thinking back almost 30 years to hours spent listening to the radio while building models - figured I'd build him a Revell 1/570 kit. The first one came out fine, but looked kinda 'clunky', and before you know it I was surfing the web trying to determine what the 'state of the art' was. Custom decal sets, real wooden deck kits, weathering techniques I'd never heard of in the '80s and - what's this? - photoetch? What the heck is that.
It wasn't long before I had a second 1/570 Titanic, a (newly released) set of photo-etch from TMW and an airbrush. Inspired by what I was seeing at Titanic Model, I was trying my hand at something new: Customizing a kit. Small, newbie steps for sure, but customizing nonetheless. And rediscovering how much I loved being in the basement, listening to the radio and getting lost in the work.
About 3/4 of the way through the process, however, I got it into my head - ironically, it turns out - that buidling models at 45 made me some sort of freak, and I sold the airbrush and my (unbuilt) Minicraft 1/350 Titanic, and shelved the 1/570. Flash forward a year and I've had a change of heart: I've rediscovered something that I really enjoy, and it turns out more than half the people in the hobby these days are my age anyway - the kids are all playing video games. So I've reordered the same airbrush and Minicraft kit, and pulled the Revell from the shelf. I'm a wacko, I know. And now I'm drooling over the new wood deck kits that have just come out for the 1/350 and I'm dying to get started. All things in good time, though - first I'll post some pics on the Revell...