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  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 12:19 PM

hello,

I agree lady modelers are rare, I think I got into it because of a love of history, military history and particularly the First World War. I think if  women were shown that it is a craft skill; women do knitting, sewing etc, then more would join up, women have the impression that it is all boys toys which is untrue, I have shown my models in the past --30 years ago, and I could not convince any one, but today things have changed and with many more women in engineering and architecture which uses diagrams, plans and models there may albeit slowly be a change, but women have to be introduced to modelling and I think those who are interested in history are those likely to join. WE have a number of women here in the U.K who are interested in the First World war and visit the battlefields in France and I am on a U/K forum where I got 25 replies from other women when I asked how many there were, but none of them were modellers , I will put another posting on and ask why. 

  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:39 PM

well merkin 63, I introduced myself on the new members section and I get .. 1 reply!!, everyone else gets 2,3,4 or 5 replies and welcomes!. So it seems while some male members may talk about women modellers they obviously do not seem too keen to share with them!

tommy atkins (female 48 )

 

  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:06 PM
Tommy,please forgive my rudeness,and welcome to the forums!,I don't check my e-mail as much as I should,but being divorced,disabled and addicted to modeling,I don't surf the web,unless doing model research,I hope you find a happy home here,as us modelers,male and female,will help you any way,in which we can.Welcome to Finescale modeler!
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    December 2014
Posted by Ffowcs on Friday, February 16, 2007 4:51 PM
I read with interest the replies to the notion of a modellers singles site. Yes it would be great in my opinion if finding a woman with modelling interests were possible. I suppose it is not impossible to find such a woman, but it is very hard - and I have not found anyone like that yet. When I went to a national model show in England the only women there it seemed were spouses who willingly or were prepared to put up with tagging along behind their modelling husbands. Someone has already suggested in this string that modelling subjects may not appeal much to women as most of it is military, and that I think is true to a sense. Yet women serve in the military all over the world, and their roll and diversity therein has increased in recent years, and continues to do so, in many countries. Perhaps the modelling community should, for a start, try to increase the awareness of modelling amongst women in the forces. Servicemen who are currently serving their country are not uncommon amongst the modelling community, so why not try and get some of their female colleagues to roll up as modellers as well ; it would appear to be a natural progression. Lets not just keep it to women in the forces either, but to women in all walks of life. If you can think of ideas on how to spread the hobby to females then lets post them here in the forum. I quite like the idea of having more female figures modelled: Airfix, for example, used to model figures of Queen Elizabeth I and Ann Boleyn. So how about manufacturers creating models of 20th / 21st century icons such as Madona or Pussy Cat Dolls, or of a boy band like West Life or The Back Street Boys, etc. Or reverting back to subjects closer to what we as modellers are used to building, how about making a series of figures of famous women in aviation, like Amy Johnson, Emelia Erhart or Russian women aviators of WWII. What do ya think?
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