How many kids are in the forums?

Boba Fett

personally? It's the history. Who wants to build a P-47 if they don't know what it even was or capable of? Most other kids I know could care less, though I have 2 friends that enjoy history. 1 of them builds lots of models. Now I love New dragon releases but that's just me...

 

oh, and video games... I've found a lot of inspiration for models through games. I've been looking at making different vehicles and figures from the Halo series and Star Wars video games. Plus I found new motivation for WWII AC after playing Secret Weapons over Normandy...

Maybe P-47 is a way too off. If you talk abt F-16 or F-15, it will be much more relevant. Father brings the whole family to airshow and kids get fascinated by the real big plane in front of them and wanted to get a model kit and play around with. There are still plenty of reason for kid to build a military kit. But I guess, the need to sand ,glue and paint prove too much trouble for a young kid.

What I observe is , there are no shortage of young kit lover for model kit... But all flock to the Gundam/Anime Section. The Toy' US R Gundam section getting bigger and more well stock. The Gundam kits are not cheap at all...  Many kids flocking there but the military section is getting more and more pathetic, just a few Tamiya kit and no kids around and only me a mid age man standing there.

I guess the concept of snap and complete concept/Hassle free concept of anime model kit proves popular with urban youngster.

personally? It's the history. Who wants to build a P-47 if they don't know what it even was or capable of? Most other kids I know could care less, though I have 2 friends that enjoy history. 1 of them builds lots of models. Now I love New dragon releases but that's just me...

oh, and video games... I've found a lot of inspiration for models through games. I've been looking at making different vehicles and figures from the Halo series and Star Wars video games. Plus I found new motivation for WWII AC after playing Secret Weapons over Normandy...

Harshman - I agree to an extent. Yeah, the goal posts for the upper end of modeling have certainly moved. But there's still a very large selection of snap kits out there (mostly aircraft and auto), and from what I've read they are a big step up from the ones I built when I first started out. There's also the Revell/Monogram reboxes, there are still quite a few of the old Testors kits floating around, etc. Heck, I'm building an Eduard Yak-3 right now that can't have more than 40 pieces to it. 

Personally I think it's much deeper than that. You and I grew up in the 80s and 90s. The Cold War was on, there was still a pretty interesting variety of aircraft and armor out there. Desert Storm hit when we were 11/12. I know I bought the trading cards. But there was an interest in military equipment, a proliferation of pretty major airshows, etc, that I just don't see to the same extent today.

That and video games. Because it's fun to blame everything on video games!

I think current generation model kit has evolve into a complicated, highly detail,sophisticated and expensive stage where it attracted more adult than teenage.

Current Model kit are no more the kiddy stuff we use to see in the 80's and early 90s with less than 150parts.. It has developed into many parts support by many PE available which require more technical abilites and patient to accomplish.

I will not be surprised to see more mature adult modeller than young kids.

I am currently 31, guess I am just reach the stage of mature adult?

I find more teenage instead like Current Gundam model kit than new trumpeter, Dragon kit. Yup, it may be due to different catergories of subject but I think it got to do more with easier assemble and paint free of Gundam that attract more kids.

Unlike new trumpeter or Dragon kit, despite being also very detail. You still need glue and paint to make a military kit decent. While Gundam, even without painting still look presentable with it snap and complete concept.

101stAirborne

I had no idea Boba fett and railfan were kids. More kids than  I thought! I don't want to hear from all you old bags out there, so PIPE DOWN!!!  (just kidding)

OBVIOUSLY you thought we were adults because our boundless maturity.

I had no idea Boba fett and railfan were kids. More kids than  I thought! I don't want to hear from all you old bags out there, so PIPE DOWN!!!  (just kidding)

I'm currently 16, 17 in Jan.

Hun Hunter

Older than you guys, not as old as most guys here (no offense old timers )

30 here...but wanted to say how awesome it is to have y'all on here. I can't imagine where my modeling might have gone if I'd had access to something like this when I was a kid, but I stopped modeling regularly back around the time that AOL first started getting popular...

I'm a 54 year old child at heart.  Does that count?

Seriously, I'd put forward the proposition that all of us modelers are to some degree still kids at heart since most of us started modeling as kids and have either stayed with it or returned to it.  Not trying to hijack the thread, but it just struck me that we are probably more in touch with our "inner child" than many.  IMHO.

Bob

I'm 19, does that count? 

OWL

This thread reminds me of  GB's that we ran back in 2004, Old guns GB and Young guns GB....It was a lot of fun....

According to some people, I'm 13 with 47 years experience.

None taken, kid...

Older than you guys, not as old as most guys here (no offense old timers )

I guess you can count me in this bracket. I'm 16 (will be 17 in May)

That's about all I can think of for now.