- Member since
June 2006
- From: Davenport, IA
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Posted by Disco
on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:07 PM
Go to a show sometime, and your intimidation factor will ramp up about twenty notches. It's pointless, but it happens. There are some very talented people out there. The only person you need to compete with is yourself, building, learning, making the current project better than the last. And as time goes by you might be tempted to go back and redo some of your past 'mistakes', but don't; they are your best gauge of your progress. You're also going to get ten thousand suggestions of what paint, glue, airbrush, compressor, light, etc, etc ad nauseum to use, and everyone is right, but.... Bear in mind, all these things are what works for THEM, and may not work for you. I'll be more than happy to tell you what works for me, and why I use it, but what I build, and my working conditions could be very different from yours, so my ideas may not be relevant.. You didn't mention where you're located, or your age; both can have a bearing on what advice to give about various things. Here is a link to IPMS/USA (International Plastic Modelers Society) http://www.ipmsusa.org/. On the left is a link marked Chapter and RC directory. That will open up a US map with the various IPMS regions. Click on your state and it will show various chapters and their contact person. It also shows where and when that chapter meets. You don't need an invitation either; I have yet to see one that would turn someone away for just showing up at a meeting unannounced. It would be great if you were local to me. I'm President of our local chapter (Quad Cities Scale Modeler Society in Region 5), and we're always looking for new members to torture. I have been drastically thinning my stash of kits, and if it would help get you started, I would be more than happy to send you a few that are older and easy to build, for nothing more than the cost of shipping them to you, maybe not even that, depending on how generous I feel that day. As someone else mentioned, when you're buying kits and supplies, support your local hobby shop first and foremost. After that, for lack of a better choice, Hobby Lobby, then internet. I'm not a big fan of HL because of their business practices and typically higher prices. Feel free to send me a PM if you care to if you have more questions.
Why isn't phonics spelled like it sounds?
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