Which is yor favorite part?

Painting. I always joke that I started modeling as an excuse to buy an airbrush :-)

Hans... you are my frugal hero!

One of the things I like to do is with seats and their exposed backs, is to use the little "curlies" from the micro drill to represent the exposed loop-springs in the back of the seat. 

Finally was able to get PhotoBucket to (sort of) work...

Airbrushing! No surprise huh?

I also love decaling.

No-brainer.. For me, it's all in the scratch-building of super-details... For aircraft, it's interior ribbing, ammo belts, ring-sights, cables & wiring, engine ignition harnesses and pushrods..

Monogram B-26 radio/navigator compartment

Scratch-built pilot's yoke on the same model:

For Armor it's gun breeches, seating, engines and cooling systems, ammo-stowage, secondary armament, fire-control systems, and that kind of stuff.. One of the things I like to do is with seats and their exposed backs, is to use the little "curlies" from the micro drill to represent the exposed loop-springs in the back of the seat.  I'll see if I can get a picture pasted of what I mean.. PhotoBucket's acting up right now and I can't get my "Armor-Interiors" album to open..

I also love kitbashing (Frankensteining) figures, getting the poses I want out of the stuff in several boxes of figures, sometimes taking as many as as three or four different figure sets to get one guy in a pose... That allows me to build the dioramas I do, with the figures made to fit the story, rather than the story fit the available figures...

It´s clear that depending on what you are building (tank, plane, wife), the "best" part is different. But I insist, you have to love the feeling of applying a large decal over a soft, glossy surface; watching as it blends with the back paintjob, helped by a beautiful bed of micro set. 

Just kidding very good posts!!

A.S.

I couldn't control myself anymore last night.  I cracked open (again) the Trumpy up-armored BMP-3 just to look at everything. Mmmmmmmmm, it's purrrrrrrrty! 

That's going to be the next one I start one as soon as the Tamiya M2A2 Bradley ODS gets done.  The wife is going out of town for three days starting Sunday so I'm hoping to get the detail work all done!

the real red baron

if this counts my favourite part of building a model is getting nice comments here about my model and how i can improve it. That and also sitting back and looking at my finished model.

For aircraft it would be painting and decaling.

For armor its weathering. I like to see a clean tank come to life with some weathering.

Figure I may as well try a serious answer...

- Main Assembly. Not the fiddly bits, but fitting the fuselage and wings, or the hull of a tank. Especially when it's the kind of kit where you're thinking "this is never going to work" and it does. Seeing the collection of plastic suddenly look like something.

- With armor, the first test-fitting of the completed tracks. Since I tend to work with friuls a lot, they usually look really cool in the bare metal, and add a ton of presence to the tank that it just doesn't have otherwise.

- With aircraft, airbrushing the paint scheme. Especially if I'm doing shading and blending, seeing it go from looking terrible to awesome.

- Any time I remove masking and it's not awful!

- Weathering

- On biplanes, rigging. Yes, it's very tedious and eyestrain inducing. But it's also very relaxing in its way.

anthony2779

stikpusher:

 

A.S.:

 

So..I´m the only one that loves decaling.......?I´m starting to worry........

 

 

Try decalling a NMF F-84 with all those dang stencils... that will cure ya...

 

no,I said I like decaling,especially planes,like an F-4 Phantom.or a 70's Tomcat or a CAG bird,it just comes alive with the decaling

If you do armor you probably enjoy the idividual track links too... I find the two about the same... something tedious to get it to look better... the steps after are usually more enjoyable to me, where it takes final appearance and form. I do love the looks of the high visibility 50s thru 70s markings though.

modeler#1

walking away from the cashier...with kit in hand

Or accepting delivery from the UPS or mailman !!

stikpusher

 

A.S.:

 

So..I´m the only one that loves decaling.......?I´m starting to worry........

 

 

Try decalling a NMF F-84 with all those dang stencils... that will cure ya...

no,I said I like decaling,especially planes,like an F-4 Phantom.or a 70's Tomcat or a CAG bird,it just comes alive with the decaling

A.S.

So..I´m the only one that loves decaling.......?I´m starting to worry........

Try decalling a NMF F-84 with all those dang stencils... that will cure ya...

Weathering,,,,     I do enjoy that aspect of the hobby

if this counts my favourite part of building a model is getting nice comments here about my model and how i can improve it. That and also sitting back and looking at my finished model.

macattack80

I like the assembly portion of model building.  Although exploring a new kit in the box is fun.   I will agree that the decals gives the model more life but I am not a huge fan of applying them.  For me its the make it or break it part of the build....and I usually break it. 

Good topic by the way.

you are right......theres a great feeling opening the box and exploring the sprues...that enjoyment goes waaayyy back to my first kits...

I like the assembly portion of model building.  Although exploring a new kit in the box is fun.   I will agree that the decals gives the model more life but I am not a huge fan of applying them.  For me its the make it or break it part of the build....and I usually break it. 

Good topic by the way.

walking away from the cashier...with kit in hand

Wow!  That's freakin' awesome!! 

carsanab

knowing the camo scheme came out better than expected...

 

That scheme did come out great.

Don't worry A.S..

I like decaling too.

knowing the camo scheme came out better than expected...

So..I´m the only one that loves decaling.......?I´m starting to worry........

Researching and buying the kit in the first place. That and finishing them. I also like when I remove the masking on canopies as it is only then the thing looks like it is finished.

Building/detailing tank turrets.

Filling and sanding seams is pretty relaxing to me, especially since I've acquired a wide range of different shapes and grades of sticks.  My favorite part is definitely opening up the kit and when I first start wielding the sprue cutters and gluing together parts.  Building something that looks like a plane from a collection of bits of plastic is what I'm in the hobby for.  Painting is great but I'm not good enough at it yet for it to be anything but nerve wracking.  As noted in the 'parts you hate' thread, though, I just don't understand you guys who think masking the canopy is fun.  

Can I make a list of those that responded that way and ship y'all my canopies for masking?  I won't even charge you for the pleasure.  

B-17 Guy

I'll add that the least favorite part is still.......sanding seams!

My favorite part is the first few days/hours of the build. When you open the box and start pulling parts out, and start to assemble and paint various bits of the plane. When you have the initial excitement still of the new build.

I'll add that the least favorite part is still.......sanding seams!

Research...without a doubt...  But if you mean hands on modelling related i'd say masking canopies and the assembly work. So relaxing

Richard