Why did you start modeling?

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Like my profile says i started modeling (again) during a prolonged stay at the hospital.... Tried to read but i was too doped up to focus (you try reading a 500 page book on german submarines in another language with valium in your system...you get the point....)....tv has never really been my thing. So i basically just sat there day after day.

One day i was going bored out of my mind when it suddenly hit me that my father had the old big revell cutty sark in a closet... He painted the parts on the sprue (poorly) and lost interest. So i thought "why the h*ll not!" and started on it.

I was the talk of the day at the hospital once i finished her. And i never stopped modelling eversince. My wife is really kinda bored with it even though she would never admit it but she is happy i didnt pick up bars girls drugs and alcohol as a hobby

Richard

I lived a couple of miles from the school and downtown area and really wasn't into sports. I grew up during World War II . Building models of WWII airplanes seemed to be the right thing to do.

Tom Hering

The first time, as a kid in the early 1960s, it was a natural progression from Tinker Toys, to Lincoln Logs, to an Erector set, to a Kenner girder-and-panel set, to plastic model kits. My parents could see that I loved to build things, and gave me my first model kits as birthday and Christmas gifts.

 

WOW, been years since I thought about those Kenner sets. I loved those things! I only had one of the basic kits and  naturally didn't have enough material to build the really cool structures. Ha, I still have one of the girders around here somewhere.

My grandmother spent her Saurday's going to tag/yard sales and the local flea market.  She bought me a model and that's how I started.

Got back into modeling when I spent so much time in the VA hospital system and they gave us crafts/models/paint by numbers and stuff like that to do, so I restarted doing models to keep me busy and try not to be bored to death.  Now I use models to help take a break from school and work.

Tom Hering

The first time, as a kid in the early 1960s, it was a natural progression from Tinker Toys, to Lincoln Logs, to an Erector set, to a Kenner girder-and-panel set, to plastic model kits. My parents could see that I loved to build things, and gave me my first model kits as birthday and Christmas gifts.

Yeah what he said!!! My first model if I remember was the Creature from the Black Lagoon followed by the Robbie the Robot. Then started on aircraft and space craft as the space race developed.

I also had a vac-u-from. In fact I have one now.

Got back in about 4 years agao to do it with my grandson who is now 8 years old. Had to quit for awhile because of health but am back to it. I am currently doing 3 group builds, one of which is with the grandson.

My Grandfather got me into modeling I believe.I watched him build a Huey Cobra and an El Camino.The hook was set and I've been building ever since!

Because i wanted to and my dad made sailing ships and like most boys i wanted to do what my dad did.

I had always been a little airplane nut, as I grew up in the Air Force, with dad being a fighter pilot, and toy planes abounded in my room... We (Mom, me, & Sis) were spending a few weeks at my aunt & uncle's house back in 1967, while we got ready to move into base housing at Eglin AFB during Dad's 1st deployment to Vietnam.  He was flying F-100s back then, but I was more into the toy WW2 stuff and "green army men", and didn't know a Super Sabre from a MiG or a  "BUFF" from a "SLUF"...

My cousin Mark, who was a few years older than me, like age 10 or so, was a model builder, mostly cars, but airplanes too, and I was fascinated by his collection, as I's never seen any plastic models before...  So one afternoon while Mom & Aunt Donna were in town, Donna bought Mark a model, and she thought that it'd be somethin' I might like to try as well, since I was already a FAN (Frikkin' Airplane Nut), so she grabbed a couple 1/72 HAWK kits (.39 cents a copy back then), an F4U-1D Corsair and a Mk 22 Spitfire... Since I was "company" I got to choose which kit to build, and took the Spitfire... Been going ever since...

I remember the kit to this day, and even found another copy of it on Ebay and had to have it, just for nostaliga..

I even managed to bag the Corsair kit..

So there you have it... All it took was another modeler..

DoogsATX

For the chicks, obviously...

Yes, I like to see that glimmer in their eyes when I tell them I am building a 1/32 Hasegawa Fw190-D9!

Why did I start? Because I like to create stuff and imagine. I started building models at age 5. I remember my first kit built, with the help of my parents, was a 1/700? Revell USS Missouri. I used to watch airplanes fly over and became fascinated, so I started building model airplanes. I would wake up on a weekend morning to start building and, as we modelers know so well, it would instantly be 11pm or so. I must have built a hundred models back then, using testors enamels, brush and the red testors glue. I took a 15 year, or so, hiatus and got back into it again. This time, with all the tools I didn't have the resources for back then. Airbrush, paintbooth, ... the usual. I'm having a lot of fun with it!!

panzerpilot

DoogsATX:

For the chicks, obviously...

 

Yes, I like to see that glimmer in their eyes when I tell them I am building a 1/32 Hasegawa Fw190-D9!

a Fw-190D, you say? Oh I do declare!

LOL... this made my day.

Great post Owl.