Which Kind of Modeler Are You ?

I'd have to say that I'm a senior or master modeller - but I'm not really interested in rivet counting.
I'd much rather see a really well finished model (and maybe slightly inaccurate) than spend months or years doing the anal retentive rivet count.
I always try to buy models from the "better" end of the scale rather than the cheap and nasty kits that take tons of work to make presentable - I just can't be bothered with them. I'd rather be choosy about what I buy and have a better starting point.

tsk tsk.........way interesting posts.........
and don't it all read like therapy...

I consider myself a SEASONAL MODELER. I do a lot of KIT COLLECTION year round constantly adding to my 1/48 scale WWII USAAF/USN stash. But work towards the MASTER MODELLER status from about November thru April. Weather just gets too nice to not be outside and play. Speaking of which... what the heck am I doing here?

*grabs golf clubs and runs out door*

i'm the lay in bed at nite type of modeller, thinking about all the great things i'm going to create out of this box of goodies i just convinced my wife that we just must have. of course she looks in the closet, under the bed, in the garage, in the attic at me!! and realizes, she married a hopeless romantic. semper fi, mike

I'd call myself the solitary modeler. I buy kits of subjects that interest me, sometimes buy a few aftermarket bits/decals and add it to my kit stash. When it time for the next project I sit back and choose from whats in front of me and imagine it becoming a museum piece.
(yeah, OK in my dreams!)
Point is, I don't see myself in any of the above categories I just plod along at my own pace and try to do better each time, well when I get time!

I'd have to be a immature/master modeler,i don't bother with the cheap and nasty kits
[unless i really want the subject ]i'd rather do a nice Tamiya or Hasegawa kit,i don't go for much aftermarket parts only seatbelts and brake lines on my A/C i'd rather spend time getting the paintjob right because bottomline you can add all the detail in the world
but if your painting is bad then the model is bad.
Aftermarket parts will come when i've gained more experience with Airbrushing and weathering.
Oh yeah Seanrgb your Phantoms look OK to me.

QUOTE: -Put into imaginary displays and dioramas that may never eventuate

I hear you on that one, with every kit i buy.

I think I'm somewhere between the 'Mature' and the 'Immature'.

The difference is I actually try and finnish my kits, but like South Aussie, the finnishing often takes a while!!!

Karl

Somewhere between mature modeler and master builder, but closer to mature. No way you could call me a master.

So who saw me on Google researching the last model I was going to build...then put away?

I think I'm about a bit of all of the above except the rivet counter and the master builder.

I'd be closest to mature modeler. I don't look in the box before purchase often, I use citadel sprue nippers, but the rest is pretty much par.