What Model got you back into building

[peterairfix]

A first Dr dalek , does this have the dish on the back Peter?

Not at the moment as its slowly going thru a refurbisment as its now 15 years old and nearly imposible to find another one.

Peter t

[Peej]

Built loads when I was a kid but I must have lost interest and didn't do any for years. About 20 years ago I had a bad motorbike crash and started painting citadel figures for something to do. I live in Bomber County (Lincolnshire) not far from RAF Coningsby so I'm fortunate to regularly see the BBMF fly over. My wife bought me the BBMF kit as a Xmas present a couple of years ago and it got me hooked.

[Guest]

What started me was going past the local toy etc. shop for the umpteenth time and eventually going in and asking "How much is a Spitfire". The seller was (is) an expert modeller and the rest is history.

[dave]

Used to build loads as a kid. But got back into modelling building war hammer 40k kits for my son.

[Guest]

From 13 or so to 43 I built absolutely nothing! But my first kit 4 years ago was Tamiya's Tiger I late version - no longer with me, which is probably a good thing!

[bazers]

Like most of you started as a kid building airfix planes then saw bellona military plans and got hooked on scratch building a f v,

then in my late teens it was girls bikes etc then got married still built the odd kit then a mate got me interested in r c aircraft did that for about 13 years drawing up my own plans building and crashing them not touching a kit for all that time .

i then saw a mag with dragsters and hot rods in it and that started me building kits again after building cars for about 15 years i donated 75 of my dragsters to the national hot rod museum in america, wanted a change so started building locos for a few years then BRANCHED into rail guns.!!!!!

Sorry its bit long winded thats the story of my modeling life.

[Guest]

[ATTACH]95232[/ATTACH] All i can say is this did.Peter t

I like Daleks, preferrably from behind the sofa! Is that the Severn's dalek? I sold one about 10 years ago for about £60 on e-bay.

Back to the subject... My son bought a Mini from Modelzone when it was closing and said, they had some good offers, I bought a 1/450 USS Missouri and I was hooked again.

[Guest]

I stopped building models when i was about 17 due to me moving around with the RAF (Beer, women and motorbikes also played their part lol). I re-started again when i was about 33. My first kit I made when I came back into models was an Airfix 1/72 Lancaster B.III http://allynesmodels.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/here-are-older-kits-ive-done.htmlI still have it to remind me of just how far my building and painting skills have come since I re-started

Ha Ha so 17 to 33 beer women and motorbikes Allyne. Ah so what happened seemed a good life until 33 ?

Laurie

[Gern]

I'll tell her...Si

That's cruel! What's Laurie done to upset you?

[Ian M]

Revel's re-pop of the 1/72 HMS Bluebell. Bought a truck load of photoetch and metal detail sets for it. that was four, almost five years ago. One day I might get it finished.

You can see it at the back of the build bench in most of my under construction threads...

Ian M

[rickoshea52]

I think like Al the wonderful world of cheap drinks in NAAFI and squadron bars, chasing girls and going to gigs was the cause of my modelling hiatus. Then when I found "the one" and moved in with her the first Christmas present she bought me was a Flying Scotsman train set (she got a Scalextric). The model railway journey started and kits needed building for my layouts.

When Airfix released their Nimrod I bought two but didn't really catch the bug again until I watched The Battle of Midway one Sunday afternoon followed by a visit to Modelzone and all these kits fell into my arms.

I still have the model railway but as usual there are too many models and not enough time.

[Guest]

I never stopped building, just changed to scratch building for years I did it then last year I bought the Academy tiger and I've been hooked ever since not done one single bit to my scratch builds(and I'm sure they're sighing with releif).