Chicken or Egg?

[Guest]

It started as just something to do. Bought a 1/76 M19 tank transporter, for something to do over the christmas break. Should have bought a tank.........so i did, a 1/35 Patton. Then another, and..........well i'm sure its all familiar to you.

Then joined a forum, started a blog, looked up subjects on t'internet. And now i even watch the Discovery channel, have an overwhelming desire to visit military museums, and have just added 2 WW11 books to my birthday list.

So my weekend 'one off' hobby, has turned into an interest. I actually want to know about the war, and the machinery. (luckily enough, Mrs DD has an interest in wartime life, so its working out quite well).

What came first for everybody else. Modelling or an interest in their subject (tanks, boats, cars, Star Wars etc)??

[Guest]

Definitely an interest in the subject matter-all those war films I watched as a kid left their mark! Then I discovered Matchbox!

Patrick

[Guest]

Modelling first, then came "inspired building". Now I read books (sometimes fiction, but preferably biographical) and build the vehicles that feature in the books. So I have a truck from a book called Amber, about the Russo-Afgan conflict, and now a Huey from Chickenhawk (and every other book or movie about the Vietnam war). It's inspired building 'cos then it don't really have to be accurate!

Haven't read anything with an FW190 in it yet!

Tony B

[PJP]

Egg or chicken or chicken or egg or..........

I served in the army for some time and as part of the job, needed to understand some military history because today is grounded in yesterday and fighting wars doesn't change a lot, only the kit you do it with, which led to books, which led to visits to battlefields, which led to museums, which led to seeing models, and here I am, seriously concerned about my modelling abilities when it comes to the group build!!

So, chicken or egg?

[Guest]

I've always been interested in honing my creative/artistic skills. I used to do drawing and painting years ago but developed a fascination with the military. Hence why straight after uni i joined the army but i did a four eyar stint. I got into modelling really a year ago (after unsucsessfully trying it as a teenager) and initially planned to master the construction side. Now i've done a few models i'm trying to be a bit more exact with colours, insignia etc.

I religiously follow the ancient Chinese proverb: First master skill; creativity comes later.

Paul

[Gern]

..... so there's this chicken, lying in bed with a self-satisfied grin, smoking a cigarette. Next to it is a rather bored looking egg saying: "I guess that's sorted the question of which came first!"

It's OK, I've already got my coat.

Gern

[Guest]

Dear oh dear Gern!!! ))

[Guest]

That's 'cracking' me up, not a bad yolk.

Now where is that straight jacket, there coming to take me away. lol.

[spanner570]

Both modelling and an interest came together for me thanks to my late dad.

Being ex. R.A.F. Regiment, he taught me aircraft recognition, how to build them, allsorts.

During the war he started modelling by carving aircraft out of solid wood...so good were they that they were used to demonstrate tactics ect to new fliers.

He was even arrested as a suspected spy for making a model of the Westland Whirlwind, which at the time was top secret...he was released when he explained it was his hobby, but the model was 'removed'

I was weaned on Kiel Kraft balsa aircraft, then came Airfix plastic kits! Wo hey!! and away we went like a production factory!

Then puberty, the wonderful '6os, girls and booze came along and I stopped serious modelling until the middle of last year, don't know why I started again, never made any armour in my life..

I have always been an avid reader of all things military so I have always had an interest from day one.

Like a few people on here, I had a dad in the services so I guess it's in the blood and in my case was just bubbling away waiting for the lid to be removed again!

Ron

[Gern]

Ron,

I dunno why you wasted all that time on booze an' girls! Just think how many dioramas you could've finished instead!

Tut tut!

Gern

[Guest]

I'm not realy sure how i got into modeling as there was no one in my family who took interest in this hobby. I think if anyone it would have to been a friend of mine from Grangemouth called Mark Sandford who i have not seen for oh some twenty years. OUCH, that long. He was a modeler beyond his years right from a young age there was nothing he could not put his hands to. I suppose it helps when your parents are supportive and give you encouragement in your live changing decisions, all i got was "Don't make a mess". But i quess my first build was probably a Spitfire infact i'm sure it was and if i remember there was probably three tins of paint on the model as i didn't know any better as i was only seven at the time.

[simontie]

being a work alcoholic my only interest was in Moto gp, then about a year ago I started to get really tired quite easy found out a valve in my heart was not working the way it should, panic set in not because of the op just the thought of being laid up for 3 months or longer so I bought some Tamiya bike kits and a whole load of Tamiya paints something to do that was not stressful so far I have built 3 off them and they look ok. I was a bit disappointed with the first one but a mate told me if it was taking my mind off the recovery it was worth it, there slowly getting better as I am, the bottom line is it showed me there is more to life than working 7 days a week. I also have a father who was in the RAF he flew in all types of aircraft and many years ago I bought a mark 3 Shackleton I found it in the loft and started that at Christmas that’s just about finished filling and painting to do but it take’s my mind off the boredom interesting thing for me was I also started to look into what happened to the original aircraft and instead of building the one I had I investigated the squadrons my dad was in I have to admit it was all pretty interesting stuff

[Guest]

For me all of my family including me are ex-military when i was just a kid i used to stay with my garndparents at the weekend and my grandad used to tell me stories of the war later i found out that my grandad was one of the BEF who was taken off the beaches at Dunkirk. As a child my first book was lord of the rings and as i have always had a fertile imagination i could see these things in my head as they were described to me, it followed that i loved military history great battles etc so model building was the next logical step.My first kit was a Heinkel HE111 german bomber that when built looked a terrible sight, at 16 i joined the army till 19 then after a lot that went on i have only in the past year and a half taken the hobby up again. Now my wife has taken it up as well i got sick of her always saying yes dear thats nice so i dared her to try and now like me she loves it.

scott