Bonjour Gentlemen,
There's a bit of a story attached to this one.
Whenever possible I try to encourage any youngsters I know to take up this hobby as I know I learnt a lot and it gave me a lot of enjoyment when I was young. So I had this kit (Revell) and gave it to Marlin, the son of a friend, to do, complete with glue and some paints. However, after some time he gave it back as he had started it but given up.
Shame.
(His dad admitted that he should have given him more help...)
So I was left with a partially built model, some of which was painted, some of which was stuck together. The body was in Matt black - I think he was going the Rat Rod style.
I kept putting it to one side and wasn't sure what to do with it, but in the end I got some 5 spoke wheels from Pegasus and thought I'd have a go at finishing it in a "Bobby Alloway" style (look it up)
Going for gloss black was probably a mistake because, as you all know, it shows up every imperfection, and despite my rubbing it down and respraying 3 times its still not good.
But I was really just keen on getting the stance right, which meant a lot of re-working of the suspension to the extent that its now really just a Kerb Side model, i.e. no chassis or engine detail.
I will still try to interest any youngsters in taking up scale modelling, but its hard to get them away from anything which involves clicking buttons or tapping screens. Modelling is not instant gratification. So many say to me (I'm sure you've heard it as well) "I haven't got your patience" . But of course You don't get patience then build models, you get patience by building models.
Anyway, I'll shut up now as I'm sure I'm preaching to the converted.
Peter
There's a bit of a story attached to this one.
Whenever possible I try to encourage any youngsters I know to take up this hobby as I know I learnt a lot and it gave me a lot of enjoyment when I was young. So I had this kit (Revell) and gave it to Marlin, the son of a friend, to do, complete with glue and some paints. However, after some time he gave it back as he had started it but given up.
Shame.
(His dad admitted that he should have given him more help...)
So I was left with a partially built model, some of which was painted, some of which was stuck together. The body was in Matt black - I think he was going the Rat Rod style.
I kept putting it to one side and wasn't sure what to do with it, but in the end I got some 5 spoke wheels from Pegasus and thought I'd have a go at finishing it in a "Bobby Alloway" style (look it up)
Going for gloss black was probably a mistake because, as you all know, it shows up every imperfection, and despite my rubbing it down and respraying 3 times its still not good.
But I was really just keen on getting the stance right, which meant a lot of re-working of the suspension to the extent that its now really just a Kerb Side model, i.e. no chassis or engine detail.
I will still try to interest any youngsters in taking up scale modelling, but its hard to get them away from anything which involves clicking buttons or tapping screens. Modelling is not instant gratification. So many say to me (I'm sure you've heard it as well) "I haven't got your patience" . But of course You don't get patience then build models, you get patience by building models.
Anyway, I'll shut up now as I'm sure I'm preaching to the converted.
Peter
