discussion how old?

[Guest]

not to be rude or anything but i was watching james mays toy stories and he said that most modellers nowadays are adults is this true?

im not an adult so i dont really know!

john.

 

[spanner570]

Good, we have your name now john.....I'll start this rolling. I have my bus pass. If you're not sure how old that makes me, ask yer dad!!!

Seriously, it's good that someone like yourself, a youngster by comparison is model making...well done.

I, and I know others will do all we can to help you out. So any questions? Don't be worried if you think them silly, we wont. Just post them and I'm sure the troops will rally round and help.

Cheers,

Ron

 

[stona]

I think he is probably correct. Many modellers originally started as youngsters but drifted away when work/family type commitments took more of their time only to return later when they found the time to revisit their old hobby. There are of course many younger modellers and really age has nothing to do with someones enjoyment of a hobby although my eyes aren't quite as good as they once were! It makes no difference whether you are twelve or seventy years old. I think it is very important for younger enthusiasts to come into the hobby and hopefully find help and encouragement on sites like this.

James May made a very good program and I think he was a little sceptical,at the outset,of the young peoples interest in (not ability with) plastic scale models.I thought the enthusiasm of some of the young people (particularly in the bit when he had set up a sort of Spitfire production line,which produced some decent looking models) surprised him as much as anyone else!

I have a 12 year old nephew who is very interested in aircraft (both real and models) and he makes a much better job of his than I did at his age.

Steve

 

[Guest]

I'm in my 30's and i've only just started building models, i mean like 2 weeks ago! As far as i can recall i never made any models when i was younger, technical lego and a bit of meccano was all i got my mits on. So i have the joys of gluing my fingers together and getting annoyed at my rubbish painting to come!

Cheers

Wayne

 

[Guest]

I think the programme was right. I made Matchbox 1/76 models when I was a kid but left it behind around the same time as I discovered girls! Patrick

 

[Guest]

I've just turned 31 and liek has been said, i drifted away from modeeling as a teenager in persuit of girls and having to invest my time in going out, parties, and sometimes doing work for uni. But now i have a steady job, a family and my social life has dwindled somewhat. Also now in Moscow the temp is at -20 so no one really goes out; great time to get some modeeling done.

Paul

 

[Guest]

I'm 55 and only been doing models for a few months and enjoying every moment of it, started with an airfix rescue gift set of a hellicopter and severn class lifeboat but need to learn some techniques like i've read about. But its great to see the younger people doing this.Colin

 

[Guest]

44 just started

You are not to far away in Bristol

 

[Guest]

Paul, I'm shocked! Look at your spelling & you a teacher! tut tut! ;-)

 

[Guest]

Sorry Patrick, i blame my typing skills for my poor spelling as well as my spelling can i blame my fingers for being frozen?

 

[sjrixon]

31 on the 17th. Used to do a lot as a kid (and late teen). Not sure what made me start again, i just got the itch and needed to scratch it.

I think part of it was doing something that didn't involve looking at a screen. I work on a computer all day, love my racing and flight sims, so spend too much time in front of my PC. But now balancing, work, sim racing, flight sims, golf, modeling and the girlfriend, I think a kit will last me a while

 

[Guest]

I know what you mean about balancing duties. My g/f really supports my modelling and even joins in herself sometimes - but i'm too much of a backseat driver My kits usually take a while too. I get home at 10pm every night so i only get a few hours on the weekend. But in January there's a 10 day national holiday so i'll definately knuckle down and send the g/f and kids off to the log-cabin and have some well-earned peace

Paul

 

[Guest]

lol as you're in deepest, darkest Russia, I'll forgive you!

 

[Guest]

ive been modeling since i was 8, i stopped when i was 11 and have started now 5 years on, just because in cadets i have a model competition and i thought i would give it a bash.

i was never any good, but i used to rush em and try build them, and paint them in a day.

i have some spitfires that put me to shame

haha

and its good to see young modellers.

iain

 

[Guest]

I'm 56 and I've returned after a 30+ year break. What bought me back is that I collect dicast planes and I was missing some models that either were done long ago and hard to get or some models not made at all so I came back to plastic. 2nd time around for me is a lot better as regards materials used to make models. A lot more type of glues for a start (never had super glue back then. How many of us had the tube of plastic cement that went everywhere with long thin glue trails as you removed it ) and of corse we have the Internet and Forums like here to help. Some things aint changed. Still cant use an airbrush

Peter

 

[Guest]

I started about 6 months ago with a spitfire i made for my sons ceiling. Yes i think every boy should have at least 1 model dangeling from a bit of string. Anyway i enjoy spending the odd hour glueing, painting, sanding ,swearing getting really anoyed and throwing a big wobbly. It shore as hell beats watching T.V. Now my son has a miniture Battle Of Britain going on above his bed. I think as long as you enjoy making models age is not an issue. Paul .

 

[Guest]

I used to do loads when I was a lad - kind of went by the wayside with the advent of beer and girls. An unintentional period of liesure in the early nineties saw me revisit the hobby briefly. I'm now working in Japan with no nagging other half and a lot more free time (and some of the greatest model shops in the world) so have started again.

I can control it.. Just the odd kit every now and then. Ooooh shiney...

 

[Guest]

I also used to build models as a kid, when Airfix came in a plastic bag with a card stapled to it. A long time ago.... Although I watched the James May prog, I am not sure if it made me want to start again or not but, as mentioned above, I spend far too much time staring at a computer screen at work and at home so I think the idea of doing something with my hands again will be good and kits are my way of doing just that. I have a very basic tool kit, no airbrush and work on the kitchen table. My first effort is an Airfix Westland Whirlwind and a P47 Thunderbolt. I know they will not be very good but I am preparing a few 'sacrificial Lambs' to get to grips with it again before investing any great money in kits or equipment.

Found this site from loads of searching and, as you may have guessed, am new on here and am 58 years young.... never too late to learn something new.

 

[Guest]

Hi John i started building kits when i was about 10 or12 to about the age of 16 at which time i joined the army for 3 years and never really had the time until my mid twenties then i got married, I am now 40 and i only started again early last year and i love it. It is nice to see younger people coming into modeling and i hope you love it enough to do it for many years to come.

scott

 

[Guest]

I am 47 and started in july of this year. I have two partially built trucks (Scania) but in no hurry, partly because of funding. I built my first plane out of balsa at school. I then got a nitro plane on string a few years later but couldn't even afford the petrol as, life was very hard. Now I am back to my childhood enjoying all the toys I never had, and getting my sons involved too...