plastic models, do you still build them?
 

Seems like the diecast models have taken over but I used to really enjoy model car building, Dad would always get me ship models for X-mas and its some of my fond memeries of dad and me building these ships. Seems like alost art these days but does anybody still build models, show your pictures if you have anything special, or your latest build

always have always will.

Just got a 1/24 VW 21 window kit.

I spent hours building 1/25" cars and trucks. Then I got my 914 so my scale is 1/1 now.:)

Not plastic but cheap. I down load and print these out and have a lot of fun building them!

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I've got a big box in the garage of old 1:25 models & parts from years ago. Haven't touched them in quite a while.

I enjoy building them, but I didn't get as hardcore into it as some. I never had the patience to do all of the painting and detail work. At one time, I did lots of WWII planes, and then I think I switched mostly to cars. I might have occasionally painted the body of the car. The last one that I put together was probably 12 years ago. I found a '65 Impala model by accident and bought it. (my first car was a '65 2dr). I ended up getting sick that night because of the fumes.

The reason that I don't do it these days is because of the time and space required. I've got too many interests. It comes way down the list. Once I've got it done, what am I going to do with it?

i'm in the process building a Lotus that was my gift this year from the PPOT Xmas Exchange. photos will follow at a later date....

Do I still build them? No not right now but I was 15 years ago.

I bought this about 6 years ago but haven't had the time or motivation to build it.

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These look cool. Any more info???

I bought the same kit at a yard sale a few years ago for $10 - it was opened, but not started, all the parts seem to be there. Like yours, it's been waiting to be built

I have two closests full of models I still have yet to build, and about 8 in various stages of completion. Have a Tamiya Nigell Mansell F1 1/12 scale Ive been working on for 15 yrs.:D

$10 bucks is a deal. :D

Here is a page out of an AutoWorld catalog. I used to spend hours going thru one of Oscar's catalogs. Models, slots, tools, paint, etc. Always wanted to go to Scranton Pa. to walk in the store.


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This thread looks familiar!
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Used to love those catalogs! Bought alot of my slot car stuff from them.

Look at those prices! Those same reissued kits are $20 now. Thats another big beef of mine the price of plastic models are out of control now.

The 1/12 935 kit goes for over $200 now.

I've built that one along with the Jagermeister 934. They are some of the finest model kits you will ever build.

Hee's a Tamiya 1/25th scale I need to finish up.

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This was my IMSA race team in 1977 (hey, a kid has to dream).....

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plastic models, do you still build them?
 

I do one or two a year maybe
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I have moved on from toys for boys to toys for adults...

In progress_Spirit of St Louis.
 

Thanks to Joeaksa for sparking my imagination.

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Yup - just finished a Delta Dart jet with our Son last week. Anyone want to donate an un-built Porsche model to his efforts PM me!

The Last Plastic Model Cars.......
 

That I built were these two Pocher Alfa Romeo models in 1/8th scale:

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The small scale Alfa Monoposto was a British cast metal kit from the early '70s.

I'm more into full-scale plastic models :D
To figure out duct and pipe routing and clearance for COPs, here's my current mock-up for 3.6 conversion exhaust and heat exchangers ...

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Some say ... the plastic plumbing fittings might outlast the OBX headers! :eek:

Like some of all of your work. As a kid, I did. Still do as an adult. Don't have as much time but so I like 1/24th die cast. But I just don't want to put them just on a shelf so I create scenes. Not that this doesn't take time.


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I like your thinking. That looks like a cool way to design stuff.

The heat exchangers look small but I'd bet they will still work effectively.
When new the interior of a 911 could be like an oven if you ran the heat full blast.
I heard a story were people were warming up canned food by placing it next to the heat outlets on the floor of an early car. (the ones with the small sliding door)

I dug a few up this AM. All of the ones from my childhood are long gone, there where terrible crashes and fires.:D Model glue burns very good.
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I built one of those. Was a major undertaking. 2,088 parts, as I recall. Your finished product looks great!

Do these have a white metal body or are they plastic?

Plastic. There are a significant number of metal pieces including assembly screws and individual wheel spokes.

I started as a kid, and guess I was pretty good at it. I would win ribbons and trophies at the car shows when I entered one of my models. I turned the hobby into a business, building professionally for customers and places like Exoto.
Met Jerry at the Porsche Memorabilia meet in the early 90s and started building for him over the next few years......
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that is art. thanks for sharing.

have several kits en route
Tamiya 1/48 Bae Hawk

ITALERI 1/48 A-4 SKYHAWK
HOBBY BOSS A-7A CORSAIR II
HASEGAWA F-4N PHANTOM USMC "ARK ROYAL"


And this afternoon a won an ebay auction for a Tamiya 1/32 Phantom ... at like 40 % cheaper then the shop price..


It's not that i'm much good at this modeling, at lot of the times i don't even bother painting em. It's in cycles, i bugger around with a couple of cheap ones, till i think i'm ready for a big expensive one.. buy me some rattle cans and give it ago..
Then i realize i'm not good at it :D

But it's good , clean fun, one of those few things that can really take my mind off "work" during winter time.

Wow.

The cars themselves, they didn't come as a kit did they? Everything else, you made from scratch?

Thanks.....
The cars are 1/24th scale plastic kits made by Fujimi. Pretty much everything in the garage is "kit bashed", taking parts and pieces from other kits and scratch building things out of sheet styrene. I've built a bunch of larger 1/18th scale dioramas and found some really cool things I was able to use from a place that sells doll house accessories. Things like a desk and chairs fit perfect for 1/18th scale.
One of the easiest things in the diorama was the Porsche posters.....I just cut them out of old Performance Products catalogs....perfect size!

If anyone wants to buy any Porsche models, built or unbuilt, just PM me, I've got over a thousand of them.

This is my most recent completion
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It's a 1/24 Tamiya kit with aftermarket decals and photo etch details by Studio 27.
I really enjoy building models...it's quite theraputic...clears your mind of whatever else is going on in your life, and gives a sense of pride when you do a good job.
I have a big collection of unbuilt plastic kits (probably 300+) and half as many again in 1/43 scale metal/multi-media.
These ones are Tamiya 1/20 scale kits.
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The JPS one has aftermarket decals, the Camel one is standard.
Cheers
Tania

Just a couple of points I would like to make...

I found that I would get to about 75% complete and then begin to loose interest.
And then begin another model. So what I did was make a rule that I can not begin another model until the one I was building was 100%.

Also, have a dedicated area in your house that isn't used for anything else if you can.
So you don't have top keep packing things up and shifting them about. That's usually when I would damage something.