Did some modelling......

[K@mpso]

.............of the Airfix variety as the older lad got a tank one from Santa. Bloody frustrating thing and he wants it painted up too. Seems like it would have been easier painting the bits before they were stuck on...... :slap:

And now he has seen me struggling a further box of plastic bits has been purchased - HMS Belfast. He should have learnt from my last attempt a year ago to make one of the red arrows.

[StretfordEnd]

Ah, polystyrene cement, nothing quite like it for glueing the wrong bits to one another. :thumb

[argyle-ive]

I used to be quite good at that malarky, I even painted distressed bullet holes and used hot pins for fuseleage damage in my ME109s
I was a right nerd when I was a kid! :clap:

[zippy]

One of my hobbies that,1/48th scale aircraft.
Next project is the new Handley Page Hampden from Fonderie Miniatures (box art below).
Not be easy as its a multi media kit with plastic,metal and resin parts and vac formed canopies.I only do about 4 kits a year as they take ages and have got so bloody expensive that I can't afford anymore.

[Andy]

The fighter planes are easy it's the bombers which are difficult.

[zippy]

These days there is a huge market for after market super detailing sets and you can easily spend fifty or sixty quid on a kit so ballsing them up is not an option.
There is a distinctive difference between the cheap 1/72 scale kits made for the younger end of the market and the limited run stuff made for hobbyists.
The after market ranges in decals and metal/resin detail sets for engines,interiors,cockpits etc made by firms such as Eduard,Aires or Aeromaster is huge (and expensive).
Then there is the price of an airbrush and a compressor.It's no longer the cheap hobby of my youth.

[Canary Fairy]

I hate those kit things. Im not in the least artistic. Not quite the same, but my son got Hagrid's Hut Lego set for Christmas one year. About a thousand bits of lego and a impatient son! http://thmg.photobucket.com/albums/v170/Jamescush/Smilies/th_gaah.gif

[powerage]

I used to collect Warhammer :laugh:

I was shite at doing it though, not artistic in any way shape or form, give me a paint brush and I'm dangerous.

[SouthEastClaret]

I hate those kit things. Im not in the least artistic. Not quite the same, but my son got Hagrid's Hut Lego set for Christmas one year. About a thousand bits of lego and a impatient son! http://thmg.photobucket.com/albums/v170/Jamescush/Smilies/th_gaah.gif

My ex's son got two Spiderman Lego toys from his Mum. He buggered off to bed after he'd asked me to help him build it.
Took me hours! I'd never used lego before...:(

[liverway]

I used to collect Warhammer :laugh:

I was shite at doing it though, not artistic in any way shape or form, give me a paint brush and I'm dangerous.

Tried Warhammer once, was well impressed by the examples they had in the window of the shop, it's bloody hard to do a good paint job on them, the guys in the shops have all sorts of tricks with undercoats of paint and they use a different glue from the one you get, I know this as my mate used to manage one of their shops.