What this forum has done for me........

[Sledsel]

Hello all, I have been thinking about my builds lately and realized building has changed since finding this forum tears ago. I used to get a kit and with my limited build time could have it done in a week or 2. Nice paint, BMF, maybe some plug wires, pretty much out of the box, all looked good. Move on to the next one.

THEN................. I found this forum, saw what others were doing (there are a lot of talented people here) and the thought of "I can do better for myself" came upon me. I started getting kits for parts, scratch builing, changing suspensions, looking at and correcting body flaws, filling and sanding out parting lines where things were glued together, customizing, adding more detail, HOARDING kits, ect ect...

Now I get maybe 3-4 kits done in a year and have more unbuilt kits than any hobby store I have been in. 

I am sharing a photo of an AMT '73 Mustang, the car on the left is what I WOULD have built, the one on the right is an "in progress" of what y'all caused.

Well guys... Thanks a lot. The disease has spread to me thru my computer and I am sick... sick I tell you!!!

 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 09:40 PM by Sledsel

[Mattilacken]

We have all goten that bug or part of it at some point. I did swap parts and sow on before the forums but I did quickly find one, not this one, where I got a lot of great teqniques. But I believe it made me also to want to be "perfect" as Manny other builds on the forums, and that was a double edged knife, some times it made me to get better and some times it made me shoot for such a high goal so I got overwhelmed. Its this last year I found a level that is enough for me, gives nice result and looks good in pics but I don't kill my interest in the builds.

[Khils]

2 hours ago, Mattilacken said:

.....gives nice result and looks good in pics but I don't kill my interest in the builds

That is exactly what the hobby should be!

Build for yourself, advancement and one's own liking!

Contests and judging are Overrated!                ( usually in favor of their own )

NNL 's  are reflected by your comrades !

 

Edited Thursday at 10:33 PM by Khils
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[Dragline]

I too got afflicted with the very symptoms you have 17 years ago when I joined this site. I was detailing my drag cars already, but there were a few builders here (they no longer come here) who were true masters. I studied at their feet and absorbed all that I could. 

This place will up almost anyone's game. It's just how this type of back and forth works.

[Beans]

14 hours ago, Dragline said:

This place will up almost anyone's game. It's just how this type of back and forth works.

Exactly!!  I have found a happy medium between crazy detail and having a model I am happy with that doesn't bend my patience.  For every super detailed build I complete I will do 1 or 2 quicker less detailed builds.  

That being said, even my less detailed builds have benefitted greatly from being a member here. 

[bobss396]

I need to throttle back on the Frankenstein builds. They are a black hole of time. But so is making a 60 year old kit look decent.

I just moved my model area back to my finished basement. I have 20+ stalled builds (BACK IN THE BOX!!), endless 3D printed parts, well over 120 cans of paint.

This year I finished 2 builds, started about 9 others. I see guys in my club that build anywhere from 3 to 8 models per MONTH. But most are box stock-ish.

[MeatMan]

Ditto most of above, but I'm getting to a "happy place" now. I've narrowed the types and detail level that I want to build. Some will be very detailed (I don't have the patience for super detailed), and some will be well just be detailed. I have some minimum levels of detail all my builds must have, that's now my criteria.

[WillyBilly]

Agreed

So much artistic talent here. From beginners to those who make their own model kits. There are two types of builders IMO. Those who build to make show room, or show, and those who make them worn looking with patina, dents, and rust.  There is just something cool about taking a childhood hobby and turning it into an art without even knowing you did it.

Edited yesterday at 02:06 PM by WillyBilly

[johnyrotten]

This forum opened an entirely different lane of creativity for me. So much talent,styles and ideas on what to do and how to do it. I jumped back in blind to the level people take their builds. Seriously, I never went to shows or had any clue the hobby was to the scale(no pun intended) it is. It's also given me many relaxing hours,and a good sense of accomplishment from the skills I've picked up here. Of course, this could be the glue fumes talking. 

[JollySipper]

1 hour ago, johnyrotten said:

I jumped back in blind to the level people take their builds. Seriously, I never went to shows or had any clue the hobby was to the scale(no pun intended) it is.

That was me when I found the forum........... I just kind of had to 'forget' what I thought I knew about assembling kits (as that's all I did) and learn what doing it as an art was!