Why do you build model cars?

[Green Duster]

I build because I like to. I don't care what other people think of the cars. I haven't been in a club for at

least 10 years. I like hanging around with other modelers, but where I live you can't get anybody together

for a club anymore.

I build because I want to!

[Qwit Pushin]

My name is Johnny Holt and I'm a styrene plastic addict.

Rule number one here at Styrene Anonymous: last names are not necessary, only open, honest discourse.

[mopar01lee]

I started building when i was 6 or 7 , my first model i will never forget . it was the swamp rat dragster,an a 32 street rod. i realy got into building alot when i was a teen it kept me out of alot of trouble that my friends were getting in to .. (still had my fare share). i been building an scratchin ever since , im 33 now and it gives me a peace of mind when im sitting at the bench .. my kids love it when i build or make something . oh and as my mother in law tells my wife ...

AT LEAST YOU KNOW WERE HES AT ... AN NOT RUNNIN AROUND..

later days Davin....

[VW Dave]

Been building for 40 plus years & I don't know how to do anything else. As everyone else here I'm a car nut, & find great satisfaction in a model well built.

Take about 5 years off that, and I'd say "you took the words right outta my mouse." I come from an artsy-craftsy family that also is into cars.....it just kinda happened. My late mother built models, and both of my brothers used to as well.

[Rob McKee]

I build because I like to. I don't care what other people think of the cars. I haven't been in a club for at

least 10 years. I like hanging around with other modelers, but where I live you can't get anybody together

for a club anymore.

I build because I want to!

Wow, that is a very cool display. It actually brings a tear to my eye. My finished model collection was destroyed during divorce. Along with many other things.

[Darren B]

For me its to relieve all the stress and bs that is in my life, it gets me away even for just 30 mins here or and hour there, as I do not have much time to build much of anything at the moment, but just thinking bout what im gonna do next on my current build helps keep me out of the loony bin.

Edited December 30, 2011 by Darren B

[Darren B]

Wow, that is a very cool display. It actually brings a tear to my eye. My finished model collection was destroyed during divorce. Along with many other things.

Man sorry to hear about loosing your model collection, I have a wife that would do that to mine if we got to that point in our relationship, she has destroyed some builds on my work bench before so i know its in her if it got to that point so I feel for you bad. I can see it happening and really feel for you.

Hang in there and just get back into it and keep your head up........................................

[Rob McKee]

Man sorry to hear about loosing your model collection, I have a wife that would do that to mine if we got to that point in our relationship, she has destroyed some builds on my work bench before so i know its in her if it got to that point so I feel for you bad. I can see it happening and really feel for you.

Hang in there and just get back into it and keep your head up........................................

Thanks, I managed to get my stash out of the house and into a storage unit so it wasn' t a complete loss. I wish I had done the same with my built kits but just didn't get around to it.

It is amazing that you can't trust the person you married. In my case it was 20 years!

[Tye Brown]

I feel ya pain Rob, I just recently went through that & strangely all my glass shelves fell down and smashed all my built models. Luckily one of my good friends got most of my un built kits out before they went to plastic heaven

[Ben]

Because the voices tell me to. I do whatever the voices say.

Oh man..........that was gonna be my response!!!!!!!!!!!! You beat me to it!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol:

[RodneyBad]

Because the voices tell me to. I do whatever the voices say.

i wish they only say that..

No, really, I wish they would only say that..

Shhhhh, I hear something.

Noo, I wasn't talking to anybody..

What?

Sorry..

Gotta go..

[Guest]

For anumber of reasons. It's relaxing(most of the time), I love cars, and I cant afford the real deal, so building them smaller helps there as well. I enjoy the feeling of looking at something I have put alot of work into, and being able to say I did that!, instead of looking at the work somone else did. That's one of the reasons , besides price, lol, I dont buy pre made die casts, etc. I love the feeling of doing it myself, and it gives me a creative outlet.

[Patrick2005]

I build model cars because I can't afford to build the real versions

[58 Impala]

It's a hobby my dad introduced me to when I was 7, 47yrs later I enjoy building models as much as that 1st one. Like some of you have said, it's a way to have all the cars I can't afford in 1:1. It's a very relaxing and satisfying hobby.

[disabled modeler]

Wow, that is a very cool display. It actually brings a tear to my eye. My finished model collection was destroyed during divorce. Along with many other things.

Sorry to hear that Rob I really feel your pain...back in late July we had a small tornado go through my neighborhood and my build room lost a window. Many shelves models fell got crushed found some parts outside over the next two weeks....just keep your head up and rebuild what you can.

[Nitrozilla]

Building models led to my first job, in a roundabout way. A friend down the street introduced me to them when I was 11 in 1964. At age 15 my mom refused to give me an advance on my allowance to buy the newly released Charlie Allen F/C. So I stormed out of the house and went for a walk to cool off. Long story short, a half an hour later I've got a job busting tires at Golden State Tire Distributors in El Monte, CA.

Ergo my love of nostalgia funny's and the avatar in my signature line. OMG, in 2014 it'll be 50 years of building. OMG !!!!!!

[Greg Pugh]

I can't believe you guys that are married to women that would destroy your models if you got into a fight or worse, a divorce. Why would you be with someone that would attack you there? That's just crazy to me. I would go to prison for what I'd do if my wife intentionally destroyed any of my personal belongings (especially my models) and she knows that so we don't have any problems like that. Not to mention, she respects me and I respect her. Neither one of us would hit each other in the knee caps like that.

[Ben]

I had an ex psycho........uh, I mean....girlfriend that thought she was getting revenge by knocking over a stand up shelf full of built models that I had. So, to get back at her, I rebuilt all of them! One in particular was the ERTL John Deere backhoe. I had built it straight out of the box without paint and had saved it for many years. After she broke it, I rebuilt it, painted it with John Deere yellow, made the front bucket articulate and the bucket on the rear fully articulate as well! Ended up being ten times nicer than it was originally! HA! Showed her! One of many reasons I prefer to stay single!!!!!!!!

[Rob McKee]

Thanks guys,

I had a feeling she would hit me where it hurts most. I saved my stash first because it was easier than packing each built car up for storage. 20/20 hind sight I would have been better off just throwing them into boxes un-protected. At least I would still have them.

Woman can become extremely vengfull during a divorce. Believe me they go for anything they know will hurt you. I am sure there are some men out there that would do the same but from the stories I have heard it is standard for the women to get revenge. I didn't do anything I shouldn't have done, I just wanted out because it was a very bad scene. (Long story)

Regardless, she didn't get the best of me and I am happy to be away from her. I don't think anyone gets into a relationship knowing that the other would do something like this.

Now I build many kits and have great memories of the first, second, or third time I built them in the past.

Moral of the story is, never let them get you down. I loved this hobby long before I met my ex-wife and will love the hobby for the rest of my life. To that I say "I do!"

Rob

Edited December 31, 2011 by Rob McKee