Since the fact it's winter, the long dark nights, the lack of outside running time (not keen on running in the dark, and the treadmill loses it's appeal after 4 miles), combined with my missus watching crap TV like eastenders etc, and my lack of LFS motivation, means I started to model again after a good few years break.

Recently finished this one, a few things I am not happy about, but it's an ok display model.

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Anyone else model, lets see yours

Looks ace

You want to get some watered-down black and paint it on all the joins of your metal parts, so it settles in the hollows, then (because it's a tiny bit hit-and-miss as to exactly where it goes sometimes) tidy it up with the silver again once it's dry.

Whel i have gundam models if that counts with gleu and paint and stuf works great in vacations to kill time

I also have made ferrarie 333 SP model of the JB geise team of 1998 LemansThe car excample

I used to be a big Airfix fan when I was a lot younger, but not done it for almost 20 years. Your painting looks a lot better than mine

I used to do airfix aircraft years ago. I've still got a Eurofighter I did (although the nosewheel snapped off):



I also paint Warhammer 40K miniatures, although it's been years since I actually played a game with them. I'm a *lot* better at painting small-scale stuff.

Yeah, I used to do them 25 odd years ago too, but they were always rubbish, I remember doing some kits back then that are considered collectors items now!!!!.

I go in fits and starts, this is the first one I have done in about 6 years, and during my toolmaking years, I didn't do any.

I find it a nice anti-dote to working at a PC all day, sometimes the last thing I want to do at home is sit at a PC!!!

@Crashgate, nice looking stuff

Im also planning on doing a Porsche RS spyder from the Van merksteijn teamwich won LMP2 in 2008

I have a stack of cars in my loft that I'll have to get down and photo, there is one Toyota Soarer I did that I made my own bodykit for!!!

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I have a stack of cars in my loft that I'll have to get down and photo, there is one Toyota Soarer I did that I made my own bodykit for!!!

Cool im not a body maker kind of guy I love the painting of carsand beigh creative i even handpainted a gundam on car i assambled
but my is saw it one day when yshe had like this cleaning teh house rage and threw it away and i got very angry at her

I used to do airfix when I was younger with dad. Some of them turned out pretty good, took bloody months to do though. Then mum put them all in a box and they got crushed/smashed

I used to do the Warhammer 40K stuff a few years ago, but it's too expensive to carry on with. I also had about 25 aircraft models, but most of them got crushed by my mate, I still have a Messerschmitt 109 that i'm proud of, the camo turned out really well on it.

I've got Gundam models and those die cast Bburago models that you have to build, but i've not got many of the plastic car model kits that need glue and paint.

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I used to do the Warhammer 40K stuff a few years ago, but it's too expensive to carry on with.

It's getting better. GW have really improved their plastic moulding capabilities over the past few years and now so many models are available as plastics instead of metal, making them about 1/4 of the price. Often they;re a lot better to make too - for example the bog standard box of Space Marines all have seperate arms, legs, heads and equipment so you can pose them and have squads in which every model looks different.

Crashgate - do you listen to progressive metal at all?

Edit: I see from your last.fm profile that you do!

It's just earlier this week I heard someone describe progressive metal as "music to paint space marines to", and I thought it was very funny. Turns out he was right!

I started with Warhammer stuff in 98 iirc and stopped in 05, the starter paint sets now are crap compared to when I started it, you could get the proper Space Marines not these crappy 5 piece versions they have with the set now and the paint was the stuff you could buy off the shelf in the GW store, but now it's some small crappy pot that you would usually find with an Airfix car model.

Nice job Dan! That thing looks good enough I could ride it!

used to do it, amazing hobby, absolutely love it

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I used to do airfix when I was younger with dad. Some of them turned out pretty good, took bloody months to do though. Then mum put them all in a box and they got crushed/smashed

Mums do that! Anyway, my New Beetle here. I have a Peugeot 206 WRC I've been meaning to do for 6 years.

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these crappy 5 piece versions they have with the set now

Whats wrong with them? The new plastics look better than even a lot of the old metal stuff, and certainly miles better than the old plastic kits.

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Mums do that! Anyway, my New Beetle here. I have a Peugeot 206 WRC I've been meaning to do for 6 years.

I'd probably more interested in doing models if mine came out that nice.

Well I used to when I was younger, but I kinda got bored to them when I got my hands to a real car. Kinda shame because I had just found a quite rare ESCI model from 80's, a mk2 BDA rally Escort and just had painted the body white but never finished it.
Well at least it was rare before Revell started producing it again.

Picture of my showcase.
And of course picture of my favorite.

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I have a stack of cars in my loft that I'll have to get down and photo, there is one Toyota Soarer I did that I made my own bodykit for!!!

look forwarding to seeing that soarer.

myself im 14 i buy one build it paint it all solid lime green then have a week mum throws it in bin

I have a collection 1 on 18 cars, but I do not model them.

Very nice Dan and Crashgate.

I've got a couple of models that I did when I was 12/13...always meant to get back into it. Have a half finished Enzo somewhere that i must get donw.

If I can be arsed to dust of some of the better one's I'll post them up, used to do diorama's and all that of old tanks.

Used to do loads of modelling - had tens of kits (mostly Airfix) lying around the house to do... but then I got a bit bored of doing it, and haven't done anything since. I still have a very large-scale (I forget what, exactly) twin-prop to do, but that's about all I have left, I think.

Wish I had the time to get back into it!