Do you like building plastic or wooden model kits? If so, what kind?

[SnowedIn]

I enjoy plastic cars and airplanes, and detailed wooden ship models.

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Well, this sort of sucked not having more than two MHO to dispense. Sorry! :)

[Lliam]

I used to love building WWII and especially WWI airplane models. I had a lot of them. I did some cars, too.

It was really popular when I was a kid in the 1960s. Hobby shops were a big thing. But model kids were also common in every drug store, dime cent store, and department store.

My dad was an airplane buff. From the time I was young, he took me to air shows and museums, and to his monthly meetings of Cross and Cockade WWI aero historian meetings.

Snoopy and the Red Baron was popular, as were Maltese crosses.

Car culture was also a big thing. Hot rods and modified cars were popular.

So yeah, I inhaled my share of modeling glue and paint vapors. LOL

[SnowedIn]

LOVE this! Ah, the Maltese crosses. My favorite WWII airplane models were the F4U Corsair my brother bought me the day he left for the Army and a B-17 Flying Fortress that I got in 7th grade.

[Lliam]

I had a B-17, too. My favorite WWII planes were the P-51D, P-47D, Bf-109E, Folk Wolf, Mosquito, P-38. The way the kits came, you could choose with model (ex: P-51B or D) and armament configurations (cannons, bombs, rockets, wing tanks, etc.)

But over the years, I built lots of WWI planes - whatever I could get my hands on. Fokker DR-1, Fokker D-7, Albatross D-3, Pfalz D-3, SPAD, Sopwith Camel, ...
Most were 1:48 scale, but I built a Sopwith Camel and a Fokker DR-I in 1:32 and added the wires and everything. A P-51 I built in 1:32 had landing gear that could extent of retract with a little knob.

When I was older, I bought model kits here and there. I thought I would have fun building them one day and putting them on display, but there unopened boxes are still stored away.

[LaFerrari]

I hate doing models but I do have Warhammer 40k I do not enjoy gluing but painting is fun. but I do enjoy LEGO. And I collect diecast cars have hundreds, and a few Daron Die-cast planes, Stuka, Enola gay, B-2 bomber, C47 and an A-10.

[SnowedIn]

I love Lego! Good choices!

[LaFerrari]

Thank you very much for MHO (:

[MendaciousMarxist]

Love them, I created a bunch in the past. This Thanksgiving I created a few mini wooden cars with my son. and at school, I'm trying to see if I can build anything with the class. The teacher won't be here plus all the kids are ahead so it's the perfect opportunity

[SnowedIn]

That is AWESOME! And, you are a great mom. He'll remember the car building forever. My youngest son, too, just entered a wooden car building phase in his engineering class.

[MendaciousMarxist]

That's cool, it's nice seeing kids enjoying similar hobbies as their parents. With my son, he kind of makes too much of a mess with Legos but he enjoys making stuff too. It's so interesting to see how fascinated kids can be.

[SnowedIn]

I love watching a tub of Legos become so many different things and how the kids work together building stuff and coming up with solutions.

[MendaciousMarxist]

lol, true, hopefully not usually a mess. my kid's pretty introverted so that's what he spends most of the day doing. Either that or bothering the rats

[SnowedIn]

Wait, rats? Cool! How many do you have?

[MendaciousMarxist]

Yeah, his dad got him some pet rats and a guide on how to care for them. currently there's 6 under our care. His favorite is the sandy colored one and he's trying to train it to still my money lmao (I'm not supposed to know this).

[MendaciousMarxist]

steal*

[SnowedIn]

Smart boy. Love this story. I've never had rats but think they look cool.

[MendaciousMarxist]

They're sweet, they usually just run around the room and try to get into every place. So far, he has only trained them to steal food from us lol. He also built them a little lego home.

[SnowedIn]

Do they want to chew on wires or anything?

[MendaciousMarxist]

We've never had an issue with that, the main thing is that one of the rats (he calls him spotty) keeps falling asleep in his sock drawer and on other clothes. he has accidently taken him to school too. None of the others has been much of a issue

[MendaciousMarxist]

Thank you for most helpful

[letuswaltzforthedead]

I haven't, the last time I ever did anything like that was for a group project in class. take a wild guess how it went lol. I do want to try it though, I've seen some pretty interesting models out there.

[SnowedIn]

Made me laugh. Yeah, some of the stuff I did in class turned out pretty terribly.

This is the one I'm working on right now. VERY slowly.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

damn, that looks pretty cool (and hard to do). How is it going?

[SnowedIn]

It's going good and very slowly. I'm not very far into it. I've built the keel and a longitudinal bulkhead above that. There's a part now that I have to carve and I haven't yet figured out how to do it so I'm pausing until I can think through it.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

That's understandable, Can't wait until it's done, it looks really nice lol. Any ideas so far?

[SnowedIn]

Ideas for you? ... or I'm slow and missing the question. 😂

[letuswaltzforthedead]

Ideas regarding the part you're trying to carve. if you have ideas for me, I wouldn't mind lol

[SnowedIn]

Oh! :) Silly me. I have bits and pieces of an idea. Part of my hesitation is trying to understand the instructions for what it wants me to carve. The other part is deciphering the language. Like, I was a Navy Sailor, but this language is written as a shipbuilder would use it, so that's a hurdle. The final roadblock (and I own this) is that I don't want to screw it up. Gotta get past that.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

That's fair, I guess you'll get used to it eventually.