Yes yes i'm a huge nerd

[Mo0o]

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I jsut started playing around with plastic model kits and painting them and stuff. As you can see im pretty bad at it. Anyone else build and collect models , cars planes or anything?

 

[meltdown75]

My dad and I built a space shuttle model when I was 10 I think.

The weird kids at school used to hang out by the fence and sniff model glue out of little plastic baggies and come back to the recess line with glue on their shirts.

And so ends the model-building related information stored in my brain.

 

[JohnAn2112]

I've built a few Gundam models. Nothing special though.

 

[PanzerIV]

Mo0o I haven't built a model in a good while but I still have some of my old models. I am only interested in military models and almost all from the WWII era. I now collect die cast armor, vehicles, etc. They are very realistic in appearance and heavy.

Someday I'd like to pick up a modeling kit or two and try my hand at building something I haven't seen offered in die casts.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: PanzerIV
Mo0o I haven't built a model in a good while but I still have some of my old models. I am only interested in military models and almost all from the WWII era. I now collect die cast armor, vehicles, etc. They are very realistic in appearance and heavy.

Someday I'd like to pick up a modeling kit or two and try my hand at building something I haven't seen offered in die casts.

Did you do weathering on the models? I want to learn how to do that so the models dont look so plasticy

 

[ggnl]

I tried it a few times when I was younger. Everything came out so terrible that I never tried it again.

 

[PanzerIV]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: PanzerIV
Mo0o I haven't built a model in a good while but I still have some of my old models. I am only interested in military models and almost all from the WWII era. I now collect die cast armor, vehicles, etc. They are very realistic in appearance and heavy.

Someday I'd like to pick up a modeling kit or two and try my hand at building something I haven't seen offered in die casts.

Did you do weathering on the models? I want to learn how to do that so the models dont look so plasticy

Funny you should ask since I had deleted that part of my post. No, I never made any serious attempt at that or mud/ grime effects because I get too discouraged when I see the works of somebody like Francois Verlinden who is ridiculously talented.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: PanzerIV
Mo0o I haven't built a model in a good while but I still have some of my old models. I am only interested in military models and almost all from the WWII era. I now collect die cast armor, vehicles, etc. They are very realistic in appearance and heavy.

Someday I'd like to pick up a modeling kit or two and try my hand at building something I haven't seen offered in die casts.

Did you do weathering on the models? I want to learn how to do that so the models dont look so plasticy

Dry-brushing.

 

[Colt45]

I built a few ferrari's and stuff like that when i was younger.

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: PanzerIV
Mo0o I haven't built a model in a good while but I still have some of my old models. I am only interested in military models and almost all from the WWII era. I now collect die cast armor, vehicles, etc. They are very realistic in appearance and heavy.

Someday I'd like to pick up a modeling kit or two and try my hand at building something I haven't seen offered in die casts.

I've seen a new line of die cast military vehicles at Target and Walmart. Can't recall the brand name. It's mailny WWII era stuff that I've seen.

They look good.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson

Originally posted by: PanzerIV
Mo0o I haven't built a model in a good while but I still have some of my old models. I am only interested in military models and almost all from the WWII era. I now collect die cast armor, vehicles, etc. They are very realistic in appearance and heavy.

Someday I'd like to pick up a modeling kit or two and try my hand at building something I haven't seen offered in die casts.

I've seen a new line of die cast military vehicles at Target and Walmart. Can't recall the brand name. It's mailny WWII era stuff that I've seen.

They look good.

Do you do anything with the diecasts, like paint them? Or do they go straight for the bookshelf when you get it home?

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
My dad and I built a space shuttle model when I was 10 I think.

The weird kids at school used to hang out by the fence and sniff model glue out of little plastic baggies and come back to the recess line with glue on their shirts.

And so ends the model-building related information stored in my brain.

yeah, model glue will do that to brain memory......

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I love that kinda stuff. :thumbsup:

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: meltdown75
My dad and I built a space shuttle model when I was 10 I think.

The weird kids at school used to hang out by the fence and sniff model glue out of little plastic baggies and come back to the recess line with glue on their shirts.

And so ends the model-building related information stored in my brain.

yeah, model glue will do that to brain memory......

:laugh: what was this thread about again?

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: meltdown75
My dad and I built a space shuttle model when I was 10 I think.

The weird kids at school used to hang out by the fence and sniff model glue out of little plastic baggies and come back to the recess line with glue on their shirts.

And so ends the model-building related information stored in my brain.

yeah, model glue will do that to brain memory......

:laugh: what was this thread about again?

Glue, it was about glue

 

[iversonyin]

get a big gundam that takes 5 hrs to build, these r small from teh pics

 

[xXped0thugXx]

It's sunny outside today, you should check it out

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: iversonyin
get a big gundam that takes 5 hrs to build, these r small from teh pics

The huge ones , 1/60, takes way longer than 5 hours of you bother to paint and try your best to get rid of the small plastic nubs. I would probably take a month of off and on work to finish one of those

 

[SchrodingersDog]

Are these things articulated? If so your only hope to be a cooler nerd is to use stop motion animation and post your video battles here. We will all admire your dedication to your nerddom.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: SchrodingersDog
Are these things articulated? If so your only hope to be a cooler nerd is to use stop motion animation and post your video battles here. We will all admire your dedication to your nerddom.

Oh god, what have you done. You have planted an idea that could steal hours of my life away from me

 

[SchrodingersDog]

I have no links on hand but I used to get into the stop motion, it's so easy these days. You can either use a digicamcorder or a digicam and there's plenty of free software out there to help you splice the stills together.

 

[PanzerIV]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: MisterJackson

Originally posted by: PanzerIV
Mo0o I haven't built a model in a good while but I still have some of my old models. I am only interested in military models and almost all from the WWII era. I now collect die cast armor, vehicles, etc. They are very realistic in appearance and heavy.

Someday I'd like to pick up a modeling kit or two and try my hand at building something I haven't seen offered in die casts.

I've seen a new line of die cast military vehicles at Target and Walmart. Can't recall the brand name. It's mailny WWII era stuff that I've seen.

They look good.

Do you do anything with the diecasts, like paint them? Or do they go straight for the bookshelf when you get it home?

Mister Jackson that would be from the Forces of Valor collection. They sell one version to mass marketers like Walmart which are very nicely detailed but on the web and in hobby shops you can get them even more finely detailed for collectors and some contain extras for dioramas.


Mo0o, yes they go straight to the bookshelf right now but soon I'd like to try my hand at a diorama of some sort.