The Scale Modeling Thread

[Bullitt]

@RickJay

I loved building models as a kid/teenager/young adult and have decided to get back into it. As I love battleships, I have begun work on a 1/350 model of HMS Prince of Wales, the King George V class ship that met an unfortunate demise off the coast of Malaya in 1941.

I decided to give this thing a shot without having an airbrush - I figured I’d invest in one if I wanted to stick with this hobby - and already wish I had one because I love this but, yeah, brush painting sucks. Painting is definitely not my strength, which is an obvious drawback because building a model is really not about gluing the parts together. It’s about painting them.

I should have this thing done by Christmas.

Who else builds or used to build models?

I too built a King George V battleship. My model building was done in my youth. And I now remember that my USMC enlistment and career can be “blamed” on scale models.

I was going to post it here but did not want to hijack the thread, so I started a new thread here:

The military. Did you join? Why or why not?

@Bullitt

… on my commute there was a recruiting station on that corner and in the windows were brochures showing the airplanes and ships I built as plastic scale models as a kid. Cool pictures! Interested in those pictures, I stopped in to look …