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Post by AK on Jan 25, 2015 16:30:37 GMT -7
Okay, It'd only be fair to ask if I answered too, so... I build models because I love cars! Since I am NOT independantly wealthy, I can not afford to buy the 50+ cars Id love to own. Therefore I build them in 1/25th scale. One of the things I really love about this site is that it has brought me out of my "box" and has challenged me to build a few models that I normally would have passed by. So thats my reasoning, whats yours?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 17:53:04 GMT -7
Alan,
I too love cars....More specifically (as you and the rest knows) Mopar, BUT the models? I build them cuz, I'd never find the real one nor have the money to purchase it! So the models make that possible in a way.....
Plus, replication, I love making my models replica's, or as close to a replica as I can get 'em!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 17:55:30 GMT -7
I too am a car guy, now i do have a couple of 1:1 toys in the shed, but still way too expensive to do what i would love to do to them.
I have built models for over 30+ years on and off, and the last 15 years, it has become a full time past time, if that makes sense.
I also love to paint, and challenge my self with the air brush, so models is also the perfect way to do that with out repainting my 1:1 every year, which would be a costly exercise.
AND i just love to come up with something different, and try produce something nobody else would have on their shelf, and lift my game every time i build.
And, i get to hang out with great people with the same passion, like on here. high-five-smiley-emoticon
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Post by Big D on Jan 25, 2015 18:00:01 GMT -7
For me I guess it's what I call "Bit buy the bug again syndrome". For instance, I was a very good pool player in high school but the army and the war killed many things for me including the desire to play pool. In the early '90's my son heard my brother talking about how good I was and he asked me to teach him how to play pool so I did and got "bit by the bug" real bad. I started to practice 40 hrs a week, took professional instruction and by 1995 was one of only 125 licensed BCA [Billiard Congress of America] instructors in the world. When I get into something I GET INTO it. In 1997 I was invited by the BCA to play in the world championships in Las Vegas and I did. Got my butt kicked but had the time of my life. 250 tables going in one room at the same time! Chance of a lifetime. Don't play anymore but still have my $2500.00 custom cue.
Same with models. I built a lot in my youth and after my knife making career was over and I had nothing to do I started thinking about the models I built as a teen and went out and bought one. "Got bit with the bug again." But when I started to research and discovered how far modeling cars had come I just had to try to build good ones and have been going strong every since and I love it. The only difference now is at my age and position in life I don't want to push hard anymore. I just want to have fun. If it starts to be work I won't cross that line. I just want to have fun and I am having a ball!!! Being in this forum has really been a big help to me and I am grateful for it and the good people in it. Thank you for being there. hand-clapping-smiley-emoticon
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 23:38:38 GMT -7
I have to agree with those who said being here....... "like minded people" and then to put up with my crap... you got to be a friend as I'm a sick twisted puppy that way LOL But the whole like mindedness I didn't mention and those who said it are right, I mean CRAP. how many postings have I made? 2,576?  ? Yeah, I like it here LOL That says a lot for the people too..... Not only do I enjoy building, I enjoy what others have done and or try to do and in a lot of ways, succeed at it, and that in some way keeps my interest and gives me some motivation.... So like Dennis said, THANK ALL OF YOU out there! high-five-smiley-emoticon |
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Post by stitchdup on Jan 26, 2015 9:42:36 GMT -7
My reasons for building model cars is pretty selfish in a way. While I love cars (not in an autophiliac way) my main reason is to have something thats just for me. I started building about 20 years ago when my dad was seriously ill with cancer everywhere and building models was a way to get a break from it all. When my dad passed away I gave it up and all my modelling stuff other than a small number of assembled and broken kits. I started building again at the end of october again to get myself some me time. Now I've written that it sounds really self centred but most of my time every thing is for someone else rather than me so I'm good about it.
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Post by warmachine on Jan 26, 2015 14:40:14 GMT -7
grew up around a lot of nice rides uncles dad they had a lot of different things at one time or another ford chevy dodge buick and the list goes on lol weirdest being a tow truck my dad had 69 ranger that he stuck a built 455 olds in ::shrugs::strange but true had a few fun things mostly I build models now for stress relief and the fact that its just to high here for hotrods or toys ya know besides in scale you have anything you dreamed of as a kid lol
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Post by jmccann630 on Jan 26, 2015 18:22:58 GMT -7
Like everyone else, I build models because I love cars. I also do it because i enjoy it and it gives me something to do on my free time. This club makes building models a whole lot more fun!
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Post by sharp on Jan 26, 2015 18:56:51 GMT -7
I build models because its something I really like to do and its a hell of a lot cheaper then the 1:1 cars
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2015 17:38:10 GMT -7
I build models, due to my Dad. He taught me to build when I was 7 yrs old. We would get a kit and we would work on it together. We did this until my mid teens, at that point we would each buy the same kit and make a fun competition out of it. I was fortunate to have grown up through the golden era of model cars. My dad passed away in 1996. My son was born in 1995. He never knew my Dad, & I taught him to build at 5yrs old. I guess it is a remembrance to my Dad. BUT, I also LOVE cars , & ENJOY the creativity that they allow. The association of great guys like you all on this forum is another added plus.  Rick
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 21:10:22 GMT -7
i like to build models for a variety of reasons but the biggest 2 are; i'll never afford the real thing and in scale i can have everyone i've ever wanted and some i never knew i wanted. i've been building for roughly 40 of my 45 yrs and when i started mom wouldn't allow paints or glue so i used crayons, elmer's glue and scotch tape. i laugh when i think about how hideous they must've looked but i remember that they were mine. i had built them and there were mine! mom tells me a story of when i was 2or3 dad was into building and had a display on top of the dresser. well apparently i was into then as well because she says i pulled out the drawers ladder-style and climbed on up to check 'em out. she heard a crash and found me with a model in hand, under the dresser which tipped over on top of me and broke all the rest of dad's models. the one in my hand was fully intact  dad put them away and that was that. i only remember him building three models after that, a 53 chevy gasser, 57 chevy gasser and a 57 zinger which was also my first ever model. the first model i built all by my lonesome was amt cuckoo nest. second and third solo builds were a 75 nova and 76 mustang2 that dad bought me. and lastly, both my uncle's on mom's side were builders and somewhere between age 5 and 10 they gave me all there models. we're talking a couple hundred boxes of built-ups and and parts. oh, and one more thing, i remember goin to a yard sale once when i was a tween and the garage was full of kits. i mean FULL! had to be hundreds and i could only have 1! they finally said choose or lose. that's all i got and i hope some y'all enjoy readin it |
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Post by CoyoteCrunch on Mar 15, 2015 15:09:19 GMT -7
I build models, for a lot of reasons, but mostly I would say it is a form of therapy. I love cars, always have, we own a couple nice rides, and have had on and off throughout life some awesome rides. But it still goes back to a self kind of therapy, my world is usually so fast paced, at least work has been the last decade, that when I sit down at the bench, I can make hours fly by in an instant. And I sleep better!! Go figure. I really have no one to build for, nobody ever got it, you know the look, "why do you build little cars?" But I myself have always found a small sense of pride and solace from building. This club has brought me much closer to the hobby than I ever thought possible, thank you everyone, thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2015 17:14:35 GMT -7
First of all the reason I build models is it takes me away from today and puts me back to my teen years ....guess I was a spoiled farm kid who had a 69 mach stange and a 70 mach stange that I loved very much but as I grew up and had a family the cars got sold and are long gone ....well fast forward 30ish years till now and I have had modded focuses and fiestas I played with but nothing as fun as the mustangs and now I can't a ford to mess with real cars anymore and plus I'm having to live with my mom and dad to help take care of mom with Alzheimer's and she is very hard to handle. anyway building models helps to clear my mind from the constant fighting and it also takes me back to my love of fast cars and well you get the point. oh yeah almost forgot I always wanted to put a ford motor in a chevy car so my next build is going to be just that.....cant wait.
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? Yeah, I like it here LOL That says a lot for the people too.....
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dad put them away and that was that. i only remember him building three models after that, a 53 chevy gasser, 57 chevy gasser and a 57 zinger which was also my first ever model. the first model i built all by my lonesome was amt cuckoo nest. second and third solo builds were a 75 nova and 76 mustang2 that dad bought me. and lastly, both my uncle's on mom's side were builders and somewhere between age 5 and 10 they gave me all there models. we're talking a couple hundred boxes of built-ups and and parts. oh, and one more thing, i remember goin to a yard sale once when i was a tween and the garage was full of kits. i mean FULL! had to be hundreds and i could only have 1! they finally said choose or lose. that's all i got and i hope some y'all enjoy readin it 
