Global Scale Modeller

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:20 pm**

Just politely saying Hi to everyone. Recently decided to try my hand(s) at scale modelling because I have time on my hands and I want to see if I still have the dexterity to do a decent kit justice

I've been collecting tools over the past couple of weeks but no model kits to work on yet. i.e., Stash=0. I have no special subject interest but it will be either military vehicles, aircraft or warships to start with. Never owned or used an airbrush until a few days ago and now I own two plus a fair collection of paints and a paint booth, so all ready to make a mess of something lol! I have some old models I assembled years ago so I might try re-painting those. I've watched a lot of vids on model construction and painting which both helps and hinders: the tips are helpful, the fantastic results some people get are a bit intimidating if I'm thinking of attempting to reproduce that kind of quality. Still, we all got to start somewhere, right?

Rgds,
Chris

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:42 pm**

welcome to the forum and to the hobby ! I'm sure you're going to have fun ! and going to find all the help you need here !

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:07 pm**

Welcome to the forum and to the hobby.

Bags of good stuff on here. Ask questions, follow the builds and post your own work. Novice or expert, everyone gets treated properly here so get stuck in.

If you've got a subject you fancy, let people know. Loads of the gang will chime in with suggestions for what kit you might be best buying. We've got armour builders (iron brutes), car and bike builders (we let them in to make the neighbourhoods safer), ship builders (detail freaks), aircraft builders (who sigh at the beauty of their creations), Sci-Fi builders (get your geek on), pretty much anything you can think of.

Sounds like you're ready to go. Get that stash up to 1 mate

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:21 pm**

hello and welcome Chrislx200....strange name but who cares..I am one of the old guys on the forum and haver been model making since the age of 8 now approaching 67 so I have made a few in my time. Sounds like your going to have a lot of fun with the hobby in the future, and seem to have all the equipment to get started though some guys on here will tell you you need loads of other things to. If you have ANY questions about anything this is the right place the depth of modeling making skills on this forum is outstanding and they will all help as much as they can I have only been with the forum a short while and they are a great bunch od people...and remember us model guys have to stick together ( sorry about that ) get building and posting some pice and most of all enjoy what your building or painting (thats the one thing I am useless at ) but I love to build.

take care and keep safe distance
best regards Barrie ( the old guy )

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here is one I made a while ago as they say on Blue peter got the kit in a cornflake packet ( no just kidding all scratch built have fun Chris

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:51 pm**

Thanks so much for the welcome! I recognise the Space 1999 Eagle, so big it might have been used in the series lol. I'll try posting a couple of pics...

This stuff I bought within the past 2 weeks

The compressor serves double duty as an air-assist source for my little laser cutter, which itself sits on the bed of my Artillery X1 printer when in use.

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:55 pm**

and

aboard the good ship lollypop

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:59 pm**

ChrisLX200 wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:51 pm Thanks so much for the welcome! I recognise the Space 1999 Eagle, so big it might have been used in the series lol. I'll try posting a couple of pics...

This stuff I bought within the past 2 weeks

The compressor serves double duty as an air-assist source for my little laser cutter, which itself sits on the bed of my Artillery X1 printer when in use.

Man that is a mess of cables

not sure what you would call a bunch of cables maybe a herd

baztheoldguy wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:21 pm hello and welcome Chrislx200....strange name but who cares..I am one of the old guys on the forum and haver been model making since the age of 8 now approaching 67 so I have made a few in my time. Sounds like your going to have a lot of fun with the hobby in the future, and seem to have all the equipment to get started though some guys on here will tell you you need loads of other things to. If you have ANY questions about anything this is the right place the depth of modeling making skills on this forum is outstanding and they will all help as much as they can I have only been with the forum a short while and they are a great bunch od people...and remember us model guys have to stick together ( sorry about that ) get building and posting some pice and most of all enjoy what your building or painting (thats the one thing I am useless at ) but I love to build.

take care and keep safe distance
best regards Barrie ( the old guy )
DSCF8178.jpg
here is one I made a while ago as they say on Blue peter got the kit in a cornflake packet ( no just kidding all scratch built have fun Chris

Lovely kits, but the missus wouldn't let you keep them in the house not it she is like mine. Do you have a warehouse ??

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:12 pm**

digger303 wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:59 pm

Man that is a mess of cables not sure what you would call a bunch of cables maybe a herd

Nah, that's not a mess of cables this is a mess of cables lol..

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:20 pm**

baztheoldguy wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:21 pm hello and welcome Chrislx200....strange name but who cares..

The name tag is very old, it comes from the name of my first astro telescope - a Meade LX200 - and I kinda stuck with it on many forums

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:25 am**

Hi chris

looks like your good to go

those electronics send me in a spin

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:34 am**

Hello ChrisLX200 and

to the ISM forum.

When you get a moment please check out the forum guidelines which can be found ---> here

We'd love to see your work & progress but in order to post photos you will need to host them on an external site such as Flickr and then link to them from the forum. Unfortunately the forum currently doesn't have sufficient capacity or bandwidth to host directly uploaded photos.

There is a quick guide on how to use the Flickr integration on the forum ---> here

As well as the forum boards there is a really useful Modeller Toolkit available which can help with paint matching, paint thinning, glue types & a scale calculator that can be found ---> here

We'll also be running a number of group builds & special interest groups through the year so feel free to enter any of those that you like the look of.

Otherwise take a look around and join in, and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Have fun!

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:18 pm**

Hi and welcome
Let us know if you need any help
Love the equipment you have! Looking into a 3D resin printer in the future myself

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:37 pm**

Welcome to the board!

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:03 pm**

Thanks again everyone!

Stash now = 1

or it will be when it gets delivered...

Went for Zoukei-Mura 1/32nd scale model kit P-51D Mustang. I read some good things about this kit so thought I'd give it a go.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:06 pm**

A beautiful kit and a very good choice for your return to the bench

casper

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:20 am**

Impressive amount of kit there mate

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