Proper Model Making - a rant against the decline of good model shops 

I'm just imagining the Finnish shop keeper standing there looking at this quirky British man who just wondered into his shop and started loudly ranting into his camera.

This is so true. My wife and I adopted our first child, then we decided to make one ourselves from scratch. Although a lot more complicated, and a little bit messy, we found making one ourselves an immensely satisfying experience.

“I would buy my tank. It was usually a tank. I like tanks”

Anyone else imagining Lindybeige and James May sitting together over a pint in a pub and bemoaning the "yoof of today"?

I'm a teenager and my main complaint is how bloody expensive paint is, I already have 2 dozen unassembled kits but paints ridiculous

Imagine being Finnish and having some random crazed Brit rambling on in English while parading round your model shop faster and faster...

Plot twist: He didn't actually make a purchase

Speaking as someone who’s built models as a child and recently gotten back into modelling, the biggest problem I ran into was the cost of it all as a child my parents where very wary of allowing me to buy models just because of the cost of all the extra bits you need to truly build and paint them. That’s the same issue I run into today, the sheer cost of it all, for a basic 1/35 tank model on its own with nothing extra no paints or glue can cost £20 at the cheapest and up to £75 on the other end, it’s often not really viable to do as an adult god forbid trying to buy the sets as a child today

I think the biggest cause of the decline in model shops is the obscene over-pricing of everything now. When I was a kid, as you said yourself, to buy kits with pocket money was not a difficult thing, but there's little chance of that now. Here I am at 61 and most of the kits I'm interested in are beyond what I can reasonably spend. Consequently, the internet is the only place I can get the likes of BanDai kits at an affordable price, by buying them directly from Japan or China and waiting weeks for them to arrive, or scouring endless pages looking for private sale bargains. It's a great shame.

Might also be that modeling supplies are cheaper online as well. Amazon has been closing brick and mortar stores for years now...

What's killing modeling is the cost, everything is now so expensive.

Lindy you need to visit my shop In Arizona

video games got me into models specifically, warthunder made me want to have my own model aircraft, when i got tired of model aircraft i got into tanks and infantry, and now recently ive gotten back into model airplanes and im currently working on Airfix's 1/48 spitfire mk1

"but, my mother threw it away." I've felt that pain, too many times.

Price always held me back as a young man, the idea of assembling and painting was interesting to me but I didn't have the spare funds for the hobby.

0:35 "All you have to do is take it out of the box!" No, there's clearly some assembly required; the propellers aren't attached!

Ah, model shops, comic book stores, and tabletop gaming stores (often all three in one)--a dying breed, so much nostalgia.

Price indexed to the price of models. I laughed when you said that because I have used that as an economic indicator myself. I used to buy matchbox 1:72 scale aircraft models for 1.50 Canadian. I worked for 3.00 an hour. Now as a fully grown adult I don't make enough in an hour to buy two model kits for one hour of my labour.

Im 14 and i tried modelling after watching this video a year ago, im now addicted and have filled up my room with the stuff. My friends are now also into it and i think its spreading. thankyou for introducing me to this wonderful hobby!

My wargaming was paper, pen and lot of imagination :D

Effort isn't the problem We can't afford to

Being a scale modeller myself i concur with your observations and i am very pleased to see that you talk about this in a video. I hope you know that there is a lot of scale modelling activity on RU-vid these days, which i guess helps the fellow model makers with learning new techniques and so on. The community is big and still growing :)

I can commiserate with your pain of a parent binning one of your models, but I can beat that. I was at uni in the 70’s and while there my parents decided to move house. Whilst clearing out the old house they reasoned that I wouldn’t need my model collection any more as I had ‘grown up’, they binned the lot! Seven years of carefully collecting and making model aircraft and tanks (all that paper round money spent) tipped in the bin, I was devastated. I still continued to model and have done so up to today, in my late 60’s. I am currently making a Fordson WOT2 World War II truck from photo-etch and white metal, great fun.

This video has filled me with positive energy and convinced me to build the tank model I bought 2 years ago.

As a young person (15) I think the main problem for young people trying to get into model making and table top gaming is money and...well, it’s scary. Frankly I’d love to get into model making and war gaming but it’s just to expensive and I don’t know where to begin. I think that’s why young people don’t get into this stuff. But in the future i think I might.... Perhaps even re-enactment....

As a member of the younger generations, I can tell you that the decline in modeling is not from lack of interest but from lack of money. I'd love to go to a model shop and buy a load of tanks and railway cars and build some great big wargaming table. I really would. However, a model tank kit costs like 30 USD and I don't have enough money to both eat and model. I still do modeling in my spare time, but it's all done with bits of cardboard, tissue paper, twigs, and paint from the dollar store. My big investment in making terrain and models was a glue gun. Brick and mortar modeling shops are delightful, and I'd love to support them if I had any money.

Your absolutely spot on . The fun is the building and the sense of satisfaction and from a personal perspective I love doing the research to get the paint and decals correct. I miss the the local model shop my local was the Midland Educational in Birmingham..... Fond memories of Saturday's digging through the piles of models and selecting the correct paints. 48 Years later I still love the hobby.

I've never seen a model shop without a Games workshop section.

Well, I don’t think it’s only the whole “kids don’t want to spend time making models” situation that’s killing model shops like this. As a model maker myself, The hobby shops in my area simply don’t have to specific model or specific weathering/paint that I need. Online I can find anything I want, precisely, and usually for cheaper, no matter how unique or obscure it is. So while there may be less people making model kits, I think it’s simply that hobby shops can’t compete with the huge online stores and their massive repertoire. Not that we are lazy and don’t wanna build models.

"War gaming" is what got me into history and i have learned more about history than i have ever learned in school thanks to video games sparking my interest in history which is how i find myself here

I miss looking at the tamiya models I could never afford.

PLENTY of these in Japan, Lindy! ;-)

I agree Lindy, hell, I'm only 14 but my 'childhood' was amazing because my Granda bought me models and took me to model shops, I have a Cromwell, spitfire and BF109 on my shelf waiting to be made and I have a Paul Boulton on my window ledge. I live in a town in County Durham and there's still a handful of nice model shops, even better there's a lot further north we sometimes go to. Anyhow, I agree, models are fun, satisfying and people should do it more and protect old stores.

I believe World of Tanks are actually promoting people to build scale models of tanks (they are selling reboxed Italeri kits), do research and learn more about the tanks in the game. The have excellent walkaround videos of the real objects. They do this for a reason of course - but if it makes one single kid more interested in tanks and he/she decides to build a model of that awesome favorite ingame tank to put it on the display shelf, I'm fine with that arrangement.

When I was a child, we had 6 model shops in my hometown. One of them was gigantic, on three floors were countless model kits from all the famous companies, spare parts, tools, colors etc. Now in 2020, there is only one tiny shop left, and it almost exclusively sells model trains.

The problem for me is, as a student I don't have quite the money to afford all the colors needed for example, and I am such an perfectionist that I want everything as realistic as possible. :/

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I find it unfair to blame kids for the demise of modelling. Adults control the money, the time and transportation--the things that would help expose kids to hobbies in general. They make decisions about where to live, whether that community could support hobby stores. They set priorities for their time, whether it's playing sports, going to church, taking ballet, etc. My son and I make models together. He mostly builds them, I mostly paint them. However, this would not have happened unless he came into contact with the products. I wanted to play board games with him, and thus brought him to the local game store. That exposed him to models for Flames of War and Warhammer, etc. Next we were going to the hobby shop, where alongside the FoW and 40K were proper models and rc planes. None of that would have happened if I, as the adult, had not decided to find things for him to take interest in and, conversely, took cues from him about what he liked.

I learned a lot from model making as a child - history from the military models - practical application from making automobile models. The instructions used to tell you the number of the part and what it was (and actually working on a car with your father) - so I knew what a muffler and intake manifold was years before I could drive.

Thanks for the hobby shop tour. Many years ago, I would be in heaven going thru any good hobby shop. The trains, planes, rockets both in kits and in ready to run made my head spin. The joy was always in the making and solving problems and still is today. The art of model building fosters creativity, ingenuity and skill development that you carry with you thru all aspects of your life. It is unfortunate that the internet marketplace was the killer for the brick and mortar true hobby shop, but no matter what it did not kill our individual desire to create.

My neighbor Sidney Stubbs (sadly long since passed) used to make his own model railways from scratch and would build everything himself, from gantries to rolling stock, he had various lathes and would make working model street lights from nails, electric motors that he wound himself and he won awards for the accuracy of his models.. he once made a model boiler with hundreds of rivets, when being Judged at a competition one of the Judges spotted a rivet out of position and was about to demerit him when a more knowing Judge mentioned that the original design drawings had the rivet misplaced.. such was the accuracy of his work.. he really was a perfectionist who could turn his hand to almost anything.. Nowadays honestly i can not remember ever seeing a model lathe for sale.. also it has to be said that Sidney took his modeling seriously taking months to complete a set of 30 street lights as mentioned above. We don’t have the time, access to materials or tools to make such things and the cost..? The world has moved on, its a sad state of affairs but when I’m working I will often get home at 2 or 3am.. just no time in todays world as my neighbors generation had.. I appreciate the work that goes into modeling, i visit shows when i can & enjoy watching some of the excellent videos here on RU-vid but apart from assembling large scale models of warships of around 1/200 thats about all i have time (or money!) for.. appreciate your frustration at modern society but its the way of the world now.. for better or for worse.. Edit.. seems to be a lot of interest in Sid. I married and moved but my parents lived next door to Sid until his passing. He was a member of the Manchester Model Railway Society MMRS and became their president for a few years. I believe they wrote an article about his work and he has been included in many technical chats, i also believe upon his death the models he made went to the club and I’d like to think in a display case somewhere. Quite possibly if you were to contact MMRS they may have some photos or other... Sadly i am now settled in Spain and unlikely to see any if his work again but i will also remember fondly Sid & his wife Molly.. may they both rest in peace.

What will the children of today rant about when they reach middle age? "When I was young, we would drive realistic models in World of Tanks. Nowadays kids don't even want to turn on a game console."

I know exactly what you mean - there were lots of model shops in my boyhood. The town I grew up in had two model shops, now they are gone. In Cardiff I have only been able to find one good model shop (not including the two war games shops, which seem to still be doing well), which is thankfully still going. If anyone from Cardiff reads this please support the local model shop. The fun of browsing the shelves for hours and putting together first world war aircraft kits with my own hands - it was hugely satisfying.

Yes shops like these are fantastic, I can spend hours just looking around them without buying anything! Thankfully a modelling shop just opened in the village near where I live!

The internet might help bring it back though. There's more channels on youtube about model building than there used to be.

I consider myself pretty lucky to have one of the country's biggest model shops nearby. I don't know what I'd do without it.

The reason for the decline In model shops i feel is a mixed bag of reasons. Firstly, it's too expensive. Model railways for example these days are getting lower in quality - with motors failing and mazac rot - but higher in price. My local model shop's prices aren't the greatest either. Speaking of the model shop itself, the range of products doesn't tend to be exactly what I require. I want a certain paint, a certain glue, a certain kit or whatever. If a shop doesn't stock what people want to spend their money on, they're not going to make money. Blaming today's children is slightly harsh. Go on any larger model railway channel and the comments sections are FULL of young kids wanting their own layout. But thanks to horrendous pricing and the rather toxic stigma that it's for adults only, they can't have them. As for model kits, they're on the rise in pricing as well, as well as complexity and fragility. I can't cut a Spitfire's control stick from the sprue without it snapping thanks to shoddy Indian/Chinese plastic. If I can't do that, a young child surely can't either. The whole scale modelling hobby is too "adult" and too exclusive. It's marketed wrongly. There is a market, of both children and adults, but they're not tended to correctly. It's alright having a limited edition model of a pre-pre-grouping steam locomotive that you've never heard of for like 150 quid, but it's not when little Jimmy can't even get something from his parents for his birthday because they can't afford, nor find it.

Out of 20 people in my class in school, only myself and one other builds models at all. I really enjoy it, and I don’t get why no one does it anymore. I build tamiya models, their RC cars with my dad and their static tanks, infantry etc by myself. I’m working on a Flak 37 AT gun at the moment

Unfortunately these hobby stores are generally quite expensive. There is always the maker community though which does look to build their own stuff from whatever they can scavenge, 3D print, cast etc.

I had dozens of models in my bedroom growing up in the 60s and 70s. My favorites were WW2 aircraft and ships.I and several neighborhood friends to quite a lot of pride in modeling skills. I liked mine to look a bit battle hardened but no bullet holes. Those models meant a lot because my Grandpa and several uncles and great uncles were U.S. ww2 vets.

I love modelling. I'm working on a cheiftein mk5 at the moment. I am by the way 14. So people still enjoy making models :)

Your video came up as a suggested video this evening. I'm a tabletop wargamer - Warhammer 40,000 mainly, and I really miss having shops like this around the UK, mainly for the terrain and scenery bits. The only one I have seen in recent years was in the seaside town of Hunstanton, and it was nowhere as big or as nice as the one in your video, but that is it. Even when I go to Cambridge, Oxford or London, i never see shops like this anymore. I had a nice collection of Airfix aircraft when I was at school in the 80's. I think my mum threw them out too once I moved out. Good video. Thanks.

When I was a kid, while I did collect Warhammer, my absolute love was building naval warships. I never got my hands on the Bismarck but the two aircraft carriers I owned were fun as hell to look at, with the little aircraft, etc. But then I just sort of stopped caring about models in general and I didn't really know why. They were still cool and I did buy a few model kits from stuff like Gundam 08th MS Team, but the sad truth is they never got out of the box. About a decade passed before I returned to the model scene after falling in love with the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 remake series. Bought up a lot of the starships from it and, admittedly, they were in boxes for a year until something magical happened. A Category 4 Cyclone rolled through my area and the house was without power for nearly 10 days. ... needless to say, it took an electronics blackout to set me back on the path of model building to keep me entertained and I say this with a little shame. Which leads me to answering that, yes, video games and other forms of similar entertainment are detrimental to being creative with your hands. Sure, it's another form of art but compared to model building you really can't compare the two. So if we end up seeing a nuke go off in the atmosphere within our lifetime, at least the model business will thrive!

To be fair, creating (NOT buying) virtual models has its joys too. Watching them grow and slowy progress toward completion, overcoming the challenges that presents you is just as wonderful. And then driving them through environments I could never ever recreate with real models... that's a genuine hobby as well. And now excuse me please, I'm working on my next train for Cities:Skylines!

Woah! Just randomly found your channel. I'm in Newcastle and make stuff... as do my kids - yay! I remember going to The Model Shop on Blenheim Street when I was little - that place was pretty cool. I was obsessed with model making as a kid... that and Lego. Are you from / in Newcastle? Oh... 2423 comments. You'll probably not see this... top rant anyway! 😂👍

Am I no longer a young folk? Damn I'm 29 and i started going from 40k and fantasy ...... And now I'm starting historical wargames.....

That place reminded me of "Hobby House" in Louisville, Kentucky, a place I dearly loved to go to as it had the best selection anywhere. I was so sad to see it close, and becoming a seedy pay check advance loan establishment only made things worse! Thanks for bringing back some memories!

the price is silly now though, compare what modeling used to cost and it's just so silly. A lot of shops don't really advertise their existance at all, which in an age where you expect to be able to find out if a place is even still open and what its opening hours are is something that is distinctly lacking. cost is also linked to time, as decreaseing pay has meant not just that models are more expensive but that more people work longer hours just to make rent and be able to eat.

Great video and a wonderful shop! You should visit Yorkshire, there are some splendid model shops in the region. I’d be much obliged if you could increase the frequency with which you use the word “tubes” in future videos, thank you.

I think this guy is the only person I’ve ever heard talking actual facts. Nobody I’ve ever met my age want anything to do with model kits, I don’t understand!

Price is a big issue but also time. I have never had enough free time at school to do models

I am the modern child, or teenager. And love these models. I am right now working on the Apollo 11 working model. It separates in to 3 stages. I learned about models when quarantine came up in 2020. I was walking through hobby lobby looking for things to do and came across models. I asked my mom "Mom what is that? Is it a toy? Why a toy in a hobby store?" She responded "No, that is a model. Me and my brother used to make them all the time." And ever since I loved models. Something about building your toys and then using them is amazing. I hope it does not die off. Also for you in 2018 model making is coming back. They have started making models based of video games which has brought back many children to modeling. Edit: Thank you so much for the support. With being such an old video I was not expecting to be replied to or liked.

"Kids can't be bothered to make things" Meanwhile, in Minecraft....

What a marvelous shop, jampacked with modeling stuff for builders of every age, at every level of addiction! My town has a sizable model store and I love visiting it to buy things and, sometimes, sell things that they need more than I do. I chat with the other customers, compare notes, and help them find things.

I think it might be because it’s easier to get models online through shops like Amazon than to actually go into physical stores and whatnot

And because you filmed "toys" a bucnh of toy channels are in the recommended section now.

I must respectively disagree. While model stores are on the decline that is more about retail in general. The hobby of model kits seems to be very popular. I had my kids at the hobby store earlier today and there were 20+ people working there, primarily on Gundam kits by Bandai. I picked up specialty materials I only dreamed as a child and will be applying them to my Airfix British Mark I.

I’ve recently got back into model making, my first was a reboxed HMS Belfast from the 70s, and it was an incredibly satisfying experience to finish it and paint it

Im under 18, no not specifying, I LOVE MAKEING MODEL KITS specialy Tamiya kits

Games workshop still exists and is doing better than ever, but that's one of very few model/hobby shops that still exist The rest of really good models have gone online because its cheaper for them to be made in small quantities and then sent to people by post

What a great looking store! I spent ages exploring similar as a lad, debating for ages on what to spend my paper round or pocket money on, good times!

I am a grown-up kid who built model-kit airplanes aged 9, built a marklin railroad with my grandpa, painted wargame figures when 15, and only on my 25th learned proper 3d-modeling for games and the programming that goes with it. And although i get heavily nostagic only seeing you wandering about a proper model-shop, I feel the a creative hobby will be save for those with a creative mind

As a 16 year old, I will say that building models from kits or scratch is far more interesting and fun than computer games or pre-built items.

40k. 200hours of custom building and painting miniatures to play a one hour game. Now that's a hobby.

hi there Mr. lindybeige I have been building models for as long as i can remember and i have been building rc models since i was 8. I'm now at the point were i found a way to take the files from world of tanks strip them down and scale them to 1/16 scale and than print some of the parts. the rest I'm scratch building from styrene and brass. and at this moment i'm building a cromwell, A30 challenger and a naishorn this way. and I recently finished my tiger 1 and centaur dozer. So scale modelling is not dead Greetings tim

What great memories of the model shop that I as a kid used to go to in suburban Detroit. The owners built a giant railway crossbuck on the roof proclaiming the shop. The building is still there, along with the crossbuck which says it's a bookstore, but what great times they were. Thanks for the virtual tour of a real hobby shop.

Model Trains have all but disappeared here in the states. However RPG and Minatures Gamers keep diarama alive here. If it was not for Gundam and other Anime the Plastic Kit Model would have died a decade ago here.

Yeah, building your own miniatures is a ton of fun. Too bad it's very, very expensive to do so.

The japanese have caught a lot of attention in america with snap together kits. Really impressive, detailed and large ones, mostly Gundam. I think the idea of glue has become unappealing, it is for myself and friends who make Bandai and Kotobukiya Mecha kits.

Watching this whilst putting the finishing touches on a 1/72 JU87-2 Stuka. I agree wholeheartedly to everything you say!

OMG yes, shops like this used to be everywhere, once upon a time.

Living in Tyrol i understand where you´re coming from, Lindy. We had only a couple of such shops and some years ago the last i know closed, now there´s a barber (nothing against barbers!). Now only bigger toy stores have them, and for me as a Gundam enthusiast it´s even worse because noone has GunPla! I am FORCED to buy them over Amazon.

I'm 18, and when me and my dad go into any town we all ways have to go into a model shop if it had one. I've always made model

We have a model shop in our own Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, called Frontline Hobbies. It has a wide range of model kits, accessories, paint, tools and supplies. It also has a web presence so you can order on-line. However, I like the pleasure of personal shopping, and enjoy a visit there to get what I want. The staff are very helpful and knowledgeable. They have been around a long time and have a strong following.

I think another factor is the increasing price of the hobby forced people to buy from cheaper online retailers who don't have to pay for things like "rent" or "electricity bills"

I have built so many of those kits....and still do.

"I like tanks." -Nikolas Lloyd, 2018

Great work lad, commenting on the current, sad state of hobby shops, these days. Recalling growing up, back in the 60s, I'd go purchase a model almost every weekend, at one of the well stocked hobby shops, in NYC. I was appalled, after returning to the hobby recently, after not being able to do modeling since the early 2000s, took such a horrific toll on the modeling hobby. I knew that many Hobby shops were closing. Many critical venders disappeared, for scratch building, and painting. The shopkeeper up there in age, said that "We're all dying off". Additionally, he said that the crash of 2008, took out a lot of small business modeling scrach building vendors. This as well as that many young people, are more interested in computer games. The high prices these days don't help the situation. Thanks again for sharing your commentary.

I'm not entirely sure that kids playing video games is replacing kids making models. I think a lot of the time, the kid that prefers to do something else, would never have gotten into making models in the first place. People like different things. Also times are different. There's absolutely 0 chance I could afford a model kit per week as a kid - I wouldn't have been able to afford one per month! They are very expensive, especially in smaller countries. In Norway, you can't even find a model shop without driving for 2 hours, if you can find one at all, and this is not new - it always was like this. Adults here talking about their youth, built their own kits with pieces of wood and a knife... Because there was no alternative. So in a way, purchasing a kit in a box is just moving the goalpost. Someone will find that to be cheating, just as you find that it's kinda cheating to buy a complete model in a box. I'm periodically into model making, and as a kid I made some as well, but again, it was periodic. It was never a burning passion. And for a lot of people, that's exactly the issue - it's just not a huge passion, and it has nothing what so ever to do with the times. I think the hobby is perfectly healthy. There are many model building enthusiasts out there, young and old. Ordering kits and tools and mateirals online is infinitely better, because most of the time you get better prices, and the sheer variety of what's available is huge. Stores that could in no way afford to have a physical existence, can exist online because their customer base grows enormously by being online. Nobody could make a living in the overwhelming majority of my country, with a physical model shop. There are exceptions in some of the bigger cities, but we're talking a handful.... But what you may have noticed is a decline in wargaming in the classical sense - because as you maybe hinted at, video games replace that for a lot of people (again, both young and older). And for those people, the replacement is outright better, because they were never seeking the perfect fusion of gaming and model making - they were seeking the gaming aspect. Likewise, model builders often seek the model aspect, and have no interest what so ever in the gaming. I think the end result is that wargaming may well be in decline, because it tries to enfuse two different things, one of which has found a digital rebirth for a lot of people. This basically leaves the two halves of the idea still intact, but the fusion of the two, not so much. Model making is very healthy, gaming is very healthy, the infusion of both, is perhaps on the decline. I happen to enjoy both, but not the combination - wargaming can never replace the experiences I can have in a video game. And model making in itself is still available to me, I still do it. But I have no interest in building models and then playing with them. I just never found that interesting. Never as a kid, never as an adult! But I respect those who *do* find it interesting. I just wish they would respect what I find interesting without wanting to blame it for ruining their hobby.

When I was a boy I loved going to a proper model shop. Even when we went to Butlins , they had a model shop and events on all weeks, paint was free there. I never won a prize, but its a childhood I loved and would never swap with todays generation

My dad got me into model making. I’ve been doing them for years when I’m not playing video games.

As a lad in the late 1980's/early 90's, I'd trawl around all the model shops of Newcastle on a Saturday with my dear old dad. It was magical! Sometime after I came to know Bob Lutman too as we were both RNR and later RAF types. I still have the sticker for the model shop on the side of my R/C (no, not Roman Catholic, although I have never asked it) Flair Piper Cub. Lovely shop, lovely people and I deeply mourne the loss of these institutions. Nice that there is still a proper little model shop in my home town of Morpeth though. Squirrelled away, nice and safe I hope. 😊 Wonderful work, keep it up!

I would disagree, the modeling hobby seems to have gotten more popular in recent years in comparison to earlier years; the reason why model shops are declining is because of price and availability. Online, one could find exactly the model they want, and usually at a cheaper price; in store, it would really depend on what's in stock at the moment, and the pricing is usually higher.

Somewhere there's a carpenter who's saying, "I can't believe people pull parts to build something out of a box. Where is the interest in making something from scratch, on your own, not bought from a store." Just have fun man let people be themselves.

Was just telling the missus a day or two ago how every model shop I've ever known going back the my first one as a kid is just a memory. This includes the US and parts of Europe. Sad!

The "ha" at about 5:00 (and the comment that went with it) put a smile on my face and reminded me of hitting "like". I used to love modelling,but never became really good at it. You know,the seams... What I'm proud of though is what I built for my playmobil figurines, weapons out of toothpicks, coats, scenery...alas, many years prior to the advent of digital photography :)

This is so relatable, I'm a teen, and it's kind of hard to discuss models with other kids, but they all seem to be talking about how they got their battle royal in FoRtNiTe.

3:28 "cant be done by hand", sure but modelers achieve even better detail than that stuff. The advancement of technology has allowed us to print water slide decals with writing on them that can only be read with a microscope, tho the already built models that you take out of the box can still be useful to current modelers, I use them to practice some painting techniques and color contrasts. Here in Asia, plastic modeling is on a slow but steady rise, especially because of gunpla. I started modeling because of gunpla, and I watch plastic modeling videos to enhance my skills in making these beautiful pieces of plastics look as if they were real.

I know it isn't the same, but I like painting miniatures for roleplaying games, like D&D (I don't actually play D&D I made my own system instead). It's way nicer to paint my own than get the prepainted minis I suck at painting, but I'm slowly getting better

I’m a teenager and I build model kits, I have a family friend who owns a real hobby shop, now a huge part of my childhood is spent there where we have a group of family friends. I’m a huge nerd for a lot of things and if I need something I go to the hobby shop. Truly a hobby shop has everything for anything. Wether it’s war memorabilia too needing stuff for a school project and sometimes even video games. So glad I took my passion for nerdy things and found model kits and the miniature world where I can make anything. Quite fun to make my own Navy after school or after a long football practice. Goes to show you can include any hobby in your life if you have the time, the mixture between sports and being a nerd is quite cool. Love your videos keep it up