Hobby Thread - Aug 31, 2024 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the horde in this little corner of the interweb. As previewed last week, a spin of the Ace of Spades wheel of hobbies has come up with a theme of model building this week.

What do you build? What scale? How detailed to you get? Do you have stacks of boxes of unbuilt models? Did you build as a child? Do you built from kits or from scratch or both? Do you build dioramas? How do you display your finished work? Race cars? Road cars? Airplanes? Jets? Tanks? Ships? Space vehicles? Buildings? Do you have a dream project that you would like to tackle someday?

Looking for horde help to make this work. We're here to talk about model building. We are looking for models that you build, customize, repair and display. Models do not need to be elaborate. As usual, keep this thread limited to hobbies. Politics and current events can wait for other threads. Play nice. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls. Pants not required.

Special welcome to the lurkers or those catching up on the thread later. Nice to have your eyeballs. You're always welcome to join in. Post anytime or drop an email in the hobby thread email box.

Horde hobbying - courtesy of InspiredHistoryMike: These are all 1/72 scale:

Thank you!

Horde hobbying - courtesy of Patches: 1/72 Monogram F-4J in a VX-4 one-off paint scheme (darker color is not correct in photo), along with the ancient Monogram 1/48 OS2U Kingfisher done in the colorful training scheme. The workbench has a sampling of in-work projects - the mighty F-111 finds favor here along with a few car projects.

Thank you!

Homework photo from last week - models courtesy of Grateful. Bonus points if you can identify all of them without doing an interweb search:

Tamiya Tours

Model makers know the name Tamiya. The Japanese company has made plastic models of cars, tanks, ships, jets and more for decades. Have you built Tamiya kits? What does their flagship factory store in Tokyo look like?

How about a tour of the museum at Tamiya HQ?

I would ordinarily embed this Youtube video but not sure that it can be viewed outside of Youtube. Click - it is worth it. One man with a focus on making Ferrari F1 models from scratch. Crazy.

24 Hour build:

Learn from others - tips and tricks:

The Mission to Restore the Original Starship Enterprise

From 2014 to 2016, conservators, curators, and experts collaborated to boldy restore the starship Enterprise NCC-1701 studio model from the original Star Trek series.

Original Star Trek Enterprise Model Resurfaces Decades After It Went Missing

Michael Wilco makes amazing car garage dioramas with Volkswagens:

Building models of broken tanks is impressive...

...and building a landscape for wrecked tanks based on a historical photo from the Falaise Pocket is impressive too.

Bonus professional model-maker content - Behind the Scenes of model making for the original Star Wars movie. Lots of commentary from the makers themselves and lots of photos and video of the original concepts and evolution to the final form. Interesting if you are a model maker or a Star Wars fan or both. 58 minutes, so you might want to save for later:

Where Roger That Really Comes From (hat tip: NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker)

Did you miss last week's hobby thread with a photography theme? The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Bonus content from the photography theme - The Flight Test Photographers Of Edwards Air Force Base

Notable comments from last week:

Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

If model building is not your thing and you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different hobby next time around. Send thoughts or suggestions to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do not sniff the glue.

posted by Open Blogger at 05:30 PM

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