Spot on Bob, the other thing, apart from all the previously mentioned reasons, is the fascination of turning what is basically a 2D medium into a 3d model..great stuff. !. Turning on the old computer and cranking out music whilst musing on the problems of the world is an experience not to be pushed aside.
Bones On 04/12/16 10:36, bpenikas via Papermodels II wrote: Thank you! Thank you! Bones! Sorting through years of collected plastic model kits, pushing asside incomplete plastic models and dismissing an intention to activate the airbrush/compressor; instead I clear the work area, and for listening: turn on late night radio talk programs, trigger books on tape, or start the record player, I have often wondered WHY am I much happier cutting out parts from printed paper pages; maybe only just cutting parts that time, yet another evening I happily fancy gluing paper parts together. WHY? I dunno. I try to display a PAPER model at every monthly IPMS meeting (pushing paper) ; since this year is coming to an end, for October, I assembled and entered a completed "plastic" model just to show that I do know how to put 'em together. It was a challenge converting a model military fuselage for airline use; required putty, rescribing, and since the kit was so old I had to make new decals. Certainly pleased with the result but sadly the build time was not pleasurable as construction is with paper. Bob Penikas -----Original Message----- From: Bones Parsons <carbon_based_cave...@live.com><mailto:carbon_based_cave...@live.com> To: papermodels <papermodels@googlegroups.com><mailto:papermodels@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sat, Dec 3, 2016 3:30 pm Subject: [Papermodels II 49686] Why do we do it ________________________________ I was sitting here thinking about things while building the current model that has my attention and was mulling over just why I like cardmodels. There are many reasons including the fact that I can build models that I have no other means to get. Take Yan Ruker's M41a pulserifle, here in Oz there is no way, without a collector's license, to get that model. I can't import it, even if I could afford to, but I can make a near realist one from card, also Haggard's Star trek rifle and phasers. That goes for the other weapons on the wall here, we had a customer who arrived regularly to have his copy of Windoze fixed and he was a walloper (copper/flatfoot to Americans or the fuzz/Old Bill to UK residents), his eyebrows used to accelerate to warp speed whenever he saw a new rifle on the wall. Here it's an offense to even have a replica of a firearm. Another reason is cost, plastic models are at the point where one is required to trade one's firstborn to get enough money to buy one. Parts that get stuffed up in the build can be reprinted, bonus, and models can be built over and over if so desired. The time and effort that are required in order to bring a model to completion gives a real sense of achievement and that goes to the extreme when the model is taken for a plastic kit or even a real model for that matter. Without people like the Haggard and Ruker and countless others this great hobby would still be in its infancy. Anyone else like to add their thoughts ?. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to papermodels+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:papermodels+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to papermodels+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:papermodels+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to papermodels+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
