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CommanderPaladin
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Does anyone else here build plastic model kits? Do you know any special techniques for them? I would like hear about it.

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Koru7
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well model kits are awesome when they are done. but i don't like building them. it depends how easy it is.

pickpocket
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Shepherd

I build a little warhammer but not really anything else. Warhammer r like army men and such

Jefferysinspiration
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I used to be really into model kits - airplanes, cars and warhammer.
Just takes patience and concentration. I currently have neither, so i currently don't do it.

CommanderPaladin
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model kits are awesome when they are done. but i don't like building them. it depends how easy it is.


Anything worth having is worth working for.

I build a little warhammer but not really anything else.


I like to build aircraft kits, especially designs from WW2 and the Cold War era. I've also worked on a few armor kits, but they tend to be harder and have more issues with part fits than others. What I really search for though are the old Monogram and Revell "action kits." If assembled right, they are full of working parts like spinning props, folding wings, and even working bomb-release mechanisms, instead of being "static."
Somewhat49
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build a little warhammer but not really anything else. Warhammer r like army men and such

I had good intentions on doing the Warhammer, but where do you buy the tools to clip em?? I've looked everywhere for them.
Ernie15
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I don't have the patience to build anything that takes more than a few minutes to build. My attention span is too short for that.

well model kits are awesome when they are done. but i don't like building them.


Why don't you just buy the model?
Somewhat49
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Why don't you just buy the model?

Then you feel like you wasted oyur money on saomething you can't build
Ernie15
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Then you feel like you wasted oyur money on saomething you can't build


If you want the finished product, but you don't want to be the one to build it, doesn't it make more sense just to buy a finished model rather than build the whole thing yourself unwillingly?
Turtelman1234
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Does this include Legos? Because if so, then I used to be into models when I was younger.

eatmydust166
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Does this include Legos

I wouldn't think so, but whatever floats your boat.

I used to build models when I was younger and occasionally, when I'm bored, I make a few. I don't always paint them now, but that doesn't matter. When I'm done I usually give them away or I keep it if I really like it. Now I just don't have time to do them much. :/
johnmerz
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I used to do it, but I don't really care for them anymore...

pickpocket
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@ somewhat, u can find clippers at hobby lobby, warhammer store or hobby centers. Also, u can go to the warhammer website and order everything u need. Such as clippers, glue, paints, tray, brushes, files, sets, exato knife and more.

eddyalex
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I once built a spitfire a tank a raptor and a Hummer

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