There are a lot of people out there that like going to stores and picking out one of those model kits that they like and simply build it and stick it on their shelf but are there many people out there that have all kinds of parts and build them to their liking? Well of course there are and this is what is known as custom model building.
Where Does This Occur? (more…)
Well when model kits first hit the mainstream market in the 60s it has to be said that they were mainly about getting together as a family and building whatever model you actually bought but things have changes a lot since then.
After the initial awe of actually owning your very own model kits it became a bit boring for people to keep going out and getting the newest forms of the same kind of thing and the model industry saw a bit of a fall during this period of time because things became a bit, well samey. This is until major television programmes such as Star Trek which was first released in 1966 started to ship model kits to stores. (more…)
As a kid I have to say that I had no heard of Scalextric sets This was until my uncle came round one morning with his entire collection of the stuff and we decided to sit and place everything he had on the downstairs of the home, it worked perfectly I have to say.
If you are not sure what Scalextric is then it is basically just slot car racing which is of course racing small cars that are powered by grooves or “slots” within the track itself. The user of the car will actually control the small model using just one button, squeezing hard for fast and soft for slow. (more…)
Okay so collecting the kits themselves is not something that a lot of people do as they cost a lot of money and you immediately want to get them out and start messing about with them and this is even more true when it comes to something like Remote controlled helicopters because there is no way that you can just let something like this sit in its box for a long period of time.
Another thought is when it comes to many plastic model kits like action figures because a lot of people will actually go out into the shops and buy two of them. One of them to play with (if you’re a kid) and one of them to keep for your child until they are a bit older as this will allow them to get a lot of money from it. (more…)
There are so many reasons why you wouldn’t purposely go out and buy RC aircraft just to go out and crash the thing on purpose. Here are just some of the reasons why.
Price
If you are going out and wanting to buy one of the really decent models you are looking at way over £500 which of course means that if you crash the thing you are going to have to replace it. (more…)