What's the ideal model kit for beginners? The Model Kit Basics

Is there a kit that dont require painting?

A great to the point video! thanks

All the stuff your showing here is in Australia, I live in Ireland any idea where to get the stuff I need over here

Totally agree. The 2 sprue a/craft kits are excellent.

C’mon mate! Beginner need help and real guidance !! You were so near it and you were so close on a number of occasions and then diverted away??!!

Please do this again , the goldfish were ok 😊

Also please don’t assume all beginners are on small budgets and write a script…….even just key point’s?!
Bob
England

I like that military models

I've been wanting to try this for a while but the painting puts me off I suck.

i tougth tamya models costed 100's or more but the raf mustang surprisingly is 29 euros on amazon

Would be nice to have similar models in different scales. I can't get my head around the math.

Good stuff mate! 👍🇳🇿

I think the best ideal kit for beginners is best stated as "Not the small one, the cheap one, the one with fewest parts." Because often those ones are also crap. Or inherently flawed. or just a lot of work to make into something that isn't a disappointment. The best kits are often made by very solid companies that have been in business for decades. Pick one of their new releases. It will usually be them at their best. Pick a tank. They are less prone to need skills like painting. Planes need to be assembled perfectly. Cars need to be painted perfectly. Ships have many small parts. A tank is often no interior. A box shape with some parts glued on it. Some wheels and tracks. And it is ok to look beat up.

Me jumping right into a modern 1:72 thinking smaller was better. I was successful but boy oh boy was it a rough learning experience

Between armor and planes, which is typically easier for a beginner?

You've been building kits for over 40 years!? You don't look a day over 40 hahah

Right on the money, if building in 1/48 (aircraft), 1/35 (armour), with the caveat, for first/early models stick with Tamiya's older kits which if less accurate than latest toolings, are simple, inexpensive and yet result dressed up in their war paint, result in attractive models. Just pick one which most excites the mojo.

The frustrating thing is the kits you want are almost always out of stock. I wait patiently, check the website regularly, then when something comes in again I have to wait until I can get to the store - ok I am old school and I have an aversion to having items put aside - and the night before I check availability again and... you guessed it, out of stock. It seems everyone is back into kit building again and they all want to same kits you do! It doesn't help that supply has also been affected. Yet, I persist in the hopes I might strike it lucky at some point.

my first 1/35th vehicle was the Tamiya Panzer IIf - the one from the 1970's which you can still get for about a tenner... its dead easy to put together and has the bonus, especially if you're a youngster, of having a squad of Afrika Korps soldiers with which to display it with. dead easy to make and a nice little kit. something like the Leopard or the T62 are also pretty cheap and dead easy to assemble.

The same recommendation when talking about beers … just a model in front of you and start

U should do a video explaining that super glue is much better than using cement bc cement is toxic and it can cause permanent neurotoxic issues

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