Damian, tell Liam his P-40 looks super great!!! Good job. I've built the same kit myself. Ha ha Here, his looks as good as mine!!! Wow!!!! Russell



Liam, they could fly together as wingmen! Again, super work there.

Thanks for sharing Sean, I really wanted this thread to be about family builds and encouraging the next generation !

Now let me share a tip, get the kids to do some chores around the house for pocket money and there are 3 benefits:
1. You don't have as many chores.
2. You get to take the kids to the LHS to buy their own kits (that's the excuse I use every time I go anyway)
3. YOUR stash remains intact.

Cheers, D

Model on please!

Hi Russell. Liam said thank you for telling him how good his model looks. Liam thinks soon you might build a rocket model.

Cheers, D

Hi Damian, tell Liam not a bad idea. If he were to build a rocket, which one would he build? Just curious? Russell

Time to drag this thread up again, time marches on and I now have a new addition to the clan, Darcy is now 8 weeks old and almost ready to start training on the Xacto and Tamiya Extra Thin Cement !

I took Josh and Liam to our club Christmas break-up meeting, and they BOTH won raffle prizes. I tried to bargain with them, since I funded the tickets, to no avail. They both chose car kits from the prize pool (pictured below), at which I told them that they needed to choose again as neither kit had any weapons. Once again, my pleas fell on deaf ears. Level of respect for Dad = ZERO !! I should have made them walk home.

Anyway here are the offending brats and their prizes

Liam chose the Italeri 1/24 Giulietta Spider 1600cc

and together we made a start on it tonight


Josh chose the Tamiya 1/24 Jaguar XJ220


I got nothing . . . . . . NOTHING !!

How about it folks, any other juniors score some kits or doing some building over Christmas ?

Cheers, D

Damien , man this is cool ...

My son is 8 years old , and was pestering me to build kits again , wanted to go to the modelling club .

I was thinking he was too young until I watched him build LEGO Bionicals in no time flat .

So we went and have built a couple planes together and a couple tiny submarines .

Today he started a P51 Mustang by ICM ..

Good stuff .

That's the stuff Brian. It gets a bit tricky when they start eyeballing your stash though. Post up some photos when you get a chance.

Cheers, D