First car and first build

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work. I hope that this will be the first of many more.

Alexander Grivonev
Awesome mate 👍 good work for a first model. But what the hell was that with the newspaper strips in the cooking pot 😄😄

Bozzer
We all started somewhere?
There's actually many tricks, however, it's better to learn from your mistakes, than to sit and watch. Scalemates is fantastic, for picking up tricks and tips. YouTube is excellent for watching videos and "How to" do it videos. But, simple items, like wood glue, for attaching clear parts, thinner specific to your paint, and a decent set of brushes, with varying size bristles, will improve your model. It's the tools we use, that helps us. However, it's the passion, that drives us!
Congratulations on your first album. I look forward to watching your progress 👍

Ben M
👍 good start.

yngvenett
Thank you all for friendly feedback. Hopefully I've learned from my mistakes, so now I'm ready to make new ones 😉 It definitely helped to find this Scalemates site, check out albums here and watch on YouTube. Many great ideas and solutions. And friendlier than Facebook...

yngvenett
@Alexander I tried building a bag I used for books and stuff in school using this method:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papier-m%C3%A2ch%C3%A9

Made a lot of mess in the kitchen 🤣 and couldn't fit in the car. A friend with 3D-printer promised to help with better solutions next time

Alexander Grivonev
Got ya👍

I genuinely burst out laughing as between the pictures of the model there was a pot with newspaper strips cooking in it 😄😄 good comedic effect

Bozzer
yngvenett, I took am in many groups on Facebook. Unfortunately, that platform is not, what it used to be 🙁
I made many friends there, and there's some excellent modellers there, but it's full of keyboard warriors.
Here on Scalemates, you are surrounded by modellers, who have skills and enthusiasm, that's leaked into a passion. We're serious about our hobby, but we can still have a laugh. We offer ideas, hints, tips, solutions, and sometimes, even a bit of nostalgia? It's a good place to be! However, you're going to need a nickname, because I'm buggered if I can pronounce your name? 😛

Ben M
I think the pulp method in Wikipedia
might work if you get it pulped enough and use a pva glue binder

yngvenett
@Alexander I'm happy to be able to make people laugh. Even if not always trying 🙈
@Bozzer Yngve is easypeasy to pronounce! Been doing it for 60 years and it works almost every time 😉 but anything is good 👍
@Ben I used flour and it worked well. It's the lack of handyman skills that is my problem. 30 years in office didn't give much experience useful for scratch building 🤣

Bozzer
I'll have to settle for Ingy? It's the best I can translate it to, my friend?
So, I have a serious question for you.
How long does it take for your paint to dry, in the climate that you live in? Obviously, it sounds like a dumb question, but we all live in different parts of the world, and obviously we use various different kinds of paint? In the UK, enamel paint usually dries in 24hrs, but I wouldn't even touch it, for a week. Lacquer paint, is about a day. Acrylic, can be around an hour, but curing, will take around 12hrs. My cave is temp controlled at 18*C

yngvenett
@Bozzer My wife who's not Norwegian also found my name hard to pronounce 🤣 She's very good at it now though. My middle name is Bernhard. I know it's almost worse, but I think Bernie Taupin is named Bernhard too. Whatever you want is good. Drying time? I read instructions and they all said 24 hours. Because everything was painted with a brush it could dry up in the apartment which is 23⁰c . Never dared to try before 24 hours. All acrylic so far. Tamiya Fine Surface Primer (rattle can) was painted in a warehouse with 20⁰ and I waited 1 hour between the coats. Worked fine.

Simon O'Gorman
Brilliant! Loved reading your comments and seeing your journey. It all looked like a lot of fun. And you ended up with a really good result. Especially liked the doll's house albums on the back seat!

Spanjaard
very nice result. keep at it. if i can give a suggestion (i may not be the best since i suck at painting with a brush), but try to give several very thin coats instead of a thicker one. even if the first looks like you are not painting at all. just my two cents 🙂

Bozzer
All good information. The lengths we modellers go to, is unbelievable!

yngvenett
Than you all.
@Spanjaard, I want to try thin coats on the project I just started 👍

Bozzer
Right, let's see if we can assist you with a few ideas?
Airbrushing is fantastic, however, not everyone can do it. Not because they don't know how, but because of different things, like environment, health, etc? There's also the expenses that it can run into. However, it doesn't have to be like that. You can pick up several kits now, and they're pretty cheap. I'd consider them entry level, for those who dip their toes into the mysterious world of airbrushing? Revell and Humbrol sell a propellant airbrush, and having tried one, they give sporadic results. But, there's a USB charging, self contained airbrush, that might help you with your bodies? I'll try and find a link for you. With that solved, to an extent, you need some kind of extraction? Some of us, have made our own spraybooths, but you can actually get one, fairly cheap. If you want to make your own, I strongly suggest that you only use a 12v brushless motor fan, for extraction. I've seen some terrible ideas, that are frankly quite dangerous, but advice is always on hand, if you need it.
I'm sure that many people will comment below, with more suggestions, so I'll let everyone else share their thoughts. The important thing to remember is...
Have Fun! 🙂

Bozzer
This is the portable one, I was talking about:
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yngvenett
Good advice 👍 for some reason this exact brand is not available in Norway, but I'm 10 minutes drive from Sweden. It might be possible to fix.

Martin Oostrom
Yngve, we all started somewhere. I did a lot of building in my youth, got interested in things girls could do and stopped building. After 25 years I returned to the hobby, and it had changed a lot.
But even with some basic skills, it was an adventure: Evolution of skills. | Album by Mahoo76

Bozzer
The question is, did we stop playing with girls, because we mastered it? Or, did we just go back, to what we know best? 😉

yngvenett
You guys are great. Thanks Martin for some links. I will look into them and I'm sure there's lots for me to learn there. And get inspiration. And Bozzer, I hope we can do some of both 😂 I'm only hobbying from late fall to spring. When the sun comes back I play with other things 😉 best of two worlds