Weekend Warriors! - Scale Modelling Now

putting the fun back into our hobby…

That’s exactly what we are doing with this new series of projects. From the box and having fun… that’s what this is all about and we start this week with Les Venus and his 1:35th Desertised Tamiya Challenger 2. From the box – start to finish in a weekend. In fact it’ll probably take longer to get you the whole build than it took Les to complete the thing! But I want to try and get this Weekend Warriors (WW) theme off to a positive, enthusiastic start and who better to do that than the Big Man?

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Unable to resist, your Editor will also be taking the plunge with one of Hannant’s own Xtrakits – probably the 1:72 scale Supermarine Swift FR5 very soon – watch this space!

Here’s a challenge for you – why not give this a go yourself, take some pics of the build and add some captions – one for each pic and send it in to me at: geoff@scalemodellingnow.com and I will do my best to publish it in the WW area of Club Model – go on, go on, go on – you know you want to!

And here’s a few thoughts from Les V…

“I got to thinking that it’s too easy to get sucked into our fantastic hobby and as a result spend weeks and months on projects. Guilty as charged and do you know what, I love it. The trouble is we all have really busy “real lives” and sometimes the prospect of getting back to that big build or big project is just too difficult and so we put it off and before long modelling can become a chore.

So here’s the deal. I reckon that it’s possible to just have fun in modelling. To build a good model, not get bogged down in researching the detail – the worry of the perfect model and yes just have fun like it used to be when we started. So I thought let’s give it a try. I put the idea to Geoff who promptly stole it and said we can call it the Weekend Warriors! ……you have 24 hours to build a model of your choice. Yes he is that hard!

Now don’t tell Geoff but it’s actually possible to build something in less time but I decided to choose a subject I’d not tackled before and therefore put added pressure on to show that whatever you decide to do it can be done and with a lot of fun to boot.”

Ok, so let’s have your contributions guys with all those lovely stats like how long your project took? How much fun you had?

Best wishes, Geoff