Getting back into it

[LividSV]

Hey all, i have an itch, an itch to build some kind of model i can stick on a shelf

I am looking for something that will not be too challenging, I'm thinking along the lines of a tank, maybe a Tiger.
Now i want a decent looking model at the end of it, so what brands should i be looking at?

Or has anyone got any ideas of something else to build, i just do not fancy making a car.

[NismoGT]

Why not make a Battleship?

I have been tempted by The Airfix HMS Hood myself

[LividSV]

Hmm battleship good idea, i need something a little smaller though for the shelf. Hmm perhaps if i can find one of those attack boats we had in WW2 that fired torpedos. Or maybe a little snazzy Destroyer class or something.

[Silver993tt]

What, something like these?

[LividSV]

They look brilliant! i am just after something a lot smaller to nicely sit on a shelf

[Silver993tt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH5eYCdheLw

[Quick silver]

LividSV said:

Hmm battleship good idea, i need something a little smaller though for the shelf. Hmm perhaps if i can find one of those attack boats we had in WW2 that fired torpedos. Or maybe a little snazzy Destroyer class or something.

As a teenager I built an airfix battleship 'Prince of Wales' but ended up adding some plastacine ballast to the inside of the hull & sent it off across the local fishing pond where it remained for several days.

[T89 Callan]

Tanks, Tamiya do some great kits at resonable prices and they look good on desks.

Battle ships don't look right when the aren't in water.

Tamiya's 1/35 Tiger 1 looks really good.