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**PaulTRose** · 12 April 2015, 10:58

see if she likes Gundam's........can be pricey in the uk but easy to paint and put together and have the attraction that they are 'posable'

quite difficult thinking of stuff for girls................airfix tried a very long time ago with stuff like the show jumper and animals, never caught on

**Guest** · 12 April 2015, 11:08

I think that is youngsters (suppose like grown men really) they like to glue and paint.

I would have said Dougie as simple as possible mainly as young people see the next thing before they have finished the present what ever they are doing.

I was surprised at how some can read instructions other clueless. 4 grandsons and the brightest of the bunch has difficulty reading the plans and instructions. The best at it is the one not so bright. Sounds heartless that but it is not just the fact as I love them all as I do my own sons and daughters.

Laurie

**Guest** · 12 April 2015, 13:17

Spacial awareness and visualizing the plans can use different thought processes I guess Laurie. I'm good at that but I can't add or subtract to save my life, hence I'm an offshore installation tech and not a design engineer (having not enjoyed uni) although I was good at cad, I don't want to be stuck infront of the pc all day haha I loved hand draughting. There most be a creative streak in that one grandson too. He will be the one who likes to get hands on probably And I'm sure you will do your but to help him flourish there being helpful and insightful as you are

Beowulf

Not a bad shout, I actually have shown her some before and she loves robots. We saw some gundam in Edinburgh yesterday in a newish shop beside wonderland models but she had walked miles by then and had her fill. Maybe I will ask again after we finish the 2 rally cars I have for her, I'm sure that suggestion is just the ticket.

Cheers guys

**Guest** · 12 April 2015, 13:31

Originally posted by \

(having not enjoyed uni)

You do not have to go to uni. Dougie. I went to night school and learnt in house during the day. In my opinion the best training you can get. We took on young budding architects who had trained for four or five years and who came to us as on a secondment who did not know a brick from a lump of concrete. Exaggerated of course but what kind of training is that I used to wonder. My father was a carpenter and I went with him on school holidays and Saturdays when he was working on house and office building construction. I then learnt to think in three dimensions when later laying down in two dimensions on a piece of paper. Not the other way around.

Model making is a great way of thinking in 3 dimensions. One of the most difficult things for the brain to get it's head around (especially as the brain is in the head

).

Laurie

**Guest** · 12 April 2015, 14:35

My brain may not be In my head haha.

I will get to read and problem solve more hydraulic pneumatic circuits hopefully soon when we get our new kit hired out. I like doing that as my brain lies dormant with most of my work atm.

It's nice to hear that about the trainees, I've worked with a lot of people who make lives very difficult for people with the mental skills but not the hands on experience and I loathe that attitude lol

**PaulTRose** · 12 April 2015, 17:49

i work in Quality Assurance in engineering......ive had people smirk when ive mentioned that im a model maker, had someone say what a stupid hobby and it wasnt of any value

i replied that it actually helped with my job

problem solving and countermeasure......hand/eye coordination.....tool usage/dexterity......ability to follow plans but still think outside the box....encourages patience

i then asked him what his hobby was...........the reply?........football....watching, not playing!!

laurie.....once had a new engineer join the company straight from uni.......this guy was spending his first week visiting every department to see what they did....was shadowing me when i was measuring some parts and i asked if he wanted a go........gave him some parts and a vernier caliper.....then i had to teach him how to use the vernier!!!!!.....and it was a digital one!!

.....didnt know how to use a micrometer either..........and this is the future of the industry o_O.......and it really annoyed me since as an engineer he was at least on half as much again as me

**Guest** · 12 April 2015, 18:40

Originally posted by \

..ive had people smirk when ive mentioned that im a model maker,

I have had that Paul. A friend of my daughter in law in 6 weeks time (just had to get that in) the change in attitude (he is a commercial artist) when I mentioned making plastic models. That was until I showed what you could do. He will be over for the wedding and will have great pride in showing him all that we can all do.

Also add Paul that enjoyment of working through a model. Trying different methods of achieving what you want. A better way than spending your life watching TV all the time. Crazy but I go to bed thinking what am I going to tomorrow. How am i going to approach it and what will it all look like. Also to be honest what are all the members here are going to think of it when it is finished.

Laurie

**zuludog** · 13 April 2015, 09:06

I think Airfix used to do historic figures, and birds, but I can't seem to find them now. However, they do Wallace and Gromit kits; I've found them on Wonderland models website.

Miniart models do 1/16 historical figures, also from Wonderland, or go to www.miniart-models.com

I think there are also DR Who kits by Airfix, but I haven't found them

I've searched Kingkit's website and found a few odds & ends, including farmyard animals

Try some of the fantasy figures or wargaming things that are not too extreme and violent

Work towards making her own doll's house; a farmyard, including a tractor and a Land Rover; a street scene, with cars, people, street furniture, & a post box? See what the railway accessories come up with; or a train anyway? At her level it wouldn't really matter if you mixed 1/72 & 1/76

A kit of your car?

there are a variety of snap together, beginner's, and starter kits around, but you'll probably have to search for them

an opportunity to start from an early age to teach her how to use tools, glue, paint, and to care for them. Would be more instructive? if she was allowed to have her own set of tools

**rickoshea52** · 13 April 2015, 09:55

Originally posted by \

i work in Quality Assurance in engineering......ive had people smirk when ive mentioned that im a model maker, had someone say what a stupid hobby and it wasnt of any value
i replied that it actually helped with my job

problem solving and countermeasure......hand/eye coordination.....tool usage/dexterity......ability to follow plans but still think outside the box....encourages patience

i then asked him what his hobby was...........the reply?........football....watching, not playing!!

laurie.....once had a new engineer join the company straight from uni.......this guy was spending his first week visiting every department to see what they did....was shadowing me when i was measuring some parts and i asked if he wanted a go........gave him some parts and a vernier caliper.....then i had to teach him how to use the vernier!!!!!.....and it was a digital one!!

.....didnt know how to use a micrometer either..........and this is the future of the industry o_O.......and it really annoyed me since as an engineer he was at least on half as much again as me

It never ceases to amaze me how some people, who have the brains the size of a planet, cannot use something as simple as a spanner let alone a micrometer.

**Guest** · 13 April 2015, 10:11

Originally posted by \

It never ceases to amaze me how some people, who have the brains the size of a planet, cannot use something as simple as a spanner let alone a micrometer.

Yes I agree Rick and there are other sides to this.

Years ago Pauline and I were intrigued with the guy who lived at the bottom of our garden (lived in the house !). He was building a low brick wall on the edge of his patio.

Now Tom renovates cars vintage and after then. What a job he does. They are perfection personified.

Each day the bricks mounted up in dry form. Then one sunny day he arrives in the garden with a new level. He looked at it this way and that way upside down vertical but still could not fathom it all out. The brick wall was built without the aid of the level.

Tom was an interesting character. If he had a washing machine, for instance, which had conked out he dug a hole in the garden and buried it. One day the new hole being dug looked human size but no in went a motorcycle.

Just to add he did not bury his wife but I suspect the thought did occur to her that Tom should be buried with all his machines.

Laurie

**Guest** · 13 April 2015, 21:41

Zuludog, thanks for that effort, I will look into those as soon as the cars are done.

Guys - in uni it was the same, the ones that were brighter than me academically most of them couldn't re build the mini moke we had and couldn't do the basic bench work either. Horses for courses though, they could do the maths and solve the problems!

That story Laurie about the guy burying stuff is brilliant! LOL

Cheers guys

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