Starting off my Grandsons

[stona]

As a teacher of primary age children for 35 years I would give some simple advice.
Hard as it is try to only advise and support but let the boys do it themselves. They will make a mess, be impatient, get glue all over and you will cringe at the end product but it will be their's. Children need plenty of praise and encouragement for their efforts. I think it is wonderful to show youngsters that there is more to life than phones, TwitterTube and Facebox. :tongue-out3:
All credit to you Granddad :thumb2:
Jim

Absolutely right! I have a four year old grandson who has taken a shine to my drums. I just let him bang away at anything (except his little brother). Eventually he asked me to show him how to hold the sticks. We even play games with the metronome but it's never long before just banging is more fun. FUN is key.

[zuludog]

I'm getting a shopping list together

While I was Surfing t'Net I came across Gundam models
Well I started with the Airfix kits in plastic bags and progressed from there, but this was the first time I'd heard of Gundam
It seems there are fantasy figures made by Bandai but they look a bit complicated and expensive for my Grandsons for now

However they are made up in a similar way to the usual plastic model kits, and there are various tool kits aimed at that market
The small kit has much of what I need, containing sprue cutters, an Xacto type knife, tweezers, and emery boards, and I'll add a few other things myself

Sorry, but my computer skills are even worse than my model making skills and I don't know how to post links, but if you Search Google & Amazon for '8 piece Gundam tool kit' you'll find it
It looks reasonable enough and has decent reviews, does anyone else know anything about it?

I never bothered with all this fantasy stuff like Dragons & Dungeons, Warhammer and all the rest of it, but if the boys discover it in future, well that's fair enough, at least they will be making & doing something

[Guest]

Zuludog.

Posting links.

Put in Google( or what you use) search what you are after.

Mouse Click on the item you want to open it up.

In the search bar there will appear an address for this item

Starting at the end hold down left mouse & drag the whole length of the address.

In Scale models to put in this address. Click at point you want address copied too in the topic reply.

Right click mouse. Click on PASTE Voila. Hope it helps

Laurie

Love to know your real name

[zuludog]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/WMYCONGCONG-Building-Buildings-Airplanes-Repairing/dp/B07WRZG15P/ref=asc_df_B07WRZG15P/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=427946839187&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3505982178904133827&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006585&hvtargid=pla-905496817140&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=97823378125&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=427946839187&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3505982178904133827&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006585&hvtargid=pla-905496817140

Laurie
Thanks for your help
I tried your method but it didn't work, so from the back of my mind I tried a half forgotten Cut & Paste method from a computer course I went on years ago
It looks like it's worked, hopefully I'll get better in future

I think the tool kit looks reasonable enough. I'll add a few things and post my provisional shopping list in the near future

[Andy the Sheep]

Zuludog, when 50 years ago my granpa bought me my first kit (see pic for reference) and a tube of cement I was about 7 y.o. and I still think that it was the best gift I could ever have had even if I made a mess of it :smiling:.
So my advice is... give them plastic, cement and some waterbased paint and let them enjoy it without too much mentoring, unless they ask for it.


Andrea