Introduction to the world of plastic Modelling 

Hi all, in the first place would like to say a big hello to all of you following my blog. In second place let me guide you a little through the world of the plastic models. 

Through this blog I will try to guide the novice people through the fantastic world of model building, starting with essentials, theme, scale tools needed and once all this is covered I will advance for some tips. 

This is a hobby that requires a lot of patience in first place and a lot of persistence, don’t think that you gone start building a model and you will achieve great results straight away, but the beauty of this hobby is that with persistence and willing   you can achieve great results. 

When I started my journey through the build of plastic models, I didn't had a clue of what I was entering, I thought to myself, how hard cant his be, and let me tell you, it is bloody hard. 

In the first place you have to face the decision of what you gone build, Armour, airplanes and on this one you have a wide variety of themes and decades that you can concentrate yourself from WW2 to Vietnam, modern fighters and so on. You can go as well to the civil models such as cars or bikes, but I think that by this point you can see that it's not easy to choose a theme.  

Assuming that you have chosen your theme of choice, now comes another decision, the scale that you want to build. On this field you have to decide carefully, if you have unlimited space you can go with 1/24 or 1/35 scale if like me your space is limited you can go with 1/72 or 1/144. 

In my personal case, I have decided to build what have would please me. My main focus is the Portuguese Air Force but also have a go on all the other areas of modelling, having built already some ships, tanks and some cars.

Well after choosing theme and scale, comes the so much waited build, but till we start it we need to cover some more points, after all the essentials covered will start a build of an iconic spitfire so that we can go through all the steps together. On the next post I will try to cover all the tools that we need to begin our adventure. 

See you all next time and hope you enjoyed the reading.