What is a model, a toy or a serious hobby?

Modeling - a hobby for those who like to tinker with tools leisure, enjoys a passion for technology and its history.What is the model?It is a small copy of a prototype, made to scale, and other similarity criteria.Before embarking on its manufacturing, real modelers study the circumstances in which the prototype, design features and options appearance.

Usually bench simulation addicted as a child when his parents sold the first team model.The result is not always happy, but often there is a desire to try again, this time to work carefully.At the same time the child produced such valuable personal qualities as accuracy and ability to handle the instruments.The main thing you should pay attention to this point - this is a good ventilation of the room (a pair of adhesive contain harmful substances).

get older, people think about the fact that such a model, as it turned out like a sample of real art, and it could be a plane, and the ship, and the car and engine, and a tank.The degree of similarity is checked against published on the Internet and print media images simultaneously acquired knowledge of the technical characteristics, the history of creation and operation of a prototype.

most popular among modelers are planes.They are beautiful, their silhouettes swift, and one look at the quality copy can lift your mood.

kits that are sold today are different scale.It may be close (1:12 or 1:24), aggregated (1:48 or 1:32), average (1:72), or quite small (1: 144).The most common model airplanes have a scale of 1:72.The size of these models is sufficient to distinguish all, and thus they do not take up much space.

assembly models are produced by many companies in Russia and CIS countries, as well as in Japan, Germany, Italy, South Korea, China and other countries.Quality varies both by detailing that is, the degree of playback structural elements, and in casting technology.But it's all for the present masters, knowing that such a model, not a big deal.All producer flaws can be corrected, you only need to have the desire and patience.

most "advanced" Wizard apply additional elements that are not in the box.Scale models are complemented by "etched", that is, parts of thick foil, creating a convex reliefs in those places where they are needed.In addition, proper toning important, for which special dyes are applied.

airbrush painting is usually done with a preliminary application of the special "mask" of the tape, paper or wax.Modern paints have a tendency to model the self-leveling, so that at small sizes it is possible to manage and brush.An exception is the white color - it's very bad falls on the surface without spraying.

final touch to achieve similarity is the application of decals and "traces of exploitation", ie traces of smoke near the exhaust pipe, oil drips, peeling paint in some places and other grounds on which a scale model is different from a simple toy.Such a product should have very realistic.And when the result of delight, it becomes clear that this model is worth so much and why mess around with it.