G'day everyone, havent posted in a while, anyway, i was thinking to myself, armorama covers every type of modelling, armor, aircraft, figs, dio's, ships, even space and fantasy, now there is only one catagory we are missing...CARS!!! we need a auto section, im sure alot of us here are car modellers to, i know i am, i know this may take away from the description of this site, "for military scale modellers" but surly it couldnt hurt seings we already support space and fantasy, what do you think everyone, jim i would like to here what you think on the subject too, cheers ....hey last time i was here we didnt have all these new smily dudes, im gonna try em out heheheheh

Where's TwistedFate - Isn't he the 4x4 modeler with an 'attitude', Mr. Pink Tank himself? Don't make him mad he'll not only out burn you in the 1/4 mile he'll blow you apart while you're at it.
(Read as a silly joke please - I can't argue against a car section other than it's not armored)

The serious car modelers have various sites that they hang out at. They have many more genres than we military modelers do. Regular cars, NASCAR, funny car, tuners, low riders, F1, hot rods, WRC, trucks, emergency equipment (fire, cop), the list goes on and on.

As a car modeller I have to agree with Rob. I come to Armorama for AFV and aviation subjects. I can go other places for cars.

If we are to expand to civilian areas then we must include civil aircraft, all sorts of boats and merchant marine, trucks and buses...where will it end?

Lets stick to militay scale modelling (and turn a blind eye to the Trekkies ) or we risk losing focus.

Regards Dave

Shouldn't it be "Treckers"?
And how about a new forum called Pedantic's Corner?

Hi Agree with the others here on this one. Armorama is a great site for the military builders and should stay as it is for those interested in this segment of the overall hobby. But I must admit, I basically cut my teeth on building model cars way back in the days when the earth was young and the dios. were camped out in front of the cave on Saturday afternoons. Ha! And I really enjoy taking the time to look through the various model car mags. at the local book store and see what is being done today. Truly amazing, just like the armor stuff.

What would be nice here in this little discussion is if somebody would list some of the really nice model car/truck sites they've run across on the Net. so others could go there and check them out, whether just for fun, for serious, or for just a switch of pace every now and then. (I probably shouldn't metion this here, but I, on occasion, do build a model truck, just for a different change of pace).

Take care, sgirty

I think that Armorama must stay as a Military Modelling site. I supose this is the spirit of the site.

Hi All
I haven't built a car model since I was 16. and don't plan to any time in the near future.

Ohooooh sgirty, shame on you!
:-) :-)

Why start a new forum for that. There have been several staff cars shown before on the armor section and they went down well. I like the fact that cars uséd for the military are as welcome as a tank.

The funny thing with cars is, some of the guys that build cars in our local IPMS are really talented. They build them to perfection ... literally. but when I look at them and see all the shiny chrome, they remind me of all the model die-cast cars available in shops. The chrome work, paint and decals (on trucks and racing cars) are so perfect they resmeble toys "to me". Sorry for my ignorance on the subject... only how I see it!

Yeah on second thoughts i agree, lets keep this place the way it is
A few of you said there were some good car modelling web sites around, can anyone give me some links to the most popular and best ones? preferably hot rods, import tuners and muscle cars please, cheers

thats it the one thing the manufacturers have forgotten is 1/35 scale cars from the 20's and 30's till today.

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I remember at the begining of the summer Jim specificly ruled out an automotive section because, as the site name implies, Armorama deals with armored AFVs. Even sci-fi ones.

YM

Any cars I wanna see are posted on the AFV forum or the dios.

If I want t post hotrods or NASCAR, I'll go to another DG.

Like Master Yoda says, I also appreciatte the tolerance extended by you "purists" to us Trekie types.
I have a mixture of kits on the shelf: AFVs, Aircraft, and SciFi.
I dont think I'm savy enough with my new Aztek to camo with it yet so am doing SciFi first to get some experience up.

Thanks for enduring us fellas!!!

as for cars used in the military...I believe we call those softskins and the space thingy...well the Enterprise is a "military" space ship so we are still keeping in the militarty spiit in that area.

The majority of sci-fi models are military in nature. Star Trek vessels are commanded by a crew using military ranks and the ships are basically heavily armed futuristic capital ships. Those Gundam/Mech type robots are futuristic battle machines as well.

I actually built a car kit and put a build up review of it here at the site. I had worked on a Revell-Monogram PT Cruiser with my daughter. It was a real high quality snap kit so I bought another one for myself and made it into a psuedo retro army staff car. My mom liked it so much that my daughter and I made another retro army staff car for her as well.
Retro Army Staff Car was one of the first articles uploaded to the site.

Coool, Rob. I like it!

Our previous Command Chaplain drove a PT Cruiser and we once threatened to paint it as a staff car. Now he's the commandant of the Chaplain's School -- I ought to send him pics of your model to show him what he missed!

heheheh, i like the pt, how long ago did you make that?
does anyone know of some good car modelling sites? as i said preferablly ones that deal with hot rods, muscle cars and import tuners, cheers