I mean :

Do you prefer a very accurate kit like tamiya's or dragon's, so you can finish it quite quickly.
And after that add some superdetails.

Or do you prefer to spend more time (so more fun !)
on an inaccurate kit, and scratchbuild some part
and make it quite like a new (your own) model
And after that add some superdetails.

I hope i make myself clear

Thanks

HI, I go the easy route. I like good accurate kits straight from the box. Oh, I do enjoy adding some minor scratch-built items occasionally, as long as they are really simple to make, or some minor PE parts, but I stay away from 'going crazy' with extras, either bought or home-made. I'm doing good just putting the kits together and trying to get them painted and weathered to the best of my ability as it is. I find that if I get too involved in a kit, that I begin to loose interest in it after a while and it gets put up on the shelf, where it tends to stay, gathering loads of dust and cat hair, and usually ends up getting tossed in the end.

Take care, Sgirty

Accurate or not, I prefer Tamiya, Academy, Accurate Miniatures and AFV club kits only. It is easier to scratchbuild than to build an entire kit full of errors!!

I'ld much rather to work on a fun kit ike a Tamiya or a Dragon, add what I want to it rather than have to do things to make it right

On occasion, I like to buy the old (really old) stuff that I built as a kid and try my hand at building it to today's standards. Especially when I dig through a box that my mom put a lot of my first kits in. I find the old Monogram Shermans and Pattons and even a few of the early Tamiya kits like the M36, M4A3E8, M60A1/A2 and M41.

It's fun to see how far I've progressed in the decades since I first started building (some kits weren't even painted!).

For me it depends on the project. Some times I have a large diorama to contend with and I want the AFV/platic parts to be straight forward because I know I have a lot of scratch building in the project. Sometimes i need a quick project to feel like I've accomplished something.

Mostly there does need to be some challenge in it. I am always trying new things and even try to do the same thing with a different technique just to keep it intereseting. Like a painter, I don't really want to paint the same picture twice.

i prefer accurate but easy...tamiya is one of them

I go with the accurate, and for me i always choose TAMIYa, i had enough with inaccurate kit
and now i have inacciurate kit from ITALERI (OPEL MAULTIER) and i hate this kit, i still want to finish it, but not in the near future

I enjoy buying an old one and trying to make as acurate as possible , using plastic card, electric wire...

I have enough trouble building a kit OOTB, nevertheless trying to gut one and scratch new details!!

I'm getting close to completing my first model (yay! lol), one of the Hobby Craft Humvee's I picked up at the HL sale. It's the first one I've done in 30 years and last time I did one I just threw it together, had glue stains all over it and thought it was a masterpiece. lol I'm finding that 'doing it right' can be time consuming with cleaning, fixing errors etc. So for my first one I'm just building it as is, errors and all just to get the juices flowing again. It'll be ugly but it'll be a first step and a learning experience.

I think I'd prefer (at this point) a good kit OOTB with minimal scratchbuilding, error fixing etc so I can just concentrate on proper construction, painting and weathering for now. Maybe in the future as my experience and knowledge grow I can learn about scratch building more but for now I'd prefer to keep it simple.

Well I'd rather start with a basically sound kit and then take it to the next level starting from there...I'm not into redoing the whole superstructure of a kit just to get it right but I love to add that little something to make my kit different from a oob build...So some kits can be little changes and others can be more complex but both look fine in my display case... I got lots of old clunkers around that I will try to bring up to date but for now I have trouble building all those super new kits out there..

Rick

I lean towards building kits like Italari, affordable and accurate enough, with a few minor mods. When I build a Timaya, it's usually good enough for me out of the box. I also enjoy the nostalgia of building older kits. I enjoy making a few mods to improve the model. I actually don't mind if the model comes across a little "toyish." I guess this has something to do with a passion I also have for 60's-70's toys, especially plastic soldiers and military vehicles.

Well, when I started modelling there wasn't all this after market stuff, and if you wanted to detail, you did it with card, wire, or what ever you could think of that would work. I guess old habits die hard, since I still prefer doing that.
My simple modelling goal is to try to recreated a decent representation of an item, in a miniature size.
Keep it simple..... works for me.

I prefer to spend more time on an inaccurate kit, and scratchbuild some parts of it.

I only model Italian Cavalry vehichles, so it's hard to answer your question because the most part of the available kits are resin ones. There a few industrial kits I can do, but anyway they always need mods at some extent...
Ciao

It all depends to me on which maker does the kit I'm after.
Pete

I now prefer to make my own

When buying a kit, I never think about of it´s quality. I want the subject, or am impressed by the box art. Therefore I have chosen quite a few monsters. To me, its all modelling. Ive built a few very nice kits ... tamiya JS3 for example, but these feel like a jig-saw puzzle ... just put the right parts in the right place. But I like the challenge of the monsters as well.
If I add anything to a model, its to give it individuality, so it looks like mines, rather than have it 100% accurate. I can live with less accuracy, but enjoy making the scene and whats pleasing to me.

Ciao everyone,
I can answer simply: Whatever is cheap!! If I can build a model that is accurate (and happens to be on sale), then great. Older Tamiya kits spring to mind. But, if the only thing affordable is Heller, then to Heller with it! :-)
Ciao for now
Rob

I'm kind of like Rob, the cheaper the better, but I do like detail. I don't mind sink holes just as long as they aren't on the detailed part.
I like the challenge, but without the money I can't scratch the detail to well, but this frame on this scout has just as much putty filling the sink holes as the plastic weighs, but I enjoyed every minute of fixing it. The more work there is the more fun I have.
I look for the most number of pieces, and I hoping some day I can afford one of them big bolt together tanks like a couple of the others were showing earlier, with a real suspension, that you haft to put together yourself.

Kerry

Either way suits me, I just enjoy modelling. I can still get a kick out of making a good model straight from the box, equally I get real satisfaction from one of my scratch-bodied CMPs.

I pick my kits based on the appeal of the model, doesn't matter who makes it. Tamiya Marder 111, Alan Bison 1, DML Pz111's and StuG's, Italeri Crusaders and 234's. Then I build it to the best of my ability.

I add a few bits of plastic strip, wire, and the odd resin piece or after market barrel.