Did you ever stop to consider who the audience is for your models?

You might build for your own satisfaction. In this case, you can build models of subjects that appeal to you. You can use techniques that you are most familiar with and build to a level of detail and quality that satisfies you.

Then again, if you build in order to display your work, whether for family, friends or other club members, you are going to work to a different set of standards. While your family might share your interests and be pleased with similar subjects, your friends might have a better appreciation of models of topics with which they are more familiar. Club members might be more interested in seeing a model which displays a novel modelling technique or a variation on one of their own subjects.

If entering competitions is the reason you build, you will probably be working with yet another range of subjects and looking to utilize aftermarket parts and additional specialized techniques to make a unique and prize-winning model.

Understanding the audience for which you build will allow you to plan the way you will select a subject and apply the appropriate techniques. This will add to the pleasure you will get from working on the project and result in a more apt model for your audience to view.

I build for me and me only. Living alone pretty much keeps it that way, too. Some of my builds are visible from outside but that's just the way I have them for myself.
I have built one aircraft for my step-father which he appreciated. A neighbour of his saw it through the window once and made a comment on it.

I build for my own enjoyment, but my wife has always taken an interest in them once built and painted. I will also bring my builds to our monthly Simcoe Scale Modellers meeting for feed back from the other members.

Darryl

Me. My wife feigns interest Oh yeah my dog too

Cheers, Michael

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I build mostly for myself. If I ever get a full time teaching job, for my Social studies and History students, too. My daughter thinks that the whole process is pretty cool, but she's only two and is also facinated by the litter box.

Me, Myself and I.... sometimes my dad when he visits. No one else in the family cares....

Well it would be my cat , some friends but not all . I'm starting a new model contest on Areoscale so it will be my frist time on ever entering in a contest . Other then that to most people it's just toys in their eyes .

I have been building dioramas for years.Have never entered a show.
All of them are very accurate to a point.
My friends and family think they're amazing.That's all I need.
When I see a young modeller post their work and people on this site pick about the suspension or not quite the right machine gun it makes me ill.
If the criticizing does't stop,this hobby(art)will come to an end.
My point I guess is,that if your showing your work to people who have the knowledge and are going to go over your work with a magnifing glass make it exact.
If not make it to your satisfaction.
O.K> I've vented on the subject.
Keep on modelling.

Like Teri said , me and my cats but I have a friend who loves models and
i usually give him some so when I go over I can see them not to mention he displays them nicely.Not many people seem to care but I've got 5 sisters. They are not interested at all but they are all in late thirties with families.I used to give to my nephews but you can guess what happens Thats my rant for the day , I've got to go to work , I'll be back at 2:00a.m. eastern time USA Bye bye Bob

Primarily for me. I do enter a couple shows during the course of the year but the builds aren't solely for competition. I find a subject that interests/excites me and plug away at it. Some get finished and some fall by the wayside.
My work does get inspected by the wife and daughter. My wife's comments on color and ascetics are important as she s the artist of the family. My daughter will use my computer and thus has to stare at the current project on the workbench that houses the computer. She will usually find a flawed area that I've been looking at too long to see. A different set of eyes is always a good thing.
Cheers,
Charles

Me. I can spend 5 months building an accurate King Tiger and take it to local tavern and everyone looks at me like a nut. Spend an afternoon building Jeff Gorgon's NASCAR car and take it in there and people are throwing money at me.
Did build the USS Chicago for a vet who served on her and took it the tavern and gave it to him on his birthday. (did not even know it was his birthday, just did it to honor his service.) Anyway, the 83 year old guys stared to cry right there. Great day.

Shaun

Don't do car models.

i build for myself. nobody else really cares. i don't know any other model builders personally to even discuss the hobby with which is why Armorama is so good to be a part of. once things slow down for me some, i plan to visit a model builder's group that meets at a hobby shop north of me and maybe that will change. most of my friends that see what i do can identify a tank vs a race car or airplane, but they don't know much beyond that. i really got a laugh from another poster who told of how a NASCAR model garnering more oohs and aahs than a perfectly replicated Tiger. i, too, see polite interest feigned over virtually anything military, but i have to threaten to break fingers when sudden excitement causes them to try to handle one of my vintage muscle cars or CAN AM cars. and that makes them think i'm all the more peculiar!

[quote]Me. I can spend 5 months building an accurate King Tiger and take it to local tavern and everyone looks at me like a nut. Spend an afternoon building Jeff Gorgon's NASCAR car and take it in there and people are throwing money at me.
Did build the USS Chicago for a vet who served on her and took it the tavern and gave it to him on his birthday. (did not even know it was his birthday, just did it to honor his service.) Anyway, the 83 year old guys stared to cry right there. Great day.

Shaun
This makes me recall that I built a Hurricane for a friends fathers 80th.
He flew one in Burma.
I only do armour exept for this time.
Again it was the most appreciation I had ever gotten for anything I've built.

I build for me .......mostly....
If I have a freind that really likes a particular subject.....ex////Canadian Coat Guard Heli....Ill build it for him as a gift ....fun for all....But generally I run into a subject that really excites me ...I research the hell out of it ...then buy up all the aftermarket crap I can find ...and build it .....Generally I lose interest fast once its built...but I have my 1 or 3 favorites I like to look at sometimes

I build for my own enjoyment first. Some of those get to a couple shows for kicks and giggles. They all eventually make it to evil-bay to make room for the next load.
Anybody see anything they like in my gallery?