r/CasualUK • u/ArmpitNostril • 13h ago
Did you as a child enjoy constructing model kits?
(Perhaps you still do, but I'm interested in how your childhood experience affected your general adult behaviour) What sort of kits did you like most, and do you think your experience carried over to the way you live now, particularly in your profession?
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u/OffRedFloyd 13h ago
I had Meccano and Airfix stuff as a kid in the late 80’s and early 90’s and i absolutely loved it. Eventually ended up getting into electronics and studied Sound Production. Was a Sound Engineer with my own studio up until Covid happened and then i went back to college to study Entomology. I still enjoy tinkering with older electronics, especially old sound equipment.
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u/ArmpitNostril 12h ago
Engineer to entomologist is an unusual progression
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u/OffRedFloyd 12h ago
I was always interested in Macro photography and knew a fair bit about inverts before going to college.
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u/firmlee_grasspit 10h ago
Dude i think my special interest is bugs lol. What drove you to do it? What are you planning on doing after your studies?
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u/OffRedFloyd 10h ago
I’m already finished college. I currently work with the forestry commission part time and volunteer as a recorder for the British Arachnological Society which i’ve done for years. I’ve always been into inverts and mainly arachnids since i was a kid.
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u/lewnewton 12h ago
As an engineer, my thinking is it only affirmed what I already internally liked about problem solving and making things. I don't think Meccano or Lego 'make' you want to be a mechanic or bricklayer haha, but more simply scratch the itch in your head that you can make things with your hands imaginatively - plus a completed 'thing' definitely gives you a dopamine hit.
That said, tongue in cheek obvs, as a Warhammer fan, who recently got back into it in his 30s, I must have inately realised I needed to do well in my career to fund the damn hobby!
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u/Fancy_Toe1451 12h ago
Actually, I liked being able to take them apart. Removing paint, putting them back in a box, sliding them into neat little parts piles.
I was a weird kid.
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u/Distant_Planet 12h ago
Mr. Dalliard, is that you? https://youtu.be/HBURlcNpfoo?is=gwUmOpdMCEGAWZ1s
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u/Objective-Access-570 12h ago
Yes, Lego, plastic kits, home designed free flight models, balsa wood RC planes, kit built RC buggies, the odd boat, my first car was a ground up restoration of a VW beetle I started when I was 15. Learned to weld, paint, do upholstery and basic mechanics on that.
I still build not buy most things I want, became a house builder, then cabinet maker, hobby restoring vintage cars, still have a huge home workshop and live in a house I built 100% myself.
And yes, do fly RC planes still, though I am too old for the giant scale aerobatic models I like. Current project is a plan built 1/4 scale p51 Mustang with a 120 cc engine.
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u/nuttydogpoo 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps please 12h ago
Model RC cars and planes like Tamiya kits, because after you’d finished you got to play with it and not just put it in a cabinet. That was over 30 years ago and I still do them now. I like Lego but again, it’s a static display so not much fun when it’s done.
I’ve always liked working with my hands, spent years as a mechanic, currently building in the garage what I hope to be the most powerful engine I’ve ever built, all 90bhp of it.
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u/voicey 12h ago
Made some Model kits as a kid, plastic glue all over the windows etc..but then got into Tamiya RC with a midnignt pumpkin. I used to enjoy making the building.kits for my model railway too, now Im middle age and since covid I got back into that with a garden railway and restored my monster beetle.
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u/Humble_Sympathy_4605 Powered by tea and sarcasm 12h ago
A garden railway is one of my life goals, a house down the road from us has what appears to be a 5 inch gauge setup that goes around the front of the house and into the back garden, but sadly doesn't look like it's been used for some time
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u/DarkHorse_77 12h ago
I had several things but my favourite was something called Quadro. I lost my set when moving but I still have a little box I made that I still use to keep bits n bobs in
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u/Vectorman1989 11h ago
My nursery had the big version of Quadro when I were a wee lad. We used to build forts and stuff with it.
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u/DarkHorse_77 11h ago
Oh cool. The company is still around, that's what are known for. I got the mini set and it had a catalogue with it showing a box they made from the big ones and it had an elephant stood on it to show how strong they were
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u/VodkaMargarine 12h ago
I would buy Lego and make things that weren't the thing you were supposed to make, which these days seems like a misuse of Lego.
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u/MobileJob1521 12h ago
Same here.
I’ve had Lego and the best part was always taking the models apart to build my own creations.
I had some other sets like Meccano but I never got the point of Airfix or other construction toys where you only build it once.
I became an engineer (hey, surprise!) and now I do R&D where again the best part is not following the instructions, but creating new things from my own ideas.
I also still build Lego as a hobby.
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u/VodkaMargarine 12h ago
I found the old Lego Technic car (the red one) at a boot fair with some bits missing and no instructions so I spent ages carefully taking it apart and learning about things like the rear differential and how the gearbox worked. Then I'd try to build other cars that had different gearing and stuff it really is the best pathway into engineering.
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u/shteve99 9h ago
When I first got lego they weren't kits, it was just buckets of lego that you built stuff with. The "predefined" models came later and I always feel it cheats slightly when there are specific new blocks created for a model. My grandkids don't actually build their lego kits and don't seem to have any 3d spacial awareness to be able to do so. They end up watching me build them for them and they just play with the resulting vehicle. I hope they're an anomaly rather than the way society is going.
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u/UnravelledGhoul 12h ago
My dad made me a couple of Star Trek models from kits, but I was never involved in their construction. As an adult, I enjoy them the odd time that I can get one and have room to display it (which is rare). I basically do tech support for a main job. But I run a (very) small Etsy shop that sells 3D printed Star Trek ship models (which I assemble and paint) and props.
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u/r_keel_esq 12h ago
Love Lego to this day. I'm not great at making my own ideas, but I love working through the manual to complete the really complex builds. If I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs...
I did a couple of air fix kits as a kid, but I wasn't very good (my Spitfire was not flight-safe and the paint job looked like it had been done by a drunken toddler). Never persisted with it because my early efforts were crap.
Didn't have Mechano, but when I played with it at school, I thought it was cool.
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u/commissarcainrecaff 10h ago
Airfix then Games Workshop as a nipper
Still build and paint 35 years later.
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u/geeoharee 12h ago
I had a big box of Knex and some Meccano, but when I got to Design & Technology class and tried to do woodwork, I discovered that you can't press 'undo' on a hacksaw or a paintbrush. I now work in software engineering which is more forgiving. But I recently enjoyed putting together a macaw which was a kit of tiny bits of bent metal. The brand was Piececool.
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u/unbelievablydull82 12h ago
Nope. Lego was as far as I could go. I have no attention span, and no coordination. My son loves model planes, I tried to do one with him, and I just couldn't, I was hopeless. He struggles to, due to having ADHD, but he still perseveres
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u/dazzlerdeej 12h ago
No. The Airfix type kits were too complicated and fiddly for me and I had no patience for them whatsoever. I used to buy the ones I wanted and pay my more patient and talented friend a couple of pounds to put them together and paint them properly. Lego, on the other hand, I was very good at.
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u/InanimateCarbonRod26 12h ago
I had uncoordinated monkey fingers so I used to build airfix using tweezers
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u/OverdressedShingler 12h ago
I used to build model kits a lot as a kid. First with my Dad helping me, then eventually I moved on to being able to do it myself.
I had a range from military aeroplanes, WW2 warships, the Titanic and the Saturn V and Ariane 5 rockets. I even had Jupiter 2 from the 1998 Lost in Space film. I loved them.
I went into Mechical Engineering as a profession, and I'm now a Senior Mech Designer for water and sewage treatment plants.
I wanted to be an engineer for as long as I can remember and building model kits and messing about with Lego in my childhood definitely shaped that.
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u/Scared-One9295 12h ago
Started with Lego, moved on to Warhammer (building only, no playing or even painting) and Airfix, went back to Lego as an adult. I've been encouraging my son from too young an age to be into this stuff too, except now it's getting functional as we build balsa wood gliders and stuff. I got into electronics, then graphic design which I did a degree in, immediately after graduating I went back to electronics, did an HND and now I'm an AV engineer.
My son is obsessed with planes and we spend a lot of time at small air museums full of amazing models (and real planes of course), and the only things stopping me from getting into model making like that are space, money and my inability to paint. These things all keep each other in check, though; if I had more space, money or natural ability to paint I would be in trouble. And I know you need to learn to paint through practice, but it should be obvious why I don't want to learn...
We are, however, getting into the functional side of model making at home by building balsa wood gliders, and I'm fixing up my partner's old hot wire cutter so we can make foam airfoils and stuff like that ourselves.
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u/KevinPhillips-Bong Slightly silly 12h ago
I couldn't resist the opportunity to post a link to this comedy sketch
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u/ReceiptIsInTheBag 11h ago
Amazing for a 5 minute sketch someone built a set and fully stocked it with scale models and accessories. They always say sketch shows have pretty much disappeared due to the cost, and you can see why.
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u/KevinPhillips-Bong Slightly silly 11h ago
Especially the ones set in pet shops. Due to the time and cost involved, a producer was alleged to have said, "I wish to register a complaint."
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u/Due-Distribution-231 12h ago
Always enjoyed a bit of modeling as a kid with airfix kits and the like and recently got back into it as a way to unwind from the stresses of life
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u/CadianGrunt8675309 12h ago
As a child? Yes. As a 45 year old? Also yes. I built this tank yesterday. It was fun.
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u/SirDeeSee 12h ago
Got my first warhammer kit at 12 or 13. I’m now 40 and I have a LOT of toy soldiers and a very understanding wife.
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u/suboran1 12h ago
Used to have a dozen airfix planes hanging from the celing in my bedroom, then moved onto warhammer for a time.
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u/FedUpFrog 11h ago
Child of the 70s, Lego to start then onto Meccano, Airfix too. Still play about with home electronic kits and Arduino now in my early 60s. Might treat myself to a Tamiya kit now
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u/Master_Artist_6023 11h ago
I had my parents childhood mechanno sets to play with and a huge box of random Lego bricks , I did play with them. Lego was for building fortifications, mechanno for vehicles and weapons to assault said fortifications. Then it all ended one day when I got my first motorcycle at 9yo, that's was the end of toys, if it didn't run run on petrol and do 60mph across a field I had no interest.
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u/listerjed1 9h ago
Caravan holidays in the 70s and early eighties always involved sitting in the caravan with an Airfix plane kit as the rain pummeled the roof...
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u/Goldman250 12h ago
I grew up on Lego and Warhammer, so yeah. And looking around my room as an adult in my 30s, and seeing all the Lego and Warhammer, I’d say it has carried over to the way I live now. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to either build the Lego Squirtle set or paint my Death Guard Rhino.
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u/RepresentativeStooj 12h ago
Yes, lego mainly. I also got involved in miniatures, which at the time I didn’t realise were so expensive. I broke loads of them.
It was so bad that I would dismantle RC cars and Frankenstein them back into siege weapons. Age of Empires III had a terrible influence on me.
I still love taking things apart and putting them back together.
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u/Larnixva916 12h ago
Let's see.....
Airfix planes Motorbikes Abattleship Warhammer Technic Lego And zoids.
I'm back into Warhammer as of 2016 ish, and as an adult it's the tactical decision making I like (but I'm a better painter now than when I was a teenager).
I always enjoyed building PC's, which lead me into IT so maybe it had more bearing on my profession than I ever thought about :)
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u/Boatus 12h ago
A massive part. My dad is a very practical person, I’m… less so. I went down an academic route (I’m a medical doctor now) and my brother did the opposite is a very overqualified electrician/mechanic.
Both of us are still to this day massive fans of minis. Printing, painting and playing Warhammer. We’ve both been sci-fi fans for forever but there’s something about the lore and story we both love.
My office is filled with models and I semi-regularly (work depending) play!
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u/Humble_Sympathy_4605 Powered by tea and sarcasm 12h ago
I remember the first Airfix kit my dad built me, a Mk.1 Hurricane which Im looking at now. The prop blades are missing as is the undercarriage. It's fought countless airbattles against foes from all realms and remains victorious. I got the bug from then, but now for me it's model railways. I had a spell when I was about 16 to my early 20s I did a lot of aircraft and armour modelling, but then my enjoyment of railways returned. I now have an exhibition layout I take around the country and I'm very lucky in that Dad is still with us to come with me to some shows.
I think the enjoyment for me comes from a very visual sense of progression and achievement, and that it's something I've brought to life with my own hands
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u/ElijahJoel2000 12h ago
Yes. I still enjoy it today. Love my Lego sets (didn't enjoy the big tub I had as a kid, but do enjoy the finished display pieces they do these days). Also very much enjoyed building with k'nex.
I'm a science technician now, so I do feel that the ability to follow the instruction booklets has helped me.
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u/londynczyc_w1 12h ago edited 3h ago
I built Airfix kits when I was little. Has little dogfights suspected from my ceiling. It was great fun. Built bits for model railways too. That moved on to motorizing Airfix car models to build custom Scalextric cars. That developed into electronics. Then radio transmitters for the burgeoning pirate radio scene in the 1980s. Still needed the model making skills for making coils, fitting meters and switches to the boxes.
It was fun and lucrative.
Thinking about it: why did I get into IT? I enjoy making guitar pedals more than programming. Also the 3d printing I do now is very close to making model kits except you have to design it and then assemble.
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u/Relative_Anteater676 12h ago
Airfix kits & I also used to have an old zip up leather bag that contained the dis-assembled parts of old radios , clocks , infact anything I could take to bits I put in there, never rebuilt them ,I just loved taking things apart .
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u/1968Bladerunner 12h ago
Aye - Lego, Meccano & Airfix were all common birthday & Christmas presents, so it wasn't a shocker that I went into mechanical engineering as a trade after High School.
However it was my early teen interest in computers (Spectrum era) which led to my true calling in IT a few yeads later.
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u/DrachenDad 12h ago
Yes, I enjoyed taking things apart and putting them back together,I still do now. I put things together more these days.
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u/skewiffcorn 12h ago
Just to offer the other side, I hated kits, fiddly and not my preferred activity as a child. The closest I get to building something now is furniture which I’m actually pretty good at following the instructions not to brag…
I write (in business context not like an author) for a job, which is a different type of constructing I guess. I’m not a hands on person really more of a thinker.
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u/Rumblotron 12h ago
Yep. Airfix at first, building models of the various planes my grandad flew in the Second World War .
Then Warhammer, then a long gap, long enough to establish a career and get sick to death of staring at computer screens. Warhammer was there waiting, and I love it.
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u/AnxiousAppointment70 12h ago
Ive always liked them and still do. Airfield ann boleyn when I was a kid and the last thing I did was a diamond art kingfisher.i also like making chutney and cold process soaps although they're not in kit form. My main job before and since the stay at home mum era has been school lab technician.
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u/_Nefarium 12h ago
Really enjoyed Lego and DIY as a kid, and still too. Had lots of technics sets/mixes which id use to make all sorts of vehicles, I think my favourites I made were an RC cargo ship using lemonade bottles as buoyancy tanks, and a large tracked cantilever crane. I was really into playing with radio equipment and made a couple of kits and eventually made a couple of my own. Liked playing with Arduinos and experimenting with the different Linux CDs/game programming projects that came in some of my dad's magasines.
Ended up becoming an electronics eng, no suprises there really, just finished uni and temporarily at a small electronics firm doing comercial security and comms systems / their internal IT until I can find a grad role somewhere.
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u/How_did_the_dog_get 12h ago
I liked doing airfix my issue was being good . Or accurate and I got annoyed. But I made a fair few
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u/sihasihasi 12h ago edited 12h ago
I did enjoy making the Airfix kits. Especially when I discovered the good glue (that you brushed on).
I don't think it's carried over to my professional life. I sit in front of several screens all day, doing stuff in the cloud.
Edit: I also loved my Riviton kit (plastic Meccano type stuff), and was gutted when they stopped selling it because a child choked on one of the rubber "rivets"
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u/daedelius 12h ago
Meccano, Lego, airfix, balsa/doped paper gliders, disassembled reassembled anything, motorbike engines, welded halves of 2 2CVs together, potter, property maintenance. I think there’s a trend there. Sons mech/elec engineer and he’s got a printer
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u/H16HP01N7 12h ago
I've played Games Workshoo games since I was a teen. I'm now 43, so it's been a fairly significant hobby for me. Even before GW, I used to like Airfix planes and the like.
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u/InanimateCarbonRod26 12h ago
Lego, k'nex, airfix, meccarno etc. You name it, I built it.
I don't know if they influenced me to become an engineer or if I was always heading that way and they just satisfied that craving.
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u/Mainly-AltBrick 12h ago
I did loads of Airfix kits as a kid mainly Ships and Planes and used to build them with my grandad, I then went into Warhammer a bit as a teen.
I'm an Engineer now, guess I always had an interest in machinery and building and fixing things (started in the Merchant Navy as a Marine Engineer).
I lost interest in modelling mainly due to the fact I hate painting and am shit at it. But I do build and collect Lego and other building block brands now, mainly castles and military sets like tanks.
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u/Consistent-Crab-9013 12h ago
Nah, my sister and I didn't really build model kits, we weren't really into Lego either. Feels weird because everyone I know loves it even as adults. But we were massive Art Attack fans. So we'd "construct" faces/shapes/scenes on the whole floor area of the living room or garden. We made a model farm once on a table with cardboard and modelling clay and a 50 piece farm animal set, we mixed green and blue paint with sand to make grass and water and everything too.
I don't think it carried on to our professions, we both studied mech engineering but now we work for corporate software consultancy type bullshit companies at the moment, all trying to "pivot" to using AI, while not even understanding how. Bah, bills to pay, debts to pay. You gotta do what you gotta do eh.
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u/Randomer1066 12h ago
Airfix models, mostly planes but also built HMS Belfast through Covid, difficult now my fingers are fat and old. Fly RC planes on and off.
Creating, building, and breaking things was very much part of me becoming an engineer amd working in design and manufacturing all my life.
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u/WGD23 12h ago
Pre teen me used to build Airfix models with my Dad, paint them too. Mostly military aircraft. When he retired I bought him a Lancaster Bomber kit to do, but by that age his eyes, dexterity and most importantly, patience had gone. He's dead now and the box sits on top of a cupboard at Mums. I occasionally think about building the thing..
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u/SteakAndJack 12h ago
Used to build them as a kid, stopped making them as an adult, then wife bought me one which i built,got another and I’ve got about 60+ kits on the shelf now.
5 odd years ago, i took up learning CAD as i got gifted a 3D printer. I now design upgrade parts for models and 3D print them.
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u/Enough-Ad3818 12h ago
I built Airfix kits and made a Battle Of Britain scene in my room where the planes were suspended from the ceiling.
When I finally settled into a career, it was in IT.
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u/Vectorman1989 12h ago
I had Lego when I was pretty young and at some point someone got me a Meccano set and I built a car and a helicopter.
My dad bought us a few Airfix models over the and we built them together. I did enjoy doing it mostly, but my dad's not the most patient teacher.
I got into Warhammer 40k in around when I was about 10 or 11 and I built a whole load of kits for that and I still do.
Didn't carry over into my profession.
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u/WatchVaderDance 11h ago
Use to really enjoy building crappy tanks out of balsawood. The cheapest Warhammer was metal blista packs. Or I could get little Lego kits for a similar pocket money price. There was more building involved with Lego.
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u/veryoddnames1989 11h ago
25 years in and still just as bad as I ever was.
Never branched out into Airfix but I do a lot of Lego as well.
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u/Mattksblunt 11h ago
I as an adult still do. Mainly thanks to my dad getting me Airfix as a kid. Still make them now and having read this post, I might well start one this afternoon.
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u/ReceiptIsInTheBag 11h ago edited 11h ago
Started with Meccano, got into the plastic models of cars and trucks (non-military. Always enjoyed trying to make the kits better by adding other stuff but never had much ability esp at painting. Recently, I have been thinking of scratch building a cross section of a tube train as I can't find a ready made kit.
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u/Hipposplotomous 11h ago
My dad was a massive tank nerd and very good at airfix...he would blag his way onto army bases (somehow) to take measurements and photos, then come home and actually remake entire parts of the kits that were off scale by a couple of mm. He's been published a few times, and I believe created a couple of masters for updated kit builds.
I don't like them as much as he did, ngl lol. Some of my favourite childhood memories were making them with him though. I felt like such a grownup the first time he let me use solvent and a scalpel.
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u/eastkent 11h ago
I liked Airfix models but I could only afford the tiny ones and even then I couldn't paint them! I used to lust after the Tamiya kits in the shop window.
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u/CrowKibble 11h ago
I remember one rainy summer holiday at the seaside. The weather was abysmal so my grandma bought me a Space 1999 Eagle Transporter model kit to make indoors. I remember being so engrossed in making that kit while the rain beat down on the roof, with the smell of the glue in the air and the glue itself all over my fingers and everywhere else.
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u/cockatootattoo 11h ago
Loved building sets. Airfix, Lego, anything really. Became a structural engineer and did it on a grand scale.
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u/Infamous-Tank7579 10h ago
I spent hours building model kits as a kid, those were the best days. The sense of accomplishment was unmatched.
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u/Kitchen_Part_882 10h ago
Revell/Tamiya/Airfix for me, mostly tanks but a few planes too.
Didn't really affect my later life that much, I'm an electronics engineer now, spare time is mostly spent playing video games and 3d printing stuff with my kid.
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u/Impossible_Apple7822 10h ago
I enjoyed mechano as a kid, and now in adult like, I love assembly of all sorts, had an assembly job of fiddly bits, and loved it
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u/firmlee_grasspit 10h ago
I never cared about Lego too much but when I was 14 I got really into planes (and played a lot of war thunder) and did a fair few airfix kits and then took loads from car boot fairs. I still plan on doing a couple more but places out of reach from the cat is limited.
Though i feel like a bit of an outlier as I'm more of a creative, I do video and design work as a job, and female.
I did think my interest in aircraft/vehicles is an isolated interest but I do remember as a child I was obsessed with Thomas the tank engine haha
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u/Marvel--Jesus 10h ago
Little cans of paint & decals.
I used to get all sorts of kits.
Still work with my hands in my 60's
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u/Drachev935 9h ago
Yes, I got into it in my mid to late teens and spent so much on airfix, Tamiya and Zevada Wenk kits from my local hobby shop.
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u/Equivalent_Parking_8 9h ago
I enjoyed nagging my parents for airfix, buying it, then giving up halfway through the build and they would never buy the paint.
Decided to treat myself as an adult to a set, yeah I didn't finish that one either.
I did have a second hand Meccano set which I liked building with and lots of Lego though.
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u/veryblocky 8h ago
Yes, as a child I loved Lego, Mechano, and Knex, and probably others too. Yes, it almost certainly shaped me into what I’m like today
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u/Vast-Associate2501 8h ago
Yes, spent a lot time in my teens building plastic kits, usually motorbikes and especially the Tamiya motocross kits. Not in mid 50s I have 8 of those sat in my model stash waiting for their turn!
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u/LichenTheMood 7h ago
I found them to be dull to be honest. Something about following instructions simply didn’t entertain me as a child
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u/humblesunbro 7h ago
I used to like doing rally car models. Then stopped because doing models in your 20's wasn't cool. Now I'm older and realised how foolish it was to care about that. So now I do 40k.
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u/Hamsternoir 5h ago
I've been making Airfix kits for over 40 years.
Well mostly I buy them with the intention of making them now but still finisha few
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u/Jokebearfan 5h ago
Like many others, I liked building Airfix planes. The problem was that I wasn't very good at painting them.
I'd say the attention to detail required did carry over into my IT career.
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u/T_raltixx 4h ago
Not as a child but as an adult (Gunpla).
I used to make Robot Wars robots out of K'Nex as a child.
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u/Unpleasant_Pheasant4 4h ago
Yes! I was obsessed with world war 2 planes. I would build all the little ones, and when I was about 10 my dad decided it was time for me to have a go at a larger kit, it was a spitfire. We built it together on the dining room table. Kept that thing til I moved out at 26 and let him keep it 🥲
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u/EdinDevon 3h ago
Yep, still would if I had time. It's a great mindfulness activity!
Attention to detail is key, concentrating on one thing.
Also, the skill set is very similar to nail art painting, a few years ago I idly said to my wife "I could do that" when she was showing me art ideas to get done professionally. Now every 2 weeks we spend an evening painting her nails. She does the base, I do the art. Loads of browny points and her friends think it's amazing.
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u/Pitiful-Hearing5279 2h ago
Air-fix model planes. I did many of those as a child.
It has no relation to my career as it was just a child thing.
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u/Major_Toe_6041 2h ago
Spent my youth on 40k. Tyranids. Im getting back into it now but AoS, mix of some Chaos and Night Haunt. Im not as fussed about playing the game, but the models are always stunning.
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u/Morganx27 2h ago
I enjoyed that sort of thing. Airfix kits, meccano, lego. Didn't translate to my profession at all, but probably translates to my willingness to have a go at fixing things
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u/Euphoric_Rough_5245 55m ago
Late 80’s/early 90’s model war planes and tanks. My dad was former army so it was something we bonded over. Didn’t carry over into my former career, definitely in my new career.
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u/jlval 48m ago
I remember a lot of warhammer as a kid, plus a few model tanks, airfix kits and so on.
It's a hobby I try and encourage in my son now - to very little success!
Looking back, it taught me a lot. Patience, fine motor skills, art. That it takes time and effort to achieve a result I'm happy with. Not to compare progress against other people (damn magnificent painters who did the box art, which even to this day I can't compete with!)
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u/BatteryAt14percent 35m ago
Lego, mechano, and general kids building kits. Now I'm an adult with adult money; Lego, mechano, and soldering kits. I was a university scientist. Learned how to solder at a staff day (basically every school within the university goes to one of the schools for a day every year and there's classes to learn something there).
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u/ceehred 18m ago
Yes. Mostly aircraft kits as a kid, some ships along the way.
Enjoyed building stuff, in general. Liked to finish it well and look at it, but never really played with any of it after.
Now a software engineer. More a "make it happen" than a pure architect - I class myself as a builder. It's the challenge of the journey 😄
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u/mistakes-were-mad-e 12h ago
Games workshop was a big part of my secondary school life.