Originally Posted by F4UDash4
It's sad that when I was a kid doing odd jobs to earn some money I could better afford the modeling hobby than I can now as a grown man with a full time job. Of course when i was a kid I wasn't buy groceries every week either.

And all this started because my daughter in law wants me to build a couple of aircraft models for my soon to arrive grandsons nursery biggrin


Check out paper modelling. Very economical hobby with tons of high quality kits for free or at minimal cost available on the net in all scales, especially large ones.

Example of paid:
http://www.cadbest.com/store/en/

Examples of free:
http://axmpaperspacescalemodels.com/
http://uhu02.way-nifty.com/

No need to buy an endless stream of expensive tools, paints and accessories. All you really need is a printer, 65lb cardstock, an Xacto, scissors, a straight edge and craft glue (Aleen's Tacky or Sobo). Super versatile scale wise as you can build as small as you want or as big. Here's a dude building a 1/24 Saturn V he up-scaled from the 1/48 kit that is available for free on this site: http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/...-enlarged-1-48-greelt-et-al-version.html

And finally, an extremely diverse array of subjects to model, a lot of which will NEVER see the light of day in plastic. I ditched plastic and have never looked back.