(Model Making Tanks)
Hi, my name is Samuel Tan.
My day job is an Aircraft Technician, dealing with aircraft engines.
I am Danny here.
I work as a Senior Account Manager for an advertising company.
I am here today, to actually inform about my hobby, which is RC Tanking.
I actually got to know about this hobby, about a year back,
when my girlfriend bought me a toy which i didn’t know about it, a World War II Panzer 4 Tank.
I got to know a bunch of other people, like RC World of Tanks,
SRTD, including SG Tankies, which are all local hobby groups in Singapore as well.
And from there, we tend to battle almost like every twice a month.
(What do you like about model-making?)
I love the challenge of putting things together,
and then seeing things move after it’s complete, and the painting process of it.
It is a very hard to explain satisfaction,
but it is very worth while for the effort and the amount of time you put in.
(What are the costs and procedures?)
For every hobby, the initial starting point will always be quite a sum of money.
Some tanks, they are cheap.
Like from a budget of $200, you can get it started already.
But for others that are more adventurous, they can go for the ready built kits,
that are $1000 or more, say they want to save themselves the time of
doing it themselves or building it up themselves.
Normally, for radio control tank wise, it takes me about 2 months.
From the first packet of screw to the weathering process and finally completion.
You will see the cost actually spread out within the long period of time.
We tend to do everything to realism in scale modelling.
So that’s where by we research through google,
we research through all those past history books,
which we got all the details, and we try to replicate it out into actual details,
but in scale, onto our tanks itself,
like cigarette butts, those ricochet hits on it, the chipping of the paint,
even the colour scheme itself, we also take a lot of effort into it.
(What can you expect in model-making?)
In a group, we regularly meet up, chit chat and exchange knowledge, have fun.
Most people have the wrong conception that model making is usually a sole activity.
It’s not, because, one thing is that, you do it sole
because it fits your own timing, your own schedule,
but now a days, most people tend to do it in groups.
Why?
Because they can learn from one another, they can pick up certain skills in making the model
much more realistic, much more real, and even learning new technics
to make their own different models as well.
In terms of it’s experience, as compare to my RC battling,
I would say, both compliment one another.
For RC battling, we have to meet up at certain schedules,
which most of us can’t always meet up, but for World of Tanks game itself,
we can play anytime and anywhere,
in fact, the game has enriched my current knowledge of tanks.
(Message to World of tank gamers)
I hope for the gamers from World of Tanks to actually pick up this wonderful hobby.
It will actually help you learn a lot more into the vehicles itself
and to pick up artistic skills.
Build and build and build and build, to your heart content.