Something, which I am interested in, is building plastic model kits.

        The Smit Roterdamn was quite easy after I got used to the modeling techniques again e.g. cutting and filling the plastic, melting plastic to permanently stick something. I also invested into buying a modeling knife set. This boat started in about one hundred and fifty parts. There were about fifty main parts and one hundred small parts; these were needed to complete the model. This ship cost around fifteen pound but then you need to buy the paint and the glue. I started the same day that I got the kit. The first thing that I had to do was to paint all the necessary part that I needed for the first five or six stages on the instructions. This is usually the trickiest part of the whole build process. In cars and planes this is the part where you paint the pilot or the driver. I then left the parts that were painted and left them to dry over night. The next when I had finished my dinner I done the first six steps of the instructions. These steps were quite simple it was just gluing large bits onto other large bits of plastic, there is no small hard to put on bits involves. After I had finished steps one to six I then painted the parts for steps seven and eight. I had to give these parts three coats of paint so this took three nights. I left this then for a week before I went back to doing it. I started by doing steps seven and eight. This got the main hull of the ship made up. Then it was more painting again for the rest of the steps. Then there were a lot of small parts that needed to be put together; this took about a week to do. After I had put all the small parts together I then had to fit them all onto the hull of the ship. This took a lot of time because you had to wait for the glue to dry on the last piece you put on before you put on the next piece. The boat came together at this point, it took a long time but in the in it was worth it all. At the end when I put the finishing touches onto the boat, the chain to hold the anchor, I was very pleased with what I had produced. This was the first big model I had done without my fathers help.

        I really enjoy model making because it requires skill, patience and long periods of time to complete the models. This is not a hobby, which can be done in a few hours. This is another way to pass the time in the winter when it is to cold to go out or to go do my other hobby, which is fishing. I go fishing in the summer months and build models in the winter months. Model building is another way to get away from the television and video games. This is also another great, enjoyable way to pass the time where you have got nothing to do or you are bore doing what you are doing.

        Kit models are widely available and are not too expensive to buy; it is all the other necessaries that you need which cost the most. There are model shops spotted all over the country. My closest one is in paisley. You do not have to go to a model shop to get kit models they are available in some toyshops as well.