Personal Essay - My Interest

Personal Essay - My Interest

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

These models are made from manufacturers such as air fix etc. These

models come in parts that are ready to be put together with glue and

painted. These models come in different difficulties, the different

difficulties are numbered one to four. One for the absolute beginner

working to four which is for the more advanced modeling, just now I am

working on models of difficulty level three. These models come in all

different types e.g. Boats, rockets, cars and planes.

I started to model when I was about five, my father helped me at this

point, and I started making planes of difficulty one. By the time I

was about seven I had made about five planes, these were all world war

two fighter planes. From when I was about seven I did not build

anymore models until I was about twelve at this point I started to go

a bit different and build things like boats and other things. I

started modeling big when I moved in to third year in secondary

school. The first thing I built was a simple submarine, which was only

a difficult level one. This only took about a week to build. Then I

moved onto a boat, which was about a difficult level two. This because

I had not modeled in a few years was a bit challenging to start with

and took me about a month to complete. This boat was the 1:20 scale

Smit Rotedamn, This is an offshore tug and icebreaker. This boat I

gave to my grandfather as a gift. I thought that I would try to build

a Ferrari Enzo but this did not turn out that well so it went to waste

and I through it in the bin.

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.