Plastic Modelling
Plastic modelling. Plamo for short is a hobby involving the building of plastic models of cars, bikes, ships, tanks, anything at all either as a kit, from kit-bashing or scratch building and painted to resemble the real article as close as possible.
It is a specialist hobby that until the advent of cheap specialized tooling and kits where it became more popular. Now any lay person can go to one of the numerous online hobby portals or shops, buy a model to his or her tastes, get some basic tooling and accessories, and just start building, with minimal skills (which for most basic skills, the tutorial videos of which can be found online).
The exhilaration of watching, sometimes hundreds, of parts come together to form the final model is addictive. You will have to wear many hats for this hobby. You will have to be a master planner; to plan when and where a part is to be glued or painted. You will have to be a surgeon; for when you work with small parts, which is most of the time, with a steady hand- to glue, to sand, to align. You will have to be a master craftsman; to correct a misshapen part, to fabricate repairs, news parts or just filling in a crack. You will have to be a master artist; to design the color schemes that will make your model to stand out. You will have to be a photographer to document your work in progress, and the finished product. You will have to be a landscaper to create beautiful diorama displays into which your model will reside. And finally, you will have to be a Zen master to have the patience of seeing the often hundreds of parts come together into the final product through sometimes, hundreds of hours of hard, tedious work.
But it all boils down to one thing; a hobby is what someone does to bring about a feeling of accomplishments outside of his or her primary adrenalin source.
