| Model hobbies are things that children or adults can do | | | | assemble yourself as well. I received a radio control |
| which can be educational and have a lasting impact. | | | | model airplane for Christmas one year, and had to |
| One model that I had when I was younger was the | | | | assemble it myself. It made me feel good to assemble |
| skeleton of a dinosaur. I had to put the skeleton | | | | it. I felt intelligent, like I was building my own plane or |
| together myself. I also had model cars and model | | | | flying machine. I have had radio control cars that I did |
| airplanes. The model cars and planes were not self | | | | not have to assemble. Once, however, I did try to |
| assembled though, we purchased them already | | | | make my own changes to a radio control car. I had |
| completed. After building my dinosaur, I played with it | | | | just recently seen the movie "Back to the Future," how |
| like a regular toy, making it viciously attack and kill the | | | | the car hit the wire at 88 miles and hour when the |
| other toys. Later my dinosaur skeleton sat on the book | | | | lightning struck the tower and it sent the car traveling |
| shelf in my bedroom for many years. | | | | through time. I decided to try it with my radio control |
| A model toy or build it yourself model kit can be both | | | | car. I plugged the antenna of my control into a plug |
| and exciting toy to play with, along with giving | | | | socket, and drove my car toward the antenna, so that |
| someone a sense of accomplishment. Everyone likes | | | | the antenna from the car would hit the controls |
| to build things, and when you are done your model | | | | antenna, just like in "Back to Future," the car's antenna |
| hobby makes you feel like you have done something | | | | hit the wire across the road. Well, my car did not travel |
| constructive. It makes you feel good to know that you | | | | through time. There was a little bit of a shock when |
| have built something or created something. You have | | | | the antennas touched, and then my radio control car |
| made a difference in the world. You are an inventor, a | | | | never really worked the same again. It started doing |
| scientist, whatever you want to be. | | | | weird things like turning in the wrong direction from |
| There are many different types of models that you | | | | where I was turning it. It was like it got a mind of its |
| can build. I have seen model airplanes, model houses, | | | | own. It became a little stubborn to, and sometimes |
| model cars, model animals and dinosaurs, model | | | | would only go a little bit and then stop. Like |
| helicopters, and model shuttles. Whatever you are | | | | Frankenstein, I made my car come to life with an |
| interested in there is probably a model for it | | | | electrical shock. |
| somewhere. If not, you could design your own model | | | | The point is that everyone should get a model hobby. It |
| from scratch. That would be a good hobby too. Just | | | | is completely natural and healthy for humans to |
| get some wood and start carving, get some glue and | | | | experiment, try new things, and invent things. Satisfy |
| start pasting everything together. Soon you will have | | | | your curiosity or your children's curiosity with things that |
| your invention, and feel just like the people who first | | | | are constructive and educational rather than satisfying |
| invented the products you are making a model of. | | | | your curiosity with things that might not be as helpful to |
| There are also radio control models that you can | | | | one's long term health and happiness. |
| purchase at the store. Some of these you have to | | | | |