Automotive Model oriented newsgroup?

Welcome back to the hobby. I did the same thing myself about 2 years ago after a layoff from the mid 60's.

Yahoo has a special interest group for model car builders. I've found it difficult / confusing to follow but you might want to give it a shot. I've got a lot of good tips and help on the forum at scaleautomag.com

Hi Dave, True, there aren't a lot of car modelers on this group but you'll find those who are are helpful. Many aircraft, armor and ship techniques work with cars also especially with the basics. I'm sure that there will be helpful hints as you check out the group. There are newsgroups especially for car modelers , but I am not at home at the present and can't give you any I've "bookmarked" as I build a lot of cars also, mostly LeMans, sports racing and rally cars in addition to aircraft. Press on here, you'll find it a good group. Cliff

This is a good site for car modelers.

I enjoy the discussions of paints, airbrushing, glues, etc that are non-genre-specific.

One of the things that used to help is that everyone would start the message title of a new thread with a prefix (aircraft: cars: armor: etc.) that made looking at titles easier for those whose modeling interest was a single genre. Maybe we should try to re-invoke that.

Here is a good auto msg. board. Post pics, young 'uns to old farts, beginners to masters:

Here's another one to check out:

As RobG mentioned, Scale Auto Magazine has a good one.

Also try the model building forum at