Has your youngster ever made a kit model? Do you remember all those pots of paint and glue everywhere, only for them to give up halfway through and ask someone else to take over?

Well, Steve Kaser is the man who can help.

He has set up a model-making club for boys and girls aged 11 to 16, at Chelmsford Boys' Club, in Rectory Lane.

Steve has been helping out there for five years and developed the idea for a separate model-making club from the interest shown when he took in a couple of his own models.

Gone are the old-fashioned ideas of polystyrene planes and cars -- models today are much more up to date and usable.

"Star Wars models are quite popular at the moment, particularly with the movie out," said Steve. "One of the lads has bought a Star Wars vehicle and we are making that up."

The club provide all the glues, paints and modelling knives and will help with assembly.

The group is supported by Beatties, Chelmsford, which supplies kits which have been returned or damaged.

Steve is hoping for a display cabinet, but the models are not just to be looked at. "I have made up models all my life, and my biggest are probably the Raleigh controlled cars," he said.

"We have two of them at the club, and we take them over to the car park on Sundays and race them."

The club is held between 7.30 pm and 9.30pm on Thursdays and costs 50p a session.

For further information contact Steve on 01245 266968.

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