I still think you need a garage full of machine tools to be a real modeller - I would class myself a kitchen table bodger, and I'm quite happy with that
The Lego is definitely a good half-way house though - ubiquitous, cheap, and astonishingly well-made for what it is. Since we have quite a bit of it around I'm often finding unexpected things to do with it - for example, the corrugated iron on this loco shed:
was made by pressing small pieces of a foil oven tray between stacks of Lego 2x1 "grille" bricks. It was quite hard work - I wouldn't want to make a bigger building like that - but it did do the job.