I wish I had pics of the kits I did as a kid/teenager. Oldest one I have is the Osprey that I did 11 yrs ago as the first kit that I did when I got back into the hobby.
Blowing off the dust
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Re: Blowing of the dust
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You slightly less older farts have an advantage with how old you were when you built your first kit. I was 8 years old in 1954 and I never heard of a plastic kit. I started building models with Tinker Toys, then graduated to stick and tissue where I often built models with two left wings. My appreciation of the advantages of plastic were that without the starved cow look of stick and tissue they looked like real airplanes, and I quickly transitioned. The first model I built was the Revell box scale F-89 and I clearly remember screwing up the canopy with glue smears and broken framing. It came out in 1955 and I probably built it that year. That one, except for the fond memory, is lost to the mists of time, but I built this one in the late 90's. I don't think it has ever collected any significant amount of dust.
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Alas I don't have any photo's of the models I built as a kid, but this is the first kit I built when I got back into the hobby in 2010 - Airfix's old tool Hawker Typhoon, with added Airwaves PE set.
I like to think I've improved since then...
I like to think I've improved since then...
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So thanks to Stuart, I had to blow the dust off my Tomcat. I made this sometime ago, no clue. But it had dust and a missing landing gear strut. WHICH I FOUND and reglued.
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Hey that's cool Declan!
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“Who controls the skies, controls the fate of this Earth”
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That's cool!
Stuart Templeton 'I may not be good but I'm slow...'
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Re: Blowing off the dust
This is my oldest kit in the stash. From around 1984. A friend of mine that was in the Navy bought it on base and wanted to build it together. We never got to it and I never felt right building it lol. Maybe he'll get in touch one day
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John
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Oh yeah.... I remember having that kit myself.
“Who controls the skies, controls the fate of this Earth”
Author unknown- 352nd Fighter Group, Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney
“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn
Author unknown- 352nd Fighter Group, Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney
“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn