Blowing off the dust

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Medicman71
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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.

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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.

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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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This is my oldest kit:

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That's cool!
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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 :giggles:
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Oh yeah.... I remember having that kit myself.
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Re: Blowing of the dust

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BlackSheep214 wrote:This is my oldest kit:

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Oh man. what a trip that is!!!! I made one of those scenes in a bottle kits when I was a kit, except mine was a Sopwith Camel and Fokker Triplane over the trenches! That brings back some memories right there, thanks for that.
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