When I was growing up, there was a show on TV called “Adventures in Scale Modeling” This was roughly late 80’s early 90’s. its pretty funny to watch now, there are clips on YouTube. I used to watch this on Sunday afternoons.
I recall watching it on Chicago tv …I’ve seen the few You Tube uploads.
Also found the list of total shows produced.
Never realized so many shows were produced.
the number of shows surprised me too, seemed to me they kept the same five episodes, the richard petty race car, the space shuttle, the airliner ect… Its pretty funny to watch how they are in what seemed like an un ventilated basement spraying away with spray enamels and no protection lol.
Oh my, what daredevils!! [:D]
I’m surprised by the percentage of the You Tube shows dedicated to very basic assembly skills; I did not recall that in the shows I viewed during initial broadcast.
Mostly I recall " location visits" and an episode on the Hobby Craft AVRO ARROW CF 105 model kit.
I remember it! I forgot all about this show, thanks for the nostalgia!
I looked up an episode and became a kid again for a minute.
Sure,I remember them,my wife used to laugh because they always seemed to have difficulties with what they were doing.
I remember them as well. I’m pretty sure I was out of modeling by then, so it was a fix of sorts. Kept the spark alive, at least.
LOL! I too remember these now! Used to watch them on the PBS channel! Sure did have a good budget! They must have had at least 2-3 of the same kits for the shooting of the series! Thanks for posting this, brings back memories!
Eagle90
Who was the host of this program?
Yes, I do remember the series. Somewhere around here I have VHS tapes with all the shows on them.
Texgunner, the Hosts name was Mike but his last name escapes my antique brain at the moment.
The host was Mike Lech and it was filmed at some museum in South Carolina. That’s all I remember about it.
Eagle90
Never saw this but there was one about Radio Control planes and model trains around the late 80’s to early 90’s.
Oddly, I recalled the theme song long after I forgot about almost everything else about that show[^o)]
I looked up as much as I could about this show around the internets. Mike Lech was actually a quite accomplished professional model builder. The show was funny because, he had to play dumb and ask silly questions so that the show could explain techniques. he has some classic moments and you can tell he is trying hard to keep a straight face if you watch them on you tube. In fact sometimes he made mistakes on purpose. I owe a lot to Mike Lech, if it wasn’t for that show I wouldn’t have been building models for the last 25 years.
I was also in the “young Model Builders club” and would get a mail order model every month. Those were the days.
here are the producers looks like they also wrote a book on scale modeling. still available on amazon
holy cow, look in the background on the top shelf there is a bright blue helo that appears to be an Osprey??? did they have models of those back in the 80’s???
I remember buying the 1/48 scale Testors boxing of the V-22 Osprey when I was stationed in Germany. That was Dec 1987 to Dec 1990. I’d guess I bought it between 1988-90, but not sure when it was first released.
I remember being very excited when I first heard about it and even VCR’d the first few episodes.
I thought they dumbed it down too much trying to appeal to beginners and I eventually lost interest in it.
Mark