Hi all. I’m Rick. I’m a retired sailor. My Dad and I built a 1/72 A1D Skyraider back in 1968, and except for my Navy Service I’m still building. I like to ‘rescue’ old kits that are being thrown out, or that are being sold at garage sales or on eBay.
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Hey Rick! Nice to meet you! I also built stuff with my dad growing up! Thanks for your service! Looking forward to seeing your work.
Hey welcome to the forum,nice to have you aboard.
Welcome Rick, When I was younger, I built models with my two older brothers. Thank you for your service to our country. You’ll find a great group of modelers here on this forum who will always be willing to assist you or to offer advice. My modeling interests are varied but lately I’ve enjoyed building the older kits from the 60’s & 70’s.
Welcome to the forum. Glad your still keeping the old school kits alive (I like 'em too).
Welcome aboard. There’s a few of us from AZ here (Goodyear myself & Stikpusher). Looking forward to your builds.
Welcome to the forums!
My dad got me started at age 3 in 1970 with Monogram’s P-40 Flying Tiger. I built throughout my childhood, then came back to the hobby after baseball, girls, high school, college, and getting started in my career. I’ve been building ever since. I also hunted down every baby blue boxing of Monogram kits that I could find (which was actually all of them) via eBay over the years. I love to give those old kits another go. Often I will add to them with scratch built cockpits or wheel wells.
Ahoy. It’s great to welcome to a fellow squid to the forum (USN retired 1998). I hope you enjoy it, lots of good guys here. The challenge of rescuing a run-down kit is irresistible to me also and some of the best kit’s I’ve rescued are ones I started. Ha.
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Welcome to the forum Rick. Looking forward to seeing your work.
Welcome to the forum!
Welcome! Looks forward to seeing some of your model rescues.
Greetings from Goodyear (like Keavdog/John said)! I do hope that you will share your work on here. Are you in any of the clubs around here such as IPMS or AMPS?
I wanted to show a few kits I've worked on over the past few years. Im not a stellar modeler, nor do I adhere exactly to schemes and markings. I spent about an hour just now putting in images and providing descriptions. I planned to show some planes, ships, helicopters, cars, and even a spaceship. I got the post all done, with pictures and accurate descriptions, then selected the 'reply' button...
…at which time I was informed that ‘new forum users’ can only put one picture into a post! I’ll put up a few individual posts of some of the models I planned to show in this post
Instead I'll show you my "high-speed low-drag" building area. I'm a retired sailor, and my retirement is small. I rent a house with two other Navy friends, and I am raising my Grandson. This limits me to a very small working area! The kit belly-up in the center is the Young Modeler's Building Club F-16A. Thanks for letting me share with the forum today!
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I love that F-16! Can’t wait to see how it progresses!
Here it is as of today:
I am undecided on the paint/markings. I really like the old-fashioned red-white-blue prototype scheme/decals the kit calls for. If I do that scheme then I would mount the external fuel tanks. However, I have painted all 12 of the GBUs and I think they’d look really good mounted instead of those external fuel tanks. If I do that, then I should paint this Falcon in the two-tone grey as was used in Desert Storm. I still need to mount the landing gear door, but when I’m done with that I’ll have to choose!
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Hello again stikpusher. I don’t belong to IPMS, haven’t heard of AMPS. A while back I contacted IPMS about donating about 75 kits that I knew I’d never build. They offered to take them, but I had to bring them to someone who would catalog them. I didn’t have the means to do that…ended up selling them all at a garage sale for about $1 apiece.
Navy, AMPS is a modeling group focused on military vehicles, wheeled & tracked, armored & soft skin, but most members of the club build across pretty much all modeling genres. It’s a nationwide group, but the AZ chapter meets in Phoenix at Andy’s new store off of 91st Ave between Buckeye & Lower Buckeye roads. There are no dues of fees for membership in the local chapter, and it’s an enjoyable build & bs session. Meetings are the second Saturday of every month at 10am, and last till around 1 pm or so… you’re more than welcome to show up and sit in to see if you like it or not.
Stik, thank you for the information. Do you bring a kit, is there a theme, or do you buy something there?
Navy, there no theme. You can bring a kit to build, show off your most recent completion(s), or buy something there to work on. The first part of the meeting is “armored recon” where coming events and primarily armor related upcoming releases are discussed. Then its build away to your hearts content. We are looking to do a theme for Modelzona, the upcoming Phoenix IPMS contest in November, but participation in that is purely optional. We have only done one other “theme” in the past several years, and that was for IPMS Nationals a couple of years ago where we completed models that had been started by an acquaintance who had died, and entered them as a tribute to him at the contest.