hi guys
dwn to biznis
how did u start modeling???///[;)][}:)][:o)][?]
me? t’was on me 12th birday an me an me best pal went to a toy shop an saw the airplanes an we got 1 each(i got a 1/144 revell mig 29) the rest is as they say HISTORY
My dad started it all. It was a small scale version of the Constitution. I’ve been hooked since. Over thirty years…Gee where has the time gone.
I got a 1/72nd kit for a birthday once…kit went unbuilt for a full yr until the next birthday when the same uncle bought me another kit…Been building off and on since then!
HEY,
For my twelfth birthday a family friend got me a model car, but i cant remember what kind. It didnt turn out very good, but i have been getting better and better ever since.
Randy
Don’t remember why, but can remember working on my first kit, which my dad had bought for me - it was a Revell “box scale” U.S.S. Missouri - It was a Sunday afternoon and I remember being told that I had to work on it on dad’s work bench in the basement and that it was in the late summer of '53 or '54.
When I was seven I was staying with my Grandparents because my Mom was very sick. They lived a block from a hobby shop in Flint, Mi. I wandered in one day and the first thing I saw was a displaycase full of mostly scratch built tanks. By the time I left the shop that day I would have to say I was a modeler. Anytime you mix a curious young person with beautifully built models and an enthusiastic hobby shop staff, the outcome could very likely be a new modeler. I had built 20-30 “glue queens” before that day but those were toys, plain and simple.
My grandfather helped me build the Aurora Seaview, then a Nautilus sub., when I was 5. After that I couldn’t be stopped. From sci-fi to armor, and back to sci-fi.
I was about 8 when I first saw “Tora Tora Tora” and became addicted to WW 2. My friend was heavily into ship models and he gave me the bug. I moved from ships to airplanes soon after, finally to armor for the past 25 years. I hope to someday start and finish a few planes I have. LOL
“It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”-R.E.Lee
A family friend bought me a set of tiny little ships - the Nina, Pina and Santa Maria - when I was about 5 or so. Then he got me a set of Blue Angels - Scooters, I think they were. It snowballed from there.
Kinda like a medical condition that has no cure…help me!!
Cheers
LeeTree
I think I have to ‘blame’ my dad. I remember he liked scale trains. I think he brought home some sort model kit for me and that was the beginning of my model-making.
Thanks dad!
Glenn
I received a small scale balsa wood aircraft for my 5th birthday. Since then it has been an on again off again thing until the last 10 years. Discovered plastic aircraft 30 years ago, and have been at that ever since. I scale model 1/48 aircraft.
Actually my Mom had a big influence on getting me started in building models. She was born in Portsmouth England and had been through the bombings of W.W.II and the build ups for Normandy. She used to talk quite freely about her experiences and it piqued my interest at a very early age. Built my first kit when I was about 7, soon after returning from a trip to her home. Couldn’t tell you what it was if my life depended on it though.
My friend TJ got me my first kit for my birthday when I was about 7, but for days before he gave it to me he kept telling about how cool my present was and he would tease me with the cool things it had or could do. For the life of me I couldn’t fifure out what it was. When I finally got to open that 1/72 B-17 I could hardly what to put that baby together and start playing with the rotating turrets, spinning propellers opening bomb bay.
From there it lead to more 1/72 aircraft then to cars to trucks to girls then armor
Found a tube 'o glue in the basement as a kid; decided I needed a model to use it on: Monogram’s F-16A Fighting Falcon (circa 1985). Only painted the exhaust cone (black), and used a pencil to weather it. heheh.
My dad and I used to play a game called PT-109 on our 8088 and I became hooked on PT boats. He showed me the movies PT-109 and They Were Expendable soon thereafter and one day he returned from work a bit late with a model PT Boat. We built it pretty quick and I became hooked on models!
I remember my dad bought me my first model when I was 5 or 6 at some toy store on Park Ave. in Manhattan. It was basically just to shut me up because I think I was throwing a tantrum that day. Hehehe… I can’t remember what kit it was, but it was some “snap-tite” monogram plane… the F-15, I think. It had something like 18 parts and came molded in 3 colors. Jeez. The first two I REALLY remember doing (I got them at the same time) were both aircraft kits: The RA-5C Vigilante and Chuck Yeager’s Commemorative F-16A. I chose the RA-5C because it was such a beautiful plane. I still think so. [^]
I don’t remember picking it out but I remember being so excited I built the Snaptite F18 in the back seat of the car on the half hour ride home from Kmart! Mom couldn’t figure out why her baby girl wanted a plane much less one she has to put together. If she only knew the sickness it would cause[:-D]!
I think 'twas betrween the age of 10 & 15, can’t really remember. I started with 1/72 airplane kits from Matchbox. I didn’t know anything about modelling back then I just assemble the planes right out of the box. It’s also been an On again Off again hobby for me. Right now I’m trying to pick up where I left.[:I]
About 1973 or 4 when I was 13 or 14 a small shop opened in town.
He bought damaged and overstock kits and resold them.
He had a kid whos job it was to inventory the damaged kits to make sure they were complete, then he’d strap 5 or 6 together and sell the bunch for .50 to $2.00.
I’d buy them buy the hundreds[:D]
The owner got himself into some coke problems and the shop closed around 76 or 77.
Jump ahead to a present day. I land a job with the County, My boss is a couple of years older than me but from the same town, we get to talking one day and lo and behold he was the kid in that shop who inventoried the kits and got them ready for sale.
When the shop closed he got ALL the inventory. 500 kits or more, most still wrapped.
Some 30 yrs old and older.
We are seroiusly considering ebay for some of the collection.
30 years later and I’m building again…
Kits from the same shop, My boss has been feeding my habit for months now.
I have a supply that could possibly last for years.
As a kid living on an Air Force Base in Alaska. My Dad would spend those long winter nights working on a plastic or balsa wood model. I would stop long enough to place my finger on some wet paint or just stare at all those parts. Until he shooed me away. Then as a 7 year old I decided to show my independence and not go to bed when he said. Needlessly to say he broke a model over his knee and I was hooked. He vowed he would not buy or build that aircraft again. So when I started buying kits he would sit down and show me some tips.
Now for the million dollar question can you guess what aircraft he broke over his knee??