I put my Grumman GB work on the side and spent some quality time with my 3 year old son. This weekend we threw together the venerable 1/48 Testors Spad XIIIc kit. This was part of the stash I inherited from a deceased uncle about six years ago. It was misisng an elevator and was one of those kits that has just never sparked my interest so it was perfect to build “as is” without detailed sanding, seam filling, etc. It was a great Modeling 101 for my son, who go to experiment with glue, paint, declas and his favorite…tweezers.
I think he came across a new type of random camo pattern to replace the lozenge schemes we normally see. The bottom line is he had fun, and maybe it’ll build some interestwith him to make something else in the future.
The master craftsman at work
Night Fighter?
Radical new camo?
Improvising…he couldn’t decide if he wanted to use the #8 or #1 plane…so he used both!
Great looking kid! The thing I love about these kind of photos is, 20 years from now you take them out an… embarrass the the snot out of them in front of their girl friends or what ever. It works every time. I know, I have a 36 year old son and a 27 year old daughter. But they are great memmories!!!
Good lookin build…!!! I bet it was fun thats fer sure… My son is only one but i still take em into the dungeon to show him what he has to look forward too… Laughs…
Just the look on the little guys face, you know he had fun…
Ah Dad, isn’t your son a little too young to drink… LOL
Rick: He has his mom’s looks AND brains…he’s got it made.
**Dirtball:**I hear ya…black mail photos! But you only bring them out if you don’t approve of his girlfriend, right? I could use some pointers, here!
Mike: My oldest boy never really took to it (we have a WIP that’s taking over a year…he prefers his GameCube), but the 3 year old is curious about our “dungeon” and loves to make a mess with paint. Here’s hoping your one year old takes to the hobby![#toast]
And come on, Mike…it Kentucky…we don’t have a drinking age here [:D]
Sweet ! Tell you son Great Job ! - And great job by you too dad.
I think that’s the classic Barnum & Bailey camo pattern. It can fly into a circus virtually undetected.[:o)] My son made a P-40 in the same scheme a few years back.
And I see he’s already got the Hellcat (in the dish) in progress ?
Uh, Charles, there may not be drinking laws, but unless he was using the tweezers on you, …[:D]
Modeling with yunguns is a lot of fun, my 5 year old granddaughter works with me pretty often. We built a popsicle stick F-80 this week and a snap tight F-18 last week. I had to help her with the right sounds on the F-18, and later we watched a Blue Angels tape.
Regarding #2, yes…but keep in mind we were both modelling.
I have found that a beer bottle (or something with a relatively long neck) makes a nice receptacle for holding your used cleaning fluid (like windex).I do need to find a way to fix it to the table so it doesn’t tip over, and one learns quickly to check which one is the drinkable bottle before taking a swig. Other than that they work great.
