I just subscribed to fsm and got my first issue in the mail today…now im a newbie to modeling but i have to say the cutaway f18c is amazing! It ignited even more intrest in the hobby for me! That is one nice piece of work ( now my visible b17 thats waiting to go on the bench looks like childs play compared ) All that detail! …maybe oneday ill be able to … I had to tell somebody how nice i thought it was, so i came here. Around my house though…not to much interest generated[sigh]…my wife and my boys were pretty much humoring me…‘’ uh huh’’ ‘‘yep’’ thats nice’'…lol . So i came where people understand me[:D] ahh well… maybe i can get my oldest boy ( i have four) into models. I got him a car kit that he wanted, so we will try that this weak…(fingers crossed)
MM, that Hornet is hot and i readed that he is working a F-4 next. I just want to say have fun and hopefully your kids get into the hobby as well. Good luck on your build and post pics when you can. Charlie
Welcome to the the forum and welcome to the hobby, hope you have fun.
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The neat thing about modeling is that you never stop growing and improving. I built my first model as a kid about 60 years ago- it was a stick-model Piper Cub by Comet- looked like heck but I was quite proud of it. I’m still going strong and learning new tricks every day. Most recently, I built this old Pocher kit that I had sitting on my shelf unbuilt for the last 35 years—it’s a 1/8 scale 1931 Alfa Romeo racer; a multimedia kit with over 2400 parts! They don’t make 'em like that any more! So, have fun and keep plugging away at it- it’s a great hobby!
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Welkommen…
I saw that Hornet as well… Although the scratchbuilding and workmanship was above reproach, cut-aways aren’t my thing unless it’s a bomber or some similar type showing the crew positions and such…
Is… is that McCoy in your Alfa?
Welcome to the hobby!!! It’s a fun one to be sure. If you aren’t getting support at home, you can always come here, there’s plenty to go around. Don’t be afraid to post photos even if you’re inexperienced, you’ll get great pointers that’ll make you improve. Worked for me!
Yes, sir! That is indeed Dr. “Bones” McCoy sitting in that Alfa!!! It’s an original Mego doll from way back in the '60’s. I also have Uhura and Spock dolls, sitting in two other Pocher car kits I built long ago. I wonder what this stuff is worth today? But who cares, I’m not selling them!
wow cadet, you just put together a 300 dollar kit[bow], that is what a kit like that one sold for on ebay, and it has that many parts! thats amazing…those pocher kits run between 200 and 600 an ebay…what did it cost when you first bought it?
nevermind…pochers go into a couple grand for one, thats crazy! i dont know if i could put one that cost that much together, i think i would have as much fun staring at the box!..lol
That Pocher kit cost $125 when it was new in the mid '60’s. I still have the original sales brochure mailing showing that one and the three others they made. The most expensive was a Rolls Royce for $300.
Quite by accident, I found a bunch of them on sale at a K-Mart in the early 70’s. The Rolls were all gone, but I bought this one for about $25 and I grabbed up the other two models maybe $27 each!
I think some marketing genius at K-Mart HQ made a huge mistake! Seems like all the K-Marts in the area had them, but sold out in a day or two, to people who probably had no idea of what they were buying!
I built the other two back in the 70’s and got tired of it by then, so this one ended up on a storage shelf until I decided to tackle it early this year. All of those specialty metal parts, the documention, the orginization of the parts in little bags with ID numbers; the whole concept, is a masterpiece of engineering and I don’t think anyone would have the skills to create a kit anything like this today.
Most of those you see on eBay are partially finished by guys who started them and threw up their hands in frustration, never finishing them and losing a lot of parts in the process. I have seen only a few in unopened boxes, and those can go for a couple grand today!
These are not kits for the fumble-fingered. You don’t have to be a mechanical engineer, but it would help! [;)]