I know the reality of the pipedream. I have been selling off models at the club meetings a few times a year. Even if I build a model a month (which never...
I still have an original release kit from my childhood and rarely let anyone know about it. It's an AMT 3-n-1 1962 Chevy Bel-Air Convertible. It was opened...
Nice! Who's kit is it? I notice the steering wheel is on the "wrong" side for a model T...UK issue? stefans_2002 <Stefan.Svensson3@...> wrote: My first...
Close but no cigar, if I did 3 a day I still would have some left at 80 (13 years) Jim Galloway _____ I guess we're kind of even then, Mike, but I figure...
I'd just like to say that there is no shame in not building a kit. Collecting kits is just another part of the hobby. I'd rather NOT build it instead of...
Here's my first model, a Frog Penguin Hawker Fury given to me on my eighth birthday in April 1937. It's been rebuilt twice, and as you can see, is still in...
Ok...don't laugh...so I was wrong about the car and the wheel! I'm more of an aeronaut anyway! Michael stefans_2002 <Stefan.Svensson3@...> wrote: It´s...
As I am giving a talk to a Rotary Club this coming Thursday on solid models, I have a question about the old Skybirds and Penquin models. What type of adhesive...
James - Any wood glue would do for Skybirds. I used to use a product called Durofix, which was like a slow drying and stronger balsa cement. The Penguins came...
Thanks Bill. As a followup. Did these glues have any shear strength or were the models prone to come apart with any kind of stress applied such as a solid bump...
Jim, I would suspect Ambroid could have been used as well. It was used for decades for wooden flying models; by myself until the mid '70's and I still have ...
An amazing model, Bill! Amazing that it made it so far into the 21st Century! You should be so proud of yourself - I know you love this stuff! I imagine that...
James - Durofix was very strong, as were the various casein glues. The trouble was that they dried so slowly - you had to leave them overnight. Some people...
It's been a great time reading about first kits and seeing that some still have them! I have found an H-21 "Flying Banana" kit from Academy and it lingers in...
Mike, Great story! I'm not an autograph hound, but I did get all 7 of the Blue Angels to sign one of my Monogram kits in 2004. Pappy is a MUCH better ...
Rick, I'm not an autograph hound either but the fact that he did that blew me away. As a side note to that same open house: I was asked by a fellow club member...
Great, amazing. Just thinking that it survived the WWII Jozef ... From: ScaleModelingNostalgia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ScaleModelingNostalgia@yahoogroups.com]...
I put this out a couple of weeks ago and found out the George had given me the wrong e-mail address. Here is the corrected one if you have any ideas for him. A...
Michael - Thanks for the kind words. I never throw a model away, no matter how battered, broken or scruffy. In fact, it gives me almost more pleasure to see a...
Bill, I know how you feel. I've got models min my "old" workshop that have been out there for over 25 years. Hopefully when I retire in 3 years, I will find...
OK, I've tried resisting, but I can't hold it back any longer. My first kit was an AMT 1949 Mercury coupe, bought about 1964 when my Mom was on a business trip...
Sounds like you like that Merc. If you are a Merc freak, like me and others, try Revell's kit with the chopped top. It goes together great! Absolutely a great...
One of the things I always checked on ebay when I was buying was the lots of built kits looking for something that I would like to try to restore. Who knows,...
is there much of a market for partially-built kits? I have a lot that I started to varying degrees, but I'll never have time to finish them if I live to be 200...
Look under "lot of" on the ebay aircraft or military listings. They usually don't start at much but depending on what you have, the offers can get pretty...
