Plastic Model airplane kits for kids
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I used to have the same hobby, too many moons ago. I know that you can still buy them, so I assume that people are still building them.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
quite expensive - tailored to us old farts. hmm, retirement plan - buy and stock... kidding. I remember having undeclared painting contests with my Dad. I would watch how he did this and that. He was insane but not totally so - he had friends in R/C aircraft, he did you control. But I remember many nights when I was 10-15 - he'd be painting his planes with "dope" - look it up - in a small room with an open cigarrete. How we did not blow up... slower times.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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Had a flash back to the time I glued together plastic model airplane kits. WW1, WW2, Korean War. British, American, Japanese, German, .... I had a regular summer job and saved up to buy them one at a time. My friends did similarly. We would hang them with thin string or threads for the ceiling in such a way as they looked like they were in combat. Is this still a hobby these days? My kids did for a while.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
I used to build tons of them... Gluing, painting... Fun times...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Had a flash back to the time I glued together plastic model airplane kits. WW1, WW2, Korean War. British, American, Japanese, German, .... I had a regular summer job and saved up to buy them one at a time. My friends did similarly. We would hang them with thin string or threads for the ceiling in such a way as they looked like they were in combat. Is this still a hobby these days? My kids did for a while.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
Plastic models? you have to be kidding... wusses? In the "real" good old days, there were the joys of cutting out balsa wood parts with an xacto knife. Had to keep the band-aids handy. Never got very good at the paper skin and Dope part. Klutz I was, Klutz I am. Dope=lacquer=nail polish.
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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I used to have the same hobby, too many moons ago. I know that you can still buy them, so I assume that people are still building them.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Still do.., get in a that looks/looked cool research hole end up building a kit of them. Some paints are hard to get these days...
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Plastic models? you have to be kidding... wusses? In the "real" good old days, there were the joys of cutting out balsa wood parts with an xacto knife. Had to keep the band-aids handy. Never got very good at the paper skin and Dope part. Klutz I was, Klutz I am. Dope=lacquer=nail polish.
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
Dope Duude! oh carry on. Xacto is that old or do you mean Razor blade...
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Dope Duude! oh carry on. Xacto is that old or do you mean Razor blade...
That's what I had - a razor blade from my dad's old double sided hand razor. Some of my glued joints had a faint reddish tinge to them for some reason. :-O
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Had a flash back to the time I glued together plastic model airplane kits. WW1, WW2, Korean War. British, American, Japanese, German, .... I had a regular summer job and saved up to buy them one at a time. My friends did similarly. We would hang them with thin string or threads for the ceiling in such a way as they looked like they were in combat. Is this still a hobby these days? My kids did for a while.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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I used to build tons of them... Gluing, painting... Fun times...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
I agree. Over the years with having sons and moving to new houses, the collection did not survive. If memory serves some just few apart because of poor gluing, dried out decals, etc. Plus UV takes it's toll over time. I think I am going to buy and build a model. I miss that process.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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Plastic models? you have to be kidding... wusses? In the "real" good old days, there were the joys of cutting out balsa wood parts with an xacto knife. Had to keep the band-aids handy. Never got very good at the paper skin and Dope part. Klutz I was, Klutz I am. Dope=lacquer=nail polish.
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Have few "unfinished" - including old trolley ( Ho scale) I used to ride to school... Looking for WWII German "kubelwagon" (sic??) - got "Jeep"... or Russian "ZIS5 truck (see opening scene of "T34" movie --- that one... field kitchen optional...)
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Had a flash back to the time I glued together plastic model airplane kits. WW1, WW2, Korean War. British, American, Japanese, German, .... I had a regular summer job and saved up to buy them one at a time. My friends did similarly. We would hang them with thin string or threads for the ceiling in such a way as they looked like they were in combat. Is this still a hobby these days? My kids did for a while.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
I've forgotten how many (badly glued and painted) planes and tanks I made as a child, way back in the early 1980's. I recently stumbled upon this video, of the plastic models being created inside an Airfix factory: The Secrets Behind Scale Model Kit Manufacturing - Inside the Airfix Factory - YouTube[^]
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Had a flash back to the time I glued together plastic model airplane kits. WW1, WW2, Korean War. British, American, Japanese, German, .... I had a regular summer job and saved up to buy them one at a time. My friends did similarly. We would hang them with thin string or threads for the ceiling in such a way as they looked like they were in combat. Is this still a hobby these days? My kids did for a while.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
I would be suprised if they still sell the glue.
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Had a flash back to the time I glued together plastic model airplane kits. WW1, WW2, Korean War. British, American, Japanese, German, .... I had a regular summer job and saved up to buy them one at a time. My friends did similarly. We would hang them with thin string or threads for the ceiling in such a way as they looked like they were in combat. Is this still a hobby these days? My kids did for a while.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
These days, you have to build the kit yourself. Printables Models 1[^] Printables Models 2[^]
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I would be suprised if they still sell the glue.
Yeah, the glue. They changed the formula back in the 60's, I think and it never held as well as the original formula. Apparently, some people bought the glue for sniffing, rather than gluing. I did some planes, a cruise liner, the Enterprise Aircraft Carrier, and a number of model cars. I only attempted painting the cars. Nothing survived past my high school years. My kids were never interested in model building.
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I would be suprised if they still sell the glue.
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These days, you have to build the kit yourself. Printables Models 1[^] Printables Models 2[^]
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Plastic models? you have to be kidding... wusses? In the "real" good old days, there were the joys of cutting out balsa wood parts with an xacto knife. Had to keep the band-aids handy. Never got very good at the paper skin and Dope part. Klutz I was, Klutz I am. Dope=lacquer=nail polish.
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
When I was at junior school (so 8, 9, 10 years old?) one day our teacher gave us blocks of balsa and Stanley knives, told us to carve something. I ended up with the blade in my thumb, and recall looking into the gash and thinking "oh, that white stuff must be my bone". I was walked home by my teacher (teachers couldn't afford cars those days, and it wasn't a big enough emergency to resort to a telephone call home) who had to very apologetically explain to my mother why my clothes were covered in blood. No stitches, just a bandage. I still have the scar. Later yes, dozens of model planes (and other stuff) dangling from the ceiling. Later my son did similar (model kits, not Stanley knives)
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Yeah, the glue. They changed the formula back in the 60's, I think and it never held as well as the original formula. Apparently, some people bought the glue for sniffing, rather than gluing. I did some planes, a cruise liner, the Enterprise Aircraft Carrier, and a number of model cars. I only attempted painting the cars. Nothing survived past my high school years. My kids were never interested in model building.
In my twenties I switched to using MekPak, a liquid solvent for polystyrene. You had to be careful, but no "strings" of glue, set faster, and was effectively "welding" the parts together. Applied with a fine paintbrush.
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