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Post by Skip-O-Matic on Mar 31, 2014 12:03:53 GMT -7
Came across an old relic from my past this morning and it made me think about how I used it, and had always carried it with me, when I was a kid. It's an old friend that was with me when I did my first hit of styrene and was with me in the early builds, helping enable me deeper down this hole of model addiction. One of those memories is my very first model. I always thought I was 8 years old at the time, but now I know I was 9. I was in the hospital for a couple weeks having surgery for a bone deterioration in my left hip socket, my father brought me a model of a '72 GTO and a tube of glue. It was molded in a gold/yellow color and the body had darker fogging along the bottom. I didn't paint anything and I assembled it as the stock version. I don't remember whatever happened to that old build, but I did find some images of the box that I remember it was in.   Oh yeah, as for my old friend, It is my old Cub Scout pocket knife. Trimmed a lot of model parts in the early days until I eventually got my first Exacto knife. That Exacto knife is long gone, but the pocket knife is still around. Worn and tarnished, but still intact and functioning, kind of like I am as well.  So does anyone else have a first model story? |
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Post by jbailey on Mar 31, 2014 12:13:40 GMT -7
My first encounter with the addiction known as styrene was around age 7 or 8, my dad bought me a revell '56 ford pickup kit and helped me build it. I'm not sure what ever happened to it, all I can remember is that it was painted red with red and blue interior and was in stock form.
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Post by wheaton79chris on Mar 31, 2014 13:57:13 GMT -7
I was seven and in the hospital when I had been diagnosed with diabetes. My uncle brought me a testors c-130 Hercules kit the glue and paints. He showed me what to do on a few pieces then after that its been downhill ever since.
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Post by Grandpabeast on Mar 31, 2014 14:14:44 GMT -7
Wow it looks like modeling and hospitals had a lot in common.
I was about 7 or 8 and was also in the hospital when my parents brought me a old 55 chevy kit. it was one with the opening doors hood and trunk.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 10:49:22 GMT -7
First plastic kit i made was an Airfix T34 when i was around 10 years old.
First car I made was actually a van. It was Monogram, I think, Bright Yelow with a trailer and a little off road buggy. The roof of the van was removable.
That was Christmas 1979 and Ive been looking for another one ever since.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 13:43:45 GMT -7
My first model was a Ohio George Montgomery Gasser in 1971 My Mother although she & my Father when he was living would take me to the races (since I was 6 months old) after he died she didn't want me to have anything to do with cars so for almost two years after my Uncle got me that model she had everyone buy me ships & planes Ohio George with glue fingerprints all over it sat on the shelf while mom swept up the pieces to the ships & planes & threw them away
She gave in Xmas 1973 & bought me a MPC Don Carlton car It's been on like Donkey Kong ever since
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 15:39:51 GMT -7
The first kits I ever got were 2 sets of 1/72 WW2 soldiers (British and German), a German Jagdpanther tank kit and some assorted artillery and set pieces from my dad as a gift years ago. I was 13 at the time and wasn't very good, but it was enjoyable!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2014 14:28:16 GMT -7
my first build was this  i was 5 or 6 and mom wouldn't let me have glue or paints yet, so elmer's white glue and crayons were my fist modelling tools. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2014 19:24:13 GMT -7
I remember my first build.
I was 11 and the family and I was on a sunday outing. You know the ones. everyone went on a sunday outing when they was a kid..
My parents stopped at a yard sale they seen. I was looking at the stuff with the parents and out jumps a wild looking car pictured on a box.
I asked my parents if I could have it and it went home with me. For a big .50.
It was the Monogram 1964 edition Little Coffin..
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Post by gardnerpag44 on Apr 7, 2014 21:14:03 GMT -7
A 62 Studebaker Lark Convertible bought it myself for $1.15 new I was 10 and had to speed my yard mowing money the rest went on candy , go figure  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2014 0:02:43 GMT -7
A 62 Studebaker Lark Convertible bought it myself for $1.15 new I was 10 and had to speed my yard mowing money the rest went on candy , go figure oh yes.. the days of penny candy. You could buy alot back then.. egyptian |
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Post by Skip-O-Matic on Apr 8, 2014 13:30:34 GMT -7
A 62 Studebaker Lark Convertible bought it myself for $1.15 new I was 10 and had to speed my yard mowing money the rest went on candy , go figure oh yes.. the days of penny candy. You could buy alot back then.. egyptian Yup, two for a penny on top of that. Also nickle candy bars. Wow, some of us are showing our age. Remember when Testors and Pactra 1/4 oz bottles of paint were like ten cents? |
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Post by gardnerpag44 on Apr 8, 2014 16:13:59 GMT -7
Yep I still got a couple bottles with price still on them of course the paint turned solid LOL but still got 'em  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2014 17:35:55 GMT -7
i've got a couple of those bottles that have never been opened.
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