Scale models..

30-May-2006 | Ron Pickrell

[reagandemo]

"Oh, well I built the Bismark and had it in the bath tub, set it on fire, way to cool.."

That brings back memories. The Yorktown with gasoline and firecrackers down in the near by creek. We had to use silicone to make it watertight though. The model glue would disintegrate and the boat would sink before the fire and explosions would get to it if you didn't. Was was even better is when we got our hands on M-80's (the real things not fakes).

[rlmorel]

Don't know, but...the paint job is the Jolly Rogers...if I can only get off of my lazy butt and put the skull and crossbones on her!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...if I can only get off of my lazy butt and put the skull and crossbones on her!

Ahhh! So that's why it's missing. I knew something wasn't right but the rest of the paint job looks perfect.

I built one just like it a couple years back. The only difference is the radome is a yellow tan color.
I'm particularly proud of the details I put on the CRT green screen in the cockpit with a brush with one bristle on it.

[Army Air Corps]

"Now the Japanese models are high detail and I can't think of any decent American kits."

The Monogram ProModeler series is quite good. Accurate Miniatures makes kits that are the equal of any kit from Hasegawa or Tamiya. On the other hand, you are quite correct that the average model from Japan sets high standards.

[pickrell]

"...At a first-grade Christmas party, we all got to pick a present from under a teeny tree. Mine was a BAe Electric Lightning fighter. Lacking glue, I assembled the whole thing that night in bed with rubber bands by flashlight. Decals and all. From that event forward, I had one sole purpose. I got my Navy wings in '89. In the interim I built whole air forces..."

You did more than build whole air forces. You, and men like you, helped to build a whole culture. We salute you for your service to the country, sir.

[wolficatZ]

BUMP!!!

 

I've always been a big fan of scale modeling, and especially box art, but it's been years since I've built one.

 

I remember building this Italeri SM-81 in 7th grade, would like to get this again.

 

 

 

 

 

[pickrell]

"...I've always been a big fan of scale modeling, and especially box art, but it's been years since I've built one..."

Some of our best memories are from when most of us built models. It was a time when our own imaginations entertained us.

It would be nice to return to those days, but I think that sometimes we may forget that it wasn't the plastic models themselves, but rather the flights of magic and imagination they spurred in us all.

The man who will eclipse Bill Gates... is the man who finds a way to unleash in all of us who treasured those days in our youth... the same magic, the same pristine power of imagination. That wondrous world of discovery is still out there, but it needs a new venue. Because you can't just buy a ticket to fly there, and it isn't marketed in aerosol cans.

Someone... is going to get very rich when he discovers/invents/unleashes it! Thanks for the reply.