how did u start modeling

Anonymous

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November 2005

how did u start modeling

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 15, 2003 1:52 PM

hi guys
dwn to biznis
how did u start modeling???/// Wink [;)]

me? t'was on me 12th birday an me an me best pal went to a toy shop an saw the airplanes an we got 1 each(i got a 1/144 revell mig 29) the rest is as they say HISTORY

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chasblake99

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December 2002
From: Boise ID

Posted by chasblake99 on Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:15 PM

My dad started it all. It was a small scale version of the Constitution. I've been hooked since. Over thirty years....Gee where has the time gone.

Charles

NKAWTG (My KC-135R at RAF Fairfird during Allied Force) Pilots without crew chiefs are nothing but pedestrians with nice sunglasses and a cool jacket. Crew Chiefs RULE!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:33 PM

I got a 1/72nd kit for a birthday once.....kit went unbuilt for a full yr until the next birthday when the same uncle bought me another kit......Been building off and on since then!

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dubix88

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March 2003
From: Maine,USA

Posted by dubix88 on Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:46 PM

HEY,
For my twelfth birthday a family friend got me a model car, but i cant remember what kind. It didnt turn out very good, but i have been getting better and better ever since.

Randy

THATS MY VOTE "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base." -Dave Barry In the words of the great Larry the Cable Guy, "GIT-R-DONE!!!"

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qmiester

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May 2003
From: Central USA

Posted by qmiester on Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:50 PM

Don't remember why, but can remember working on my first kit, which my dad had bought for me - it was a Revell "box scale" U.S.S. Missouri - It was a Sunday afternoon and I remember being told that I had to work on it on dad's work bench in the basement and that it was in the late summer of '53 or '54.

Quincy

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Woody

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December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:55 PM

When I was seven I was staying with my Grandparents because my Mom was very sick. They lived a block from a hobby shop in Flint, Mi. I wandered in one day and the first thing I saw was a displaycase full of mostly scratch built tanks. By the time I left the shop that day I would have to say I was a modeler. Anytime you mix a curious young person with beautifully built models and an enthusiastic hobby shop staff, the outcome could very likely be a new modeler. I had built 20-30 "glue queens" before that day but those were toys, plain and simple.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 15, 2003 7:21 PM

My grandfather helped me build the Aurora Seaview, then a Nautilus sub., when I was 5. After that I couldn't be stopped. From sci-fi to armor, and back to sci-fi.

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tigerman

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March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Sunday, November 16, 2003 12:31 AM

I was about 8 when I first saw "Tora Tora Tora" and became addicted to WW 2. My friend was heavily into ship models and he gave me the bug. I moved from ships to airplanes soon after, finally to armor for the past 25 years. I hope to someday start and finish a few planes I have. LOL

"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."-R.E.Lee

Eric

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leemitcheltree

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January 2003
From: Washington State

Posted by leemitcheltree on Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:28 AM

A family friend bought me a set of tiny little ships - the Nina, Pina and Santa Maria - when I was about 5 or so. Then he got me a set of Blue Angels - Scooters, I think they were. It snowballed from there.
Kinda like a medical condition that has no cure.....help me!!
Cheers
LeeTree

Cheers, LeeTree
Remember, Safety Fast!!!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:56 AM

I think I have to 'blame' my dad. I remember he liked scale trains. I think he brought home some sort model kit for me and that was the beginning of my model-making.
Thanks dad!

Glenn

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:37 AM

I received a small scale balsa wood aircraft for my 5th birthday. Since then it has been an on again off again thing until the last 10 years. Discovered plastic aircraft 30 years ago, and have been at that ever since. I scale model 1/48 aircraft.

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shermanfreak

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January 2003

Posted by shermanfreak on Sunday, November 16, 2003 11:35 AM

Actually my Mom had a big influence on getting me started in building models. She was born in Portsmouth England and had been through the bombings of W.W.II and the build ups for Normandy. She used to talk quite freely about her experiences and it piqued my interest at a very early age. Built my first kit when I was about 7, soon after returning from a trip to her home. Couldn't tell you what it was if my life depended on it though.

Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert

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RAF120

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March 2003
From: Exit 7a NJ Turnpike

Posted by RAF120 on Sunday, November 16, 2003 2:04 PM

My friend TJ got me my first kit for my birthday when I was about 7, but for days before he gave it to me he kept telling about how cool my present was and he would tease me with the cool things it had or could do. For the life of me I couldn't fifure out what it was. When I finally got to open that 1/72 B-17 I could hardly what to put that baby together and start playing with the rotating turrets, spinning propellers opening bomb bay.
From there it lead to more 1/72 aircraft then to cars to trucks to girls then armor

Trevor Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:41 PM

Found a tube 'o glue in the basement as a kid; decided I needed a model to use it on: Monogram's F-16A Fighting Falcon (circa 1985). Only painted the exhaust cone (black), and used a pencil to weather it. heheh.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 10:44 AM

My dad and I used to play a game called PT-109 on our 8088 and I became hooked on PT boats. He showed me the movies PT-109 and They Were Expendable soon thereafter and one day he returned from work a bit late with a model PT Boat. We built it pretty quick and I became hooked on models!

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shrikes

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November 2003
From: Manila, Philippines

Posted by shrikes on Monday, November 17, 2003 11:02 AM

I remember my dad bought me my first model when I was 5 or 6 at some toy store on Park Ave. in Manhattan. It was basically just to shut me up because I think I was throwing a tantrum that day. Hehehe... I can't remember what kit it was, but it was some "snap-tite" monogram plane... the F-15, I think. It had something like 18 parts and came molded in 3 colors. Jeez. The first two I REALLY remember doing (I got them at the same time) were both aircraft kits: The RA-5C Vigilante and Chuck Yeager's Commemorative F-16A. I chose the RA-5C because it was such a beautiful plane. I still think so. Approve [^]

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cassibill

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February 2003
From: Indiana, USA

Posted by cassibill on Monday, November 17, 2003 11:24 AM

I don't remember picking it out but I remember being so excited I built the Snaptite F18 in the back seat of the car on the half hour ride home from Kmart! Mom couldn't figure out why her baby girl wanted a plane much less one she has to put together. If she only knew the sickness it would cause[:-D]!

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!! Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 4:29 PM

I think 'twas betrween the age of 10 & 15, can't really remember. I started with 1/72 airplane kits from Matchbox. I didn't know anything about modelling back then I just assemble the planes right out of the box. It's also been an On again Off again hobby for me. Right now I'm trying to pick up where I left. Blush [:I]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 4:54 PM

About 1973 or 4 when I was 13 or 14 a small shop opened in town.
He bought damaged and overstock kits and resold them.
He had a kid whos job it was to inventory the damaged kits to make sure they were complete, then he'd strap 5 or 6 together and sell the bunch for .50 to $2.00.
I'd buy them buy the hundreds Big Smile [:D]

The owner got himself into some coke problems and the shop closed around 76 or 77.

Jump ahead to a present day. I land a job with the County, My boss is a couple of years older than me but from the same town, we get to talking one day and lo and behold he was the kid in that shop who inventoried the kits and got them ready for sale.
When the shop closed he got ALL the inventory. 500 kits or more, most still wrapped.
Some 30 yrs old and older.
We are seroiusly considering ebay for some of the collection.

30 years later and I'm building again....
Kits from the same shop, My boss has been feeding my habit for months now.
I have a supply that could possibly last for years.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 6:26 PM

As a kid living on an Air Force Base in Alaska. My Dad would spend those long winter nights working on a plastic or balsa wood model. I would stop long enough to place my finger on some wet paint or just stare at all those parts. Until he shooed me away. Then as a 7 year old I decided to show my independence and not go to bed when he said. Needlessly to say he broke a model over his knee and I was hooked. He vowed he would not buy or build that aircraft again. So when I started buying kits he would sit down and show me some tips.

Now for the million dollar question can you guess what aircraft he broke over his knee??

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 8:04 PM

Got back into modelling when I lost my job earleir this year. Needed a cheap(ish) hobby to keep me occupied between all the job hunting. Mostly have bought Airfix stuff 'cos it's cheap and a good introduction back into modelling for someone who's been out of it for too many years. Some people on this site give Airfix a bit of grief but I have just finished their Zero. It cost me Au$4.50 (about US$3.00) and in fact I spent more on the paint than on the kit! It's very basic (no pilot's seat) and it won't win any prizes but it kept me busy for a few hours and it looks like a Zero sitting on my shelf. What I mean is that they may not have the most detail but Airfix generally get the look of the kit right.
Anyway, am back working now and am able to start looking at some of the more expensive stuff but thank you Airfix for seeing me through the dark days!

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wroper11

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February 2003
From: Back home in Blanchard

Posted by wroper11 on Monday, November 17, 2003 10:01 PM

When I was in 2nd grade, I had a freind who was older and he did a/c. He gave me an old F-16 to play with and I started doing snap-tite. Modeled from then on up to 18 when I went of to basic. Had an 11 year break and then got back in to it this past Jan. when I had 4 days off work due to the cold weather. I pulled out a Cat D-8 dozer, and an Italeri 1/24 Euro road train that I had started 12 years ago! Forgot how much I loved the hobby. Big Smile [:D]

Wroper

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:29 AM

I remember my pop squatting on the floor with newpapers under his construction. Don't remember what he was building, probably an aircraft. I remember the smells:the glue and the paint. My pop was happy and I just watched him watching tv and working on the model with all his tools and paints and parts all right there.

I was maybe 5 or 6.

Many, many years later I put aside the PS2 and with a fascination and child-like fervor began to assemble 1/48 scale WWII American warbirds. I have re-discovered the wonderful world of scale modelling!

Over and out.

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Bossman

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December 2002

Posted by Bossman on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:31 AM

I was just talking to my son about this last night... In the days just before Hot Wheels I used to go to the drug store in town and they had a pretty big rack of small scale cars and trucks. (Roughly the same scale as Matchbox or Hot Wheels) I'm not sure about the name of these little kits - they might have been Lindberg. You'd snap together most of the body (2 or 3 pieces) and then two screws would join the body to the chassis, then press the wheels on the ends of the axles - and Presto ! Sometimes there would be decals. They cost me my whole allowance for the week - but at least I didn't have to wait more than a week to save up for one. I'd be off to the store the minute I got my allowance. I haven't seen these kinds of kits in 30 + years.

My first glue model was some kindof funky dune buggy with really ugly decals. It wound up being a mass of white, glue smeared, seam gapped, unpainted, plastic with misplaced or "left off" parts. It was GREAT !

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tempestjohnny

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November 2003
From: Naples, FL

Posted by tempestjohnny on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:25 PM

My father was a wooden ship builder. I really enjoyed working with my hands. When I was 7 he bought me a MPC pacer wagon We both did the gluing and I painted the outside silver with a brush. I was hooked after that. Then I got into aircraft. Been a flyboy since. this is my wasy of dogfighting with the aces

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:32 PM

well,my dad took the family to a hobbystore,just to walk of food,i never been there befor,but the models looked preaty cool,i bought one,made it and now im modeling i like to model w.w.II models,cause i like to study w.w.II history,i started modeling 1 year ago,and i like w.w.II history 3 years,and the game MEDAL OF HONOR helps,its my favorite game,and i like all the others,ha, im gitting of topic

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:00 AM

I started at 11, when spare change from an errand for my mom earned me a Monogram 1/72 P51-B Mustang. I still think it was on of the best models i had (unfortunately OOP). I built solely on that scale for 10 yrs. I stopped when I went to the USAF for flight training (no surprise there!). At that time a had over 100 models, including WWII, Korean and modern jets.
Right now I'm back after settling with wife, work and kids and needing something to relax after work. I got the same ol' feeling again, but this time I'm building on 1/48 scale.
I am working on a collection of Lightning versions, although I like Spitfire & Mossies too!

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Jim Barton

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February 2003

Posted by Jim Barton on Friday, November 21, 2003 5:51 PM

It was my brother that got me started. After some years of watching him build models, he helped me pick out my first kit, a tube of glue and a starter set of the little square bottles of Pactra paint (this will give you an idea of how far back we're going). The model was a car but I forget what it was. It was the typical first-model-built-by-a-10-year-old effort--you know, the glue smears, misaligned wheels, gloss black tires, fingerprints in the paint which I'm sure looked like it was applied with a rubber spatula. It was August of 1972 and my folks had rented this wonderful cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. To this day, whenever I hear songs like "Guitar Man," "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress," "Alone Again Naturally," or "Rock and Roll Part 2" (to you younger modelers, that's the "HEYYY!" song you hear at basketball and football games today), it takes me back to that cabin.

"Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 23, 2003 6:23 PM

I remember being about 5 or so and Mom sitting down with me one day and the two of us slapping glue onto some antique car model parts. Kind of went from there ...

When I was pre-teen and living in Germany that was a mainstay for all the kids my age ...

I got back into it after my kids had grown (they all build too) when I wanted to do some serious ship building.

Bruce

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 23, 2003 6:58 PM

Oddly enough, my mother built Aurora monsters and my father built balsa aircraft. When I was 7 they did the "D" thing and I only saw my dad on weekends, and every weekend he would buy me a model to build. I must have built a hundred 1/72 WWI planes. But one day I discovered a Monogram Panzer IV, (complete with Shep's hints) and was stuck on armor for the next 20 years, now I do mostly 1/6 figures, WWI armor and the occaisonial plane.

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