How many kids are in the forums?

Hey man, great for you!

Hey! I want to get into this! I am 16. I love planes.

There are some old people who say, "These darned kids don't have the patience for this hobby."

I didn't like what I heard, so I started a aircraft model club(will post pics in A/C forum this weekend).

So far I have six kids who love this hobby.

lespauljames

im 20, bit older, but i get on with younger people, i have got to the age where everyone around me has grown up,  and started becoming snotty, and self obssesed, with not a thought for their (old) freinds.......

 

me and my best mate might as well be 16 to be honest.....

 

Remember: Aging is mandatory, Maturing is optional!

i'm a kid.

im 20, bit older, but i get on with younger people, i have got to the age where everyone around me has grown up,  and started becoming snotty, and self obssesed, with not a thought for their (old) freinds.......

me and my best mate might as well be 16 to be honest.....

Iain Hamilton

 Once upon a time, there was a fort based in Geneseo NY named the 'Fuddy Duddy". It sat on there dirt strip year round. A close friend attended S.U.N.Y. @ Geneseo, so, on "party" weekends, we would go climb around inside the thing in the middle of the night. I have been told that it has been moved/sold to another group inside NY State.

I remember her very well. My dad lives not far from there, used to take me and my brothers to the airshow there every year. The national warplane museum used to run things in geneseo back then. They used to have not one, but two B-17's there (Fuddy Duddy and Kathleen), plus a PBY catalina. In the early 90's, the guy who owned the Kathleen ( the other B-17) died and his family sold the airplane even though it was in the will to keep the plane in geneseo. The family, the museum, and a few other parties started getting into big pizzing contests and everything started going down hill till the museum pulled stakes and left. They are still in NY somewhere, cant remember where and 1941 HAG (historical air group) runs geneseo now seems to be doing a good job so far. They've been putting the airshow on for six years now. I just wish they could get it back to what it was back in the day, 3-5 B-17's, a B-24, AND an avro lancaster, every year! And that's just the heavies!

Fuddy duddy is in bakersfield california last I knew, kathleen is, to the best of my knowledge, in seattle as Boeing bee. 
 

 Once upon a time, there was a fort based in Geneseo NY named the 'Fuddy Duddy". It sat on there dirt strip year round. A close friend attended S.U.N.Y. @ Geneseo, so, on "party" weekends, we would go climb around inside the thing in the middle of the night. I have been told that it has been moved/sold to another group inside NY State.

Railfan 233

 

101stAirborne:

 

Ya'll ever see a B-17 take off? I sure did.

 

 

Nope, but I have seen them fly over town. They come to an ex-NAVY air field close to my town every once in a while, and they do flights when they are there.

So far, I've been on 5 or 6 B-17s. Of those 6, 4 were repeat visits (I can't remember the names) and one was another B-17 ( I can't remember that one eather), and then there was Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored B-17, that looked exactly like the real Nine-O-Nine looked back in WWII.

 I've seen several Forts , in all stages of flight . From the Commemorative ( then Confederate) Air Force's 17 back in the 70s before she became Texas Raiders to Collings Foundation's Nine O Nine recently here at my local airport (only a few blocks away).

 I've had my 7 year old daughter touring through Nine O Nine and the B-24J Witchcraft with a quick trip to a road at the end of the runway to see them coming straight at ya' , then pass maybe a hundred feet over head.  Very, very exciting for both of us! Only thing better would be a flight on board, but that is an expensive deal but worth it , if you got the spare "change".

Earlier this year , had a B-25 H take off and come over the house a few hundred feet up. My girl started calling " Daddy , come here and see!!!".  My thought was "Cool, my daughter knows warbird noise. I'm teaching her well.". 

 It's good to see young people get involved in this hobby . I have my girl doing snap-together kits and helping apply decals and other things on my builds to expose her to a finer level of building . She loves it.

Howard 

101stAirborne

Ya'll ever see a B-17 take off? I sure did.

I sure did! Last year we had one come to the Offutt Air Show here in Nebraska. IT was great to see it flying around too!  Here are a couple of pictures i got of it!

OWL

My hat is off to the "kids" who model and participate in the forums. I believe that the next generation of modelers is going to be very strong. We as adults have tamed the learning curve for the younger modelers. The fact that 3rd graders are being exposed to PC software and hardware and feel comfortable in these more advanced invironments leads me to believe that budding modelling talents will benefit from the same phenomenon. P.E. and current weathering techniques will simply be "the way it always was" for them. They do not have to slowly learn and grow from the advances in techniques over the past 20 years like we did. They are arriving in the modeling world at a time when the tools and advice available to them outstrips anything that I saw when I was a kid. I had Shep Paine's book & a Verlinden book......that was it! These guys have resources that would have made me drool.

"KIDS", Take no prisoners. The future is yours and we "old Timers" have paved a nice path for you. Exploit it to it's fullest. Take no prisoners. I can not wait to see what kind of work you guys will be doing when you are 25-30. It all starts with the foundation you are building for yourselves right now. Take the ball and run with it.

I've been To EAA Air venture... I've seen tons of those! I want a ride but it's way too expensive. Now Skyraiders taking off is something of a treat. And an F-15 buzzing the runway on afterburner? Ohhh....

101stAirborne

Ya'll ever see a B-17 take off? I sure did.

Nope, but I have seen them fly over town. They come to an ex-NAVY air field close to my town every once in a while, and they do flights when they are there.

So far, I've been on 5 or 6 B-17s. Of those 6, 4 were repeat visits (I can't remember the names) and one was another B-17 ( I can't remember that one eather), and then there was Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored B-17, that looked exactly like the real Nine-O-Nine looked back in WWII.

Ya'll ever see a B-17 take off? I sure did.

im thirteen years old.

i found my inspiration from first a WW2 flight simulator which landed me into WW2 history which landed me to WW2 toys to military modeling. I sound like an air guy but im actually an armor/ figure/air/ship guy It also helped that my dad modeled as a kid too.

combat flight simulator 2 and 3 were pretty good

CallSignOWL

I think someone mentioned getting inspiration from video games. Have any of you heard of "AceCombat"?  That series is my absolute favorite!  They use alot of experimental/unusual/fictitious paint schemes in those games, and I find myself wanting to do a kit with those colors!

OWL

I've heard of it but haven't played it. 

I'll still always miss the PC flight sims from the early 90s, though. In my opinion they struck that perfect balance not being all explodey like the arcade sims (Afterburner, et al), but not being uber-technical Flight Simulator with guns, either. Aces of the Pacific, Aces Over Europe, A-10 Tank Killer, etc. Those were the greats. Though my all-time favorite has to be the 1946 expansion pack for Aces of the Pacific. It was like a roll call of awesomeness that was just a tad too late for WWII - the F2G Super Corsair, F7F Tigercat, F8F Bearcat, P80 Shooting Star...

AceCombat is great IMHO. I have played other flight-games, but none ever seem to match the control, story-line or action that AC gives me.

OWL

Boba Fett

 And Iike the F-14's (who deosn't?)

I love em.  I got 3 of the Monogram kits, all abandoned after some misfortunate acident that happened while I built them (I'm tellin you, the carpet monster doesn't  want me to have a complete Tomcat!)

With me, I like about anything from WWII- modern-day of everything. I'm not a big fan of sci-fi, but everything else has a home with me. More so for rusting wrecks of tanks and cars, with a few emergency vehicles, and a ship and airplane floating around, too. Mainly cars, though, since the local hobby shop has them for a good price.

'twas me. Secret weapons over normandy. Not perfect, a bit "holly-wooded" up, but still a fun game. My dad and I play it a lot, He usually gets a fully upgraded Zero with 57mm cannons while I get a stock P-40 with just machine guns. I still beat him. I've wanted to try several others, especially ace combat but never have. I want to get the new Tom Clancy HawkX or whatever it is, it looks pretty cool. If only I had a 360... Top Gun Combat zones is fun to, I fly an F-22 right through the streets of Baghdad at about 10 feet.

I just love the sound of fighter jets. The raw power of those engines give me goose bumps!  But the sound of a big radial is hard to beat (or a Merlin--that is a fine sounding engine!)

I like both old (WW2) and new planes equally. I love all the different schemes employed during that conflict.  The grey planes of today get boring, which is why I always try to find some color to spruce them up with! I enjoy colorful or unusuall paint schemes.

I think someone mentioned getting inspiration from video games. Have any of you heard of "AceCombat"?  That series is my absolute favorite!  They use alot of experimental/unusual/fictitious paint schemes in those games, and I find myself wanting to do a kit with those colors!

OWL

oh yeah! Corsairs are awesome! I agree, F-15's are great. And Iike the F-14's (who deosn't?) I saw the Glacier Girl this year as Oshkosh, it was pretty awesome. They had a bronco, 2 P-38's, a corsair, 2 p-51's, and something else buzzing the runways. Fantastic. I also bought a Park-zone corsair RC airplane. Such a beautiful bird... the only thing I don't like about it is the dihedral of the outer wings makes the thing roll like crazy when using rudder.

WWII aviation for me.  One field trip to the EAA in Osh Kosh, WI and I was hooked

Boba Fett

@Harshman II: Well, I'm using P-47 as an example because they could care less about WWII. The F-16's and F-18's will hold more appeal because they DO see them at airshows roaring past and to be honest, they look pretty awesome.

Meh. IMO F-16s and -18s are kinda boring. Not as boring as the F-117. I've seen some very cool modern aircraft demonstrations in my time - most memorable would probably include the F-15 (POWER!), Harrier, and a C-130 doing a JATO takeoff. And the B-52 just for sheer size.

But for me, nothing can compare to the roar of an R2800 pulling out of a dive. I grew up in Dallas, and every 4th of July we'd head out to see fireworks at the Addison airport. They'd always have a few flightworthy birds from the flight museum there up and about, and the snarl of their F4U-4 buzzing the runway is probably the single coolest thing I've ever heard.

@Harshman II: Well, I'm using P-47 as an example because they could care less about WWII. The F-16's and F-18's will hold more appeal because they DO see them at airshows roaring past and to be honest, they look pretty awesome.

I'll be 20  sept 21st

101stAirborne

I had no idea Boba fett and railfan were kids.

Yep, it's true. I'm under 18. I sound older than what I acually am on-line because I live more of an old- fashoned life out here in my neck of the woods. I'm also a very intellegent person (why I use big words all the time) If you heard me talking, you would swear that I was some sort of collage professor or an english teacher.

It just goes to prove anyone of any age can be on here.

CallSignOWL

It made me sad teh other day to overhear a conversation where someone said "I don't see the point of History. Its just a bunch of dates you have to memorize." 

I had a history teacher my sophomore year of high school who refused to quiz us or test us on dates. His goal - which he accomplished fantastically well - was to get us to look past the when and where and understand the why. Once you understand, or come close to understanding the why, once you develop that natural passion for the grand narrative, memorizing dates ceases to be a problem.

I really wish more people would take the time to study history, especially in our current political climate. A little perspective goes a long way.

I have always liked airplanes (its in my blood apparently!) and Have enjoyed history classes.  History is now my Major.  Maybe the easy/little hassle of the snap tite kits alleals to the newer generaton because they dont take as long. A lot of people I know have little patience for almost anything...

It made me sad teh other day to overhear a conversation where someone said "I don't see the point of History. Its just a bunch of dates you have to memorize." 

at a recent football game, I saw 2 Mustangs circling in the distance to prepare for the flyover. Nobody I stood near even knew the significance of those planes....

OWL

Mostly joking about the video games...I played more than my fair share of Nintendo and Genesis (and PC games) growing up. The old "Aces of the Pacific" was actually one of the first things that really turned me on to WWII.

As for history - totally agreed. Back when I was younger I built a lot of contemporary stuff. Basically if it flew or rolled in Desert Storm, chances are I built it at some point. But as I got sucked into history (I eventually ended up majoring in it), the older subjects started appealing more and more. These days I'm pretty much exclusively focused on WWII, though I might branch back and forth to pick up some WWI or Korean War subjects.