Hey guys, the other day I received Hobby Craft's 1/72 kit of the DHC C-7 Caribou that I'm going to build as a Christmas gift for my father. When it arrived, my 3 year old daughter saw it and was quick to point out, as if I didn't already know, that it was an airplane! With much praise and positive confirmation, I told her it indeed was an airplane, as if she didn't already know....she is smarter than me, anyway. At that moment, she looked at me and said "Lets put it togedder". Well, I was pretty excited but told her that this one is far too complex for us to work on togedder, uh, together. So, I told her we would go out Saturday and purchase a plane that was more her style. She was very pleased by this notion and come Saturday we went to Michael's and I let her pick out a Snap-tite. Not much of a choice really, but it fell between an F-14 and an A-10. My daughter, who has great taste, and seems to be a Top Gun fan, picked the Tomcat. We spent the morning putting it together....well, I did most of the work, but that can be expected. And to tell you the truth, I was surprised by the quality of those little Snap-tites. Add a little detail and fill some seams and they'd be half decent. Any how, unbeknown to me, my wife took some pics of us whilst working.....
Had I known, we would have taken a completed picture, which I may do later today. Of course, that is my son looking on (with I suspect much interest, if not in modeling, than at least having another toy to suck on). So I'm pretty excited that my little girly wanted to do some modeling. Whether it amounts to anything or not is still to be seen...But a day will come when she won't want anything to do with my hobbies, so I'll take it where I can get it!
Have a nice day, gents!