Just out of curiosity...

over 21 x 2 plus a few extra

I spent my 26th birthday knocking down the Berlin Wall when there was still an East and West Berlin.

I viewed classic 1950s cars when they were fresh off the assembly line.

And getting older hasn't changed my opinion about how awful some of those two tone paint job colors were,either !

21 x 2.

From a similar survey a while ago (SuppressionFire?), the average age was about 41/42 - I guess this makes me an average guy then 

What age are you ozz?

Yeah... no where near 21.  That was a whole life time away.

71 here, building since age 9, stlll going strong!  Born 6 months before Pearl Harbor!

40 here, and modeling hard when not raising two kids.  ;)

53 here, modeling om and off singe I was 10.

looks like im the young one 34. The era of the first home computers. the commodore 64

Just turned 40.  My first Commodore was the Vic-20.

14...

Mine was the Apple 2e.

I hit the ripe old age of 34 in October.

58 and proud of it!

42; slightly younger than the B-52's the Air Force still flies...

Glenn

23718 days as of this post (my IQ is a bit higher than that).

37 next weekend.

I've known life without the Simpsons And 20+ years with the Simpsons

I bought a brand new 67 El Camino when i was 22 .

Milairjunkie

 

From a similar survey a while ago (SuppressionFire?), the average age was about 41/42 - I guess this makes me an average guy then 

At least I am above average in something..

 I had the first Sony Walkman, a turntable the size of a Smartcar,  a satelite navigator receiver (not a GPS) the size of three shoe boxes and watched Argentina beating Netherlands 3-1 in world cup finale.

Cheers...

54.5.   I still can't believe it.

My 1st computer was a Commodore 64,I have been with my company longer then my two immediate supervisors have been alive 35 yrs.

it's been 30 yrs since my team won the super bowl

its been 27 yrs since my team won the world series

Been with the forum almost 10years now

where does time go ???

I remember playing computer games at a neighbours' house that was installed from a cassette tape. I've listened to music on vinyl. I HAD to have a pair of Reebok Pump sneakers. The first car I drove was a Pontiac Acadian (re-badged Chevette).

I'll be 38 next week - fermis - when's your birthday buddy?

VanceCrozier

I remember playing computer games at a neighbours' house that was installed from a cassette tape

Might have been a Radio Shack game unit.

First computer - myself & a mate went 50/50 on one of these;

Which had an HDD that I scrounged from my auntie (only a few years prior, myself & my cousin had a huge amount of enjoyment from this "HDD" simply by screaming into it as loudly as possible & replaying it - great fun);

Myself & said mate found code in a magazine to create an animated engine, after much excitement & a whole weekend of tapping away at the infernal box we ended up with something that was dismally disappointing - a box, a line & a circle (piston, con rod & crank) jumping about on the TV screen

I've been modeling now for over sixty years, I'm well into my seventies.  I am from the BP era (before plastic).

The year I was born:  

• The first commercial TV station in America, KDKA-TV, went on the air, making me the same age as home television.
• Harry Truman was sworn into his first full term as POTUS.
• The first VW Beetle was sold in the US (24 years later, I bought my first brand new car, a VW Beetle, for which I paid $1,100.00).
• NATO was established.
• English astronomer Fred Hoyle coined the term Big Bang.
• Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a US citizen also known as Tokyo Rose, was convicted of treason.
• The first 20 mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun prototypes were completed.
• The USSR tested its first atomic bomb.
• The B-50 Super Fortress Lucky Lady II, piloted by Captain James Gallegher, made history's first non-stop around-the-world flight.
• The People's Republic of China was officially proclaimed in Beijing (Peking, in those days).
• The rationing of clothing, begun during WWII, was officially ended in Great Britain.
• The world's first jet-powered airliner, the DeHavilland Comet, made its first flight.
• An ice cold bottle of Coca-Cola cost five cents.
• A Hershey bar, which then weighed more than twice what it weighs now, also cost five cents.

A lot more stuff happened, but I'm sure you're tired of reading trivia about 1949 by now .

Ozzman, I notice no one has yet answered your original query, which was something like, "who here is 21 or younger."  Interesting ...

I have many children (six), and am familiar with kids and modeling. It is not a hobby a youngster can afford to do on one's own.

When I was young, good model kits were under $2. Most model kits were well under a dollar. I could collect 5 cent cans and buy a Frog, Hawk or Airfix bagged kit with very little effort. Testors or Pactra paint bottles were a dime.

Today, my 7 yr old son would have to accumulate nearly $10 to get one of the foil bagged, pre-painted Star Wars snap kits (found at clearance stores like TJ Max or Marshall's for around $5). That's a lot of nickel cans. They are nice little kits and we've built more than a few together.

Car kits at Walmart are nearly $20. For that amount of money, my kids can buy an older DS, Wii or PS3 game.