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Hello everyone,
A lot of my first model kits were ships. The Revell USS Missouri (twice), the Lindberg Amphibious Transport Landing Ship Dock (also twice; who could resist all of the landing craft), Revell HMS Ark Royal with DE Ashanti, a U-boat or two, a GATO, a pirate ship or two, PT-109, USS Arizona, USS George Washington with interior, and...and...a USCG icebreaker!
My fleet sailed the Great Green Shag Sea, destroying all enemies of the United States Navy. (Had to be the USN because my brother was a USN seaman at the time.)
The shag carpet was great; when you pushed the ships along it looked like the ships left a wake. Of course, propellar shafts and rudders didn't last long on this rough sea, but it never seemed to affect our ability to maintain high speed on this dangerous ocean.
Did anyone else have a Great Green Shag Sea???
Oops...just remembered another ship: The USSR Moskava :-)
I can't quite say I sailed the great Green Shag Sea but, back when I was a kid building model airplanes, I did lose many-a-canopy to the great open car window! LOL! I always brought my planes along and then, if I felt we were going slow enough, I'd roll down the car window and stick my plane outside and pretend it was really flying. So many of my planes, especially the jets, were all "open cockpit".
Eric
No shag carpet,but my first models were definitely built to be playthings until they broke.A lot of Aurura monsters cone to mind,Godzilla,King Kong,the Creature.I remember a battleship,maybe New Jersey.I think I also had a Seaview submarine.
never did it on the floor but did float them in our back yard in the spring time as it would always flood there from spring thaw. also floated my ships in either my father's minnow tank(never had the ss minnow to float in it) or in his outboard motor test barrel. a few got sunk in that 1 on a permanet bases as they were in pieces.
Oh absolutely. I don't remember what color the Wongs carpet was, but my friend Curtis and I really had some epic sea battles. Not unusual to see the Yamato and the Forrestal in the same Battle Group. It was really tough on prop blades.
I built up a fleet of Revell Essex class. That kind of put a damper on it, their accurate hull shape and all.
And all the planes of course were separate.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Oh yes... my fleets started like that also... the Aurora USS Enterprise, Lindberg LCI and Revell USS Montrose for troop transport... especially after seeing "Away All Boats"... more Revell ships such as the Arizona, Midway, Hornet, and Radford. Lots of Hawk PT Boats... Some modern types from Monogram joined, the Halsey and the Brooke... later foreign ships that expanded to their own battle groups...Bismarck & Scharnhorst, King George V & Ark Royal...
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
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We weren't allowed to bring them upstairs to play with them on the rug. So, we would sneak them out the basement window and take them down to Cobbs Creek after putting a few M-80s in various places connected with Jetex fuses. They looked great floating down the creek until the fireworks started going off. Don't remember how many of the Landing Craft, Missouri and others met that fate.
Jim
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echolmberg I can't quite say I sailed the great Green Shag Sea but, back when I was a kid building model airplanes, I did lose many-a-canopy to the great open car window!
I can't quite say I sailed the great Green Shag Sea but, back when I was a kid building model airplanes, I did lose many-a-canopy to the great open car window!
echolmberg,
I always built my planes with the wheels up so I could "fly" them. Never tried it out of a car window though. Did you feel any lift from the wings?
Tojo72 No shag carpet,but my first models were definitely built to be playthings until they broke.A lot of Aurura monsters cone to mind,Godzilla,King Kong,the Creature.I remember a battleship,maybe New Jersey.I think I also had a Seaview submarine.
Of course! How could I forget the Seaview AND the flying sub. From what I remember, the Flying sub was a great model which included the interior!!!
ddp59 never did it on the floor but did float them in our back yard
never did it on the floor but did float them in our back yard
One of the attractions of the Missouri was the fact that it did not have holes in the hull and would float!!! Good times...good times...
fox They looked great floating down the creek until the fireworks started going off. Don't remember how many of the Landing Craft, Missouri and others met that fate. Jim
They looked great floating down the creek until the fireworks started going off. Don't remember how many of the Landing Craft, Missouri and others met that fate.
All of the surviving models of my youth were sacrificed to the great .22 artillery range on my grandpaw's farm.
lcb248 echolmberg I can't quite say I sailed the great Green Shag Sea but, back when I was a kid building model airplanes, I did lose many-a-canopy to the great open car window! I always built my planes with the wheels up so I could "fly" them. Never tried it out of a car window though. Did you feel any lift from the wings?
echolmberg
Ha-ha-ha! I can't say if I really noticed. I'd just have the planes going up and down over and over again. For the life of me, I could never figure out why the canopies would go flying off. I was never all that bright.
My planes always started off with the gear down but after lots of playing with and being sat on by my big brother, they always ended up being "gear up" with the help of Scotch tape.
When we were in USAF tech school, the roomie and I would slam together aircraft kits. Would always put as big a fircracker in as would fit. Nights we would open the window in the barracks at Keesler and out she would fly from a dark room, going down in a massive explosion. I don't think they ever figured out where all the plastic in the lawn came from exactly......
Hmmm;
I seem to remember a bi-level blue and bluer shag at my foster-parents house .Great ocean . I never put the props on because I would lose them ! . Man , the voyages I made . One up the Amazon in a tug and so on . You get the drift . T.B.
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