Remember when...?

orange tube cement, was that the stuff they brought out to stop you sniffing it?
Something I remember,hmmm, I remember being given a tiny kit of HMS ark royal(the carrier), and being so overwhelmed at it's complexity, I built in about 4 hours,lol. I think the glue is probably still setting.

I remember when I didn't know enough to want to be "historically" accurate, and wasn't ashamed by it.

I remember when it was about nothing except getting the model finished. Pure fun and enjoyment, no clean lines, no paint, no nothing.

Remember when Wal-mart, K-mart, and Alco carried a little bit of everything? I can recall trying to decide between a Tamiya Panther A and the Revell 1/32 F-4 and MiG-21 combo at Wally world.

"I remember when I glued clear canopies in place with cement (orange tube of course!), and I didn't care too much about the fogging."

Dave

I remember building an Aurora Enterprise using rubber cement.

I was too young to have plastic glue and I had an appetite for paste

QUOTE: Originally posted by scottrc I remember building an Aurora Enterprise using rubber cement. I was too young to have plastic glue and I had an appetite for paste

ROFL
Never did you any harm either did it!

side note, anyone ever use balsa cement to close a cut on their finger? just me again

i rememberwhen testors brought out the lemon scented glue in the blue and white tube
because the other stuff was sniffible and the lenon scented was not
and if youw anted the real stuff your parent s had to be with you

i also remember when paint with brushes was and streaks and lumps of glueand paint were the norn and all the adults would say oh boy good job
( yuk)

I remember when I thought if it came with figures I felt compelled to use them. Then I realized that a) I don't like painting figures and b) I don't give a crap about figures anyway. *chuck* goes little Joe Aviator.

I remember when a pot of paint cost 15 cents and a Revell 1/32 scale p-47 was $2.50.

Waah!!!
Dan

I remember when I glued waterslide decals on with plastic cement.

I remember when I built all my aircraft models wheels up so I could play with them.......
I remember when Monogram and Revell were "state of the art".........................
I remember when you could spend five bucks and get a kit, paint, glue and all the fixins..............
I remember when airbrushes were unheard of..............

I remember when...what was I talking about?

"I remember when I built models more to be toys and less to be display pieces"

Dave

I remember when "molded in authentic color" on the box was a big selling point.

Matt Usher @ FineScale

I remember when I thought I was a movie FX guy and built model airplanes to blow up and burn for the (imaginary) camera. That was cool!

QUOTE: Originally posted by Matthew Usher I remember when "molded in authentic color" on the box was a big selling point. Matt Usher @ FineScale

I think it still is

I remember when Revell made box scale aircraft that came with a cool base that had a clear base with a raised map of the northern hemisphere with a smooth spot to put the identifying decal and the arm was topped with a two piece socket closed with a c-clamp and the ball was attached to the fuselage so you could pose the model in a bank, dive climb as well as level fllight.

I remember when Monogram made 1/48 aircraft with folding, not poseable wings, an Avenger (?) which dropped its torpedo when you turned the prop.

I remember AMT annual 3 in 1 car kits (unassembled promos) that came with identical customizing and racing parts (i,e., extra antennas, mirrors, spotlights, moon caps and lake pipes in chrome and louvers, skirts, and roll bar in the basic white plastic. The hood was held in place with a c-clamp spring.) Eacj year, there would be a single decal sheet with either flames or an imitation airbrushed panel motif for all the makes Later custom options included a reel to reel tape player!

I remember making B-17 machine guns with pencil lead.
I remember painting combat helmets on MOnogram figures chrome silver while leaving the faces and unifor OD plastic!
I remember models of birds and wildlilfe that came with some sort of pellet for paint that was softened with a solvent (Probably toxic as all get out, too!)

OMG, yes the poseable stand, I'd forgotten about that, I could never get it to work, so it would sit there and slowly slide whichever way it wanted,lol

I remember twisting parts off the sprue because I'd never heard of using a knife in modeling.

I remember breaking grandma's good paring knife on her good table after I did hear about using a knife in modeling (#11 blade was still an alien term to me at this point)

I remember buying my first #11 hobby knife, though have forgotten how many times a #11 blade has bitten my fingers over the years.

Hey Upnorth-what the heck is that plane in your sig?

Contra props, nachtmuzik, radome.

Dan

QUOTE: Originally posted by TJ ace I remember when I didn't know enough to want to be "historically" accurate, and wasn't ashamed by it.

TJ: That's why the "What if?..." catagory was created. I use that a lot.

Just getting the kit and putting it together was fun, then I discovered paint

I remember twisting parts off the sprue too. That was walking home from the shop, that
way the aircraft was build, painted and dogfigthing with last week's plane within 30 mins.

Some of the things I remember

Comet balsa kits - spending hours cutting the parts out of a 3" x 12" piece of balsa - with a double edged razor blade that had been snapped in two length wise

Peeling the dried balsa glue off my fingers with my teeth - and chewing it like gum

Some of the colors Aurora 1/4" kits came in - Bf109 was metallic red, Fw190 was black, Zero was yellow and Albatross D-lll was metallic green

Getting home from vacation in the middle of a 108 degree day in July, and jumping on my bicycle and riding 2 1/2 miles to the local hobby shop (aka Brown's Hardware) to buy the Revell 1/40 M4 Sherman that my mom wouldn't let me buy when we were in Califoria.

When nearly all plastic kits cost less than 98 cents - the cheapest I can remember was a Comet F3D in bright blue plastic for 29 cents. And lots of small balsa kits for 10 and 15 cents.

The "mixed media" kits by Strombecker, Monogram and Comet - wood and plastic (Strombecker used precarved pine, the others were built up from balsa)

When the only place you could buy models was either the dime store or the hardware store.

When the only paint available for styrene was gloss (either Pactra or Testors) - and none of us knew how to spell air brush - let alone knew what one looked like or how to it worked.

I remember my first model....The TESTORS sbd dauntless...It took me about 45 minutes to build.:





I painted this with a tooth pick.
The back half is broken off because the tails wouldnt glue together,So I broke it and put it upright in my fishtank,unfrtunately,I have no pics of that..For some reason the fish died that week...

Sorry,I suck when it comes to taking pics

I remember when I was adding decals to my revell 1/48 p-47, and decided I liked them all, so I put every decal on. And only on one side, because the otherside had a horribble paint job.