A trip down memory lane....

     I came across these pics yesterday and they took me back in time to the seventies when I first delved into armor diorama modeling.  By today's standards, they are indeed primitive efforts, but gosh they sure were fun to create and take to the local hobby shop to share with the guys...Although these dio's are long gone due to several moves (and passing decades when I explored other hobbies), they hold a fond place in my personal modeling history.  ( About the only thing I could find from the old modeling days shown above is the German motorcyclist and the white and green camo Panther....I inserted them into that winter dio that I posted here earlier that has the Panther, the Pak gun crew, and the destroyed Hunting Tiger.)

      I bet many of you yet have kits or dioramas you built as a boy...sure wish I still had  even one of those AMT hot rod/muscle car builds I did in the sixties.  I would love to have one of the old  MRC U.S. armor or  Monogram aircraft kits sitting on a shelf somewhere these days.  I still remember chopping the top of a '32 deuce in the late fifties and trying to use plastic wood to fill the gaps.  I fondly remember what I think was a MRC (or maybe a Monogram) Walker Bulldog kit that was motorized, had remote control, and when the turret rotated it fired plastic pellets...I killed a lot of rubber toy soldiers with that baby.   Worked on it when I had chicken pox....sure wish I could locate that vintage kit again....but it probably has long disappeared.  I would love to hear some of your modeling memories....Robert