Hi, my name is satch and I'm a modelholic....

DoogsATX

TomZ2:

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
— Erasmus, a.k.a. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, (27 Oct 1466 - 12Jul 1536)
Erasmus didn’t buy plastic models. 

 

Well to be fair, kit quality kind of sucked back then, and there just weren't very many interesting subjects. Horse...horse...another horse...some weird Luftwaffe '46 thing by Da Vinci...horse...

Manstein's revenge

 

DoogsATX:

 

 

TomZ2:

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
— Erasmus, a.k.a. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, (27 Oct 1466 - 12Jul 1536)
Erasmus didn’t buy plastic models. 

 

 

Well to be fair, kit quality kind of sucked back then, and there just weren't very many interesting subjects. Horse...horse...another horse...some weird Luftwaffe '46 thing by Da Vinci...horse...

 

That's when Hammer became hooked on Monogram and Revell kits...moulds are still pumping 'em out...

 

Naww, .ya got yer time line mixed up.

Those were AURORA kits back then.......................I know kuzz I used to build 'em............

Sprue-ce Goose

 

Manstein's revenge:

 

 

DoogsATX:

 

 

TomZ2:

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
— Erasmus, a.k.a. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, (27 Oct 1466 - 12Jul 1536)
Erasmus didn’t buy plastic models. 

 

 

Well to be fair, kit quality kind of sucked back then, and there just weren't very many interesting subjects. Horse...horse...another horse...some weird Luftwaffe '46 thing by Da Vinci...horse...

 

That's when Hammer became hooked on Monogram and Revell kits...moulds are still pumping 'em out...

 

 

 

Naww, .ya got yer time line mixed up.

Those were AURORA kits back then.......................I know kuzz I used to build 'em............

Truth. Monogram and Revell kits didn't show up until the 1750s and the French & Indian War, with the release of the 1/72 Fort Necessity kit. Though marred by inaccuracies including a Medieval-style portcullis and raised wood texture, the kit was extremely popular in the Colonies.

Little known fact: the First Continental Congress was formed after Airfix announced, then pulled, plans to offer a 1/48 B-17 Flying Fortress. This event so enraged the colonials that they rebelled. After production resumed with independence, Monogram sated the desires for a 1/48 B-17 in 1785, and rumor has it that Boeing heavily referenced the kit when designing the actual B-17 150 years later...

LMAO.................wish we could introduce some of this stuff at a local school and see if the teachers can tell real vs. fudged facts............

Sprue-ce Goose

LMAO.................wish we could introduce some of this stuff at a local school and see if the teachers can tell real vs. fudged facts............

I follow a history professor on Twitter who shared his story about submitting an essay with false facts to one of those term paper mill websites...more to see how it would spread than anything. But he had fun with it, including reference to the "Duke of Hazzard" as a key supporter of King John around the time of the Magna Carta, and so on. For someone very familiar with the time period, it was hilarious.

Welcome to the club satch! They do call it the "dark side" for a reason you know...