Well, at this point actually I have decided to resurrect my love for anything that will keep me from going INSANE ........ But as a kid I built planes and cars and flew control line stunt and combat.
Built models when I was a kid back in the 60'. Lucky me, my after school job was in a hobby shop. Then went dormant until mid 70's and something woke up the idiot in me and I bought a Revell Cutty Sark kit. Spent weeks on it, more like months, only thing left was to rig and sail it, my room mate accidentally knocked it off the shelf it was sitting on. End of that game, there wasn't enough glue in the world to put it back together.
Moving forward: In these trying uncertain times we have little choice but to go back to roots and things that keep your mind active and your body as close to that as possible. They called my generation the baby boomers, and as kids modeling was something a kid did and some never stopped, wish I would have been one of them, wouldn't have to be catching up now.
Over the last several years have been doing crafting. Woodwork, vinyl, and stuff. Couple of days ago finished refurbishing a Disney welcome door plaque that we had purchased 25 years ago when we bought our house. My next thought was, is there life after this? Then remembered an -OLD- model kit that the wifie (not wifi) gave me back in the early 90's (remember them) for Christmas, another Cutty Sark, so went out to the garage (not sure what the Brit term for garage is but I have some Brit friends so have access to interpreters) and pulled it down from the rafters; like a good wine, it was time. Opened the box and everything was there except......
Couple slaps in the face and one on the bum (see I'm catching on) NO assembly manual. At some point I had taken it out of the box for whatever reason it did not find its way home, everything else is still in the bags. The search for assembly manuals led to some results but no real cigar. But did lead me to this site and someone who is building the exact kit I have. I may become his worst nightmare as I start forward with this. Following his thread, it is an absolutely awesome work in progress and best of all the information is current and the build is nothing short of beautiful.
Am trying to track down an assembly manual that is either big or clear enough, preferably both, to read then can hit the ground running.
Fifty years later there is a tremendous amount of new technology and techniques that I am going to have to learn not to mention the progress in paints and decal materials. Back when, would have never thought of using acrylics, would have been sacrilegious, it was good old Testors enamel or nothing and could not afford an airbrush.
Hope to pick a lot of brains, I am going to need to, and maybe offer what information I might have, but think that part will be more like a caveman trying to explain something to a rocket scientist, you all are waaaayy ahead of me.
Look forward to getting involved.
Built models when I was a kid back in the 60'. Lucky me, my after school job was in a hobby shop. Then went dormant until mid 70's and something woke up the idiot in me and I bought a Revell Cutty Sark kit. Spent weeks on it, more like months, only thing left was to rig and sail it, my room mate accidentally knocked it off the shelf it was sitting on. End of that game, there wasn't enough glue in the world to put it back together.
Moving forward: In these trying uncertain times we have little choice but to go back to roots and things that keep your mind active and your body as close to that as possible. They called my generation the baby boomers, and as kids modeling was something a kid did and some never stopped, wish I would have been one of them, wouldn't have to be catching up now.
Over the last several years have been doing crafting. Woodwork, vinyl, and stuff. Couple of days ago finished refurbishing a Disney welcome door plaque that we had purchased 25 years ago when we bought our house. My next thought was, is there life after this? Then remembered an -OLD- model kit that the wifie (not wifi) gave me back in the early 90's (remember them) for Christmas, another Cutty Sark, so went out to the garage (not sure what the Brit term for garage is but I have some Brit friends so have access to interpreters) and pulled it down from the rafters; like a good wine, it was time. Opened the box and everything was there except......
Couple slaps in the face and one on the bum (see I'm catching on) NO assembly manual. At some point I had taken it out of the box for whatever reason it did not find its way home, everything else is still in the bags. The search for assembly manuals led to some results but no real cigar. But did lead me to this site and someone who is building the exact kit I have. I may become his worst nightmare as I start forward with this. Following his thread, it is an absolutely awesome work in progress and best of all the information is current and the build is nothing short of beautiful.
Am trying to track down an assembly manual that is either big or clear enough, preferably both, to read then can hit the ground running.
Fifty years later there is a tremendous amount of new technology and techniques that I am going to have to learn not to mention the progress in paints and decal materials. Back when, would have never thought of using acrylics, would have been sacrilegious, it was good old Testors enamel or nothing and could not afford an airbrush.
Hope to pick a lot of brains, I am going to need to, and maybe offer what information I might have, but think that part will be more like a caveman trying to explain something to a rocket scientist, you all are waaaayy ahead of me.
Look forward to getting involved.
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