model aeroplanes - c/d, s/d, all that stuff

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groan in embarrasment, men! laugh at the pitiful boiz, wimmin, for deny it tho' the will, they have all done it. yeah verily even me. The ones I liked best were the ones w/ lots of details inside that you couldn't see when you stuck it all together. Totally pointless. Still, I had a lot of fun, I suppose, and I still look in beatties' (UK toyshop/modelshop) window. I no longer have the time, space or inclination, and occasionally I feel a little sad about that. Classic if yer into them, more dud that anything else ever if not I suspect. search monogram b-17 (see lots of interior detail, as above - shine a torch thru the windows & see tiny radio set!) any decent spitfire or me262 destroy DESTROY!!! @#~!@#~! drop tiny little 1/72 scale bombs everywhere!!!@#@#@#@#~ (yr correspondent dragged away my men in white coats)

― "r.j.mitchell vs willi messerschmitt", Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

new "my new camouflage stipple painting technique is unstoppable" answers, natch.

― Norman Phay, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stretching the plastic trees over a flame to make whip antenna is a useful skill.

Interestingly, tho, the hip thing for Graf kids to do is get little HO Scale subway train cars and paint them with tiny scale tags, fills, and pieces. Holla.

― JM, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i only ever made one , a concorde snap together , that i painted gold

― anthony, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hey girls make model airplanes too (at least i did/tried)! er...model cars too. that was more fun. don't sniff the testors glue & model paint though = expressway to yr brain-damage.

yup

― geeta, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I too was a victim of this sordid condition - my wardrobe is guarded by:
Spitfire Mk1
Spitfire MkIX
Hurricane I
Me 109E
Ju 87 Stuka
P-38 Lightning
and finally, a nice Lancaster that's looking a bit worse for wear, as it's perched atop a speaker, once causing it to vibrate its way off said speaker and onto the floor.
To cap it all I had a nice Star Trek III vintage Enterprise model, but I fucked it up - those warp nacelles + pylons were a bit tricky.

My dad used to make Airfix kits as a young 'un, then set fire to them and throw them out the window for that shot-down effect.

― DG, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i made ONE wiv my dad (fokker triplane: v.neat and red and fun) then maybe TEN on my own all eras including some stupid great tudor-era SHIP with rigging, but only the triplane was fun to do... erm because yes i did it wiv my dad ) in fact i think he did it ALL), i realise that now but back then i did not

actually no the VISIBLE MAN was good, i did that on my own

― mark s, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmmmm, b-29 superfortress, all in silver, nice.

Also a nice 1:32 scale harrier GR3 in full nato camouflage, and an A10 complete with monster mouth.

I say too much.

― chris, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I pretty much went through the entire Monogram WWII catalog when I was 12-14. Not many survivors left, only the B-17, Spitfire, Me-109, Do-335, and my beloved "Flak Bait" B-26 remain.

― Chris Barrus, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was more interested in ones that flew.
I have a Sopwith Camel that I just couldn't not buy and build.
It took like two weeks of fecking around balsa and tissue paper. Reckoned it would fly the length of a football field whilst I was making it, had to revise that to about 10 feet when I'd finished.

Also the owner of a control line plane that I will finish one day!

― Simeon, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i used to "help" my brother make them ie. nick them and do it all myself! harriers and stukas were my personal faves though i did once have a go at a Lancaster Bomber - those gun turrets were tricky tho!

― katie, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe the only reason the German Army existed in WWII was to provide future generations with model subjects. I liked those kubelwagen kits.

― lawrence kansas, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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