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April 20, 2024
Jim Hutter
If you were a working class American inner city kid with no hobby shops within walking distance, Monogram was the way to go. Plentiful at neighborhood drug stores and discount houses. Well engineered and molded in appropriate colors. The best.
2 19 April, 21:25
gorby
In Britain the same was true of Airfix. Most DIY shops and newsagents sold them back in the 70's.
In Britain the same was true of Airfix. Most DIY shops and newsagents sold them back in the 70's.
20 April, 07:24
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August 30, 2023
Jim Hutter
Can anyone relate to this nostalgia?
You are still in grade school. You see model kits in a store and want to build them. Your first few efforts are "glue bombs" that are soon thrown away.
After a few months, your skills improve. You take great pride in building a model with no glue showing. You do not yet have painting skills, so you leave the plastic bare. You produce pristine monochromatic miniatures, albeit with decals.
A pet peeve is models molded in white plastic. How can an airplane or car look good if it is the color of skim milk? You figure out who exclusively uses this non-color and avoid their kits: AMT, MPC, or Hawk.
At some point, you learn to paint. An airbrush is merely a dream of adults. You do everything by brush. The initial efforts are embarrassingly sloppy, but you quickly get the knack.
One day, you learn about water souluable acrylics like Polly-S. If you build military models, they are a Godsend. No more begging Dad for turpentine or some other stinky chemical to clean brushes. Just a simple rinse in the kitchen sink will do.
By mid-adolescence, your models start to look decent. Tires are black, bare metal parts silver, and a reasonable semblance of camouflage schemes. Cars have smooth and glossy rattle can finishes. Peers praise your efforts. You begin to take genuine pride in them. Then you hit adulthood.
You see flawlessly realistic miniatures in hobby shops. You become frustrated with your imperfect efforts and give up the hobby. You rediscover it in middle age, and resume the same level of kit building you knew in adolescence. You don't care if your efforts are perfectly weathered or historically correct. You are having fun.
You are still in grade school. You see model kits in a store and want to build them. Your first few efforts are "glue bombs" that are soon thrown away.
After a few months, your skills improve. You take great pride in building a model with no glue showing. You do not yet have painting skills, so you leave the plastic bare. You produce pristine monochromatic miniatures, albeit with decals.
A pet peeve is models molded in white plastic. How can an airplane or car look good if it is the color of skim milk? You figure out who exclusively uses this non-color and avoid their kits: AMT, MPC, or Hawk.
At some point, you learn to paint. An airbrush is merely a dream of adults. You do everything by brush. The initial efforts are embarrassingly sloppy, but you quickly get the knack.
One day, you learn about water souluable acrylics like Polly-S. If you build military models, they are a Godsend. No more begging Dad for turpentine or some other stinky chemical to clean brushes. Just a simple rinse in the kitchen sink will do.
By mid-adolescence, your models start to look decent. Tires are black, bare metal parts silver, and a reasonable semblance of camouflage schemes. Cars have smooth and glossy rattle can finishes. Peers praise your efforts. You begin to take genuine pride in them. Then you hit adulthood.
You see flawlessly realistic miniatures in hobby shops. You become frustrated with your imperfect efforts and give up the hobby. You rediscover it in middle age, and resume the same level of kit building you knew in adolescence. You don't care if your efforts are perfectly weathered or historically correct. You are having fun.
3 30 August 2023, 11:47
Eric Thornton
All of it. I remember riding my bike to the store just to look at the F-16 model in the window just drooling. Gluing models no paint even 1:32 kits! Cheap snap tight cars bought at RiteAid. My first airbrush I used those crazy pressure cans. I couldnt airbrush when those ran out...
All those Testers paints in those little glass bottles.
All of it. I remember riding my bike to the store just to look at the F-16 model in the window just drooling. Gluing models no paint even 1:32 kits! Cheap snap tight cars bought at RiteAid. My first airbrush I used those crazy pressure cans. I couldnt airbrush when those ran out...
All those Testers paints in those little glass bottles.
30 August 2023, 17:34
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