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Modelers Lounge => Time to relax => Topic started by: Gisbod on May 03, 2015, 06:15:41 AM

Title: Early Days
Post by: Gisbod on May 03, 2015, 06:15:41 AM: Just to prove I've been modelling for a long time..

Came across this old photo today from 40 years ago. I'd made a few of the Airfix and Revell WW1 kits by then but always found the top wings and struts a bit of a challenge!

Anyone else got evidence of an early start into the hobby? Pictures of first kits etc...

(http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac29/Gisbod/1%2032%20Felixstowe/5c6019bd1f1a7f472b273d1d539e2243.jpg)

Guy
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: coyotemagic on May 03, 2015, 06:20:16 AM: I envy you youngsters with photographic evidence of your early achievements. All I have are cave drawings in my ancestral home.
Cheers,
Bud
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: eclarson on May 03, 2015, 08:36:50 AM: Oh man, when I was a kid I desperately wanted that Revell 1/32 Stuka! I saw it on the box sides of other kits but couldn't find it for the longest time. When I finally did, it became one of my most treasured kits for years but the funny thing is, even though I dry fit and taped it together many times, I never built it! When I got out of large scale WWII aircraft it was sold with a number of others from my stash.

Cheers,
Eric
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: Pgtaylorart on May 03, 2015, 08:41:11 AM: Great photo! You look so serious. What a look of concentration.

George
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: Gisbod on May 03, 2015, 06:15:38 PM: Quote from: coyotemagic on May 03, 2015, 06:20:16 AM
I envy you youngsters with photographic evidence of your early achievements. All I have are cave drawings in my ancestral home.
Cheers,
Bud

Was this your first kit then Bud?

(http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac29/Gisbod/Mobile%20Uploads/c668aa41acaa2afdaca3422041124903.jpg)

;D
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: sobrien on May 03, 2015, 11:06:02 PM: Here is a pic from 1973 of some of my models, showing the first World War I models I built, all in 1/72.
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/sobrien_album/ModelsMay71974one.jpg) (http://s146.photobucket.com/user/sobrien_album/media/ModelsMay71974one.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: Gisbod on May 03, 2015, 11:43:07 PM: What a great collection! I would have been dead envious!

Guy
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: Rob Hart on May 04, 2015, 07:28:54 AM: It looks like the entire Revell catalog of 1/72 aircraft kits.
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: RAGIII on May 04, 2015, 08:29:14 AM: I posted the pics I am going to add to this thread a while back. The first is me in 1966 with my Uncle building a Monogram Cessna kit. The rest are around 1969 to 1971.
RAGIII

(http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z349/rickgeisler/Old%20Builds/scan_zps0bbbc29e.jpg) (http://s1185.photobucket.com/user/rickgeisler/media/Old%20Builds/scan_zps0bbbc29e.jpg.html)

(http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z349/rickgeisler/Old%20Builds/scan0001_zps357314d4.jpg) (http://s1185.photobucket.com/user/rickgeisler/media/Old%20Builds/scan0001_zps357314d4.jpg.html)

(http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z349/rickgeisler/Old%20Builds/scan0006_zpsa22c9dab.jpg) (http://s1185.photobucket.com/user/rickgeisler/media/Old%20Builds/scan0006_zpsa22c9dab.jpg.html)

(http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z349/rickgeisler/Old%20Builds/scan0005_zps819f5775.jpg) (http://s1185.photobucket.com/user/rickgeisler/media/Old%20Builds/scan0005_zps819f5775.jpg.html)

By the way great photos posted in the original post and those following. It is great to look back isn't it!
RAGIII
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: Gisbod on May 04, 2015, 03:18:14 PM: Great pictures Rick!

They're miles better than my early efforts!

I was being born in June 66 ::)

Guy
Title: Re: Early Days
Post by: ALBATROS1234 on May 05, 2015, 03:06:52 PM: i envy guys who have things from their youth. i have got nothing from before 2005, katrina took everything i owned exept a suitcase and its contents. oddly i have become a bit of a hoarder as if i have this subconcious need to accumulate new memories asap. its an odd thing loosing all of your worldly possessions. i still find myself thinking " what shall i wear tonight perhaps that nice leather jacket...oh ....thats right.....nevermind." i am not complaining mind you but i do get a little sad once in a while when i think about it.