Greetings all:
Lance, Bob, BO and the rest, I too grew up in the 50's and was in High School in the 60's. I too had a paper route to support the modeling habit. As I progressed I worked grave yard as an orderly in an old folks home in Minneapolis. My buddy and I worked the same shift. After payday, we would take his Suzuki 60, (I believe it was 60 cc's) to the hobby shop, buy kits, go to my house and sit in the basement and build the Aurora WW1 kits all the while listening to "The Doors" "Cryin Shames" "Animals" etc. on the stereo. I remember as a kid thinking the Aurora Mig looked awfully strange, but then it was "Russian" and they were odd anyway. Very dramatic Box Art indeed. Great memories. The Aurora Fokker DVII always intrigued me as it showed the pilot in the throes of death. They used that box art right up until they went to the White box. That Aurora Fokker DVII was one of the earliest models I built. I think my first kit was a Comet F9F Cougar. My dad helped with the top wing on the Fokker, but I remember building most of it, and then on the rest of the collection. In my stash now I have most of the Aurora WW1 kits just for the memories. It's amazing, I can pick one of these up, look at the plastic and be transported back to those halcyon days of mispent youth!
Anyway, I digress. Great Memories.
