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Offline Gisbod

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Early Days
« 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...





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Re: Early Days
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Early Days
« Reply #2 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. 

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Offline Pgtaylorart

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Re: Early Days
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2015, 08:41:11 AM »
Great photo! You look so serious. What a look of concentration.

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Re: Early Days
« Reply #4 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?




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Offline sobrien

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Re: Early Days
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Early Days
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2015, 11:43:07 PM »
What a great collection! I would have been dead envious!

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Offline Rob Hart

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Re: Early Days
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2015, 07:28:54 AM »
It looks like the entire Revell catalog of 1/72 aircraft kits.
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Offline RAGIII

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Re: Early Days
« Reply #8 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.
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By the way great photos posted in the original post and those following. It is great to look back isn't it!
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Offline Gisbod

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Re: Early Days
« Reply #9 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  ::)

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Offline ALBATROS1234

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Re: Early Days
« Reply #10 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.
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