What got you into modelling?

[nigelpugh7]

For me it was this programme back in the 70's:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=6...

I built my first control line plane from scratch on the back of this very programme.

I fitted a Paw 2.5 Diesel engine too it, I wonder what ever happend to that?

[Eric Mc]

In the 1960s, all small boys built plastic kits. My cousins, who were a couple of years older, had a collection of built models and that inspired me to have a go. That would have been around 1966 or so.

[dr_gn]

My Grandad half built a 1:72 Revell Boeing Kaydet and gave it to me to finish (with my Dad's help) when I was about 4 years old (c.1974). Been building on and off ever since.

[Eric Mc]

And it re-released by Revell not that long ago.

[dr_gn]

nigelpugh7 said:

For me it was this programme back in the 70's:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=6...

I built my first control line plane from scratch on the back of this very programme.

I fitted a Paw 2.5 Diesel engine too it, I wonder what ever happend to that?

I remember that series very well. From the days when BBC television was run by intelligent people I guess My Dad and I used to watch it together, and he sent for the book, which I still have on my bookshelf today. Still got the three plans for the yacht, warship and glider in the back cover too:

[Zad]

I still have that somewhere!

Every Saturday (this was the 1970s) my mum used to drag me into town and then to my grandma's for the day. Where she'd talk endlessly about whatever it is that women talk about when they get together. Stuff that small boys just aren't interested in. A model was the only way of shutting me up for a few hours. The household budget didn't usually stretch to paint back then though.

[nigelpugh7]

Yep that glider plan was one of the very first I built together with my dad.

We never seemed to be able to get the wings correctly angled, so it flew, stalled and nose dived as I recall.

I did love building things from balsa though, its a very rewarding wood to work with.

I also got into building ultra light rubber powered gliders, when we put a dope based fluid onto the surface of water then layed the wing frame onto the fluid and pulled it away, creating a thin film across then frame Skelton.

They flew really slow and stayed up for ages, we flew them in the school gym.

I can't recall the proper name for them, any one else make those back in the 70's?

[nigelpugh7]

Found them, this is what I got into building:

http://vimeo.com/18557380

[dr_gn]

Model World book calls them Microfilm models.

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

And it re-released by Revell not that long ago.

It's been re-released several times. Unsurprisingly, it's an identical moulding to their Stearman kit.

[Eric Mc]

Amazing, isn't it.

I bought the most recent issue - which comes with some nice decals.

I really want to do some pre-war Yellow Wings.

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

Amazing, isn't it.

I bought the most recent issue - which comes with some nice decals.

I really want to do some pre-war Yellow Wings.

I'm very, very tempted to get that Airfix Dragon Rapide from the local shop since the guy was on about it on the other thread...Keep telling myself that if I don't get it I'll regret it, but then if I do get it it'll just add to the decades I need to complete the models I've got in the stash already. Maybe I'll see if I can get a cheap one at Telford.

[perdu]

That Airfix Rapide, when it was Heller's, was a delightful moulding. I may even look for one for ME, been (as you know) an awfully long time since I had it back then.

Sadly it joined far too many unbuilt and or unfinished epics in landfill when I had my purge...

never again

On topic.

I got into modelling back in the dawn of Airfix-ery.

First one, Golden Hind painted with Reeves's watercolours. Totally unsuccessfully of course.

Second was a blue Airfix Spitfire, which had a pair of small bombs under each wing! The supposed re-issue of that doesn't have those, does it? It didn't have fuselage to underside of gull wing contours either, flat as Romney Marshes across that joint

I didn't paint that one but was soon building everything Airfix released in those pocket money days.

I have a few old Airfix magazines from back then that proudly announced "Coming soon- the Boulton Paul Defiant"

I did all of them, the Sea Hawk, Hurricane and Auster Antarctic (saw the real thing in Cosford couple of weeks ago!)

Other makes too of course, Aurora and Lindberg.

Then flying models, good old rubber powered Keil Krafts etcetera.

(Did anyone ever get more than twenty five yards of straight and level from the Shorts Seamew?)

And here I am fifty odd years later, still dabbling.

[kenny Chim 4]

perdu said:

And here I am fifty odd years later, still dabbling.

Good for you sir as I know that you're a good all rounder. As evinced by your narrow boat and Pequod dioramas besides the military stuff

Edited by kenny Chim 4 on Saturday 20th October 23:10

[perdu]

Thank you Kenny, kind sir.

The narrow boat dio is under minor alteration and may appear on the Brum table at SMW if you'd like a peek

If I remember to go

Old age you see, forget me head some days

[kenny Chim 4]

Minor alteration to the better one hopes other than damage repair Perdu.

I often re-visit older pieces with brush in hand and optimistically hope to improve..

Why can't we call a cut-off and leave the damn things alone?

[perdu]

kenny Chim 4 said:

Minor alteration to the better one hopes other than damage repair Perdu.

I often re-visit older pieces with brush in hand and optimistically hope to improve..

Why can't we call a cut-off and leave the damn things alone?

Er

might be because I know the roping was wrong and I need, deep down, to get it right

I'm buggered if I'm going to build another "right-er"!

we move on

[Evangelion]

I don't often admit this, but I'm old enough to have discovered Airfix kits when they were two bob in Woolies! Id buy one a week on shopping trips with my parents, starting with a Yak-9D 'cos I picked it up without reading the label thinking it was a Spitfire! So I went back the next week and bought the Spitfire. I also remembering doing a Mini, Austin-Healey Sprite, SRN-1 hovercraft and Ariel Arrow motorbike but most were aircraft.

Each would be frantically stuck together while Mum was putting the shopping away and preparing lunch, painted in the afternoon while Dad was watching the horse-racing, and have the transfers (we didn’t call them decals then) put on after tea whether the paint was dry or not. I began taking my modelling a bit more seriously later on. Still, at least I took the trouble to paint them, and usually in somewhere near the correct colours. Most kids of that age skipped the painting stage, unable to wait any longer to get out the saucer of water and start on the transfers. Mind you everything was in gloss, I was yet to discover matt paints. I must have made about a dozen models like that – I have often tried to remember what they all were but always have to give up. They are lost in the mists of time (I probably painted over the foglamps).

I've had a few lapses over the years, but still do the occasional kit, although I've now branched out into 1/144 scale airliners, resin and white metal cars, and anime figures.

[Kneetrembler]

perdu said:

That Airfix Rapide, when it was Heller's, was a delightful moulding. I may even look for one for ME, been (as you know) an awfully long time since I had it back then.

Sadly it joined far too many unbuilt and or unfinished epics in landfill when I had my purge...

never again

On topic.

I got into modelling back in the dawn of Airfix-ery.

First one, Golden Hind painted with Reeves's watercolours. Totally unsuccessfully of course.

Second was a blue Airfix Spitfire, which had a pair of small bombs under each wing! The supposed re-issue of that doesn't have those, does it? It didn't have fuselage to underside of gull wing contours either, flat as Romney Marshes across that joint

I didn't paint that one but was soon building everything Airfix released in those pocket money days.

I have a few old Airfix magazines from back then that proudly announced "Coming soon- the Boulton Paul Defiant"

I did all of them, the Sea Hawk, Hurricane and Auster Antarctic (saw the real thing in Cosford couple of weeks ago!)

Other makes too of course, Aurora and Lindberg.

Then flying models, good old rubber powered Keil Krafts etcetera.

(Did anyone ever get more than twenty five yards of straight and level from the Shorts Seamew?)

And here I am fifty odd years later, still dabbling.

The very first models for me were Plastic Airfix models and then progressed onto Keil Kraft models and the Cobra 0.49 engines, then we went on to building control line flying,building flying wings with which was I think a 1.5cc Hawk Diesel?