Post by feldgrau23 on Mar 18, 2020 19:24:05 GMT -6
Hey gang just thought I would post this to maybe start something. About a week and a half ago my father past away. Those of you that are friends with me on Facebook, probably already knew this. It was a very sad time to say the least. My dad was very important to me. If it wasn't for him I would have never gotten into model building. I remember the first model I saw him build,, it was the monogram 1/48th scale B-17. I remember watching him meticulously paint the interior and wonder why,, when you aint going to see it anyhow. Now 40 years later I build tanks and do the interiors all up and you cant see any of it,, at least with his B-17 you could see thru the many windows. One of the earliest models my dad did was a 62 Thunderbird that he painted up just like the Thunderbird him an my mom had. They truly loved that T-Bird. My dad did all planes while he was alive all of them were the monogram ones. The Stuka,,, the Zero and the P-38. He also did a P-47 not sure what brand that was. I remember sneaking into my parents room where he had them and playing with them. I just remembered he did a Ju-88 as well. I remember breaking the antenna on the Stuka and trying to glue it back on with the Testors tube glue. That didn't work out so well. Had it been Tamiya's thin glue I would have gotten away with it but there was no hiding that tube Glue. Funny thing is my dad never said anything. I look back on it now and know he had to know but he never said anything.
Now while my dad loved modeling, his true love was model railroading. He loved the old steam engines. He had plans for doing a layout that was based on western New York where we lived. He had a corner of it all built up at least the table and and some of the buildings were on it. he hadn't gotten to the the diorama part of working on it, i;e the ground work and stuff. I remember him talking about how when he retired from IBM was when he was going to get into it big time. Well he retired from IBM but never really retired. he started working for another company for another 13/14 years. then when he quit there, he got involved with the American Legion,,, the community volunteer Fire and rescue Squad, and a couple other groups as well. Its funny,, but when my parents were "retired", it was easier to get ahold of them than when they were employed full time!!! LOL Unfortunately My father never got the chance to finish his model railroad layout. He was just to busy doing other things. Alot of my fathers model railroading stuff will be given to the local model railroading club. The rest,,, paints,, tools and airbrush I took.
Now some of you are probably saying great story Rich,, but you said you were going to start something, well I'm getting there. My question is this,,, what got you guys into model building. Now the other thing my dad and I had in common as our love of reading. Between the two of us we had probably one of the largest history book collections, larger than most library's,, every one of them read and some of them read multiple times. I think in total we have close to 200 to 300 books. Well in anycase thats it. Sorry it was so long winded.
Now while my dad loved modeling, his true love was model railroading. He loved the old steam engines. He had plans for doing a layout that was based on western New York where we lived. He had a corner of it all built up at least the table and and some of the buildings were on it. he hadn't gotten to the the diorama part of working on it, i;e the ground work and stuff. I remember him talking about how when he retired from IBM was when he was going to get into it big time. Well he retired from IBM but never really retired. he started working for another company for another 13/14 years. then when he quit there, he got involved with the American Legion,,, the community volunteer Fire and rescue Squad, and a couple other groups as well. Its funny,, but when my parents were "retired", it was easier to get ahold of them than when they were employed full time!!! LOL Unfortunately My father never got the chance to finish his model railroad layout. He was just to busy doing other things. Alot of my fathers model railroading stuff will be given to the local model railroading club. The rest,,, paints,, tools and airbrush I took.
Now some of you are probably saying great story Rich,, but you said you were going to start something, well I'm getting there. My question is this,,, what got you guys into model building. Now the other thing my dad and I had in common as our love of reading. Between the two of us we had probably one of the largest history book collections, larger than most library's,, every one of them read and some of them read multiple times. I think in total we have close to 200 to 300 books. Well in anycase thats it. Sorry it was so long winded.
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