When You Were a Kid.........

[BUCKY]

.....what did you do with/to the models you built?

As for myself, when I was ten, I had a friend that would visit on weekends, and we would build models. When I would visit at his house, we would take our built models out to his driveway, which was asphalt, and sloped toward the road. We would put about a half teaspoon of lawn mower gas on the back of the model, roll it down the driveway, and toss lit matches at them, in hopes of creating an inferno!! Sometimes, we would make our way to the top of the garage, where we would roll them off the roof. Sometimes, we would line them up on the garden wall, and shoot at them with a pellet gun. Oh, what fun we had!!!!

[JCON]

I would build with friends but then they went on shelves in my room unless they were armor models, those got played with for battles on a large trunk I set up as a major battleground with dirt, moss and rocks all over it... think giant changing diorama... lol!!! Never destroyed my models, too much pride in my accomplishments I guess...

[doogie]

I displayed mine, even at a young age. My dad taught me how to build models so for me it was about being proud of my builds.

[Deleted]

Well, my father taught me how to build models at the wee old age of 12 lol. So I'm 37 now so that means I been doing them for 25 years now. I remember my first kit too, It was a Lindberg Toyota Dually (It was pink on the box) I think I built that baby in a day. It looked horrible but he was proud and he displayed it on a shelf. Sadly i don't have that model it went bye bye a long time ago. When he passed back in 2001 I inherited a few models he had which i will never build. He was in the middle of the Revell 1939 Chevy Coupe Lowrider kit when he passed. I have left it in the same condition it was in ever since. These models are not downstairs at my workbench. I keep them displayed in their boxes in my room. But as far as my models I finished growing up..... Well, I played with them to hard and they all got destroyed lol. I didn't know any better than lol.

[JCON]

If I had my Dad's kits I think he would want them built and I would do it in his honor and build a special cabinet with just those kits and some pics of him... but that's just me... you need to go with what you feel! Best to you my friend!!!

[BUCKY]

That makes them sorta like "Time Capsule" kits, Ben. I might leave the one he started, but build the others, and display them on a special display, like Joe mentioned. My Dad only ever messed with one kit, and that was my first model, a '62 Studebaker with a rubber band in it!

[patrick]

I shot a ship model with a BB gun once...It was a Saturday...The Victory at Sea reruns were on a UHF channel...After it was over...I guess I got inspired !

[tojo72]

Sept 25, 2017 16:39:50 GMT -6 BUCKY said:

.....what did you do with/to the models you built?

As for myself, when I was ten, I had a friend that would visit on weekends, and we would build models. When I would visit at his house, we would take our built models out to his driveway, which was asphalt, and sloped toward the road. We would put about a half teaspoon of lawn mower gas on the back of the model, roll it down the driveway, and toss lit matches at them, in hopes of creating an inferno!! Sometimes, we would make our way to the top of the garage, where we would roll them off the roof. Sometimes, we would line them up on the garden wall, and shoot at them with a pellet gun. Oh, what fun we had!!!!

I think I had almost all the Aurora Monsters,I seem to remember a battleship,and a miltary truck,but I just played with them until they broke.At that time I wasnt building to display them.

[JCON]

Fun to hear the stories... I did have a friend who would build a small firecracker in his planes with the fuse hanging out, light it and throw it up in the air to watch it blow into a million pieces... that was interesting... lol!!!

[JED]

Lighter fuel and matches. I learnt the art myself but my dad always encouraged me, I did a Chota Sahib figure of an SAS chap in the Falkland Islands which he kept and still has so that must be over 30 years old !!

[JCON]

That is cool that he still has it!!!

[RLFoster]

Nearly all my childhood models ended life with three little words...

BURN BABY, BURN!

[JCON]

Lol!!!

[Deleted]

I started off building aircraft and used to suspend them from my bedroom ceiling using thread. I had them all in different positions and in some epic dogfights!

[JCON]

That's what my son did with his planes and we painted his room blue with clouds along the top...

[CarlRF (R.I.P.)]

LOL guys !

There were a lot of burning plane crashes in the vacant field behind our house . Until the dead grass caught fire ! Mom had to help me put it out . Then when dad came home

[BUCKY]

OUCH, Carl!!!

[CarlRF (R.I.P.)]

You got it Keith ! Nothin worst than waiting for Dad to get home .

[BUCKY]

I had a few of those days, too!!

[CarlRF (R.I.P.)]