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Lovely workmanship Don

My latest is a Honda CBR750 road racer (1:8 scale too) minus it's faring for the time being

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Thanks, Bill. I'd say your skill level exceeds mine by quite a bit. I'm a 3 foot modeler. My stuff looks pretty good from 3 feet away. I do mostly small aircraft. The kits are cheap and they don't take much space.

Don

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That's quite a collection Don, I think ALL boys have made plastic kits at some time or other...I remember my first well Fiat G91 Airfix kit june 1957

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Bill
 
What a ton of work !!! It's amazing ! My hubby makes WW2 model planes . He has these big sausage fingers and it's such a surprise to see how he can handle those teeny tiny parts!
Your hours and hours of work sure paid off - they're all beautiful !!!
 
Thank you, Toomuchstuff. I enjoy fiddling with little things.

Bill -- If you use an airbrush, you might be interested in my website, Don's airbrush tips. It has over 30 airbrush reviews.

I think my first scale model kit was a race car with a hole in the back for a CO2 cartridge. The kit was basically a block of balsa, 4 wheels, and a plan. I remember working really hard trying to get a shiny finish on that chunk of balsa. I didn't build any models as an adult until I retired. One day I stopped in a hobby shop and bought a kit and it went from there.

Don
 
Don - - I've got the remains of an Indy car made of balsa wood, with the hole for the cartridge in the back. I think it has a wheel or two missing but it's in a box in the cellar with a few other model "remains". Probably the same one you had as it was a kit that I bought at the time.
 
Hi Dave,

That's amazing that you still have it. I built mine in the mid 50's. Somehow I'm connecting it with the Boy Scouts. It had two eyelets in the bottom that were supposed to guide it along a wire. Maybe we were going to race them.

I can remember another solid balsa kit I had of a Lockheed XFV, an experimental vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. I think I gave up on that one. These kits were pretty crude. Now they're collectors items and worth some money.

Here's an ad from Model Airplane News 1952. I picked up the magazine at a library used book sale.

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Don
 
Almost finished now, just the racing screen and front mudguard to add and work then on my 1944 Triumph 3HW can commence

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Nice work, Bill. I get the feeling you like motorcycles. I took a very short ride on the back of one once. Scared the crap out of me. My younger brother rode a motorcycle as a California Highway Patrol officer. Even with that training, he took a flip one day and got his arm run over by a truck. He still loves them and has a beautiful Harley low rider that goes "potato, potato, potato."

Don
 
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Nice work, Bill. I get the feeling you like motorcycles. I took a very short ride on the back of one once. Scared the crap out of me. My younger brother rode a motorcycle as a California Highway Patrol officer. Even with that training, he took a flip one day and got his arm run over by a truck. He still loves them and has a beautiful Harley low rider that goes "potato, potato, potato."

Don
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Not necessarily motorcycles Don

I've always had a fascination with miniatures since childhood and built my first model aircraft aged 7, joined the RAF when I was 16 1/2 and still fly whenever I am able. Served 22 years and now as an old fart I build my models and fly em, sail em, look at em and sometimes sell em too.

I guess I'm fortunate in that being single now, I can pursue just about any hobby I want including model making, astronomy, amateur radio operating to name but a few.

Yours must give you pleasure in both the construction and subsequent viewing too I should imagine.

Bill
 
Grampa Don said:
Thank you, Toomuchstuff. I enjoy fiddling with little things.

Bill -- If you use an airbrush, you might be interested in my website, Don's airbrush tips. It has over 30 airbrush reviews.

I think my first scale model kit was a race car with a hole in the back for a CO2 cartridge. The kit was basically a block of balsa, 4 wheels, and a plan. I remember working really hard trying to get a shiny finish on that chunk of balsa. I didn't build any models as an adult until I retired. One day I stopped in a hobby shop and bought a kit and it went from there.

Don
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I found (what's left of) it in the cellar, Don. A bit discolored, covered in dust and only two wheels. None on the far side. For me, this would have been nearer the late 40's. It has the wire guides underneath.

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That's what happens when you still live in the home where you were born and brought up. Toy boxes still in the attic and in the case of this old model, a box in the cellar. Never continued with model building as a grew into my teens except to help a few of the grandkids from time to time.
 

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