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Posted on 9/4/24 at 9:31 am to Spaceman Spiff
My son's first model. It now hangs in his room.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 10:27 am to AwgustaDawg
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When I was a kid I got $5 a week allowance....a princely sum for the early 1970s. Daddy got paid on Thursdays and Bonanza Steak House had a 8 oz sirloin, baked potato, salad bar and drink for $1.99 on Thursday nights. As soon as he got home from work we would load up, head to Bonanza, eat that special (those baked potatoes were big enough to feed a half dozen people) and afterward we would go to K Mart and blow through that $5 like a drunken sailor on leave! Almost every week I spent part of that $5 on a model car. It seems like they were about a dollar. Paint and glue were about a dime or so...not much. Testors. Can still smell that paint and glue (they still sold glue that would make you high as a kite back then). As soon as we got home I started building that model. Most of the time they looked like shite when I got done but they always got put on display for a month or so until the cob webs got bad. I never built anything overly special, most of the time it was what the model was meant to be, but sometimes I would add parts from other kits and make all manner of weird hybrids. I enjoyed it. Always cars and trucks, I do not remember ever doing any planes or ships. None of them ever looked like much but I had fun doing it. It was a special treat to go to an actual hobby store or toy store in the mall and see the selection of models available. K Mart had a pretty good selection but nothing like the rows and rows in a good hobby shop.
You're welcome for that great trip down memory lane.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 11:04 am to Boudreaux35
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Hobby Lobby is quickly getting out of the business to model rockets. While they used to have at least a half an aisle dedicated, with excellent prices, now the selection is minimal.
Partly true. Estes revamped their engine packaging and HL had to sell off all their old stuff first. Ours had almost zero inventory for a while but is now fully stocked.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 11:08 am to Boudreaux35
Hobby lobby seems to be getting out of the hobby business and moving to just selling out of season home decor.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 3:17 pm to Spaceman Spiff
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Spaceman Spiff
A bit of war trivia, VF-161 squadron is credited for the last Mig kill at the end of the Vietnam war.
Link to VF-161 in Vietnam
Posted on 9/4/24 at 3:32 pm to sidewalkside
Built many as a kid.
First was Sky Lab.
Many cars, big rigs and WWII fighters and bombers that I would hang from my ceiling as make-believe dog fights.
Kinda miss it. Maybe it was the glue?
I'll probably take it up again when I retire.
First was Sky Lab.
Many cars, big rigs and WWII fighters and bombers that I would hang from my ceiling as make-believe dog fights.
Kinda miss it. Maybe it was the glue?
I'll probably take it up again when I retire.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 6:42 pm to sidewalkside
It’s alive and well. It’s just more popular with adults nowadays. The kits being released today are far more advanced in terms of detail and subject matter than they were 50, 40, or even 20 years ago. There are lots of modeling pages on Facebook as well as on the net. A modeling site, Track-Link is awesome.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:40 pm to Traveler
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bit of war trivia, VF-161 squadron is credited for the last Mig kill at the end of the Vietnam war.
That I did not know. My model, Rock River 100, has 2 migs to its credit. Wonder if it was that one.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 9:39 pm to sidewalkside
My son and I have gotten into the card hobby.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 5:30 am to Spaceman Spiff
The F4 that shot down the last Mig was BuNo 153045. Don’t go by the modex number on the nose. Those could be changed during it’s time in service, the BuNo will stay the same.
12 January 1973: Lieutenant Victor T. Kovaleski and Lieutenant James R. Wise, of VF-161 Chargers, flying a McDonnell F-4B-27-MC Phantom II, Bu. No. 153045 from the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVA-41), shot down a Vietnam Peoples Air Force MiG-17 flown by Senior Lieutenant Luu Kim Ngo, near H?i Phòng, using an AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seeking air-to-air missile. This was the last air combat victory by a U.S. airplane during the Vietnam War.
12 January 1973: Lieutenant Victor T. Kovaleski and Lieutenant James R. Wise, of VF-161 Chargers, flying a McDonnell F-4B-27-MC Phantom II, Bu. No. 153045 from the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVA-41), shot down a Vietnam Peoples Air Force MiG-17 flown by Senior Lieutenant Luu Kim Ngo, near H?i Phòng, using an AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seeking air-to-air missile. This was the last air combat victory by a U.S. airplane during the Vietnam War.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 5:50 am to sidewalkside
My 12 year old built these. His first ones and I helped him out very little. He painted and did the cementing. He has another one in work.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 6:25 am to Traveler
Thanks for that bit of info. Mine is BuNo 153020.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 6:26 am to meeple
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My 12 year old built these. His first ones and I helped him out very little. He painted and did the cementing. He has another one in work.
Awesome job!!
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