[MARTINSR]

Where my kid is now playing video games every waking hour I was building models.

This is one of the last I built, believe it or not in a model building class in highschool!



The hood has no hinges and wasn't setting on correctly in this photo.







I guess I had something for mid engines as I built a real version just three years later.



That's the steering wheel in the upper left corner.



Brian

[bullheimer]

probably EVERYBODY OUR AGE HOMER!!!

it's a generational thing, like, who hadda transistor radio, or a honda 90, or..... good ol days bro.

and how many of them got lit on fire and thrown them off a cliff? musta build a zillion army tanks, battleships, airplanes, not so many cars but still plenty of them. creamed all over when those larger scale Funny car models from Revell came out.

[PRO 48 fleetline]

Funny you should mention that heres a few ive finished a few years ago!
lost art now!

[TucsonJay]

I revisited the hobby of my youth, after a street rodding neighbor showed me what him and his son were building. :-)

Drag racing was my passion then, so that's what I started building! I spent about ten years doing it, until I burned out about five years ago!

Here are a few...

[painted jester]

The old amt kits I think they were called "AMT Stylize" Had a club of custom modelers and entered many contests back in the 50s in the old Pocket mags ( like Hot rod ETC.) Do they still make the AMT kits? Now I build full size fully functional ! Its funny as young boys we modeled and as men we're builders!!!!

I dont know how you guys kept those models all these years!!!! My children destroyed mine years ago!!!!!
Jester

[TucsonJay]

I don't have any that I built as a kid. I gave them to my cousin who built and did contests with me. He can't remember what happened to them, since it's been about 45 years!

I still have some that I built recently, but sold many of them after they hit the magazines.

I'm giving a couple to the drag racing museums.

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by TucsonJay

I don't have any that I built as a kid. I gave them to my cousin who built and did contests with me. He can't remember what happened to them, since it's been about 45 years!

I still have some that I built recently, but sold many of them after they hit the magazines.

I'm giving a couple to the drag racing museums.

Holy crap, you have photos?

Brian

[Irelands child]

I built literally hundreds and have 2-3 boxes of a few partially started and several never opened kits left so when my knees and back wont let me work on or drive my car I can still 'return to my youth'. Most of mine met with a demise in the form of 2" or cherry bomb fireworks. We (my friends and I) also used some of the friction drive cars to 'customize'(the favorite was the '50's Studebaker. One model that will be built will be the 1/12 scale Model A my wife gave me 3-4 years ago - and hope it turns out looking like my '31.

Those of Jays - he pictured some a few years ago somewhere - beyond my imagination and skills!!!

Dave W

[zbhover]

I'm 27 and built a few models on rainy days, but got board with them because they didn't have an engine... LOL


Then I got into making a few small battery powered model hovercrafts and such, and then I decided to build a 1/2 scale radio controlled hovercraft:



It was 6' long 3' wide and had a 5hp horizontal shaft briggs on it. I think I clocked it at about 35mph a few times with my GPS.





I got lots of use out of it and later on I'd bring it to hover-ins with our full size hovercraft and all the kids loved to buzz around the parking lots and beaches. Just this year I gave it to a father and son who were trying to get into hovercrafting to fix up and get going again.


You can see the construction pics, and some more pics and vids of me using it on my website below, just click on the hovercraft banner and then the rc hover banner:

Zach Bell’s Creations - Hovercrafts, Woodworking, V8 Beetles, and more!


Zachb-

V8 Beetle Website:
V8 VW Beetle Resource- Follow our Hot Rod Beetle Build and Plan Yours

Hovercraft Website:
Zach Bell’s Creations - Hovercrafts, Woodworking, V8 Beetles, and more!

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by PRO 48 fleetline

Funny you should mention that heres a few ive finished a few years ago!
lost art now!

Those are BEEEE-UUUU-TEEE-FUL!

Brian

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by Irelands child

I built literally hundreds and have 2-3 boxes of a few partially started and several never opened kits left so when my knees and back wont let me work on or drive my car I can still 'return to my youth'. Most of mine met with a demise in the form of 2" or cherry bomb fireworks. We (my friends and I) also used some of the friction drive cars to 'customize'(the favorite was the '50's Studebaker. One model that will be built will be the 1/12 scale Model A my wife gave me 3-4 years ago - and hope it turns out looking like my '31.

Those of Jays - he pictured some a few years ago somewhere - beyond my imagination and skills!!!

Dave W

Yep, I have a number of boxes of them, some of them classics from the seventies that would be worth a few bucks if I hadn't partially built them. When the model came out of my truck (I would have eaten a live rat for one when I was a kid) I bought five or six of them and they are in storage.

Brian

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by zbhover

I'm 27 and built a few models on rainy days, but got board with them because they didn't have an engine... LOL


Then I got into making a few small battery powered model hovercrafts and such, and then I decided to build a 1/2 scale radio controlled hovercraft:

It was 6' long 3' wide and had a 5hp horizontal shaft briggs on it. I think I clocked it at about 35mph a few times with my GPS.

I got lots of use out of it and later on I'd bring it to hover-ins with our full size hovercraft and all the kids loved to buzz around the parking lots and beaches. Just this year I gave it to a father and son who were trying to get into hovercrafting to fix up and get going again.


You can see the construction pics, and some more pics and vids of me using it on my website below, just click on the hovercraft banner and then the rc hover banner:

Zach Bell’s Creations - Hovercrafts, Woodworking, V8 Beetles, and more!


Zachb-

V8 Beetle Website:
V8 VW Beetle Resource- Follow our Hot Rod Beetle Build and Plan Yours

Hovercraft Website:
Zach Bell’s Creations - Hovercrafts, Woodworking, V8 Beetles, and more!

Very cool stuff! I love this stuff, everyone has their own thing and those hovercrafts come easy to you where at to others they are only see in the movies, so damn cool.

Brian

[TucsonJay]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

Yep, I have a number of boxes of them, some of them classics from the seventies that would be worth a few bucks if I hadn't partially built them. When the model came out of my truck (I would have eaten a live rat for one when I was a kid) I bought five or six of them and they are in storage.

Brian

Brian, I have a similar experience! When I got back into the hobby, I started trying to buy all of my old memories, so I bought re-releases, and swap meet kits. Now I have 100 or more... but there is a problem. I wanted to use rare parts so they would not be like everyone else's builds... or highly detailed parts... so I would pick some parts from this kit, and from that one, etc. Now I bet at least half of them are incomplete! For example, I know I robbed one block from my Mysterion kit, to build a highly detailed Ford engine. Now the next owner has a problem!

Some day I might sort through them all... see what is complete... and sell off the one's I won't build after all. {:-)

[beertracker]

As a kid I built mostly military models; M4 Sherman tank, submarines, ships, ww1 & 2 airplanes. I still have three of the car models I built; 70 & 72 Goat & 74 Gran Prix SJ. Most recent model was a B-36 bomber hanging from the ceiling.

[MXrider13]

When it came to regular model cars not very much only built a Dodge Viper and a Ford Torino (wish I kept the Viper!) I did build an F-15 once thought that a friend painted after an F-15 from a video game (its blue and white not grey).
However, I was a huge collector of Hot Wheels and I loved Legos!
I remember I built Greg Ray's Indy Car out of legos (circa 1999) as well as Al Hoffmans Firebird funny car, an 80's camaro, several dragsters, a Prerunner/Baja like truck, and a NASCAR.