11-11-2006, 08:07 PM
Quote:Did anyone else like me spent their childhood building Airfix`s, Revell`s, Matchbox`s aeroplanes?
Ave Jyrki,
I started plastic modeling in about 1975 with the Airfix Bismarck and Arado sea plane (the latter is still with me). Even today I can 'sing' the content of the 1975-1980's Airfix and Revell catalogues.
I nearly built all Airfix models, a lot of Revell's and still have more than a hundred kits 'in store', mostly 1:48 WW I airplanes. (From the old Aurora Gotha bomber to modern manufacturers). And some rarities, like Revell's Red Baron's five-winged Fokker, Rommel's Rod (funny half-truck) and so on...
Due to my father's hobby, I was more or less raised on a glider airfield and did my first solo flight in an old glider from the fifties. That might explain why I like those flying machines made from metal rod, plywood and fabric...
BTW: covering an old glider with new fabric needed painting it with a special varnish, which stretched the fabric like a drum's hide. All done in a hot, small room in winter. Same effect like sniffing glue from a bucket :wink:
Greetings from germania incognita
Heiko (Cornelius Quintus)
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Heiko (Cornelius Quintus)
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?