Fingers glued together, finger prints permanently embedded on the parts with glue, especially any windows, crooked decals, paint runs.
It was a simpler time.
Ahh, The Memories
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Documenting The Death Of America
Fingers glued together, finger prints permanently embedded on the parts with glue, especially any windows, crooked decals, paint runs.
It was a simpler time.
I’ll take a couple that have the 8′ bed. Those buggers are rearer than hen’s teeth in the rust belt.
Good times.
Tiny drops of glue applied with the tip of a pin to make sure the prop(s) would spin.
The most fun was using a hot ice pick to simulate battle damage on WWII aircraft.
Brother and me would take weights from mom’s drapes to put in aircraft model for W&B. We’d light one or the other on fire as we flew them on strings in dogfights.
And don’t forget about inhaling great quantities of acetone fumes. “Better living through chemistry” was our motto, along with Dupont.
i have built many of the old Revell model planes and cars in my youth.
glued fingerprints (especially on the clear plastic) was all part of it. build them and then eventually blow e’m apart with firecrackers. i would hang the planes from the ceiling in my bedroom with thread and thumb tacks. good times.
thank’s for the reminder. some here won’t get it.
The F4 Phantom was my best
I still do em.
Have an AMT 53′ Studebaker Starliner coupe underway right now. It’s gonna look like the only new vehicle my father in law ever bought.
Lots and lots of fun, lots of fiingerprints, lots of breathing Acetone, Xylene, MEK, and Toluene. Learned fine motor control, how to work with tools, how to paint using masking tape, how to glue/paint with toothpicks, needles, and how to thin paint to get the necessary flow using said instruments.
From there to model airplanes. Control line, then R/C. Then, the Big Boy toys, cars and trucks. Build, wire, paint, even some crude upholstery.
Amazing what you could learn without somebody teaching you (directly) without the benefit of YouBoob – although YT has given me excellent tips, tricks, and how-to information. Saved me time and money, it has!
Memories. We all has ’em.
Are not going to be able to use a sprue cutter, razor blade or Xacto knife to get those parts off the tree. Bolt cutter maybe?
Blue-tipped wrench.
Haha! Funny because its true.
My goal was to finish a model without thumb and fingerprints melted into the canopy. I do not remember being successful in that.
Who ever thought that up is pretty doggone clever!
Likewise to all of the reminiscing above, except that I was absolutely terrible at applying decals. Cars, trucks, ships, and boats… all destroyed by 1) little brother or 2) falling off of shelves or 3) poor construction…
I would take some of those waste pieces, heat it up over a flame while spinning it, and then when it was hot enough, stretch it out real thin. This was then used to make antennas on model cars and ships, or fine detail items like struts and railings.
I too used to have problems with the glue fingerprints on canopies and windshields until I learned the art of using a toothpick applicator. Fun times.
I agree with Texson. Whomever did this was clever
Good times. Thanks for the mammaries!
Ahh yes, the good old AMT models. I remember saving my allowance and about every two weeks could by one for $2.00, Looked at ’em in Hobby Lobby once, outrageously expensive and seemed smaller than the 1/24th size.
Who else remembers slot car parlors?
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