How many model kit builders progressed

[rcboatmanwithkids2880]

Hi Guy's ,

A thought that has been on mind for a while now is , how many model kit builders have progressed onto enjoying our great hobby of F/E R/C Boating . It seems like a Natural progression to me ......

In my younger years I had a fascination with building Hotrods from model kits , such as a 1932 Ford Tudor etc. ....

Brad
Oz

[Boaterguy]

i'm one of those!

[rcboatmanwithkids2880]

C'mon guy's it's ok to admit to this ( lol )

Brad
Oz

[HydroMike]

OK I guess
I'm one lol first build 20 whip great so far

[circus162]

I use to build the old AMT model cars when I was a kid. I quit when I caught my brother on the roof of the garage, dousing them with lighter fluid, lighting them and letting them fly off the roof, pretending he was a stunt driver. We're still best of friends.
Rich

[bozo586]

model cars that's how it started for most of us,i'd bet--used to chop and channel them - make custom pipes when i was growing up. now since about 1970 i moved on to boats-real & scale

[srislash]

I started on model car kits and saved lawn mowing money for a Radio Shack 280 ZX R/C car.Used to float GI Joe down the creek in a custom built by me, plywood mono.(What happened to that thing?).It was bound to assimilate.

[T.S.Davis]

Totally.

Custom paint jobs. Well, as custom a a kid could pull off with testors. I liked the mid 50's chevy kits. There was a Blazer kit that came out sweet. The wheels even turned on those. I had a fleet of corvettes. There were so many of them. Transam and Camaros too.

Then when they got old and started falling apart we would used the parts to make frankencars. No glue. We used a soldering gun and just welded parts together. I can almost taste the burning plastic just thinknig about it. Might explain my fondness for burnt phenolic.

The next phase included bee bee guns in Fred's basement. bahaha His parents were the bomb.

[graill]

Built tons, motorized everything i could from hanging planes, bombers with all the props spinning to boats, cars and tanks, some were less than successful but others were great. Even had the old testors big model T with working transmission, big kit, it was motorized as it came, wish i still had it but kids will be kids......

[rcboatmanwithkids2880]

For me , I could not build an R/C Boat unless it had a level of life like appearance to it . Which I base on all the Car Models I built in my youth ......

Brad
Oz

[T.S.Davis]

I just remembered a working V8 engine kit that had a clear plastic block.

[brooks93]

I had one of those. had the little red lights and would light up for the spark plugs

[siberianhusky]

For me it was the rubber powered plane kits from Guillows, then C/L, still have a Swordsman 18 from the mid 70's, then rockets which overlapped getting into rc boats.
Static models just didn't do it for me, built some crazy stuff with Mechano sets then incorporated a Hammond steam engine into those contraptions.
All the fun stuff that kids can't play with today.
Think the Ambroid and dope did a few brain cells in! Maybe thats how the running 1/2a stunt plane got loose in the basement! Put and end to the first and last indoor test run of a new engine! My dad was trying not to laugh, mom found no humor in the whole episode.

[properchopper]

OK, I'll confess to being a model builder in the 1950's. My best effort was an Edsel convertible with full-length Merc-cruiser skirts all the way back to the continental kit.

[Grimracer]

Never stopped for me... I have a Johan SC/Rambler on my desk here at work that I build some 10 years ago or so.. I also just did a AT6 diorama as a Xmas gift for my uncle.

I still build rubber power planes as well as fly rockets.

I say.. no such thing as progression.. just stepping to the side to do more!

Grim

I will have to fire up a pic of the SC