Memories...

[cthulhu77]

OK, it was 1974, in Minnesota when my grandfather (yeah that is the hood of his cadillac) bought me a mid scale King Tiger...after an afternoon of watching "Rat Patrol", I was totally ready to build a WW2 diorama, and produced this:

 (Yes, I know, but remember, I was 10)




  Anyone else have some grainy 110 photos out there?

[matrixone]

Greg,

Neat picture!

I do have some old Kodak pictures of some models and my very first ''photobase'' made when I was a kid. I even made my first whiff in that era (a Bf 109 with a French radial engine) before I discovered girls and motorcycles.

Matrixone

[Brian da Basher]

Wow Greg that's great! I can see your amazing skills developed over years of work. Still that early effort is better than what I could do today. Might be time for me to take up a new hobby....mudpies anyone?

That's really cool and I'm glad you shared it with us. I'd be interested in how you constructed those trees. I'm also curious about the Cadillac...

Brian da Basher

[John Howling Mouse]

Cool.
I had some old shots of my bedroom from when I was a teenager: more model shelves than living space.  Doubt I could still find them, though.

Nice diorama, for any age.

[cthulhu77]

Laugh...I was driving around today, after posting this shot, and chewing bubble gum, I was driving around phoenix...remember the driver from Rat Patrol?  Makes me want to get a mount for a fiftycal up on the roof rack of my jeep!

[elmayerle]

Laugh...I was driving around today, after posting this shot, and chewing bubble gum, I was driving around phoenix...remember the driver from Rat Patrol?  Makes me want to get a mount for a fiftycal up on the roof rack of my jeep!

That's really more suitable for LA traffic.

Evan
(who lived there a total of 16 years and would require the crossing of his palm with exceedingly copious quantities of silver to be persuaded to live there again)

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Great pic, Greg, good to have you back amongst us too !

Ian

[matrixone]

Here is one of my first attempts at a photobase way back in the 1970s



Models from front to back are:  Lindberg 1/48 scale Me 262, Otaki Bf 109G, and Lindberg 1/72 scale He 100. (boy do I wish I could build that one again!)


Matrixone

[John Howling Mouse]

and Lindberg 1/72 scale He 100. (boy do I wish I could build that one again!)

Matrixone

How bad?  Less than 5 hours to go and about $6

http://cgi.ebay.com/WWII-German-Heinkel-He...VQQcmdZViewItem

[matrixone]

Thanks John for the heads up on the He 100 kit.
But I refuse to deal with evil-Bay.

I have heard not long ago that Lindberg is coming back and it possibly could be that the old line of 1/72 scale German fighters might make a return, which would be fantastic news because those old kits make ideal whiffing material (at least for me!). I don't really fancy the idea of chopping up the new Hasegawa and Tamiya kits but those old Lindberg, Airfix, and Matcbox kits are more relaxing to cut up and makes those old kits that the ''experts'' sneer at into something original and much more interesting than if built OOB.
One what-if I can think of right now would be grafting on the wings from a Bf 109 onto the old He 100 kit, practical no but fun YES!

Matrixone

[NARSES2]

Matrix

That photo you took back in the 70's reminds me so much of some of the things I used to see in Airfix Magazine - even then your skills were state of the art

Thanks for the fond trip down memory lane

Chris

[matrixone]

Thanks Chris!

Its a good thing there were no digital cameras back in those days, I never used any putty to fill the seams!
The models were dreadful but that backdrop I would like to have now, it was the first backdrop I ever attempted to do and I think it would still work now with my photobase.

Matrixone

[Captain Canada]

I love it, Greg......Like old meat-loaf said, " it was so much better than it is today "

The satisfation of building something you saw on tv or in print.......and then playing with it ! Kids these days get their toys like they do there food.........not alot of thought goes into either.