memory tests

[herky]

Originally Posted by Zakopious

My first paper models were the Lone Ranger Town buildings about 1948.
They were printed on the Cheerios boxes.
You could send a box top and a dime to Cheerios and get the map for Frontier Town.

See: Lone Ranger Frontier Town

its a shame schrieber dont retail their frontier buildings at that price.i could be tempted.the reason i got into schreiber and wilhemshave first was simple.they were the only ranges i could buy in store in uk.i must have made most of their ranges especially the ships.regret not having a computer in them days to scan them.left all models in uk

[JohnM]

I started with the veteran cars on the back of Weetabix packets in the '50s. I couldn't stand the stuff, but Mum had to get a new packet every week, as I found it fairly palatable spread with marge and sugar.

Keep on snippin' ... Johnny.

[herky]

only way to eat weetabix was with butter on it

[wag]

My first three card models
FG Piper Cub (the old one)
FG Gee Bee R1
FG Curtiss P-6E (took six tries before I was happy with it)
Wayne

[Retired_for_now]

Olden-times:
P-40 from the back of a cereal box
Scratch dioramas with ships and forts (index card sized)

Post-modem/datafax/FTP/dial-up CompuServe/AOL:
Fiddlers Green J-3 Cub, Civil Air Patrol graphics
NASA flying shuttle
Roland's little-bitty Ares I rocket from Lower Hudson Valley (straw rocket scale).
Yogi

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by herky

only way to eat weetabix was with butter on it

As I said Herky ... This was in the '50s. We didn't know what butter was mate. Even Stork was only served on Sundays, or when Granny came to tea.

Johnny.

[Rubenandres77]

1985 or 1986:

• Fokker Dr1 (very simple) from an editing house called "Mekarton". I only keep the memories of it.

1986 or 1987:

• A Williams FW-11 It was a promo cardstock model you could get at Mobil when changing oil (or was it at Shell fuel stations? Don't remember.) It was damaged and trashed by 1990 or something like that.

1992:

• F-106 Delta Dart. The model has been long lost. Suffered several crashes because I didn't have a proper place to display it.

I was 15 years old.

Unfortunately, only until recently I found it was a pirate kit someone here in Colombia re-printed without permission from Geli

Here's my mother holding it in the only photo of it I keep (I took the photo).

[herky]

Originally Posted by JohnM

As I said Herky ... This was in the '50s. We didn't know what butter was mate. Even Stork was only served on Sundays, or when Granny came to tea.

Johnny.

stork margarine now that brings back memories.i got into the card just when beatties the model store stopped selling them

[ghshinn]

1. FG Piper Cub
2. FG Piper Cub (I messed up the first one.)
3. FG Piper Cub (I messed up the second one, too.)

I did get the third one mostly right. Then the cat ate it.

Garland

[Dabeer]

It's been so long (back when I was ~10-12, I'm 36 now) so I'm sure my memory is flawed, but... the models I remember are a large scale Space Shuttle Columbia (with moving control surfaces, opening cargo bay, and folding landing gear), a walled city - maybe Carcassonne?, and a Japanese temple. I tried the working clock model, but never got far on that one.

In the more modern era, I restarted the hobby with a few small helicopters I found (that I immediately let the kids play with aka destroy), the Yamaha ZFR1, and a much smaller Space Shuttle Columbia.