RC44Mag
Buckeye
None of mine survived Independence DayLooking good. None of my model car, plane or ship models made it to present day.
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Hunter
I remember what firecrackers do to a plastic tank model.
ProfessorWes
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Achtung, baby! 
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I'm 69 years old and have been building plastic models pretty much continuously since I was 5, maybe before, and I can proudly say that I have never deliberately destroyed a model--not by firecracker, BB gun, .22, flinging it against the wall in frustration, etc.
I HAVE destroyed them by accident, incompetence, inadequate skills, neglect, stupid customizing ideas, and even by leaving one in the back window of a '59 Chevy on a summer day. How many? TOO many. But NEVER deliberately.
We used to get the snap together models & use them to play demolition derby. We would just keep putting them back together & doing it again until they wouldn't go back together.I'm 69 years old and have been building plastic models pretty much continuously since I was 5, maybe before, and I can proudly say that I have never deliberately destroyed a model--not by firecracker, BB gun, .22, flinging it against the wall in frustration, etc.
I HAVE destroyed them by accident, incompetence, inadequate skills, neglect, stupid customizing ideas, and even by leaving one in the back window of a '59 Chevy on a summer day. How many? TOO many. But NEVER deliberately.
BULL'S-EYE
Buckeye
RC44Mag
Buckeye
When you made them as poorly as I did, they were begging to be blown up!I'm 69 years old and have been building plastic models pretty much continuously since I was 5, maybe before, and I can proudly say that I have never deliberately destroyed a model--not by firecracker, BB gun, .22, flinging it against the wall in frustration, etc.
I HAVE destroyed them by accident, incompetence, inadequate skills, neglect, stupid customizing ideas, and even by leaving one in the back window of a '59 Chevy on a summer day. How many? TOO many. But NEVER deliberately.
There were no "snap together" models when I started. Everything had to be glued together with tube glue--Testor's or Pactra or sometimes Ambroid.
IIRC, snap-together kits didn't appear until sometime in the '70s.
It was the early 70's. I put some models together but the first few I got my father said we would do together. That meant I got to watch him put it together. Not as much fun.
ProfessorWes
Hunter
Armybrat
Buckeye
This is my son's weekend ride…..PW, you should appreciate this model car dragster I originally built (and hand-lettered!) back in 1969 (age 15), and lovingly restored in 2020.
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(his daily driver is a 4x4 Silverado assigned to him by the bank he works for)
Armybrat
Buckeye
I had two '69 Camaros, drove 'em for a total of about 15 years as daily drivers.
Just today looking for something else in the basement, I ran across a VERY rare 1/25 original factory promo of a '69 RS Camaro convertible in Rally Green. It don't get much better than that!
ProfessorWes
Hunter
Somewhere in Valhalla, both Eugene Stoner and Mikhail Kalashnikov are looking down on this and screaming in horror. And looking to get really, really drunk. "Look how you massacred my boy . . . !"
