Plastic Modeling

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I only had the one. When I got bored with the car I used the engine and drive train in a home made paddle wheel boat. It was last seen headed out to sea (well lake) after breaking the recovery string when at full RPMs and with the paddle wheels going faster than they had any right to be.

We did shit like that too, especially combining the car chassis with the plane prop motors.

[Sapphireho]

Kit is in good shape.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Kit is in good shape.

Cool! It looks as good as new.
Apparently it was only made in one run, one time, in 1970. That is why it is so expensive now.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Cool! It looks as good as new.
Apparently it was only made in one run, one time, in 1970. That is why it is so expensive now.

1970 sounds about right. I had the first one when I was about 6-7.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

1970 sounds about right. I had the first one when I was about 6-7.

Be the same run. They only made it once. The one you made as a kit could have been molded right before or after that one. Sort of a cool thought really.

[Ultramaroon]

Haha... "A Snoopy new idea"

[gtpvette]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I also found one of these, complete, new in box. Probably eBay this one.

That is too cool. What is something like that worth???

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Be the same run. They only made it once. The one you made as a kit could have been molded right before or after that one. Sort of a cool thought really.

Very cool.



This is actually my 3rd one. The first one as a kid, I had for about a week or two when my older brother broke it. We were playing, and I was chasing him with my Red Baron one, and he threw it into the couch. I was so upset that my mom went back to the hobby shop and got me another one. I bought this one about 20 years ago when I was buying model kits to make slot cars. I think when I got older, both Snoopy and the Red Baron died an explosive fiery death at the hands of fire crackers and lighter fluid.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by gtpvette

That is too cool. What is something like that worth???

I think around $600. I need to investigate.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I think when I got older, both Snoopy and the Red Baron died an explosive fiery death at the hands of fire crackers and lighter fluid.

I was heavily into model rockets and airplanes between the age of 9 and about 14. That is pretty much the fate of each one of them after they sat on the shelf for about a year. Wish I'd had a video camera, I would have definitely made my own version of Tora! Tora! Tora!

I think the only ones I didn't do that to were my two favorites

A P51 Mustang display model with clear skin

and a model of the Saturn V.

Both of those survived for quite some time until my parents moved and they were tossed out as "junk the kids left behind"

Can't believe they still sell the Mustang one, I may have to buy that one and build it with a nicer base for my office. I went through two of them putting the original one together because the clear plastic is a bitch with standard model glue and an 11 year old's hands.

The Saturn V one looks right (at least the right height) but the lunar module was much more detailed than the one they show here. The one I had took me several hours to build just on it's own. The whole thing was heavier than the couple of pounds they list here as well as I recall. Based on the number of parts, this one is just a shell. The one I had much more detail on the internals and the service module and the first stage had removable panels for display.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I was heavily into model rockets and airplanes between the age of 9 and about 14. That is pretty much the fate of each one of them after they sat on the shelf for about a year. Wish I'd had a video camera, I would have definitely made my own version of Tora! Tora! Tora!

I think most all my models eventually died via fire cracker. We had a pool so the ship models were always fun. The only ones that didn't were the monster ones my brother and I built during our Creature Feature watching days. They got shot with BB guns.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I think most all my models eventually died via fire cracker. We had a pool so the ship models were always fun. The only ones that didn't were the monster ones my brother and I built during our Creature Feature watching days. They got shot with BB guns.

Hah! I had that exact same one and it met the exact same fate!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I was heavily into model rockets and airplanes between the age of 9 and about 14. That is pretty much the fate of each one of them after they sat on the shelf for about a year. Wish I'd had a video camera, I would have definitely made my own version of Tora! Tora! Tora!

I think the only ones I didn't do that to were my two favorites

A P51 Mustang display model with clear skin

and a model of the Saturn V.

Both of those survived for quite some time until my parents moved and they were tossed out as "junk the kids left behind"

Can't believe they still sell the Mustang one, I may have to buy that one and build it with a nicer base for my office. I went through two of them putting the original one together because the clear plastic is a bitch with standard model glue and an 11 year old's hands.

The Saturn V one looks right (at least the right height) but the lunar module was much more detailed than the one they show here. The one I had took me several hours to build just on it's own. The whole thing was heavier than the couple of pounds they list here as well as I recall. Based on the number of parts, this one is just a shell. The one I had much more detail on the internals and the service module and the first stage had removable panels for display.

Mine is about 10 years old.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I think most all my models eventually died via fire cracker. We had a pool so the ship models were always fun. The only ones that didn't were the monster ones my brother and I built during our Creature Feature watching days. They got shot with BB guns.

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Hah! I had that exact same one and it met the exact same fate!

That makes 3 of us.

I did find some survivors from when I was 10 or so. They were packed away in a box in my parents attic. Not sure how they missed the fate of the other 100 or so. Painted and "weathered" with paint by numbers oil paints. The Sherman antenna is the original stretched sprue one for 1969. It has never broken or fallen off even if it is a bit droopy from being packed in a box with piles of stuff on it.