kryptosdaddy
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Some may know here that I also collect comics, well not anymore but i have a nice collection of stuff that i love. At times i have taken some heat for openly speaking about them and my maybe 100 pounds of action figures, but screw 'em!
For those that don't know comics have 'dynasty's' we call them ages, Golden age, Silver age, modern age etc.
And I'm wondering if this applies to models as well- though I have been a long time builder, i have never been a collector of kits- and i don't intend to begin. not to say that in my years i haven't built collectors items nor do i not own any now, I do, I just have no desire to pick up every version of each Ju 88 in any scale. Not to say at some time I won't though! You know what i mean.
I started building sometime in the early 70's I think my first kit was a 1/72 scale German bomber, my Dad had NO interest in them, but my mother, a craft QUEEN, would let me build and then help me paint.
We built Aurora monsters and animals (I wasn't allowed to have the torture stuff) superheroes and maybe every tank and half the 1/48 planes monogram came out with then, and most were destroyed in the yard because we played with our models- to us they were cool toys...
Back then you could find anything and almost anywhere! Roses, K-mart, Eckerd Drugs, 7-11, nearly every store sold models of some kind. In the late 70's Florence SC, a small city began getting specialty stores that broadened our selection of kits, but it was still the same thing, the Huge car and motorcycle kits, NASA stuff, the sparse sci-fi, those great Aurora kits, monsters. Seemed like everything we ever needed was right there and stuff was cheap!
We used to organize trips to Sumter, about 45 minutes away to pick up the rare Japanese stuff and it was there that i was introduced to Tamiya and later Hasegawa and really that was a nice change from all the monogram, Revel and AMT kits we were punishing back then- today i still find old kits in new boxes and these are cheap, unlike comics where the older stuff can be near priceless.
I'm glad to see the hobby expand into what it is today, there are maybe as many acessories available to us now as there are things for fishermen! but I still miss the days when i could walk into a grocery store and pick up a gallon of milk and a Corsair. CR
For those that don't know comics have 'dynasty's' we call them ages, Golden age, Silver age, modern age etc.
And I'm wondering if this applies to models as well- though I have been a long time builder, i have never been a collector of kits- and i don't intend to begin. not to say that in my years i haven't built collectors items nor do i not own any now, I do, I just have no desire to pick up every version of each Ju 88 in any scale. Not to say at some time I won't though! You know what i mean.
I started building sometime in the early 70's I think my first kit was a 1/72 scale German bomber, my Dad had NO interest in them, but my mother, a craft QUEEN, would let me build and then help me paint.
We built Aurora monsters and animals (I wasn't allowed to have the torture stuff) superheroes and maybe every tank and half the 1/48 planes monogram came out with then, and most were destroyed in the yard because we played with our models- to us they were cool toys...
Back then you could find anything and almost anywhere! Roses, K-mart, Eckerd Drugs, 7-11, nearly every store sold models of some kind. In the late 70's Florence SC, a small city began getting specialty stores that broadened our selection of kits, but it was still the same thing, the Huge car and motorcycle kits, NASA stuff, the sparse sci-fi, those great Aurora kits, monsters. Seemed like everything we ever needed was right there and stuff was cheap!
We used to organize trips to Sumter, about 45 minutes away to pick up the rare Japanese stuff and it was there that i was introduced to Tamiya and later Hasegawa and really that was a nice change from all the monogram, Revel and AMT kits we were punishing back then- today i still find old kits in new boxes and these are cheap, unlike comics where the older stuff can be near priceless.
I'm glad to see the hobby expand into what it is today, there are maybe as many acessories available to us now as there are things for fishermen! but I still miss the days when i could walk into a grocery store and pick up a gallon of milk and a Corsair. CR
:pinch: ... I think Their Kugel Blitz kit was My first Baptismal into Kit supplied P.E. & Dragon ! Fast Forward to Today :woohoo: 
