Models...

[balthazar]

Ahh- the smell of model cement !!

I spent some time as a kid building plastic models- if any of us hasn't, I'd be surprised. I built maybe 15.

When I moved out, my mom tossed 'em all off my 3-tier shelf- I wasn't really upset I suppose.

I do have a half dozen of the boxes, as they were usually packed with odds-n-ends; them, I still have.

I don't think we've done a thread on this, so perhaps some pics of some favorites would be interesting.

Some of mine I built (via Google):

The Tom Daniels stuff was fantastic. Others were mostly classics- '30s-40s stuff, nothing from the '50s/60s.

Anyone else?

[cletus8269]

crap i got prolly 30 or so together in the box. daytonas, 1500's, chevelles, camaros, novas you name it. i have recently slowed up on them though due in part to the fact that most are $15+ a pop... i just picked up a 64 electra that i am itching to get together from hobby lobby. i stock up when their 30% off special is on.

[Robert Hall]

I've been in the hobby off and on since childhood...my older brother got me interested in it when he gave me his old '60s vintage builtups around 1978. I've had some periods where I've built a lot and years where I didn't finish any... starting from about 200 kits built from '78-88, after grad school in '97 I started buying kits again--new ones and old unbuilts and old restorable kits...I have about 1500 unbuilts now and another 300 or so old restorable builtups and unbuilts, going back as far as the AMT/SMP annuals from '58.

I love the hobby, really need to spend more time building kits than buying them...

I'm not really into customs or hot rods, my favorite types of kits are stock '50s-70s domestic cars (esp. full size), muscle cars, European cars, F1 race cars, some Japanese subjects.

I'm pretty active on three of the biggest online modeling forums (Scale Auto Magazine forums, Model Cars Magazine forums, and Spotlight Hobbies message board) and go to local shows/swap meets (and a few national ones like the NNL West now and then).

I'll post some pics of some of mine soon..

[caddycruiser]

Oh, I HAVE to take some pictures...my father built them as a little kid through his teens, then my brother followed suit and has hundreds. Being an auto body tech, let's just say he's "good" at the details.

So many...all over...but where are they...the coolest being a 70's Cadillac hearse my dad built, but when I was small and found the stash in the attic, I liked to take things apart and let's just say it doesn't exist anymore