Showing my age here (45), but I was a kid in the 1970's. I was a model building fool. Sadly, I don't have any of them remaining. Many of them eventually became target drones for M-80's or cherry bombs. Built a lot of 1/25 or 1/24 scale cars, and quite a few naval ships and WWII planes. Wish at least a few had survived.

 

Some in this thread: Any Model Car Builders Here?

 

Hey Ranger I used to build quite a few of them also cars ,planes, helocopters,and tanks they would take some time a few weeks to build and paint then I would take them out and destroy them with my wristrocket, or pellet gun

 

Been doing it for 35 years and still build 1 or 2 a year. It's a great relaxation hobby.

 

Ditto.

 

I'm 50, and my older brother and I build all kinds of battleships & destroyers and subs, and planes. WWII stuff. We lived in a place that had a lot of fill-dirt land and one day after a mighty rainstorm, we floated evey one of them on a giant puddle. They were all loaded with 1-1/2 inchers and cherry bombs, and we poured a bunch of gasolene in the water, and set it off all while bombarding them with dirt clods.

We were kids. mind you, some of these ships had full decals and all the show flags and everything. All destroyed in one glorious afternoon.

All my beutiful Estes rockets are all gone too, except the space shuttle.

 

i use to untill walmart stoped selling them and you cant find em anywhere around here unless you drive about 2 hours or so

 

I used to all the time, until I tried the whole magazine build little shops and all that. Burnt out with that and haven't since. I do collect them though

 

Same here LR...I used to build TONS of models...and most of them fell victim to the same fate as yours...a BB gun does a number on the bridge of the USS Missouri



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Did models till I hit 20 then I got hit with the RC bug. I only do 1 model per year now, but 10-12 RC cars instead. I should stick with models they're much easier on the wallet.