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Yeah, so its a toy. If it is more or less true to scale I am satisfied. If it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it poops like a duck, to me it is a duck. When I started making models during War 2 a kit consisted of rectangular blocks of wood (soft balsa if one was lucky), plans of dubious accuracy, printod on paper insignia and a package of casine glue in powder form. Kit cost 10 cents. I used dad's old razor blades. I am still operating in that frame of mind.  So I am easy to please. Sculptor

Yeah, so its a toy. If it is more or less true to scale I am satisfied. If it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it poops like a duck, to me it is a duck. When I started making models during War 2 a kit consisted of rectangular blocks of wood (soft balsa if one was lucky), plans of dubious accuracy, printod on paper insignia and a package of casine glue in powder form. Kit cost 10 cents. I used dad's old razor blades. I am still operating in that frame of mind.  So I am easy to please. Sculptor

Yeah, so its a toy. If it is more or less true to scale I am satisfied. If it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it poops like a duck, to me it is a duck. When I started making models during War 2 a kit consisted of rectangular blocks of wood (soft balsa if one was lucky), plans of dubious accuracy, printod on paper insignia and a package of casine glue in powder form. Kit cost 10 cents. I used dad's old razor blades. I am still operating in that frame of mind.  So I am easy to please. Sculptor

Yeah, so its a toy. If it is more or less true to scale I am satisfied. If it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it poops like a duck, to me it is a duck. When I started making models during War 2 a kit consisted of rectangular blocks of wood (soft balsa if one was lucky), plans of dubious accuracy, printod on paper insignia and a package of casine glue in powder form. Kit cost 10 cents. I used dad's old razor blades. I am still operating in that frame of mind.  So I am easy to please. Sculptor

Yeah, so its a toy. If it is more or less true to scale I am satisfied. If it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it poops like a duck, to me it is a duck. When I started making models during War 2 a kit consisted of rectangular blocks of wood (soft balsa if one was lucky), plans of dubious accuracy, printod on paper insignia and a package of casine glue in powder form. Kit cost 10 cents. I used dad's old razor blades. I am still operating in that frame of mind.  So I am easy to please. Sculptor

I no longer have a wish list.
I just bought the COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2. in 1/32 scale.  
I have all the rest of the models I ever wanted except for the Consolidated  P2Y flying boat (same as Martin P3M-1 and P3M-2). 
Oh, I also like any other fluying boats in 1/32 or larger scale. 
Once I make up my mind I am full of indecision.

Do you want the kit as a collector's item or as a kit to build a an accurate model?
As a collector's item it is worth whatever you can afford to pay for it.  After all, buying it merely satisfies a psychological need for acquisition.
As a model kit these early resin kits are a starting point to building a good model which you can do if you have the talent, skills, time and desire.
Personally, I have walked away from these early kits. I have some of Dave Thompson's early kits because he was a good friend. I keep them as remembrances of him. But his resin kits were pretty damn good and he got better as time went on. Dave was developing a resin kit of the Rex when he died of a heart attack. RIP my good friend. 
Stephen

Happy happy joy joy! I just found a model kit that I have been looking for since I switched over to 1/32 scale the past umpteen zillion years ago. 
It is COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2 in 1/32 scale. 
Was its existence mentioned in this forum? Yeah I know. I should have been following this forum more often. Shame on me!
I have been writing novels for the past 8 years and got all involved in that.
Never fear, I am back. Yeah I know, who cares?
I just found the kit on ebay. There were three listed so I bought the one that cost about $80, rather than the one listed for over 200 smackers.
It was delivered within a week. Right now I am in the middle of my third book and as soon as I can finish writing that I will jump back into modeling.  
Keep 'em flying.
 

Happy happy joy joy! I just found a model kit that I have been looking for since I switched over to 1/32 scale the past umpteen zillion years ago. 
It is COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2 in 1/32 scale. 
Was its existence mentioned in this forum? Yeah I know. I should have been following this forum more often. Shame on me!
I have been writing novels for the past 8 years and got all involved in that.
Never fear, I am back. Yeah I know, who cares?
I just found the kit on ebay. There were three listed so I bought the one that cost about $80, rather than the one listed for over 200 smackers.
It was delivered within a week. Right now I am in the middle of my third book and as soon as I can finish writing that I will jump back into modeling.  
Keep 'em flying.
 

Some years ago I picked up a carved and painted hard wood model of the Duck made in the Philippines for a very low price on ebay. It is very close to 1/32 scale and it was quicker to just get that and hang it in my library than to make it from wood myself.
I love this model because they made a couple really silly errors on it and every time I look at it I just start giggling. There are struts running from the horizontal stabilizers to the vertical stabilizer. That is, there are on the real airplane. But on this model they run from the elevators to the rudder! A very funny impossibility! Duh!
Another minor flaw is the fact that they put a load of 5 rockets under each lower wing, but the plane is painted with the yellow wing paint scheme of the 1938-9 era, about 4 years before they produced these underwing weapons! Another duh!
Maybe that is why I got it so cheap. But I certainly got my money's worth in merriment just looking at it. Also, I like the model and its color scheme so I'm pretty happy with it.
Like many of us say, "too many kits and not enough time." So if I can get one of these carved wood models of a plane that will never appear as a 1/32 injected molded kit at a low enough price, I'll buy it.
 
I once picked up a U-control flying model kit of the Navy AJ-1 Savage made by Berkeley back in 1958. The kit is 1/32 scale and one of these days I'll build it. Back in the day when we all flew either free flight or U-control, that kit was pefect for the aircraft carrier event, where you took off from a raised wooden "deck" of a carrier and landed back on it, trying to catch an arrester wire. It will make a nice static model, all painted in dark navy blue. Yeah, one of these days when I have time. They sell on ebay these days, when you can find one, for as much as a high priced Trumpeter kit.
 
Its a hobby and I have always tried to really enjoy my hobbies. Otherwise, why have them? If I want stress and strife and misery I can go out and get another girlfriend. Then both she and my wife can be mad at me. So instead, I'll just stay at home and play with my hobbies and try not to upset my wife. Well, not much, anyway.
Stephen

Happy happy joy joy! I just found a model kit that I have been looking for since I switched over to 1/32 scale the past umpteen zillion years ago. 
It is COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2 in 1/32 scale. 
Was its existence mentioned in this forum? Yeah I know. I should have been following this forum more often. Shame on me!
I have been writing novels for the past 8 years and got all involved in that.
Never fear, I am back. Yeah I know, who cares?
I just found the kit on ebay. There were three listed so I bought the one that cost about $80, rather than the one listed for over 200 smackers.
It was delivered within a week. Right now I am in the middle of my third book and as soon as I can finish writing that I will jump back into modeling.  
Keep 'em flying.
 

Happy happy joy joy! I just found a model kit that I have been looking for since I switched over to 1/32 scale the past umpteen zillion years ago. 
It is COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2 in 1/32 scale. 
Was its existence mentioned in this forum? Yeah I know. I should have been following this forum more often. Shame on me!
I have been writing novels for the past 8 years and got all involved in that.
Never fear, I am back. Yeah I know, who cares?
I just found the kit on ebay. There were three listed so I bought the one that cost about $80, rather than the one listed for over 200 smackers.
It was delivered within a week. Right now I am in the middle of my third book and as soon as I can finish writing that I will jump back into modeling.  
Keep 'em flying.
 

Happy happy joy joy! I just found a model kit that I have been looking for since I switched over to 1/32 scale the past umpteen zillion years ago. 
It is COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2 in 1/32 scale. 
Was its existence mentioned in this forum? Yeah I know. I should have been following this forum more often. Shame on me!
I have been writing novels for the past 8 years and got all involved in that.
Never fear, I am back. Yeah I know, who cares?
I just found the kit on ebay. There were three listed so I bought the one that cost about $80, rather than the one listed for over 200 smackers.
It was delivered within a week. Right now I am in the middle of my third book and as soon as I can finish writing that I will jump back into modeling.  
Keep 'em flying.
 

Happy happy joy joy! I just found a model kit that I have been looking for since I switched over to 1/32 scale the past umpteen zillion years ago. 
It is COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2 in 1/32 scale. 
Was its existence mentioned in this forum? Yeah I know. I should have been following this forum more often. Shame on me!
I have been writing novels for the past 8 years and got all involved in that.
Never fear, I am back. Yeah I know, who cares?
I just found the kit on ebay. There were three listed so I bought the one that cost about $80, rather than the one listed for over 200 smackers.
It was delivered within a week. Right now I am in the middle of my third book and as soon as I can finish writing that I will jump back into modeling.  
Keep 'em flying.
 

Happy happy joy joy! I just found a model kit that I have been looking for since I switched over to 1/32 scale the past umpteen zillion years ago. 
It is COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2 in 1/32 scale. 
Was its existence mentioned in this forum? Yeah I know. I should have been following this forum more often. Shame on me!
I have been writing novels for the past 8 years and got all involved in that.
Never fear, I am back. Yeah I know, who cares?
I just found the kit on ebay. There were three listed so I bought the one that cost about $80, rather than the one listed for over 200 smackers.
It was delivered within a week. Right now I am in the middle of my third book and as soon as I can finish writing that I will jump back into modeling.  
Keep 'em flying.
 

I do not know if this is an appropriate course for you, but I started in the early 1940s's with wood kits. both the carved models where you start with a block of balsa, and stick and tissue models. I found that I prefer the additive approach (stick and tissue) to the subtractive (carving a block of wood). but that is a personal choice.
By building models this way I learned all about contours and formers and ribs and various types of skins (sheets of balsa, tissue, silk, etc). This was all before plastic kits appeard on the market, by the way.
 
When plastics came along I found that I could build the model of wood and cover it in plastic. or build the formers and ribs from plastic sheet and proceed as if it was balsa. Same process, differnt material, that's all.
 
So, I suggest you go to a LHS (Local Hobby Shop) or go online and buy a Guillow's model airplane kit (www.guillow.com). The parts are all diecut balsa and hard wood which makes it a lot easier than trying to cut them out of thin balsa sheet. You will need to get an Xacto knife and a few blades and the correct wood model glue and putty and sand paper. Follow the instructions and build yourself a model airplane.
 
You can cover the model in tissue, like they suggest. Or you can cover it in thin sheet balsa, which will teach you a great deal about handling a stiff material and trying to get it to form curves. You will also learn how to use putty and sand it to shape afterwards and you will develop a new vocabulary of choice four letter words one does not utter in mixed company.
 
Then you will have some experience under your belt and have developed some basic modeling skills and can try building a model by making the parts out of plastic sheet.
You will have some problems in this process of learning. Nothing worth learning is all that easy. But the rewards will be good because you will be scratchbuilding.
Your early efforts may not be all that wonderful. So what, You are learning and developing your skills.
Try it, you might like it.
 
There is another thing yoiu might do. Join a model club in your area. to learn making models from scratch in wood try a flying model club. They still model that way. And/or find a local plastic model club, and ask around and see if anyone makes models from scratch. Then approach these guys and see if they can help you get started.
For flying model clubs go on line and access the AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) site, www.modelaircraft.org for the location of local clubs.
For plastic model clubs IPMS, www.ipmsusa.org would be the place to start.
 
Keep in mind that it is a challenge you are undertaking. It is not all siimple fun. But the rewards can be great.
Stephen

This bottom photo, are you sure it is not an advertisement for the brand of cigarettes the pilot in the middle is holding in his hand? The layout and poses certainly look like a full page ad one would find in Look or Life magazine back in the 1940's.
"Ya, ich bin schmoking Hockundspitz zigaretten zince ve invaded Poland."
Stephen

I love it! TheJug returns to war.

I love it! TheJug returns to war.

The worst war movie was the one made in Germany earlier this century called The RED BARON, or something like that. They tried to make him over to be a sensitive youth.  Somewhat disturbed by all the lives he had taken. He was really more of a stone cold killer in reality. The female lead kept me wondering when she would forget her role in a movie and start yawning. The action scenes were interesting, however.
 

The worst war movie was the one made in Germany earlier this century called The RED BARON, or something like that. They tried to make him over to be a sensitive youth.  Somewhat disturbed by all the lives he had taken. He was really more of a stone cold killer in reality. The female lead kept me wondering when she would forget her role in a movie and start yawning. The action scenes were interesting, however.
 

I agree 100%. If a person does not enjoy one's life then what's the point of living? Of course sometimes reality trips us up, slows us down, makes us change course but that's a part of living.   

I agree 100%. If a person does not enjoy one's life then what's the point of living? Of course sometimes reality trips us up, slows us down, makes us change course but that's a part of living.   

Hi Mike, Yes long time no see. For the past lifetime I have been making sculpture as my main art form. But I never stopped enjoying model airplanes, ships, military vehicles and G gauge model trains. 
Some years ago I started writing novels. My first book is The Streamlined Locomotive. Currently my second novel just came out. It is called Dick and Jane Go to War.
My writings, as my sculpture are surrealistic and humorous.
Dick & Jane Go to War is not as humorous as I see nothing funny about World War One aviation. As soon as I can find time I will make a model of the triplane SE5c which my male main character RFC Leftenant Reginald Pfyff-ffyff Cockup creates. I have a lot of fun writing. The models I make are of airplanes that serve in the armed forces of the hard-to-find Balkans country known as Vulgaria.
I mentioned Vulgaria on this forum a number of year ago. I doubt if anyone remembers it.
Yours, Stephen

Back during World War Two I was building these and I have been making and accumulating and buying these these solid carved wood aeroplane models ever since. 
Along with umpteen zillion plastic kits, of course.