Jim Keeler Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 First model car kit I started was an Ace 49 Ford kit. The kit was a block of balsa wood, and the directions basically said to carve away everything that did no look like a 49 Ford. The first plastic kit was a Lockheed Constellation model made in acetate. It fell apart a few day's later! The first plastic model car I built was a Revell Highway Pioneers 1910 Cadillac . I painted some of the pieces black, and the roof I applied paint on and then put a Kleenex tissue over it to simulate the fabric roofs they had. I found one half of the kit 40 years later in my Mom's unfinished dirt basement buried in the dirt. I rescued it and still have it. Later on my Dad always told me that I was wasting my money and time building models, and that "It won't amount to anything"! he was still alive when I told him that Revell had hired me to design kits for them when I was 19! Uh, that was 49 years ago! Jim Keeler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshaver Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Great story there Jim and thank you for taking the time to share it with us ! I wish I still had the first model I did , ( 61 Thunderbird Convertable ) a flood washed it and everythiing else I owned in 1973. Ed Shaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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