Tijuanataxi Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Well, I bought a model lot, and this was part of it.... No doubt built by a child sometime back then. I dont want to make fun at anyone, but this model is..... well, something else... I think I´ll let the pics speak for themselves.... Who knows, maybe this model will inspire you
Chillyb1 Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Just think about how much joy that build brought to the kid who worked on it. Someone obviously had a lot of fun with it.
Tijuanataxi Posted March 28, 2010 Author Posted March 28, 2010 Absolutely.... And lots of imagination too... I think it shows great innovation
kingiguana Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 WOW ! I remember building stuff like that when I was a youngin'. Looks like they forgot to put the tailights on till it was too late. MPC had a line of those Mild or Wild kits, I wonder if this is one of them. Or if someone cobbled this together? Either way, its a piece of model building history.
disabled modeler Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Its a piece of modeling history for sure, You just dont see many of them like that anymore. I use to build the mild and Wild kits too when I was a kid....They were a lot of fun.
Modelmartin Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 It would be great fun to rebuild it the same way but with good paint and craftsmanship!
hemithunder Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Hey! No fair makin fun of my build like that... I was only 25 then
disabled modeler Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Id be willing to bet we all have built some like that when we were kids?
Tijuanataxi Posted March 28, 2010 Author Posted March 28, 2010 Id be willing to bet we all have built some like that when we were kids? I think you´re right there... By the way, this is not one of the mild ´n wild kits, this is all "homemade"
hemithunder Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 My friends and I used to take new models, build them and then glue hollow marker shafts (crayola) to the bottom with coat hanger straight axels and race them down bike ramps... FOR KEEPS! Makes me smile to see one like that.. He took what he had and worked with it.... hmmm others here could learn from that, I believe.
spkgibson Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 I see a decent 72-74 cuda to restore in my eyes,feel like getting rid of it?
David G. Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 With a little patient guidance, a kid with this kind of courage could've (and hopefully did) grow up to be a skilled scratch-building kit-basher! Sadly, this kind of imaginative creativity is pretty much squashed in most kids before they become teens.
B_rad88 Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) wow, that is very intresting, lol. i remember gluing 1/24 scale tanks in a 1/16th mustang, and i made them my "nos" bottles, lol. but mostly i built oob back then. i didn't start customizing them until i turned 13 or so, lol. i wonder what he builds now................. Edited March 28, 2010 by B_rad88
Tijuanataxi Posted March 28, 2010 Author Posted March 28, 2010 I see a decent 72-74 cuda to restore in my eyes,feel like getting rid of it? No, this is a keeper, and I aint gonna do anything to it.... Just keep it the way it is...
Joe Nunes Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) Thanks for sharing those pics...brings to mind my own brush painted "warriors" from the '60's! Bet the paint on some of those models still hasn't compleatly dried yet That's way cool you have decided to keep it as is, too. Joe Edited March 28, 2010 by rhoadapple
Nick Winter Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) Reminds me of my first build 6 years ago, I thought it was cool ans still do. Edited March 28, 2010 by Dukefan69'
Jordan White Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Nick, are you sure that's the correct quote for your post?
Nick Winter Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Nick, are you sure that's the correct quote for your post? I beleive not, I'll fix it.
Ben Posted March 28, 2010 Posted March 28, 2010 Well, ya don't have to ask........."Hey, that thing got a Hemi?" LOL
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