Ramfins59 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 This weekend my daughter, her husband and my grandson will be up here in western PA from VA for the Memorial Day weekend BBQ & "party" at Brian's brother's home about 20 minutes north of us in Zelienople. On Saturday my daughter is going wedding dress shopping with a friend who is getting married this summer. She will be dropping off my 3 year old grandson with me so he can spend the day with Grandpa. I have 3 snap kits all ready for us to work on... an Impala Police Car (he likes "Official vehicles" as his daddy works for the FBI, his uncle works for Homeland Security, and a neighbor in VA works for the Secret Service. They all have "official work vehicles".), I also have a Humvee, and a Helicopter (he likes them but calls them "Hockalipters". I'm looking forward to having a great old time with AJ. When we talk on the phone he always asks "What did you build for me?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1930fordpickup Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Sounds like a date! Have fun and take pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High octane Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Sounds great Richard, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. My grandson is under a year old and I've already got a Lionel set for him to go under the tree this Christmas. I'm gonna love it, and I hope that he does too. LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG NICKY Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 i love it when the little one starts saying their versions of bigger words....my little one used to call airplanes "otins" and it took us for ever to figure out what trying to say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyD340 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Have FUN Rich and ENJOY!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Sounds great Rich, my grand daughters are coming up around the 4 and I am looking forward to it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brizio Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Great, also because it is a way to show young generation the hobby. I wish I had this opportunity with my grandfather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Barrow Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Cool. My grandfathers both supported my modeling by buying me models, but since they weren't modelers themselves we never sat down and worked on kits together. I tried to get one granddad into modelling, but he didn't had the patience for it. He bought a couple of kits for the flea market and ended up giving them to me. Start 'em young! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbuzzed Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Enjoy your time together with him, Rich. Build all those kits and don't forget to play with them! We were up on the Island last week for Shan's MBA graduation and I made sure to spend some quality time with both grandchildren, including wiffle ball, mini golf, a few spins in the rental Camaro and Godzilla 3D with Ayden (Emmie took Alyssa to the Wizard of Oz flick). Those days went by way too fast... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teardrop96 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 When my son (now 36) was a little past 1 year old he called my kits Boot-Boots! yeah just like a car motor...Have a blast. In fact my son and grandson will be in DC this holiday weekend, and I will be in Texas waiting for my obligatory tee... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdan delivery Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Rich, I was thinking about this because my granddaughter just turned 4. I mentioned trying to make something with her ( she told me she wants to make a model with her Pap) to my wife and she asked me to go easy on her - I thought I had the newest Albert Einstein................. Anyway, I will be getting something to share and display. Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbowser Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Sounds great Rich. My two are 2 1/2 and 15 mos so they're not quite there yet, but they would sure love to be able to play with "pop-pop's" cars in the display case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 You're a lucky man, Rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramfins59 Posted May 22, 2014 Author Share Posted May 22, 2014 Thank you all so very much for all the great comments. I'm really looking forward to this. Harry, your time will come soon enough my man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Foxx Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Enjoy this time in your life , this is quality time , as a grandfather myself I can understand how much this means . One day he might be building awesome models like his grandad . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disabled modeler Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Great to hear Richard...Start him off building early a master builder in the works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffs396 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Cool Rich! Don't forget to post bench progress pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niteowl7710 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 My son is 15 months old, and today he came over while I was looking at the instructions to the Meng F-350, and he started pointing at the diagrams going "Waaaz zat? Waaaz ZAT?!?!" Hope that curiosity lasts long enough to indoctrinate a new generation. My Dad got me into building, but then never really built much of anything (with me or solo) afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie8575 Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Looking forward to the pictures of this. My parents' friends of about their age or a little older love doing all kinds of stuff with their grandkids, and my friends who have children for the most part like them doing things with them. My parents have only me, and well, I never got married or anything like that, but I try to make up for it with my friends' kids a little. Charlie Larkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToyLvr Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Good for you, Rich. And for those who have a kid in their life who's too young to start building, you can always take the kid to a car show. See attached...me and my grandson... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Hamilton Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I too enjoyed life with "Grandpa". He was a master craftsman who would show me woodworking, painting, auto mechanics, etc, and he did not do these things as a profession. Your grand son is a lucky fella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramfins59 Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 My day with A.J. was awesome. The first words out of him when he walked in the door were "Let's build a model." Before we started (actually, before I started), I gave him a stakebed pickup truck that had a liftgate on the back and stacks of oil cans and oil drums as a truck load. It had AAA batteries so the head and taillights lit. He was more happy playing with that truck than he was interested in building a model. I wound up putting together an Impala Police Car for him, which he loved. He did "help" a little by squeezing the sprue cutter to get some of the parts free. Then he wound up removing the stakebed sides of the truck and carrying the Police Car as a flatbed load. http://images60.fotki.com/v224/photos/9/3018309/13031096/007-vi.jpg http://images60.fotki.com/v224/photos/9/3018309/13031096/009-vi.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramfins59 Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 The above post doesn't show up, so I am "bumping" it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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