Harry P. Posted July 14, 2014 Posted July 14, 2014 We encouraged daddy and mommy to try soccer. What about junior?
Badluck 13 Posted July 14, 2014 Posted July 14, 2014 Thumbs up on the 4-H and MEGA thumbs up and congratulations to your Baby Girl for her work and prize ribbon!!!
peter31a Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 Jeff, great build by your daughter. Also interesting to hear the judging process at the county and it does seem it would weed out the parent built models. Congratulations!
MADDOG Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 OUTSTANDING!!!!! This gives me a warm happy feeling inside. It is super nice to see a Father and Daughter do such great work together. I also have a few Minicraft kits.... and mine were also very warped and needed much love to get them to fit. Again Congrats on you achievement!
Danno Posted July 16, 2014 Posted July 16, 2014 What about junior? He also encouraged them to try soccer.
clovis Posted July 17, 2014 Author Posted July 17, 2014 (edited) Thank you so much for the very kind replies, and very nice comments!!! My Chrissy has gotten a kick out of your posts and your kind words. I believe that she was smiling as much when we read them together as she was when she strolled through the fairgrounds after seeing that she took a Reserve Grand Champion. Again, thank you all for answering my questions on this forum. You've enabled me to be a better builder, and have helped me teach her on a higher level than I could have imagined. She is wanting to build the new Foose Camaro in 1/12, and we are seriously thinking about buying it for her now, instead of at Christmas. While we are very close, I relish the time that we've spent building. Sometimes it is hard for me to explain something so simple, and that I've done for years, and not reach over and pick up the brush and paint it for her! And again, I have to say that I was immensely proud of her presentation to the judge. She was almost perfect, and explained, step-by-step, how she completed each process of the build, especially the paint. Of course, the judge knew the salt and hairspray methods, but asked her to explain them in depth. She answered everyone of them with ease, and in a storytelling fashion...I was beaming inside! Again, thank you for letting me share with you all! Edited July 17, 2014 by clovis
Harry P. Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Now what better function could an online forum serve than that? Way to go, Jeff and Crissy.
Tom Geiger Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Great thread Jeff! And the important part is that your daughter will remember this the rest of her life. Note the above three photos of my daughter. She's now 30. Need I say more? Enjoy the ride with your daughter. Blink and you will be me.
clovis Posted July 17, 2014 Author Posted July 17, 2014 Great thread Jeff! And the important part is that your daughter will remember this the rest of her life. Note the above three photos of my daughter. She's now 30. Need I say more? Enjoy the ride with your daughter. Blink and you will be me. I love the pics of your daughter!!!! Thank you for the kind words. It seems like the last time that I blinked, she was still 6 years old...and now she is 13. And yes, I hope that she remembers us building together. I hope the lessons, pulled from both 4-H and model building, follow her until she is an old woman. I'm not just talking about spraying paint from a rattle can, or making a wash with paint and thinner, but that winners don't give up, people who win pay attention to details, sometimes you work your tail off, and still utterly lose, etc.
Badluck 13 Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 It seems like the last time that I blinked, she was still 6 years old...and now she is 13. OHhhhhh lord I know what you mean,just seems like yesterday I was taking her out of her car seat and in less than 2 months she will be 13...........Just like you I enjoy every minute with my Baby Girl.......... .............And now.....
clovis Posted July 17, 2014 Author Posted July 17, 2014 Mike, I love the pics of your daughter. You are a better father than I am. No way am I holding her model so she can spray paint it. My daughter actually asked me to hold the truck bed so she could paint the back! I gave her the 'dad look', and told her she needed to find the cardboard that we had been using for spraying, LOL,
Badluck 13 Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Awwww Jeff I love that picture of Chrissy at work,she's a sweetheart.....
Chuck Doan Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Awesome thread! Congratulations Chrissy! I hope you keep at it.
Tom Geiger Posted July 18, 2014 Posted July 18, 2014 Mike, great pictures. Here's my younger daughter Christie... she's now 26 and is a sales manager for Marriott.
clovis Posted July 19, 2014 Author Posted July 19, 2014 Okay, I admit...more shameless bumping of my thread!
Duane Nix Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 Jeff fantastic work my daughter is in 4H also what class or group is that entered ? Tell Chrissy outstanding!
clovis Posted July 19, 2014 Author Posted July 19, 2014 Her model was entered in the regular 4-H class of Models, under Trucks.
Badluck 13 Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 Tom,awesome sweet piture of your Baby Girl Christie,yeah 26 but still your baby girl and Jeff please keep bumpimg the thread with your baby girl as she deserves it
peter31a Posted July 23, 2014 Posted July 23, 2014 I don't know if Jeff or Chrissy mentioned it elsewhere in this thread or the build thread but they also sought the help of the Model A forum over at Fordbarn. The fellows there were more than happy to share their knowledge with Chrissy and are, like us here, tickled to see how well she did with this model. Again congratulations Chrissy.
clovis Posted July 24, 2014 Author Posted July 24, 2014 I don't know if Jeff or Chrissy mentioned it elsewhere in this thread or the build thread but they also sought the help of the Model A forum over at Fordbarn. The fellows there were more than happy to share their knowledge with Chrissy and are, like us here, tickled to see how well she did with this model. Again congratulations Chrissy. Now that just proves that it really is a small world. She did start a thread on Fordbarn. I was actually blown away by the kindness and helpfulness that she encountered on that site. I was a little worried that no one would answer the questions she had, and honestly,since I had never been on that forum, I was worried that a few people might even be mean to her. Again, I have been stunned by their kindness and helpfulness. Just when you get a little jaded by the entire world, you stumble across a group of people that are so kind, that it is actually humbling. Thank you for your kind words, Peter, and a double thank you if you helped her on her research thread on Fordbarn.
peter31a Posted July 24, 2014 Posted July 24, 2014 Actually I didn't chime in there as I more lurk there than participate unlike here. But the members there seemed to be answering all the questions quickly. They were happy to have a young person interested in Model A's even if it was only for the purpose of building a model. I didn't clue in to the connection until Chrissy posted about winning for her model over on Fordbarn. Then slow brains here figured out that it was the same one as here on Model Cars. Ohhhh!
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