BTW, I did start this forum for those who are going to engage the MMM '22.
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With me it was Woolworth's or Roush Hardware: $0.49 Revell kits, $0.98 Monogram 1/4 scale kits. Buy a kit? buy a book? SciFi magazine? Fortunately, I had about 5 schemes to make money going on and would occasionally spring for a book and a kit!Jeff, as a teen, I would get $1USD as allowance on Friday when Dad got home. Early, right after breakfast, I would literally run the eight city blocks to Woolworth's, straight to their toy aisle, and pick out an ERTL/ESCI armor kit for $0.88USD. Taxes brought it to $0.95USD and the nickel went into a machine to get a jawbreaker for the sugar rush to run home and finish the kit by Sunday night. It took an upside slap on the back of the head to start saving the nickels and I would have an extra kit every few months. o
Ah, the god ol' days before accuracy meant anything. Then, I discovered IPMS and a wonderful series of articles converting these tiny kits. The rest, as they say, is history!
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That tiny printed thing... somehow, I can see you scratch-building the ORCA to the same scale:I have an idea. A teensie-weensie idea!
Oh wow, that little shuttle reminded me of a "UFO" kit I had which was made with "glow in the dar" plastic and had a shuttle as well. It was a gift and I surprisingly liked it. I had been hoping for the Revell "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Corsair.I remember the Ben Franklin in downtown Broken Arrow. It had a model area about 3ft wide and 6ft tall. I remember getting the old Revell B-17 Memphis Belle, a Liberator, Catalina, and a Dam Buster. Also my brother won $5 at church bingo one time and we shared it and I was able to buy the Hawk Atlas space station which had two yellow tiangular shuttles for return to earth. I still have one of the shuttles that sits on my alarm clock.
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And many happy returns, Senor. I already make the Orca in 1/350 with a clownfish and scale 25-foot Great White shark. Then also in 1/700 scale, sans clown fish and Mr. Whitey.That tiny printed thing... somehow, I can see you scratch-building the ORCA to the same scale:
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I had at least two of these! Was a favorite kit! Anyone remember the Aurora WW1 triplanes in that odd translucent red plastic?Oh wow, that little shuttle reminded me of a "UFO" kit I had which was made with "glow in the dar" plastic and had a shuttle as well. It was a gift and I surprisingly liked it. I had been hoping for the Revell "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Corsair.
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This one was it...
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I had at least two of these! Was a favorite kit! Anyone remember the Aurora WW1 triplanes in that odd translucent red plastic?