gkmoberg1 wrote:My father passed away a long time back. It'll be twenty years in just a month. Amazing. Wow. That really is starling to me to realize and contemplate. - Um, what I want to get to is he was interested in modeling just as you are doing. He had an array of similar efforts to what you are doing here. I recall a Tiger tank that could be taken apart. We could look at the interior of the turret and where the different members of the tank's team would sit. And then also a much larger German WWII tank destroyer machine which gave me nightmares. And then a FW190 which could be opened up to see the cockpit and the engine - which was intensely intricate. But also, there was a very large B-36 which I do not think he ever completed. The parts for it were plastic but they were of a superior quality in both the casting and feel. Also a Titanic model - again with superior quality pieces. I don't think he completed that either. Your pictures and the detail of your work in these models reminds me of all this. Dang, I need to find out whatever became of what he built. I have no idea.
Well, they probably went the way of all plastic models over time...destruction. Although, I still have some 1:24 scale tank models (including a Tiger with interior) in a box in the basement, and a big Guillows Stearman biplane that Dad gave me when I was little. Maybe I'll dig those out & share some pics if you're interested.
The great thing about plastic models is that you can usually still find kits around to build a new one, if you really liked one you made before. Like a recipe, in this sense they participate in a kind of immortality.
