Does Box Art really sell kits? This seems to be one of those logical things we all believe. In my personal experience, I have only bought one kit because of the box art and that was a long time ago. I am much more likely to buy a kit based on the contents of the […]
Box Art – An Artist’s Perspective
I have been a ‘consumer’ of scale model related videos on YouTube for some years now. Some are great and some need work but all required some effort to get finished and published to the masses. I have been thinking about doing some how-to videos for a while. It only took a global pandemic and […]
Model Airplane Maker… now on YouTube
Revisiting the original My Forgotten Hobby
This is Post 499.
I started writing this blog on December 6, 2013.
It was just a way I had found to motivate myself in starting my forgotten hobby again, and build more than 50 model airplane kits I had in my stash.
I never intended to write that much, but I guess I got carried away. I should have known.
I owe a lot to Amateur Airplanes who is even more passionate than I am about building model airplanes and whose stash is a lot bigger than mine.
The F4F-4 Wilcat is my next project. It is somewhat special since I have been in contact with the son of Richard Harmer.
F4F-4 Wildcat of VF-5, over Guadalcanal circa August 1942
Monogram’s rendition of the Wildcat has been a part of my life since the 60s, and it still is. I can see myself in the early 60s…
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I believe this is how my first model kit looked like 62 years ago.
I found this image on the Internet this morning as I was looking for the box top of what I had built when I was 10 years-old.
What made me look was something Hubert wrote on his blog.
Reading some of Hubert’s posts I realize how much I enjoy what other modelers are building, so much so I tend to forget starting building again. I know I will a little later on, but for now I enjoy what I see not only on Hubert’s blog, but also on Dave’s Plane Dave and Jeff’s Inch High Guy.
My Forgotten Hobby III 