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TGConnelly
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Posted on: Apr 18, 2009 - 4:25pm
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Mine just snapped ....................
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Posted on: Apr 18, 2009 - 6:04pm
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Hey Jeff-
How far is Palm Beach from Jacksonville, buddy?? Do you have any scale boats, PT's and scale ships floating as well??
You wouldn't just happen to be a member of the WAVE BLASTERS R/C Model Boat Club, would ya?? I was just wondering?? I just sent them a bunch of photos from our clubs past regattas to add to their website.
Frank A.-
At our scale model boat pond at Amelia Island, Florida, we have the use of the lake off one of the glof greens. We have a lot of scale Navy ships in our club, the PIRATE'S FLAG ( the FLAG stands for Florida and Georgia, just in case you all were wondering) Model Boat Club of Fernandina Beach, FL. One guy has a 1/32 scale model of the USS Missouri. This sucker is built in two sections so that he can get it into his Mustang convertable. The bow and stern sections are joined via carriage bolts and wing nuts inside the hull. This model is about 10-11 feet long! The builder included firing black powder charges from the big guns. He operates this monster via a full house 7 channel system including an on board sound system as well. I run shotgun with my PT-169 along side. Very hard to tell from the real thing!!
At our last club regatta Ol' Ralph got carried away and put in a double round of black powder in one of the gun barrels. When he lit off the charge it blew the whole gun deck off the model! Needless to say, it got everybodies attention really fast!
Our club is sactioned by the SSMANA, the Scale Ship Modelers Association of North America. We carry some 2 million bucks worth of insurance in the event a bystander gets to close to a model and pokes an eye out on the mast or falls in the lake. It hasn't happened yet, God forbid!!
As for the models firing BB's!!! Our insurance strictly forbids any projectile being expelled from the model. Yes, I agree it sure looks like a heck of a lot of fun but not on our lake, no dice. Do we have fun otherwise, Hell YES!!!!
Thanks for letting me share, fellas!!
Frank Ryczek, Jr.
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 4:47am
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While we're on this subject...I built one of the Lindberg 1/64th scale PT 109's as a static kit for a project on U.S. Presidents during my first year or two in high school. I settled for the Lindberg kit because I couldn't find one of the Revell 1/72nd kits, which I preferred. I remember being a little disconcerted at the time by the Lindberg kit's later-model Elco engine room ventilator...
The nuns who taught at my school were from an order based in New Jersey, and they all had absolutely LOVED JFK.
They loved my Lindberg PT 109, too. I got an A+ for the project, and the model occupied a place of honor in one of the glass display cases in our school library for a couple of months.
I got the model back, but of course it was eventually destroyed by my little brothers, who regularly burgled their way into my room while I was otherwise occupied with an after-school job or sports practice and "played" with my painstakingly-built models until they broke.
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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 Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 5:32am
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Although as a youngster, I enjoyed building many plastic models, I was certainly not in the caliber of some of the guys on this board. I can remember as a 10 year old, running to Zayre Department Store and buying PT 109 in 1/72 scale (As if I knew what that meant back then), geting it home, and slapping it together. No paint, no scraping of the parts, just crude building. Brother that sat in my room for the logest time until Mom (the original Marie Barone) tried to dust it.
It hit the ground (no carpet in those days) and broke. Before Mom could retrive the boat, my dog Lassie grabbed it and high-tailed it into the Living Room, chomping it pretty good until Mom could grab it from her. Coming home from School, there sat my PT 109 crumpled on the Table, with Mom doing her best to explain ( I think she might have even had homemade cookies for this explaination). All was ok though, as when Dad heard the story, he flipped me another .50 cents, and I was in business again. I never did get another PT BOAT. Instead, I bought one of the B-17 Bombers from the Twelve O' Clock High TV Show. Funny, I had not thought about this until we started to talk about models on this message board.
Now, I don't know about you guys, but outside of PT BOATS, the B-17 would be my next choice for favorite thing. I just love that Plane. By the way, I used to go outside with my friends, and pretend they got hit by Flack. I would light one of the engines on fire. I must say it was pretty cool flying the model with one hand, and pretending she was going down. Mom caught me a few times, and I caught heck from her, then by Dad too. Great tmes for sure...............
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 6:21am
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I'm about 30 miles S of West Palm Beach, in SE Fl Frank. As we say in the South, a fur piece down yonder. I'd love to see your display and check out your clubs lake action one day. I'd have to get a crowbar to pry my butt off this computer chair and save up some gas money for my 8mpg ride though... The Wave Blasters sure sounds familiar but I was active in the 80's so my memory is a little dim. Then one of life's sucker punches hit and I sold off my R/C fleet, all I have left is a few race boats, a Tamiya King Tiger, 2 cars, and a huge fiberglass DE hull/deck I won at a raffle. It ain't as big as that Missouri model, man I'd love to see that one!
We came close to using our insurance once, a runaway twin engine hydro went through the heavy safety netting and into the bleachers. Thank God it hit in an empty area. It was a large Open class rigger and could easily have killed someone.
I hope to make it there one day Frank!
Frank Sr, that burning plastic sure sticks well to skin don't it?
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 6:30am
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Jeff D.
Your not kidding, I forgot to mention that one. And if I remember, when the plastic really got going, and started to drip, it made a cool noise. We also used to burn our Army men using a Wood Burning Tool. Goofy Kids I guess, but we wanted it to look real...........
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TGConnelly
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Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 8:15am
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Oh my god, ... Zayre's ..... THAT brings back memories ..............
No Frank, MY mother is the model for Marie Barone. TRUST ME.
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FRANK |
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Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 9:17am
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WOW, the memories you guys are are bringing to my mind.
Yeah, Frank A. I remember my room at the age of 10-13. I had every Jo-Han plastic car slam glued together on top of my dresser. Not one of them were ever painted. They were all white plastic with a few decals. At that time in my life and most young guys, I thought that the decals were the coolest thing. Remember the MOON EYES ???
My Dad bought me a Cox Bird Dog .049 controline line airplane model for my birthday when I was 13. That was it for the plastic car models from then on. I loved the noise of the motor and the smell of the fuel fumes. At that age what did we know of the toxic properties of that fuel mix. It lingered on our pants and clothes and skins for weeks, but like Alfred E. Neuman says- What Me Worry???!!!
I then starterd building balsa model airplanes then and couldn't wait to go flying. I think it was the spinning around really fast then having the plane and you yourself crashing to the ground in unison. We called it FUN! Pure and simple!
A couple of other guys in the neighborhood got the shot in the arm because we always had "junkers" that the new guys could learn on and if they crashed and burned-so what. I remember putting back the pieces of crashed balsa planes with straight pins and good ol' Amboid glue. That stuff was fantastic and very strong adhesive! I think they still make the stuff!
Just before winter would set in, all the guys in the neighborhood would bring out their "junkers" and there was always one kid who had saved his cherry bombs from the 4th of July. We would tape a fire cracker to the fuseladge, start the engine light the fuse and let her go. Usually the added weight of the cherry bomb made the plane fly erractic but we didn't care. Then BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! The plane would go off in a gazillion pieces. We would salvadge what we could and save the motors and start building all winter long. When spring came knocking, the whole process started all over again!
When I in my early 20's I joined a local model airplane club, The Perth Amboy Model Airplane Club.I think they might still be around! This was the late '60's guys! I remember taking on the job of vice-president back then. This was strictly a control line model airplane club. Radio control was just out of our league and way too expensive for most of the guys. We designed our own wings and planes. Man that was fun! I guess this is where my modeling experiences grew from!
Thanks for stirring up the ol' stew pot of memories and letting me share mine!
Frank Ryczek, Jr.
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 1:56pm
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Frank
I could go on for hours, but that would leave no room for you guys to type in your model memories. Speaking of cars, I remember going to Zayre Department Store (its the only place we had then, except for the 5 and dime) and buying the cool cars from The Munsters. Man, I thought that was awesome. I think my head hit the clouds when PT 73 came out from Mcale's Navy. I thought I was a big shot, because I spent all my allowence on purchasing two of them. I made one that had the decals of PT 73 on her hull, and the other had PT 37.
Ya know I remember getting those at the Zayre special for roughly $1.00 for both of them. Wish I had the foresight to buy 100 of the darn things. I could have cleaned up now at the prices they command for that Kit. Oh, and by the way I also had that awesome Submarine from Voyage to the bottom of the Sea, soooo cool. And like Frank said, no paint was ever applied to any of the models in those days. The decals were plenty of color for the models. Boy my mind is racing, I also bought the superman figure, spiderman, Thor, Thing, and Batman Car, among so many others too numerous to print here.
It was a great time in my young model building life, but something you always hold onto. By the way Garth, my Marie Barone, is not only named Marie, but is 100% Italian, and just as tough. Come on guys, keep the memories coming.
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TGConnelly
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Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 2:21pm
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Mine is Rita Marie andis also 100% Italian as well.
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