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Frank J Andruss Sr
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 Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 2:52pm
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hell were almost related...............
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Apr 19, 2009 - 7:55pm
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Yes Frank Sr! The sound the dripping plastic made! I forgot all about that, a sort of buzzing whistle that got higher pitched as it fell? I'm going to have to dig up a piece of sprue now or pinch some from a now rather decrepit Cutty Sark model I built as a teen.
I guess I was about 10 when I got a Cox powered open wheel Indy car that ran in a circle on a string. I couldn't get it going and Dad took it to the hobby shop where they had no problem. I must have tried a dozen times after that but no dice. Naturally I could get it running in the back yard but every time I'd go to a parking lot and stick a nail in the blacktop, nothing.
I built a lot of the balsa/tissue models too Frank Jr. They were affordable and fun to build. I took a Guillows Stuka to a local R/C field and asked if I could fly it when nobody was flying the big boys. Naturally they agreed and it flew well. The landing was a bit hard on it though. One of the guys was impressed, he said it was the only time he saw a rubber band powered scale (sort of) plane actually fly. Another I built was a beautifully lined Italian fighter, I forget the name, it might of been a Macchi? It was fairly large and made by a company I hadn't heard of before, relatively expensive and a very nice kit. After white tissuing, I tried spray dope for the first time, a forest green. It broke my heart to see the whole plane pretzel up as it dried, I must have sprayed way too heavy...
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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Posted on: Apr 20, 2009 - 4:24am
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Jeff D.
I love these old stories about our modeling endeavers, although off the beaten track concering PT BOATS. I used to love the old wind up metal toy boats too. I must have had 20 of the darn things in our Family pool. We used to talke some over to a place called Robison Park, where they had a small pond. Wind um up, and let um go. We spent more time chasing the darn things.
Us Kids were big into the old balsa planes. Buy them for .10 cents a piece. You are right, the rubber band planes, never really flew for beans. Ahh, those were the days..........
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TGConnelly
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Posted on: Apr 20, 2009 - 7:53am
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I think we are Frank...........
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Apr 20, 2009 - 8:11am
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Guys;
As Frank said this is off the subject, but I remember I was 11 or 12 before I spilt my first drop of blood for the modeling hobby. I had been building models for a few years and was doing fine, until Dad bought me Monograms 1/32nd scale Lee tank. I started reading Shep Paine's diorama leaflet included in the models box. Man when I saw that cool diorama of the tank in Tunisa, and the crew out digging up land mines, I had to try it. So I went to the garage, got Dads retractible carpet knife and I had to open that side door. So instead of heating the knife, I decided one day before school, to try and cut through the plastic, well I was going fine until I figured it would take all day to cut through so I pressed harder...yeah thats better...OOPS! I slipped with the knife and stabbed myself in the left index finger, all the way to the bone. Dad! No school today! as I ran to the bathroom, blood dripping everywhere. Well soon I was sitting in Dad's 1966 Rambler Ambassador station wagon on the way to Lakeside Hospital Emergency room. 4 stitches later and I got to stay home. You know the novicain the nurse shot into my finger hurt worse than the injury itself! In a few days I was back to work on the Lee tank and I got that door open the right way this time.
Yes, Frank the B-17 is my favorite too, I built 10 of them over the years, most I painted my own nose art and their all in boxes in my attic today. I have read almost everything printed about B17's. It was only later that I found out my Dad's brother in law at the time was a B17 pilot with the 388th BG and was shot down over Brux, Checkoslovakia on August 24, 1944. I hope one day you get the thrill I did. After we moved down to Virginia, I was in my 20's and I drove up with my Mom to Dover Air Force base. The Shoo Shoo Baby had just completed restoration, and they were going to fly the plane to Wright Patterson in Ohio. I found out take off was 10 am. Well when we got up there, there she sat just inside the hanger looking as new as she did in 1944. I soon found out that they had determined the winds were too strong to risk The Baby, so take off was posponed to the following day. I was bummed I had my camera, leather jacket, and my 50 mission crush in the car just for the occasion. Mom being Mom said well we drove up here for 2 1/2 hours why not take some photos in front of her, so I did. Then an old top turret gunner, who was a volunteer guide, strolled over to us and began to talk to us. The next thing I know he says, want to go inside? I said are you kidding? YEAH!! So we entered through the waist door and before long we were giving each other a tour as I was telling him, some stuff he had forgotten, like rates of fire for the .50 cal and other things. I really had to bite my tongue and let him talk, I was so excited I was about to up chuck every bit of B17 info I ever read. I took a deep breath and maintained my cool. He showed me the ball turret, Then I asked can we go up to the flight deck? We went through the radio room and the through the bomb bay. You have to walk through the top turret to get to the pilot and co-pilot seats, an eerie feeling came over me as if I had been here before, I sat in the left hand seat and took the wheel in my hands, it was great! I opened the pilots window put my 50 mission crush on and yelled to my Mom to snap a photo, then I turned to my guide and I said well now that thats over with, lets start this baby up and I reached for the #1 starter switch, my guide was stunned that I knew exactly were if was and his face went as white as a sheet! After telling him I was just kidding, he took me down into the nose, to check out the bombadier and navigators positions. Then I swung out the nose hatch like Gregory Peck in 12 o'clock high. A bunch of B17 veteran pilots were talking with my Mom by now and one said to her " Hey thats how we used to get out"! The Next morning Shoo Shoo Baby flew to Ohio, but I still have my photo!
Great time!! I really have to stop writing these books on the message board!
Take care,
TED
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Apr 20, 2009 - 8:58am
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Maybe we should have Dick move a bunch of this to a new thread, "O/T, Overgrown Boys And Their Toys". And I bet we could fill another up, "Injuries Sustained Whilst Modeling"... I got the web between two fingers with a razor blade once, the Dr complained what a pain it was to stitch up. And several scars from sticking Xacto knives into my thighs...
One of my best birthdays was when my aunt took me to a big department store and I got two models, a B-17 and a B-24. I didn't do them justice being only about 8yo but it's one of the few early events I remember from that age. I sure wish I could have taken a tour like you did though Ted.. maybe one day, I ain't dead yet.
They have some cool B-17 manual stuff at these sites:
http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/B17STUFF.html
http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/mshwpmn1.htm
One site I found while researching the .50 cal. gun that has tons of WWII (mostly) aircraft related manuals, but is currently down, is:
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/
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FRANK |
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Posted on: Apr 20, 2009 - 1:59pm
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I remember when I was about 8 or so my Uncle Ben had given me a Christmas Present of the "Korean War Wings" model collection. There were four kits inside.
I begged my Dad to help me build my very first model airplane on a snowy Saturday after Christmas. I picked out the MIG and Dad and I carefully put the model together. Being an early '50's model there were only a dozen pieces or so to the model. The fact that my Dad and I worked on this model made it very special indeed.
We lived in an apartment building then and we has kerosen for our kitchen stove. After the model was completed, Dad placed the model on the ledge of the stove over the flat top burner to dry.
My Mom always had a canary all her life and we had one named Tweety. After a while I noticed a very strange odor whafting up from the top of the kerosean stove. The rising heat from the stove got beneath the wing of the little model MIG and toppled it onto the stove top. The model melted into a silvery gray mass of hot plastic. The smell was horrific!! As cold as it was Dad opened up the windows in the kitchen to air out the smell.
We then heard a plop from Tweety's cage as he went beak and belly up from his perch.
I remember taking a cab to the local Woolworth's that aftertnoon to subside Mom's crying over her now deceased canary. Dad bought Mom another Tweety # 2 to replace # 1.
Dad and I finished the other three models and this time put them on the window sill to dry. That was my first experience with model building.
Remember when Big Daddy Roth had the Revell models of Mother's Worry and the Rat Fink? Boy, did my Mom ever hate those things!
Frank Ryczek, Jr.
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TGConnelly
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Posted on: Apr 20, 2009 - 2:57pm
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I would love it if Revell would re-tool the Higgins kit and put better .50s in the 109 kit and in the Vosper kit, and also reissue the 190 kit with better Mark XIII torpedoes ...............
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PeterTareBuilder
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Posted on: Apr 20, 2009 - 7:30pm
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Hi there.
TGConnely wrote: "I would love it if Revell would re-tool the Higgins kit and put better .50s in the 109 kit and in the Vosper kit, and also reissue the 190 kit with better Mark XIII torpedoes ..............."
And if they did retool the Higgins wouldn't it be fantastic if they panto-engraved new moulds in 1/72 scale?
Cheers from PeterTareBuilder
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