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steve  ·  1117 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Coolest Aircraft the Year you were Born

Back in our day, we just had those little balsa wood gliders. That’s the way it was... AND WE LIKED IT





kleinbl00  ·  1116 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My dad hit me with this one whenever I built anything plastic. "real" models were those that could fly, dammit, but god help you if you ever actually tried to because in general you spent a week using Elmer's to painstakingly string runners between bulkheads, then another three days carefully plastering tissue paper over spars, and then you'd throw it into a cactus and be done.

WEEKS. WEEKS he spent on that thing, monopolizing the dinner table every night, and then he pussied out and didn't even skin it.

OR PUT THE MISSILES ON.

These took up room in my closet. He'd open 'em up every now and then, stare at them, and put them back. As an objet d'art they were aight but it's like... "I build you a goddamn P38 every year, dad, and including the dry brushing and decals it's like three evenings"

WanderingEng  ·  1117 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I remember those gliders. Did you have the ones with a plastic propeller and rubber band, too?

steve  ·  1116 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep... and even landing gear - if you were lucky they could take off and land all on their own!