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Had a flash back to the time I glued together plastic model airplane kits.
WW1, WW2, Korean War. British, American, Japanese, German, ....
I had a regular summer job and saved up to buy them one at a time. My friends did similarly.
We would hang them with thin string or threads for the ceiling in such a way as they looked like they were in combat. Is this still a hobby these days? My kids did for a while.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I used to have the same hobby, too many moons ago. I know that you can still buy them, so I assume that people are still building them.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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quite expensive - tailored to us old farts.
hmm, retirement plan - buy and stock... kidding.
I remember having undeclared painting contests with my Dad. I would watch how he did this and that. He was insane but not totally so - he had friends in R/C aircraft, he did you control. But I remember many nights when I was 10-15 - he'd be painting his planes with "dope" - look it up - in a small room with an open cigarrete. How we did not blow up... slower times.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Still do.., get in a that looks/looked cool research hole end up building a kit of them. Some paints are hard to get these days...
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I used to build tons of them... Gluing, painting... Fun times...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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I agree.
Over the years with having sons and moving to new houses, the collection did not survive.
If memory serves some just few apart because of poor gluing, dried out decals, etc. Plus UV takes it's toll over time.
I think I am going to buy and build a model. I miss that process.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Plastic models? you have to be kidding... wusses?
In the "real" good old days, there were the joys of cutting out balsa wood parts with an xacto knife. Had to keep the band-aids handy. Never got very good at the paper skin and Dope part.
Klutz I was, Klutz I am.
Dope=lacquer=nail polish.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Dope Duude! oh carry on. Xacto is that old or do you mean Razor blade...
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That's what I had - a razor blade from my dad's old double sided hand razor. Some of my glued joints had a faint reddish tinge to them for some reason. 
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did that too.
I still have that old exacto kit.
Those models mostly crashed and broke.
Remember the movie "Flight of the Phoenix" 1965 version.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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When I was at junior school (so 8, 9, 10 years old?) one day our teacher gave us blocks of balsa and Stanley knives, told us to carve something. I ended up with the blade in my thumb, and recall looking into the gash and thinking "oh, that white stuff must be my bone". I was walked home by my teacher (teachers couldn't afford cars those days, and it wasn't a big enough emergency to resort to a telephone call home) who had to very apologetically explain to my mother why my clothes were covered in blood. No stitches, just a bandage.
I still have the scar.
Later yes, dozens of model planes (and other stuff) dangling from the ceiling. Later my son did similar (model kits, not Stanley knives)
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Have few "unfinished" - including old trolley ( Ho scale) I used to ride to school...
Looking for WWII German "kubelwagon" (sic??) - got "Jeep"... or Russian "ZIS5 truck
(see opening scene of "T34" movie --- that one... field kitchen optional...)
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Just bought some models from Amazon.
Revell Spitfire Mk.II Model...
Revell 1:48 P - 40B Tiger S.
Revell Of Germany Fokker Dr.1 PL Triplane
Regressing to childhood.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I would be suprised if they still sell the glue.
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Yeah, the glue. They changed the formula back in the 60's, I think and it never held as well as the original formula. Apparently, some people bought the glue for sniffing, rather than gluing. I did some planes, a cruise liner, the Enterprise Aircraft Carrier, and a number of model cars. I only attempted painting the cars. Nothing survived past my high school years. My kids were never interested in model building.
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In my twenties I switched to using MekPak, a liquid solvent for polystyrene. You had to be careful, but no "strings" of glue, set faster, and was effectively "welding" the parts together. Applied with a fine paintbrush.
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they do on amazon
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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not surprised. good application if one has the input data
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Serious question. I get the "general" nature of development things, but most of the stuff I've seen in the last few years - meh. It's all fluff.
Looking at my solid oak bookcase, I have about 40 books of various types on the shelves. In general, I have found the bookcase, my desk (lawyer sized solid oak), and credenza to be horizontal collection devices (think about that). About 1/3 of the books are cooking books - yes I'm getting tired of the tech, I'm seriously done with the tech BS. You youngsters are so screwed.
Going to donate them to the local high school...
Meanwhile, I'm just amazed at how us techies have moved on. I have not seen decent documentation since my openVMS days - and I KNEW where to find stuff in the large gray wall. Further, it was actually useful. Unlike the reprocessed garbage from MS. The last good book I read about MS was pure code related, but the name escapes me.
Pretty sure MS has an idiot AI generating "technical" doc for their products.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: bother with tech books
IMHO, as experience builds up, we ourselves become the "tech books" for juniors. They don't need to refer to manuals anymore.
For everything else, there's Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo.
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Yes. Yes I do. In fact, I just bought several books on x86 Assembler, AAarch64 Assembler, Rust, and Python. I prefer having paper in front of me as well as online resources.
I also have kept all of my EE books (I specialized in communications systems in the microwave region) and my original notes from college (converted to searchable PDF) which have been more valuable in a lot of cases than online documentation.
That's just me though, I'm pretty old school paper and pencil when it comes to engineering stuff. I learn better that way.
-Sean
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Fire Nuts
modified 18-Mar-24 23:50pm.
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nope "
That's just me though "
has to do with basic physics. left that long ago and regret it.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Converting your college notes to pdf is a pretty cool move. I hauled a couple of boxes around for a long time containing my college notes and texts. After the first couple of years, I never referred to them again.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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