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JPTRR
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Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 04:48 AM UTC

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The plastic kits - mostly aircraft - I built in my youth from the late 1950´s to the late 1960´s never got out of my mind. They have been lost long since, but even 45 years later I´m still able to list all these kits.

My memories of early modelling are recorded in the section How it all Began of this website. Together with books and magazines form the 50´s and 60´s these kits laid the foundation of my current interest in aviation.



AN AVIATION ENTHUSIAST´S KIT COLLECTION
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Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 10:38 AM UTC
Thanks to Fred, JPTRR, for the link to the model collector of old kits. Although I don't remember many of these kits, I was born in 1966. I enjoy very much the imaginative box art that accompanied kits of the time.

I do remember being able to go into a hardware store in Danville, Illinois in the mid 1970's and buy a B-17 in, of course, 1/72 scale. This was the one with the art of the bomber with its bomb bays open, the aircraft in the process of disgorging its bomb load!

Thanks again Fred. Russell
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