14 years old Me predicting the future

[disconovaman]

I was doing some spring cleaning and found some old photos of my model collection from 32 or 33 years ago. This is where it all started for me and I just wanted to share.  When I look at these pictures I can't help but hear a voice saying "You will build models and take pictures of them 30 years from now"... ? This was the first time pics were taken of my models... 

I can look back and remember each experience with these models but I can't remember what I did yesterday... Is that wrong? ? Although these are long gong most are repopped and readily available. I may have to replicate these builds just for the memories... Thanks for looking 

Have a good day.. 

Edited April 20, 2020 by disconovaman

[Brudda]

Cool!!!

[Scott8950]

Those are very cool... I would love to have the collection i had as a teen. I remember being at a flea market with my dad when he bought me a big box of promo cars ?

[Safire6]

That is cool, wish I had taken some pics o the models I build when I was a kid!  Or better yet-saved some of them. Four of my last builds are some of the same cars that I built when I was around 14 or so. ('66 Galaxie 500, Peterbilt 352, T'rantula and Tony Nancy front engine dragster.)

 

 

 

[espo]

Thanks for sharing. Do you still have any of these ? 

[disconovaman]

9 hours ago, espo said:

Do you still have any of these ? 

Unfortunately I do not... Between me giving away my built kits and mom's yard sales I have no kits I built before 1990.

I had a high school friend who had a guest house behind his parents. We would hang out there after school.  Around our Junior year his parents let him move in and live there by himself. (28 years ago)...The house had these built in glass cases and we filled them up with my models.

Last year I seen him and we caught up on life. He has built a house on land he owned behind the house. I asked him whatever happened to all those models and he just said they're gone man. I was hanging on the idea that they were still in those cases... wishful thinking I guess...

[Italianhorses]

Very cool indeed, these pictures are bringing back memories of my own model collection I had when I was a kid....

[vamach1]

I dug out my photos from the 80's when I was in my 20's.  A few ended up as donors or were replaced by better built ones or got broken.  I do have most everything I built since the 90's and I post pictures of those when someone mentions a particular kit or resin body that is not longer available.  The photo with the six Mustangs was the early 80's and none survived as is and they all became parts cars.  I still have the Iron Horse body (later painted purple) and I bought another Japanese Otaki Mach1 and redid "my car" so there isn't really a nostalgia factor as I have all of these kits and have built many of them in multiple versions.   There are a few 1/43 kits in the group photo in case anyone is wondering.

[Gramps46]

I am very fortunate to have pictures from the early '60s of the models I had then.  These appeared in the local newspaper.

[disconovaman]

10 hours ago, vamach1 said:

I dug out my photos from the 80's when I was in my 20's.

This is Awesome! Back in the day this would've been such a foreign concept to take pictures of model cars. The average preson didn't own an expensive 35 mm camera so it really never occured to take close up photos like we do today with smart phones. Technology has advanced, if you think about it though... box top photos were often of the real model and those pictures were really great, so technology was there.

I had a buddy in high school, his mom was a photographer and she took some photos of our models (around 1991)  I was amazed, I think I have them some where. Now I have to find them. If any one else has photos of models built in the early days I would love to see them!

Edited April 20, 2020 by disconovaman

[disconovaman]

11 minutes ago, Gramps46 said:

from the early '60s of the models I had then

 That is Amazing!  Man, just think how much value there is in those photos, and how much they would be worth today!

Edited April 20, 2020 by disconovaman

[disconovaman]

   I found photos of this monster truck ( Revell 56 Ford) I built back in 1991 the Porsche is my friend's he wasn't really a builder until I got him into it... I helped him paint and get the car together and it turned out good...His mom took these photos for us...

She was really supportive of him and she offered to take the photos since it's what she did for the newspaper and local magazines... He liked the truck so much that I just gave it to him... I'm glad I have these photos to remind me of it.

[PappyD340]

Very cool!!

[jsc]

"I can look back and remember each experience with these models but I can't remember what I did yesterday."  I'm with you on that!  Great memories 

[NOBLNG]

I would love to have the models I built as a kid, or even photos. My parents never had a camera. My older sister who no longer lived in our town did ( I remember it took flash bulbs!) and that is likely who took the few pictures of the family back then. Later she got one that took flash cubes...remember those? My models certainly didn’t merit photos!

I can only remember the Horn Toad kit, a Pinto drag car, a Chevelle that I turned into a truck, and a ‘53 Chevy panel wagon. I know I did more but memory fails me.

Edited April 26, 2020 by NOBLNG

[disconovaman]

20 hours ago, jsc said:

Great memories 

Indeed, and I implore you to put those memories to use and build a kit that you built back in the day exactly how it was built... Err... or aleast the same colors and style lol... I guarantee you will relive those Great memories... 

The first model I ever built was a Monogram 57 Chevy... I was 12... I'd been messing with garage and yard sale built ups and junk given to me before the 57 but this was the first one brand new from a store (Kmart). I painted it Sapphire Blue with a white top and I used the flame decals in the box. I loved that car. I would stare at it on the shelf for hours it seemed. I really want to recreate that kit some day... But I'll struggle with keeping it simple, (gloss black brush paint and silver trim) I just know it. Lol...

Edited April 26, 2020 by disconovaman

[disconovaman]

19 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

remember those? My models certainly didn’t merit photos!

I do remember those! My models were not ready for any model car magizines by far... But I did present them at many a Show & Tell at school around 4th and 5th Grade... ?  The Chevelle into a truck (Elcamino) sounds fun. The pinto and 53 Chevy Panel are kits I built as well... I'm sitting here recounting what I did with each and every one of them now...

I started this in 1990 never finished it (gave it away) but last year it found its way back to me...

[Dragonhawk1066]

Looks like you had a nice collection there. Like most of us, I don't still have any of my kits from my youth in the 80's into my 20's in the early 90's. I have a few pics like yourself to remember some of them by, but seriously wish I could have them back, lol.

[NOBLNG]

3 hours ago, disconovaman said:

The Chevelle into a truck (Elcamino) sounds fun. The pinto and 53 Chevy Panel are kits I built as well...

Funny, the panel wagon just popped into memory as I was reading this thread. I remember that I had painted it red, white and blue, but didn’t know what make it was...so I googled “Revell Panel Wagon” and came up with this pic!? And that’s what it was!

[disconovaman]

56 minutes ago, Dragonhawk1066 said:

wish I could have them back

It's like a sad ending to a movie every time I hear that the models in the photos didn't survive. I had many of the kits that you have built in the photos and I can't beleive that not one is with me... I'm hoping that some of my built kits are packed away in someone's basement waiting to get discovered... 

52 minutes ago, NOBLNG said:

the panel wagon just popped into memory as I was reading this thread. I remember

Mine was the 80's repop and I think it was like a Red with neon scribbles? on the decal sheet. Pretty sure Revell "De-gassered" on the box art aleast...

[disconovaman]

Well I guess mine was the 54 Panel... I just found this photo on Google... Different kit maybe the doors opened? on the 54? Can't remember now I don't think they do on the 53 Gasser... 

[Oldcarfan27]

19 hours ago, disconovaman said:

Well I guess mine was the 54 Panel... I just found this photo on Google... Different kit maybe the doors opened? on the 54? Can't remember now I don't think they do on the 53 Gasser... 

Cool thing about this kit, the doors open up if you cut them out and use the supplied hinges to make them work. 

So yes, the 53 and 54 panels are the same.

[disconovaman]

14 minutes ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

the doors open up if you cut them out

I must've cut them out lol... I do remember they were opened on my shelf...  I remember almost all those builds but the bad thing is... I couldn't say for sure where and who they all went too... I went through a phase where I would build all of one company and those old Revell repops  were marked down every time I was at Rose's?