[WWI] " Do kids still build models........?

[Dave Calhoun]

My 6 year old son has been building models for about 2 years so far, basically he started with a spider Man kit which I helped him to paint, then I bought him a bunch of the Toy Biz marvel Comics kits from the 1990's which are a little harder for him to do but he uses sprue cutters and sanding sticks to get them nice, and he even spray painted the Silver Surfer by himself.  The 3 OT kits he did were the quick build series of pre painted plastic kits that measure out to about 1/32 scale and are like a snap tite but use small screws to hold them together.  He did the sopwith Camel, Fokker Triplane (all red like in Flyboys) and the Fokker D.VII.  I still have the SPAD VII somewhere for him to build, just wish there was a Nieuport 17 in the series...maybe next year i'll let him work on a Testors Nieuport 17 or a Glencoe Pfalz I have around.  
      And Warren brought back some long forgotten memories with Snoopy and the Red Baron.   Now that I think about it my first OT kit was a Monogram kit of Snoopy's Sopwith Camel, a snap tite kit with yellow plane, red cowl, black & white snoopy and his dog house for a stand, all plastic parts were molded in color, no painting required.  it had an electric motor to turn the prop .  I got it in the early 1970's when I was about 6 or so and unfortunately have never seen them reissued.  Would like to see this one again so I could buy it for my son.
Dave

 " Do kids still build models........?

                                               J.R. Boye "
 
J.R.,
       I think that the only kids that build models anymore are the ones who
have parents that model, or attempt to, such as myself. I am sure there are
exceptions. Growing up in the 60's and 70's all the boys I knew built a
model at one time or another. It seemed a natural thing to do with either:
a) our parents having gone through WWII and the resultant exposure we had to
it via TV, movies, books, etc. and b) the 50th annivesary of WWI with the
attendent hoopla, etc. (Of course, with me, it was Snoopy and the Red Baron
on "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!)
 
Warren 
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