I had to do a lot of lawn mowing as a boy, but one of my rewards was Renwall's model kit of Atomic Annie!
A few years back, I acquired a re-release of the kit and it sits imposingly in my expanding stash of models yet (or never!) to be built!
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Around here, the grass is your own business. But we still have standards:
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Now thing about this....Scale model toys - like that kit, the G.I.Joe dolls, other war or military themed toys....Young minds, easily influenced, entertained by war style toys...So at a young tender age, they are weened into such an "exciting" part of humanity. Makes them easier targets for recruitment later on when their bodies are ready for real battles. And the results? Now ya got a crooked-up crippled uncle with one leg, or a brother in the ground.
A sly method of population control of the masses?
Naturally, as a side benefit, the clothing market profits from "camouflage" style clothing?
But, it's all for "a good cause", of course.
Being a "Sacrificial Lamb".
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Yep, I had the original issue, marketed under the Frog De-Luxe banner here in the UK.
I have re-acquired Renwal's 'Big Shot' Self-Propelled Howitzer kit which I also built as a boy.
The emphasis of these 'Blueprint' model kits was on the 'fully operational' features rather than ultimate scale accuracy. As boys, we probably paid scant attention to the death and destruction that the delivery of battlefield nuclear shells would cause, but delighted in opening and closing the doors and elevating the gun barrels. I've attached some extra nostalgia. I had the 'Skysweeper' Anti-Aircraft Gun as well, but its moulds (molds) appear to have been lost in the depths of time.
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Had the Nike missile too, but I was totally into the Aurora WW1 bi-planes and tri-planes. In a fit of nostalgia about 15yr. ago I managed to acquire the entire run NOS in boxes. As you say, they remain probably to never be built (actually I don't know what got into me). My favorites, I set up the little dioramas in my bedroom.
WOT is this off topic enough for you?
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This sounds like the same thinking that neutered Wylie Coyote, the new versions are just not the same as when I was a kid......Was my fascination with the cartoon the reason that I like explosions? Excuse me while I get out my ACME DIY dynamite kit to get rid of some pesky ants.....
The same kind we have here that prefer to race their tractors side by side down the only road out here. Old blue Ford beats the dirty fed Farmall.
If you can find a "gun" that was made prior to it's inclusion on the "banned" list, that has the necessary registration and permits, then all sorts of serious "illegal" firepower can be owned by ordinary people who pass the background check and pay the government and other fees. These are now prized collectibles and go for big bucks. A GE mini-gun goes for north of a quarter million dollars. One of my coworkers has a gun collection worth over $200K and he used to let me shoot them in fully automatic mode. I have video! For some real firepower in a LEGAL display of machine gun insanity look up some YouTube videos of Knob Creek machine gun shoot, or Green Mountain Boys machine gun shoot. The average cost of a "budget" legally transferable machine gun is $20K, some go for half a million....that qualifies for "High End stuff" but not anything that I would buy.
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my neighbors! ..... in NC bordered a quarter mile of my driveway with cornfield, they'd leave the disc harrow down and make a u turn across my drive.
after repeated altercation I finally lined the edge of my driveway with 1/2 ton boulders. that got the job done!
Best kept in the box unless you're really into doing all that rigging! 😱
I'm back to doing some kit bashing during the lockdown. My ancient 1/48th scale Tiger Moth has had its 2nd coat of trainer yellow and the decals will be applied next.
However, there will be no f*****n' riggin' on this one! 😀
Might start the Atomic Cannon, but at almost 3 feet long, where am I going to display it? 🙁
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I always touched the main parts with glue on my fingers and ruined them. Don’t get me started on the transparent bubble canopies! Like a lot of people, I’m wondering now if the glue fumes made me less careful. Maybe models were just euphoric fume delivery devices! Of course I never inhaled it on purpose, but......
Fortunately I had a friend with a stash of firecrackers who would get rid of the defective ones. Win/win.
Fortunately I had a friend with a stash of firecrackers who would get rid of the defective ones. Win/win.
A friend of mine - long deceased - told me he worked for a company that made such guns. They tested them at someplace like Ascension island, where the natives feared they were "punching holes in the sky". He worked on mechanical aspects of the payload, whos instrumentation had to be protected from the forces encountered at launch. I think they were attempting to launch low earth orbit instrumentation packages - without a rocket.
As it happens, they lost their main customer and my friend was let go. Trying to save the company and the development work done so far, the owner went to the middle east looking for a customer (possibly for the purpose depicted in the above photo...) and was off'd by a certain country's secret service, my friend had assumed by courting the wrong customer...
As it happens, they lost their main customer and my friend was let go. Trying to save the company and the development work done so far, the owner went to the middle east looking for a customer (possibly for the purpose depicted in the above photo...) and was off'd by a certain country's secret service, my friend had assumed by courting the wrong customer...
My life seems somewhat uneventful now.
Or get some plastic models out of your closet....Hmm I guess there’s a connection between kids who made models and adults who make audio components, duh!
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No one alerted us back then that polystyrene cement fogged up transparent parts. The trick is to use PVA adhesive for canopies, which dries transparent.
P.S. A few of my least favourite models went down in flames or had 'bangers' inserted up their jet exhausts around the 5th of November.
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Yes, indeed! I remember making an 8mm movie with a few, having a grade school friend pull them around with string before the firecrackers exploded.
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Somehow I saw that movie! Or maybe making 8mm movies of burning and exploding plastic models is a lot more common in a certain type of youths than I thought