Tag: childhood

• ” Recapture Your Childhood “

  

  Said an advertisement for a reissue of an old kit. I opened the box and looked in… My childhood was moulded better than that – and it was made in the same mould. I might have aged a lot and some of my edges have become worn, but I have avoided sinkholes in every corner…

  Dick Stein

  November 24, 2022

  Box Art, Collecting, finances, History, Model building club, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  childhood, hazy memories, nostalgia, old kits, youth

• Why Did You Want To Build That One?

  

  If someone looks at your newly-completed scale model and asks you that question, you can give a good, cogent answer. If you ask the question of yourself, you are in trouble. If you cannot come up with an answer…you’re sunk. Or are you? There are some things that you cannot see clearly – some things…

  Dick Stein

  July 11, 2020

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, finances, German aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Polish models, Russian models, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  childhood, kit choices, memories, mistakes