Posted on 09/22/2016 12:01:27 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp
Thanks to the generosity of many residents and businesses in Yuma, the 36-foot-long replica of the U.S.S. Arizona has been restored in time to be shipped to Hawaii for the National Park Service's commemoration ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
As a way of showing its appreciation, the Navy League of the United States (NLUS), took the recently refurbished model of the iconic battleship on a photo tour around Yuma Tuesday morning so residents could take pictures of it, making 15-minute stops at Yuma City Hall, the Yuma Quartermaster Depot, the Yuma Chamber of Commerce and AM Vets Post #2 in the Foothills.
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Awesome!
Very VERY Cool! :D
I’d rather do the big one, I could never do those models, they always ended up with half the pieces missing, some glued on in the wrong spots, etc.
I had no patience for the old time model glue, where you had to hold a piece for 10 minutes... then i’d pull my fingers away only to find it didn’t stick to the model, it stuck to my fingers... good times.
But the best part was floating the boats in a pool or setting the tanks up and tossing firecrackers at em or shooting bottle rockets out of em.
(yeah, I had one of those childhoods!)
mine always ended up being m-80 ed
I made lots of model ships. Made my mom mad I was always buying them, because they all met the same fate. After a rain, they would be launched up at one end of the drainage ditch, and then I’d run down and my brother and I would wait for it with the BB guns.
You had to shoot high first to get the guns and superstructure. You didn’t want to penetrate the hull or it would sink too quickly, and where is the fun in that?
My oldest brother once spent the better part of an afternoon filing the powder off several boxes of sparklers, and filling the hull of a USS Iowa model with it. Then he glued on the deck, having left one AA gun mount off so there was a hole for a fuse. You should have seen that thing go up in the ditch. It was cool.
Can you imagine what would happen to kids who did that today?
Revell models were the best, most detailed as I recall.
Yet another echo from the movie Toro, Toro, Toro.
The hulls for that model in the article came from that movie. I remember when the original models were sold off in the early 1970s, it was in the model magazines, they were in rough shape.
much like the AT-6 Zeros, which have to have been in every pacific WWII movie that needed a zero from 1971 to the present day. I think the 1976 Midway flop used a lot of excess footage from Toro, Toro, Toro.
Revell made two plastic kit versions of the Arizona, the one that was around 9 inches long and the other longer one (18 to 20 inches). Built the first one as well as the Prinz Eugen many times and sunk them many times as well (using an air rifle from the bathroom window of our house down into a large deep puddle that formed in out back lot). No virtual reality was as good as a 10~12 year old boys imagination at seeing the spouts of water from near misses. Then I would repair them and go back an sink them again, until they were scrap.
Built the large revel model at age 12 and never destroyed it. Got thrown out many years later by my father when I was off at school or had moved out, along with a number of well done Type 7 U-boat models. Back in the 1970s all of us kid built models and model shops were a place of wonder for pre-pubescent boys. So much nostalgia.
Wow thanks for sharing that, I was building models in the sixties, by the seventies I was aiming for active duty. I get what your saying though.
heh, you liked to blow em up REAL GOOD!
I remember wanting the USS Arizona model for Christmas as a kid. My parents searched many stores before finding it. I kept that model I built well into my 30’s.
yeah, we loved blowing em up slow as well
not just military models, car models were game too!
and yeah, parents would probably go to jail for allowing their kids to do those sorts of things now a days
Bullfighting movie? No a Jewish movie: Tora Tora Tora.
Midway from 1976 wasn’t anything like a flop. It was 9th in the box office that year, it did well internationally too, and made 43 million here. It did well because of the Bicentennial celebration.
“Yet another echo from the movie Toro, Toro, Toro.”
Wasn’t that the movie where a bunch of Japanese gardners did a surprise attack and mowed all the lawns in Honolulu?
“Yet another echo from the movie Toro, Toro, Toro.”
Was that the one about the kamikaze fatty tunas? Now I’m hungry.
***I had no patience for the old time model glue, where you had to hold a piece for 10 minutes..***
I never had any problems with the old glue. You could even buy it for 10 cents a tube. Then kids started getting “high” with it so they changed the formula.
It’s ‘’Tora’’.
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