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?
***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.