Building models in the "old days"

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When I was a kid we built models. Cars, trucks, airplanes, ships, chopper trikes, monsters (wolfman etc) what ever turned our crank at the hobby shop.

Models were what I would call cheap back then, but Im not sure what it equates to in todays dollars, they start in the 20's today. Save a couple bday dollars, do some chores around the neighborhoods, collect pop bottles, anything to have some coin, Next beg a trip to the hobby shop or Kmart or wherever they sold them.

We had a couple of old wooden military foot lockers filled with excess parts and pieces and stuff we didnt display in our rooms anymore. So fun to build stuff out of that.

At one time we had a bunch of WWII planes hanging from our ceiling. My dad built the Wright Brothers plane with all the crazy wires, he used black thread for that. We hung it up too.

One evening when our folks weren't home and the sitter was in the other room with the two youngest brothers my other brother and I were having a sword fight in our room with our pool cues from our mini pool table. It was fun and to make it even more fun I shut off the light. Scared my brother so he took a wild swing. He smashed the Wright Brothers plane my dad took so long to build.

Oh man we both got in trouble for that one.

We used to blow them up, totally burn them to nothing, and burn them just enough to make em look like they were in a wreck lol. Man it was fun being a kid back then

Any good model building or mishaps stories?