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Name:
Vince Brown
Occupation:
IT Consultant
Location:
Northants Uk
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As
Thomas Dolby said "at the tender age of three I was spoke to by
machine" but with me it was at the tender age of 9 and I was spoken
to by Airfix.
I had the lot as my my parents were relatively wealthy (or so it seemed)
and its only in later life that I realised it was because of the simple
calculation parents used, times the model series number by an hour and
that's how long kids would shut up for whilst building the kit. Of
course paint wasn't allowed or needed then as the aim was to build it as
fast as possible and the play "taka taka tak" (as my father in
law still calls it). Then came early teens, woodwork, metalwork and a
belief that I could now progress into painting. Step one, paint every
part individually first before assembly. Step two can't wait for it to
dry so put it in the oven on a very very low heat to aid drying. Step
three spend the rest of the day scraping the remains of a blue MG from
the baking tray whilst my father held the television aerial up as it was
the only way to get a picture for world cup match of the day (1978
Scotland v Holland and Archie Gemmill scoring). That was a whole
Saturday of my life wasted from purchase in the morning to scraping at
night A full day of modeling
gone, but valuable lessons learned. I could prattle on for hours about
all of the kits I have done and blown by various means, my favorite was
at Bonfire Night to strap small rockets to a plane and watch it
soar into the air (or what normally happened was it bounced around the
grass across the road and generally was probably more fun than if one
ever did fly). This of course would not happen today as parents need to
be so protective in today's society whereas then I would like to think
we were a bit hardier and had at least a bit more sense. I can map my
lives hobby interests very simply: Action Man to Airfix
to Fishing to Arsenal To Kettering Town FC ending up with
Kettering Town FC Fishing And Airfix
Collecting. I am what you call a "poor collector" As I collect
everything that I had as a child, if I cannot remember building it I
dont want it. With the ultimate goal of collecting every SRN4 in the
world and finding those 5 million 1/32 soldiers in boxes I have around
my Mothers house in the attic.
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