The remaining remnants of my original collection is in a box at a murky corner of a delapidated storage shack, mostly Aircrafts at 1:72 scale with some cars and military vehicles. I still manage to feature most of this scale model at a Free site provider several years ago, but when the site closed down it took with it my photos and write-ups to oblivion. It was supposed to be a trial site that grew and grew.
I had a back-up folder of all the photos and manuscripts of the things I posted at my experimental web page but the PC holding it was damaged beyond repair during a disastrous flood at my town on 2009 (typhoon "Ondoy", a.k.a. "Ketsana", Marikina City Philippines, September 2009) .
There are some left that are in fairly good condition but most are damaged and lost parts that is beyond recovery , many times I was tempted to trow them away during my annual (once or twice every decade) inventory and disposal of useless personnal effects , but I always managed to change my mind at the last minutes, building scale models bought me so much pleasant and wholesome joy during my chilhood. Maybe built 2 kits during Highschool and accidentally one model during my College freshman years.
Totally forgot about the hobby on my following long struggle through college, and after graduating and getting a Job you seek more daring and real world hobbys that your newly found financial capability will offer you. Sitting long hours cutting , painting , and glueing small plastic airplanes that don't even fly or roll its wheels is just too lame and embarassing activity for a single yuppy to be indulging into during those times of your life.
Mildly returned to the hobby on my early thirties when a doctor advice me to quit smoking, I always say that " I can quit smoking when I want to" and when i found a cheap scale kit of a chinese "destroyer " I bought it to use it as a parameter of my statement on kicking a habit.
I wanted to test myself if I can complete the "Destroye kit" without smoking a single cigarette which I miserably fail. The second cigarette quitting challenge is a Motorized RC converted 1/72 scale "Torpedo Boat", The rule is I should never smoke while working on the kit and i did smoked less and less evertime I worked on the boat kit at staggered schedule and eventually almost finished the painting - the last stage without smoking a single cigarette.
After the Torpedo Boat build, I did still smoked at very long intervals but the solemn joy of the hobby have bitten me again and decide to restore some of my old Aircraft kits, by the time I restored a handful of my old boyhood kits my lungs won't happily accept the smoke of "tabaco" anymore.
This is more or less than ten years ago and up to now, I still mingle at any hobby shop or toy stores that pass by that carry this toy genre, although my weaker vision and more worldly serious matters discourage me on spending serious time to build a new kit.I'm still eyeing on building a few significant, preferably historically relevant scale models if my situation will still allow it in the future.
I had a back-up folder of all the photos and manuscripts of the things I posted at my experimental web page but the PC holding it was damaged beyond repair during a disastrous flood at my town on 2009 (typhoon "Ondoy", a.k.a. "Ketsana", Marikina City Philippines, September 2009) .
There are some left that are in fairly good condition but most are damaged and lost parts that is beyond recovery , many times I was tempted to trow them away during my annual (once or twice every decade) inventory and disposal of useless personnal effects , but I always managed to change my mind at the last minutes, building scale models bought me so much pleasant and wholesome joy during my chilhood. Maybe built 2 kits during Highschool and accidentally one model during my College freshman years.
Totally forgot about the hobby on my following long struggle through college, and after graduating and getting a Job you seek more daring and real world hobbys that your newly found financial capability will offer you. Sitting long hours cutting , painting , and glueing small plastic airplanes that don't even fly or roll its wheels is just too lame and embarassing activity for a single yuppy to be indulging into during those times of your life.
Mildly returned to the hobby on my early thirties when a doctor advice me to quit smoking, I always say that " I can quit smoking when I want to" and when i found a cheap scale kit of a chinese "destroyer " I bought it to use it as a parameter of my statement on kicking a habit.
I wanted to test myself if I can complete the "Destroye kit" without smoking a single cigarette which I miserably fail. The second cigarette quitting challenge is a Motorized RC converted 1/72 scale "Torpedo Boat", The rule is I should never smoke while working on the kit and i did smoked less and less evertime I worked on the boat kit at staggered schedule and eventually almost finished the painting - the last stage without smoking a single cigarette.
After the Torpedo Boat build, I did still smoked at very long intervals but the solemn joy of the hobby have bitten me again and decide to restore some of my old Aircraft kits, by the time I restored a handful of my old boyhood kits my lungs won't happily accept the smoke of "tabaco" anymore.
This is more or less than ten years ago and up to now, I still mingle at any hobby shop or toy stores that pass by that carry this toy genre, although my weaker vision and more worldly serious matters discourage me on spending serious time to build a new kit.I'm still eyeing on building a few significant, preferably historically relevant scale models if my situation will still allow it in the future.
