5thelement

I built a Red Arrows jet years ago, and i dont really remember building it at all, but the plane is still kicking about somewhere, anyways, it was a bit of a mess lol

Recently decided to buy a Messerschmitt BF109 G10 after looking around the local model shop, and its now finished awaiting a coat of matt varnish

squiffythewombat

Matchbox Curtiss C-something-or-rather (cant remmber name but it had yellow wings)....i have loads of matchbox kits but still dont have this one...DOH

flytilbroke

First models have just got to be PAPER AEROPLANES about when I was five years old, following them the Mechano builds of every thing from houses (wirh a stretch of imagination) to all sorts of cars, lorries, boats and busses. Not forgetting cranes which got electrified, only the up down action but "wow". Then balsa was discovered. At least by Dad and I. Chucky gliders by the dozen.

Bunkerbarge

Does anyone remember a building system called Baco?

It consisted of a bakelite board with holes in it into which you put metal rods. Between the rods you could then slide the building blocks which had different textured faces such as brick. I had quite a bit iof it, including windows, roof units etc and it actually made a very nice model building.

tigertc

Which century bunk? bc or ad?

Bunkerbarge

One day you'll be there, in your late fourties, ish!! Just think where you'd be without all this help and advise that us more mature members give out so selflessly. Bloody spoilt you are!

I beleive 'Baco' was around in the 60's as the set was passed down to me from some relative or other. It was competition for Meccano in its day but you couldn't do anything else than make buildings with it so its appeal was limited and it died a death.

Where's the respect nowadays that's what I want to know...etc....etc...

AerynPk

my first model was a SR-71 i used liquid poly to glue it and i painted it in power ranger colours. this was because dad told me i could paint it however i liked. This then made me paint it in all power ranger colours because it was a big thing for me at the time i was 7. lol

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wonwinglo

Richard,I think you will find it was the Bayko building system,advertised in the Meccano magazine circa fifties ( this centuryTiger ! )
There was another building system that utilised real bricks and morter,whereby you used a small trowel,the cement could be dissolved and the bricks salvaged.
In my collection of historic ( this century again ) consructors sets I have one called Kliptiko,again rods and things,the most unusual one was Junero,this had some clever little bending tools ( still in use in my twentieth century workshop ) you got a sheet of mild steel,rods,road wheels,corrugated panels,some small parker kalers etc the idea was unlike Meccano you had to make your own parts,there was even a useful hole punch,all great instructional toys/models in their day,dont forget we had no computers whatsoever,and despite what people think these items were expensive,purchase tax crippled models and toys after WW2,magazines were booming and sold in their millions unlike today,they were the lifeblood of model building,today in Smiths you see a dozen at the most of model mags,deliveries of for example the Aeromodeller would be in the region of 500 copies to my local model shop alone,once again no internet,the only mail order was people like Henry.J.Nicholls & Roland Scott,they would carry expensive two page ads in the magazines,selling mostly to serving members of H.M Forces who had flourishing model clubs back then.

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Bunkerbarge

I knew you would have a bit more on it Barry. My set is still in the attic somewhere, I must root it out one day and bring back a few memories.

tigertc

My dad used to live in a shoe box in't middl'tut road, his dad used to wake 'im up wit' broken bottle, "breakfast" he'd say-, we had to lick road clean of a mornin and eat a handfull of gravel for us tea. We'd be packed off to work at pit wit no shoes on for 62 hours a day and pay tut' pit owner fot priveledge.
By bedtime we'd all be dead and father would dance on graves singin hallejulyah.
You kids today havent lived...etc etc
Terence aged 42