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Thunderbird Club

#303,024
JIO said:
The '60s MIJ Teisco Del Rey body design was riffing off of the late '50s Fender Jazzmaster and early '60s Jaguar. My Teiscobird is made from a mid-'60s Del Rey mahogany body married to an Epi Goth T-bird maple neck. In fact, it came out so good (my TSC bass) I made another one just to see if I could make two that good (which I did) and later sold it. Why build a Fender body/TBird neck? I don't entertain silly biases, that's why.

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Not meant to be critical, really wondered what would be the reason.
 
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godofthunder59 said:
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Nice. That was me up until a year or so ago. I sold all of my 1/72 WWII aircraft kits that I collected from 40+ years of swap meets and other means. It was 10 Xerox paper boxes full. I came to the stark realization that I'd never build them all, let alone have room to display them. As a kid thru my teens, models were my escape. But sadly we moved a lot, and the kits I built (not just planes) were never allowed to come along. Us kids were allowed one cardboard moving box per move. And I used it for records, model trains, and other less-fragile items. So, my neighborhood friends were gifted my models each time. When the 80's rolled around, I was busy getting into bands, but I also worked in a hobby shop. So the model bug bit me again. I felt like I needed to replace all the ones in my life that ended up in the homes of others. Normally I woulda stopped at a couple dozen or so. But there was a gaming group who had a combat game, using 1/72 fighters attached to 6ft dowels on a lead diving weight platform with casters underneath. Meant to be played on a basketball court. I learned that these guys hit the kit collector show in SoCal three times a year. I would go, and come home with a grocery bag full of kits. Common ones and the rare ones. It wasn't enough to have an Me-109E. You had to have all the variants. The B, the E, the F, the G, and even the K. Same for every plane. Fortunately, I stayed away from medium and heavy bombers.

Like a lot of collectibles, re-sale value hits peaks and lows. I think the market for these is low this decade. I could've made way more had I sold them 20 years ago. But I made more than I spent on them, so it's all good. On a side note, there was supposed to be a WWI aircraft combat game run about the same time - so I bought those every time I saw them. But back in the 80's you're talking old Revell and Airfix kits. Or Renwals. I've kept those for now. And all of my 1/144th WWII and Modern. Probably won't have room to display them either - but they take up half the space the 1/72 ones do. One of the big passions during my teen years was doing 1/35 WWII dioramas. Those were all gone during moves. I have bought a dozen or so vehicles, and many boxes of figures. Just for that rainy day. As any modeler can tell you - better quality kits come out every 5-10 years. I'm just gonna stay with what I have now. Man, I've been seeing what guys are building and painting on Facebook, and I think I took too much time off. The skill that's out there is amazing!
 
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#303,030
@Miles_ONeal

Your Euro digs under your nom de plume MJ O’Neill ?

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MCF said:
No trip to Dublin is complete without paying homage to Phil. Taken from us all too soon. My college years wouldn’t have been the same without Lizzy.
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My first morning after putting my bags in storage at the hotel was:
Molly Malone statue
Phil Lynott statue
A couple of Guinness and lunch at Sheehan’s Pub.
All close together and only about 15mins walk from my hotel.

Took 3 walkby’s to find Molly. She was surrounded by a large group of Italian English students on an outing.
Lucky them.
 
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