Author Topic: a little father & son project  (Read 5802 times)

Offline Spey Phantom

  • 1/144 addict
  • the modeler formerly known as Nils.
a little father & son project
« on: October 23, 2024, 12:13:36 PM »
for the past few weeks, me and my little boy have been working together on building a kit.
for ease, i let hime choose an easy snapkit from the stash and he chose a Zvezda 1/100 Rochelle (from Disney's Planes).

i told him he could have it painted any color he liked, he chose pink & blue (later he wanted to drop the blue, im not judging).
we chose some decals from the sparesbox and this is the end result, i know it looks a bit girly, but im not judging him, if he like it its okay with me, we had a fun time building it.  8)

the blue above the eyed i couldnt work away, i was planning on doing the upper part of the fuselage in blue.
building this project gave me an idea, i wonder how good that disney Corsair would look in aeronavale or dutch navy colors?  ???




on the bench:
-various models

on the drawing board:
-various 1/72 TinTin aircraft
-1/72 Eurocopter Tiger (Belgian Army)
-various other 1/72 and 1/144 aircraft

Offline Story

  • Nicht mein Zirkus, nicht meine Affen...
Re: a little father & son project
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2024, 01:54:45 PM »
Noble project, planting the seeds of a life-long imagination early.

Offline ericr

  • He's like some sort of Dr Frankenstein of modelling...
  • Has something for red, yellow or blue...
Re: a little father & son project
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2024, 04:43:58 PM »

nice  ;)

Offline Kerick

  • Reportedly finished with a stripper...
Re: a little father & son project
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2024, 10:35:43 AM »
That looks great! I love the decals too.

Offline Old Wombat

  • "We'll see when I've finished whether I'm showing off or simply embarrassing myself."
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Re: a little father & son project
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2024, 09:55:06 PM »
My not-quite-3 grandson just chose some pink shoes (croc type sandal-y things, I think) today (yesterday, now).

Pink was a popular masculine/macho/man's-man/blokey-bloke* colour, once, but things change. Maybe it will be again.



[*: It occurs to me that all of these terms have, over the years & to varying extents, been usurped into meaning men whose sexual preferences lean towards other men ... This is not what I was inferring.]
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