Airfix VJ Day set.

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Spudgun - 14 Oct 2005 20:19 GMT

I went down to my local hobby store today and bought the newly released
Airfix VJ Day set. Nine OOP kits, ten pots of paint, glue and a brush for 25
smackers! So, OK the kits are old. So what if the tooling has seen better
days. Who cares that there are better examples out there of the craft
represented in this set. I'm happy. I'm currently building the Zero, and the
last time I built that kit, it came in a bag! At the end of the day, isn't
building models to make you happy what the hobby is all about?

Bliss.

Spudgun

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Kurt Laughlin - 15 Oct 2005 00:18 GMT

>I went down to my local hobby store today and bought the newly released
> Airfix VJ Day set. Nine OOP kits, ten pots of paint, glue and a brush for
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> last time I built that kit, it came in a bag! At the end of the day, isn't
> building models to make you happy what the hobby is all about?

Well, sort of. Just building any ol' kit usually doesn't bring bliss,
frequently just the opposite. The happiness depends in no small measure on
the result obtained for the effort expended. Newer stuff generally gives a
better result for the same effort.

Your situation sounds more like nostalgia is what makes you happy, rather
than model building. That's fine, but it is a different situation than the
old "Isn't
building models to make you happy what the hobby is all about?" line
implies.

KL

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Spudgun - 15 Oct 2005 08:07 GMT

>Your situation sounds more like nostalgia is what makes you happy,
>rather than model building. That's fine, but it is a different situation
>than the old "Isn't building models to make you happy what the
>hobby is all about?" line implies.

I agree that nostalgia plays a big part in this. The last time I built
these kits (all those years ago), they were just slapped together in
an hour or so, flown around the room until they broke and then
discarded. This time out, I'm doing the best that my skills will
allow (but still 'out the box' in this case). As for the happyness
factor, this set is so cheap, I can build them for pleasure and
not have to worry about the result (Competition winners they ain't).

Spudgun

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Mad-Modeller - 15 Oct 2005 04:37 GMT

> I went down to my local hobby store today and bought the newly released
> Airfix VJ Day set. Nine OOP kits, ten pots of paint, glue and a brush for 25
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> Spudgun

The last time I built that one it came in an MPC box. Have a blast,
sir!

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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