Great stories of how so many of you got started in this hobby. Thank you for sharing your stories! They are an inspiration to all of us to mentor the next generation of modelers.
My father had a hard rough life and didn't really have any hobbies. My model building hobbies were a waste of time and $$$ to him. Don't get me wrong, I loved my Dad and miss him ALOT, he kept me clothed, fed, and a roof over my head. I'm the exact opposite of my father, hobby related that is. My boys collect and build models and have other related hobbies (rc, trains, diecast,,, etc) as they grew up and even now as adults. I've always told them, there's nothing wrong if you sometimes want to be a kid and enjoy the things we do. Plus, it keeps your imagination going and growing. No harm in it at all.
my Dad got me started when i saw him build a vietnam era M113 and a tank. I did build armor but gravitated more to cars when I built Rommels Rod back in the 70's. I miss my Dad.
When I was six, my father took me up to Nagengast Hobbies and Hardware in Ridgewood, New York and bought me a tube of Testor’s glue and Monogram’s 1/48th scale Me-109 (it was a Bf-109E). We spent the afternoon building it…I used so much glue that the oil filters under the wing became squishy. For the next week, when my dad came home, I’d hand it to him and ran to the couch to lay down. He “flew” it out of the hallway, banked into a dive and “strafed” me on the couch. From that point on, until he passed away in 2013, almost every gift I got from my parents was a model. Happy Father’s Day Doug!
Doug, I can't stop grinning, it brings back so many memories of building with my Dad. First model was the AMT '40 Ford Coupe. One funny memory (now), Dad was showing me how to polish the paint on an AMT '32 Victoria with automotive cleaner wax. I'd laid a couple of really thin, smooth coats of glossy black enamel just like I'd read in Model Car Science magazine, next thing I knew he had burned through to the bare plastic. Oops! He felt so bad, then he showed me how to lightly sand and feather just a small area, then spot it in. Shooting through a sheet of typing paper with a random shaped hole torn in it made the paint feather out perfectly. It polished and shined like crazy! I still use that technique to spot in paint today. Being a "Tanker" in the Army, Dad's favorite building subjects were tanks, I even built a few, but decided cars were my thing. Thanks Dad!
Great video. Thank you for sharing. Ah...when families, were families and dad's were not just dad's, but best friends. I was also blessed with a dad and best friend in one person...Pop!
Raised in Brooklyn, my dad was FDNY , introduced me to the Embassy Carriage Shop which carried Lionel trains, wood and plastic model kits. I remember it as great store chock full with trains, and models kits.than I could afford
Not being into sports except for an occasional street hockey or punch ball game , it was building planes , train n automobiles. My other fondly remembered a hobby shop was the one on the New London Sun base. My uncle was a life long submariner who also was a hobby guy. Great child hood memories were created in Connecticut too.
I’m the only one in my family that was into cars and building models. My first kit I begged my mother to buy for me was a snap together 57 Chevy. Tore into it as soon as I was home from the store and was hooked immediately. Model cars lead to a life of working in a body shop as a painter and restoring cars with friends for a part of my adult life. 49 years old and still playing with models. Loved this video of a father and son enjoying a lifelong hobby!
That's awesome, Brutha! I'm 51 and the same. Building model cars, rc (boats and cars), and been running HO slot cars. Just moved in to 1/32 scale. I think what really started me in cars were Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars in the 70's, still have quite a few of my originals too. Of course my first issue of "CARtoon's" magazine ('78-ish?) didn't help alot either.😁
@@blkft my son has all my hotwheels and matchbox stuff. When he was little we would set up an entire city in the living room. Would love to still do it but he’ll be a teenager soon so model cars it is for me. Raced slot cars with some co-workers years ago. Started with HO and moved into 1/32 also. We had computerized timing and ran qualifying to see what lane we would start in. The track was a tri oval. Back stretch was 25 foot.
My Dad took me to the hobby shop next door to our store. I picked the Dave Deal Bug Bomb. We built it at the kitchen table and that's where it allbstarted for me.
Thank you Doug. A truly wonderful tribute to model building Fathers everywhere. One of my early memories is of my father building a Twenty Mule Team Borax kit for me. 60+ years later, still fascinated with the hobby.
Doug! Its such an honor to do a video with your dad and other modelers talking about memories with their dads in the hobby! Such a great video! Your dad is a very respectable man and he has his own building talents! I like his research and materials he uses for his builds! I see you with Steve Goldman who is a member of our model car meeting back in Ohio. Again, great video Doug! Thank you!!!
What a wonderful video! My dad was not a modeler, but I loved cars from an early age and he got me started, first building a Revel ‘57 Country Squire as I watched. The drill was he’d build one while I watched, then I would play with it. I helped him with a Hubley Packard, and after that I was on my own; one day we came back from WT Grants, me with an AMT ‘62 Vette, and he with an Old Ironsides ship model that he rigged with thread. That was his last model for more than 40 years until he turned to planes the last several years of his life (he was an Air Corps flight instructor in WW II). He’s been gone for more than ten years now, but I kept some of his planes, and I still have that Packard! My son and daughter built a few model cars when they were little; maybe they will return to modeling when the muse strikes them like Dad did.
I have enjoyed all of your videos but this may be the best. Super well done and your dad is incredibly inspirational to listen to. Like so many others I caught the bug from my father who taught me at the kitchen table on many of nights.
Received a Monogram 1/32 BJ and the Bear Kenworth K100 from an aunt in maybe 1980 or so. Snap kit that I built in about 20 minutes, using no tools and no paint. Just water for the decals. It was a mess but it got me started and I’ve never stopped since, even had models stored under the bed in college.
Absolutely wonderful meeting your Dad!! My brother who was 5 years older than me built models and he got me started. I remember he built a '59 or 60 T Bird with a hinged hood, showed it to my dad who proceeded to open and snap off the hood😲, 🤣🤣.👍✌️ Happy Father's Day!!
My first kit was a Huey helicopter that my dad bought me when we took a trip to the States. It took me a couple of days to finish is, no paint though. My dad was so proud of what I’d built. So was I. Happy days and model on! 😎🇨🇦
Thank you Mr Whyte for another great video. I like most of ya'll got started in this great hobby by watching my dad building models. I remember watching him build the MPC series of early 70s Nascars and that's how I got hooked. LOL!! I got my very first model car kit on my 6th birthday. Tom Daniel's cop out funny car. I now have the reissue of that kit and am about to build to kinda relive those days. Again, thank you so much for taking the time to produce these wonderful videos and talking with all the fellas I've admired for decades. Happy modeling. Don 😎
Great video, brings back lot’s of memories! The first kit I built with my Dad was a Hawk brand Hupmobile in bright yellow. I remember that we bought a small jar of testers yellow, not realizing that the kit was moulded in yellow. That was the beginning of a lifetime of building things. I went on to become an Architect.
I love your videos! My Dad was in the air force and he used to bring me home model airplanes..I watched him put them together mostly...as a kid I had very little patience...lol
Absolutely great video Doug. I like your Dad! I can see how you got to doing what you do. And it's cool that you got your Dad back into it! Keep on making your amazing videos Doug. We all benefit from them!
I remember my first model. The Cale Yarborough Hardee’s stock car. Really cool kit dad applies the decals and I raced it! It didn’t make it unfortunately. But I will be a faithful copy one day.
What a fantastic video! What got me started was, my parents and I would go visit my aunt, and uncle when I was small. my uncle being a car guy had a bunch of model cars that he had built, and Scale Auto magazines in his shop, along with his race car. They would have weekly card nights, and i would go into the shop, and look at those models, and read the Scale Auto's. I was hooked! my first model car was the Monogram 69 Z-28. my dad, who had only built a couple models at that time sat down with me, and we built it together. Thanks for sharing your awesome story!
That’s amazing my friend, in my case I’m the first one to start building models and my son is the second generation and he like almost everything, I did help him a lot at first but now this days is basically doing things alone 😂, thanks for sharing this amazing story
My first model was a '59 Buick and I still have the grille. My parents didn't build with me but Christmas morning there was usually a model kit in my bedroom - kept me quiet for a while!
Awesome video Doug with your dad still by your side. If I remember right, the first models my dad and I built was 3 kits in a large box, I think Revel and it contained a battleship, a large WWll bomber and I think a P51 airplane or possibly a tank. My dad served in the Marines. He later got into HO trains, and I went with cars, LOL Wish he was still around to see the technology we have today as he was a technical engineer at IBM. Also of note, if your dad is into WWl & WWll aircraft, check out the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome up here in Rhinebeck. I think they start flying for the season pretty soon.
My family, including my grandfather, the one noted in the video who flew the De Havilland, have been to Rhinebeck many times. Always a fun and interesting trip!
This was such a heartwarming honor to watch. Thank you, thank you for sharing this with us. My story started at the age of 8 with dad at the dining room table and building the 1:24 scale monogram 1980 something shelby dodge Daytona snap tite kit.
Let us know in the comments how you got started in this hobby. Thank you to Steve, Tim, Randy, and John for sharing their stories and photos with us! And thank you, Dad!
I really enjoyed this. Unfortunately, my father was not into models, but was into the real cars. I had an uncle that owned dirt track stock cars and a junk yard. It was through them that I got my love for models. My children never picked up the hobby, but I have a granddaughter that has put in her order for my models when I join the Heavenly Model Club.
Great stories of how so many of you got started in this hobby.
Thank you for sharing your stories! They are an inspiration to all of us to mentor the next generation of modelers.
Happy Father's Day to all.
Doug thank so much
Thank you 👍
My father had a hard rough life and didn't really have any hobbies. My model building hobbies were a waste of time and $$$ to him. Don't get me wrong, I loved my Dad and miss him ALOT, he kept me clothed, fed, and a roof over my head.
I'm the exact opposite of my father, hobby related that is. My boys collect and build models and have other related hobbies (rc, trains, diecast,,, etc) as they grew up and even now as adults.
I've always told them, there's nothing wrong if you sometimes want to be a kid and enjoy the things we do. Plus, it keeps your imagination going and growing.
No harm in it at all.
my Dad got me started when i saw him build a vietnam era M113 and a tank. I did build armor but gravitated more to cars when I built Rommels Rod back in the 70's. I miss my Dad.
When I was six, my father took me up to Nagengast Hobbies and Hardware in Ridgewood, New York and bought me a tube of Testor’s glue and Monogram’s 1/48th scale Me-109 (it was a Bf-109E).
We spent the afternoon building it…I used so much glue that the oil filters under the wing became squishy. For the next week, when my dad came home, I’d hand it to him and ran to the couch to lay down. He “flew” it out of the hallway, banked into a dive and “strafed” me on the couch. From that point on, until he passed away in 2013, almost every gift I got from my parents was a model.
Happy Father’s Day Doug!
Doug....Awesome video with your Dad .
Great video Doug, happy fathers day !
Doug, I can't stop grinning, it brings back so many memories of building with my Dad. First model was the AMT '40 Ford Coupe. One funny memory (now), Dad was showing me how to polish the paint on an AMT '32 Victoria with automotive cleaner wax. I'd laid a couple of really thin, smooth coats of glossy black enamel just like I'd read in Model Car Science magazine, next thing I knew he had burned through to the bare plastic. Oops! He felt so bad, then he showed me how to lightly sand and feather just a small area, then spot it in. Shooting through a sheet of typing paper with a random shaped hole torn in it made the paint feather out perfectly. It polished and shined like crazy! I still use that technique to spot in paint today. Being a "Tanker" in the Army, Dad's favorite building subjects were tanks, I even built a few, but decided cars were my thing. Thanks Dad!
A very nice video. I got my passion for cars and hockey from my Dad. Many cheers from Nova Scotia.
Great video...thank you!
Great video. Thank you for sharing. Ah...when families, were families and dad's were not just dad's, but best friends. I was also blessed with a dad and best friend in one person...Pop!
Brought me right back to memories with Dad who’s no longer with us . Thanks Malcom
Raised in Brooklyn, my dad was FDNY , introduced me to the Embassy Carriage Shop which carried Lionel trains, wood and plastic model kits. I remember it as great store chock full with trains, and models kits.than I could afford
Not being into sports except for an occasional street hockey or punch ball game , it was building planes , train n automobiles.
My other fondly remembered a hobby shop was the one on the New London Sun base. My uncle was a life long submariner who also was a hobby guy. Great child hood memories were created in Connecticut too.
I’m the only one in my family that was into cars and building models. My first kit I begged my mother to buy for me was a snap together 57 Chevy. Tore into it as soon as I was home from the store and was hooked immediately. Model cars lead to a life of working in a body shop as a painter and restoring cars with friends for a part of my adult life. 49 years old and still playing with models.
Loved this video of a father and son enjoying a lifelong hobby!
That's awesome, Brutha! I'm 51 and the same. Building model cars, rc (boats and cars), and been running HO slot cars. Just moved in to 1/32 scale.
I think what really started me in cars were Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars in the 70's, still have quite a few of my originals too.
Of course my first issue of "CARtoon's" magazine ('78-ish?) didn't help alot either.😁
@@blkft my son has all my hotwheels and matchbox stuff. When he was little we would set up an entire city in the living room. Would love to still do it but he’ll be a teenager soon so model cars it is for me.
Raced slot cars with some co-workers years ago. Started with HO and moved into 1/32 also. We had computerized timing and ran qualifying to see what lane we would start in. The track was a tri oval. Back stretch was 25 foot.
My Dad took me to the hobby shop next door to our store. I picked the Dave Deal Bug Bomb. We built it at the kitchen table and that's where it allbstarted for me.
Thank you Doug.
A truly wonderful tribute to model building Fathers everywhere.
One of my early memories is of my father building a Twenty Mule Team Borax kit for me.
60+ years later, still fascinated with the hobby.
Excellent video Doug!
Love hearing these stories. Thanks for sharing
Doug! Its such an honor to do a video with your dad and other modelers talking about memories with their dads in the hobby! Such a great video! Your dad is a very respectable man and he has his own building talents! I like his research and materials he uses for his builds! I see you with Steve Goldman who is a member of our model car meeting back in Ohio. Again, great video Doug! Thank you!!!
Walk into a local hobby shop in 1962 and I've never look back thank you for doing this Doug
What a wonderful video! My dad was not a modeler, but I loved cars from an early age and he got me started, first building a Revel ‘57 Country Squire as I watched. The drill was he’d build one while I watched, then I would play with it. I helped him with a Hubley Packard, and after that I was on my own; one day we came back from WT Grants, me with an AMT ‘62 Vette, and he with an Old Ironsides ship model that he rigged with thread. That was his last model for more than 40 years until he turned to planes the last several years of his life (he was an Air Corps flight instructor in WW II). He’s been gone for more than ten years now, but I kept some of his planes, and I still have that Packard! My son and daughter built a few model cars when they were little; maybe they will return to modeling when the muse strikes them like Dad did.
Lovely journey with your father, nice to hear NZ.... Greetings from down under New Zealand 🇳🇿
great video guys
I have enjoyed all of your videos but this may be the best. Super well done and your dad is incredibly inspirational to listen to. Like so many others I caught the bug from my father who taught me at the kitchen table on many of nights.
Received a Monogram 1/32 BJ and the Bear Kenworth K100 from an aunt in maybe 1980 or so. Snap kit that I built in about 20 minutes, using no tools and no paint. Just water for the decals. It was a mess but it got me started and I’ve never stopped since, even had models stored under the bed in college.
Great tribute to model building with your Dad!
Absolutely wonderful meeting your Dad!!
My brother who was 5 years older than me built models and he got me started.
I remember he built a '59 or 60 T Bird with a hinged hood, showed it to my dad who proceeded to open and snap off the hood😲, 🤣🤣.👍✌️ Happy Father's Day!!
Doug your family history is amazing brother and I'm working on that exact vintage revell 56 Ford model kit right now! Lol
I always find your videos entertaining, and informative.Great to meet your dad.
My first kit was a Huey helicopter that my dad bought me when we took a trip to the States. It took me a couple of days to finish is, no paint though. My dad was so proud of what I’d built. So was I. Happy days and model on! 😎🇨🇦
My first kit was the Monogram U.S.S Missouri. I'm more into model cars nowadays with a pretty significant stash.
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I really enjoyed this episode! It was nice meeting your dad!
Thank you Mr Whyte for another great video. I like most of ya'll got started in this great hobby by watching my dad building models. I remember watching him build the MPC series of early 70s Nascars and that's how I got hooked. LOL!! I got my very first model car kit on my 6th birthday. Tom Daniel's cop out funny car. I now have the reissue of that kit and am about to build to kinda relive those days. Again, thank you so much for taking the time to produce these wonderful videos and talking with all the fellas I've admired for decades. Happy modeling. Don 😎
Great video, brings back lot’s of memories! The first kit I built with my Dad was a Hawk brand Hupmobile in bright yellow. I remember that we bought a small jar of testers yellow, not realizing that the kit was moulded in yellow. That was the beginning of a lifetime of building things. I went on to become an Architect.
What a great video.
Great video .
Wonderful video, thank you!
I love your videos! My Dad was in the air force and he used to bring me home model airplanes..I watched him put them together mostly...as a kid I had very little patience...lol
Really enjoyed................. 👍🙂
Absolutely great video Doug. I like your Dad!
I can see how you got to doing what you do.
And it's cool that you got your Dad back into
it! Keep on making your amazing videos Doug.
We all benefit from them!
Thanks, we'll do our best!
What a great time and interview with your Dad. I enjoyed watching it.
Very nice video. Thanks for sharing.
Thankyou for sharing your story
... My dad was a modeller himself, just watching him as a 8 year old boy, that just inspired me.... Cheers
How delightful!
How wonderfully thoughtful! Thank you for that video! I'll remind my dad about how he taught me modeling when I see him on Sunday. :-)
Your dad is so cool 😎!!..God Bless him!!
Incredibly touching video. Honored to be a part of it.
I remember my first model. The Cale Yarborough Hardee’s stock car. Really cool kit dad applies the decals and I raced it! It didn’t make it unfortunately. But I will be a faithful copy one day.
That has to be one of the best videos ever for Fathers Day thanks so much really enjoyed
Your father is inspiring! 👍🏻
What a fantastic video! What got me started was, my parents and I would go visit my aunt, and uncle when I was small. my uncle being a car guy had a bunch of model cars that he had built, and Scale Auto magazines in his shop, along with his race car. They would have weekly card nights, and i would go into the shop, and look at those models, and read the Scale Auto's. I was hooked! my first model car was the Monogram 69 Z-28. my dad, who had only built a couple models at that time sat down with me, and we built it together. Thanks for sharing your awesome story!
A nice Fathers Day tribute!
Such a beautiful video, happy Father’s Day all!
That’s amazing my friend, in my case I’m the first one to start building models and my son is the second generation and he like almost everything, I did help him a lot at first but now this days is basically doing things alone 😂, thanks for sharing this amazing story
Cool 😎 that you can share modeling with your Dad!!
My first model was a '59 Buick and I still have the grille. My parents didn't build with me but Christmas morning there was usually a model kit in my bedroom - kept me quiet for a while!
I’ve enjoyed each of your videos, this is my favorite! Thank you!
Awesome video Doug with your dad still by your side. If I remember right, the first models my dad and I built was 3 kits in a large box, I think Revel and it contained a battleship, a large WWll bomber and I think a P51 airplane or possibly a tank. My dad served in the Marines. He later got into HO trains, and I went with cars, LOL Wish he was still around to see the technology we have today as he was a technical engineer at IBM. Also of note, if your dad is into WWl & WWll aircraft, check out the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome up here in Rhinebeck. I think they start flying for the season pretty soon.
My family, including my grandfather, the one noted in the video who flew the De Havilland, have been to Rhinebeck many times. Always a fun and interesting trip!
So nice to here you mention Scotland❤
Thanks, Colin, we're enjoying your UAS footage of landscapes in Scotland on your channel!
This was such a heartwarming honor to watch. Thank you, thank you for sharing this with us. My story started at the age of 8 with dad at the dining room table and building the 1:24 scale monogram 1980 something shelby dodge Daytona snap tite kit.
Let us know in the comments how you got started in this hobby. Thank you to Steve, Tim, Randy, and John for sharing their stories and photos with us! And thank you, Dad!
I really enjoyed this. Unfortunately, my father was not into models, but was into the real cars. I had an uncle that owned dirt track stock cars and a junk yard. It was through them that I got my love for models. My children never picked up the hobby, but I have a granddaughter that has put in her order for my models when I join the Heavenly Model Club.
Great stuff. Really enjoyed this one!
Very cool video Doug, absolutely loved it!!!
Very nice, not to many people are or have this opportunity.
I really appreciate and love the video 👍🏿
Very Kool !
Awesome video!!!! Thanks for sharing
Very cool video. Make a lot like this!
Cool vid!
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Well I've got 4 lined up to build....
My mother built kits with me -Dad had no interest
Awesome video, thank you for sharing.