What you are looking is a survivor of something I made way back in 1986 wen I was 14 years old. No plans just by looking at pictures and making up my own dimensions as I went along.
I guess it was a weird hobby of mine. It was also an inexpensive way to occupy my time even though I had the NES, Sega Master System and my old Atari 5200 videogame consoles. I still have that old NES and games too. This is a model of the Los Angeles buses that were in use at that time. The GM RTS II bus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Transit_Series
It measures,
L 19 in (48.3 cm) H 4.5 in (11.5 cm) W 5 in (12.7 cm) Wheels 1.75 in (4.5 cm)
The medium used for the model is cardboard, 3 bottles of Liquid Paper correction fluid, electrical tape, glue, marker, rub off transfer lettering and old pens for the axles. Back then I had a nice collection of these silly things. I had an ambulance, a police helicopter, a police car, a taxi and a minivan. Those latter ones got lost due to time and moving around.
This is the only surviving specimen. It looks pretty bad now that some cheap electrical tape used for trim has come loose and missing altogether the liquid paper correction fluid is flaking off and the vibrant marker colors have long faded. Seriously in all honesty, this thing was never supposed to last 33 years! 😁 Lets see how many more it makes it to.
ADDENDUM: I JUST SAW THAT I STILL HAVE THE SAME SET OF RUB OFF LETTERING TRANSFERS https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=105&v=e... THAT ARE ACTUALLY FROM 1982.NOT EXACTLY THE SAME AS IN THE VIDEO BUT VERY SIMILAR STILL IN THE ORIGINAL PLASTIC BAG BUT SOME NUMBERS MISSING, 2024? 🤣 AHHH! THE YOUNGUNS WILL NEVER KNOW ABOUT THIS. AND I'M GETTING TO BE AN OLD BEAR.
I am impressed, not only by the fact that you've kept that for these many years, but also by the fact that you made that when you was that young. I genuinely think it looks awesome, the attention to detail really is impressive too!
Makes me feel ashamed, though. More than once I tried to make a Titanic model back in my teenage years, something I failed at every single time. But the model would have never survived, anyway. My plans were always to sink and destroy it.
I am impressed, not only by the fact that you've kept that for these many years, but also by the fac
, I guess this could be considered very weird folk art as you see on the PBS show, And you mentioned the Titanic! Woo-Hoo! man, you jogged my memory. As a Jr. School/middle school student one year later my science teacher gave me solar cells that he was going to throw out. I asked him to please give them to me and he did. almost 5x5 squares.
And I took em' ASAP. I then made a boat made out of my newest video game console, the NES inner Styrofoam packaging that I still had a few years later. That along with an old tape recorder/player motor and a little propeller from a toy that I honestly have forgot where I scavenged it from.
On a Sunday afternoon I took my creation to McArtur Park lake in LA. to sail the creation. It almost sank the very first minute.
It's name was the Titanic II 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I kid not. It didn't make it 3 feet before it started taking in water and sinking. Yup, the named Titanic II almost sank before I pulled it out of the water.
I also, earlier I made a bi plane from thrown away wooden vertical blinds with another little tape recorder motor. It didn't fly of course, but it had a spinning propeller!
Man, I was a creative one back then. Today, sadly not so much. I have lost my mojo. 😥
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My friend, I never stopped smiling while I read your response. That was charming and cute, thank you for sharing that with me. ♥ ♥
Unfortunately, I was never a creative child when it came to building things. While some of my childhood friends built amazing LEGO figures, mine were too basic and unimpressive. I mean, I did enjoy creating things, but my creations were never amazing or impressive. I remember building little cars using boxes of matches, and many times I built my own toys to play with. My mother struggled financially, so many of my toys were of my own creation. They were far from impressive, but I believe they were cute and they brought to me all the happiness I needed. There was a little Frankenstein in me too, because whenever some of my toys broke, I replaced the broken parts with whatever I was able to find. I never loved my broken toys less, on the contrary, I loved them equally or perhaps more.
During my teenage years, I got interested in filming. I was also interested in the Titanic story, so many times I attempted to build a model that I planned to sink and destroy while I recorded it. My plans were to film or record some sort of Titanic movie, a goal I finally was able to achieve later on. Not with a model I could build, but with a small one my mother purchased for me. All I had to record my movie was the Game Boy camera, and that is exactly what I used. I discovered a way to record my movie using the Super Game Boy and the VCR player that we owned. My movie looked horrible, of course, but I was proud of my achievement. I used a big chunk of foam to recreate the iceberg, and I used a flashlight to recreate the fireworks and the explosion when the Titanic broke.
I was able to make a digital copy of that, but unfortunately, I lost it not long ago along with many other things that held an emotional and sentimental value.
My friend, I never stopped smiling while I read your response. That was charming and cute, thank *y
