Found today while I was trying to look for a box to pack some stuff.....the old M113A1 from Tamiya, I recall built around 1985 (form 4!!!..for school model society display)....this makes it the oldest build I have still surviving. Thot id post it up here for a laugh....

1. Brush painted, I guess OOTB...modelled after a pic of a Canadian M113 in NATO REFORGER exercise. But overall think I was confuse between 80's NATO and 60's 'Nam......Tracks all "londeh" and loose...and funny colour oso


2. Some attempt at scratchbuild (overscale!!) radio, headphones, coke can and Marlboro merah (smoking already at that age wattudu)...figures from the kit, reposed a bit...but all wrong anyway cos wearing Vietnam era uniform and simply taroh camo pattern! Popeye-like huge arms and face like Elephant man! The guy with the M60 is a make love not war hippie kaki (in the 80's?) and smoking (dope?) and holding a can of Holstein Pils



3. One more figure inside......looks like painted dummies....mould line like sore thumb....I wonder why ciggies and smoking is prominent in this build...trying to say something to the society teacher? :P Walky talky looks like RC remote control or those old Motorola brick phone


4. Engine bay with some belang belang wire, dunno what is that...


5. Frankenstein-Popeye man inside the cabin, of course with cigarette and giant size Marlboro tied to helmet Vietnam style..mould lines galore.



Man, those were the days. Life was so simple, and the kit cost RM 15 or something from Hobby Jaya in Sg Wang. I think im still stuck in that era :D

gempak siot ko buat.....skill ko masa form 4 pun dah kira baguih dok ada nih :D

tapi masa dulu-dulu tu mana la tau nak buang mould line tu kan macam last pic :P

good job brader B)

LOL Mould line time tu aku tak paham aper benda dia pun....tak sedar pun it shud be removed hahaha....

The Frankenstein face figures with Popeye arms is totally horribleeee......geli tengok...like some people said "macam belalai gajah" :lol:

Maybe this the reason until today I just lingkup and surrender when it comes to figures..childhood trauma :lol:

Landyshah

Wah....nostalgia....I have this kit too. At form 4, you are actually very brave and imaginative to scratch build some of the accesories!

It is funny how photographs seem to highlight all the seam lines and errors. Now i take pics from a far, no more closeups!!!
You can see the ACAV version of this M113 at the SMM09..hahahahha

sllim

Landy ,this is awesome stuff.Scratch building coke cans and Marlboros(the world's No2 and No1 brands)in Form 4 and then sticking it to the "man".I can see lots of passion and love went into this kit.Its a real treasure and I hope you will keep it safe and show it to us soon in da flesh.

on the technical side, good weathering, good attention to detail,(the seams are the pants stitching line ma),clear parts stuck on well.The guys smoking dope has a good lepak expression.

on a side note, this is what Tamiya is good for, easy to build with good details and lots of figures to create a "scene".

PS:how I wish I had one of my first kits.

Landy,

Argeed with Eng Hui, Form 4 dah ada skill macam itu... kagumlah bang.. :P :o , somemore scratch building the coke can and the rokok and the radio...

One think for sure, I remember the Tamiya armour kit ( Still got it unbuilt), the arm for that particular crew memeng Gajah punya, only can fix on the body itself..

Nevertheless.. kagum.... kagum.....

Thank you guys, guess I was just a kid with a fertile imagination and trying to do something with it :D

Nostalgia....after this M113 story, I remembered I had these in my photo album, taken in the days of film camera by me and my dad, around the same time (1983-86) ...took pics of the prints with digicam for you guys to have another laugh:

1. Me at age 16 or something, at workbench in my room...I remember that diorama...was Tamiya Leopard 1 and M151 Ford Mutt...trying to copy something I had seen by Shep Paine in Tamiya catalogue. The base was made from...CEMENT (parents house doing renovation that time)....I see a tube of the great UHU...Man, I had awful hairstyle


2. Workbench cum study table....I remember trying to rebuild and paint that Hase 1/32 Starfighter. Must hv been before the first photo as the Leopard is still not painted....and theres a Panzer II there too, and what seems to be a CH-46 Sea Knight (Tamiya 1/100 scale I recall)


3. Cabinet full of stuff which I had built since a kid...can see the "non painted artline method" and "brush painted" era....some nice old kits there which I wish I could buy again now...Monogram 1/48 P-61 (didnt somebody just build one?), Tamiya Sea harrier, Hase 1/32 Starfighter, 1/48 Hughes 500, Monogram F100, Revell F4F, Esci 1/48 F 104C and a Millenium Falcon!! (I remember that clearly, bought in the US soon after Return of the Jedi came out)....and various F5, F14, F18, Thud, Tamiya A10 etc in shelf below


Various Hase, Airfix, Fujimi, Matchbox...and Zaku, Crab Gunner, a VF-1? and some other robots....



If you guys have any old photos, please do share :D

Keh keh keh Landy,

Old memories strike hard!!! I don't ever recalled of having any photos taken by my dad or mom when i started building at age of 9!! My dad was a poor Govt servant ^_^ !! Honest :blink:

The work bench was similar to what i had last time. Used to build Matchbox Bell Huey Cobra as my 1st ever kit!!! Had a neighbor who introduced this hobby to me. He is now a deputy GM at Eagle Aircraft in Melaka.

Landy, i too build the same M113 kit. Had a mini diorama that was always knocked out by my late cat every morning when he sneaked in into my room!!! Chasing that pussy around the house has became a chore!!! :lol:

I also used to hang all my planes from the ceiling and believes me, imagination really kicks in!!

Let me search for photos if can find any! BTW Landy, was that a CASIO F9 watch?

Sgt Buds, Six Zero out!

LOL!! Bila besaq this activity becomes a pleasure, not chore :lol:

Dunno what model, but that is sure a Casio watch, used it for years and years!

Shah,

your sejarah really inspiring, I remember I started building around 12, but don't think I have any picture taken....

You really have lots of completed kit's at that time, even more then what most of the modellers out there, no wonder you can build so fast now!!

thanks for sharring

Abg Shah...

nostalgic pic bang....so ur parent supported you a lot in this hobby rite?
very nice collections u got there bang....

dlm thread ni sesape blh upload nostalgic pictures ke bang?...

hulamak.... caya la... always love to see these yellowish photos....
gila la nko... for a form 4 dude, u did well better then my first time ( i mean model tawwww....)

love to hair style... it was not awful and i believed that standard la... for sure u go to school with either seluaq ketat or seluaw gantung macam maikel jeksen.... wakakakaka

anyway, good to see those memories and i got hell of collection during your teen... i wonder if chasing pussy at that time is not possible since u didnt have any cat at home, unlike me u have a few those days,,,,,,,,, hahahaha (jgn jadi dirty suda la)

ko memang otai no wonder u can turn sampah into gold..............

Hmmm....you are tall like a tree....afro hairstyle.....seluar maikel jeksen

80's style dude....those were the days

P/s:jangan marah nanti kena juai

LOL Michael Jackson pulak!!!

Wei, time tu was WARRIOR / CAREFREE shoe and sluar tapered (from Westpoint Pertama Complex) LOL...so my fashion sense kira ok la...rambut jer slack

Yes, my parents very supportive of this hobby, I am quite lucky and thankful to them....most of those kit were bought with pocket/Raya money or Birthday present (my whole family, auntie/uncle, grandparents etc kept buying me kits for bday)

But with that many model around, my mother sure bising haha, before I left home I had to pack them all up or throw away.

Dremel or anyone, dipersilakan post old pic, will be really fun to see :D

great pics Landy! Man I see your sneaky grin while making that dio.I wonder what you were planning.The model collection is awesome.I hope I can provide my son such a childhood.

Really nostalgic... but pitiful that I don't have cameras that time and no old pics...

Good to have parents and relative to support your hobby craze...

Tried to "Tumpahkan kuah ke nasi" but my sons only craze on Gundam 101% OOB... meaning no painting, no scratch-building, bla...bla...bla... He only need 1 x Cutter and 1 x needle file... That all!!!

mej®

Wow

Blast from the past............lovely to rekindle the spirit of the time...........Wish I could find my old pics as well..............If I can locate surely to post...........had some nice shots........

Thanks for Sharing Shah...........this surely brings back the good old days of buying and building .................for me too...........actually parents buying.........we build..............

Rgds
Mr B

:huh: speechless..this is really "Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah" cuma x masuk dl RTM aja :lol:..try to locate mine HIDS but lost in time :lol:

Dei Shah!

Good old memories. Wah! form 4 alredi scratchbuilding. Sori no pictures from me. Was really a closet builder then like secret project :lol: My lepak kaki didn't even know that I had that hobby.

During that period of time I was hatching the "Before the Bulge" dio.

You also 'WestPoint' kaki like me. Pertama Complex also hang out with Victoria Music and Computer games arcade.

Richard.

Richard is being modest..If he releases his old pics, habis Verlidan!! Coz Richard works looks exactly like it

sllim

Dei Richard

Wespoint, Victoria Music Centre, Sg Wang, Video arcade, Duran Duran.....the 80's!

Richard:

Is this the same as:

Haha I think we all got excited about this kind of thing :P

Long time ago...sometimes I feel I have made some progress, sometimes I think not...I guess we all keep trying to be better, never ending process of learning

Anyway, anyone who got old pics please post!

I must say Landy the coke can and malboros are quite well done and considering the tender age in which you did them makes them even better. At least your figgies got painted. Most of mine went au naturel or had a coat of ICI paint.

An impressive collection of planes as well. Pity not too many survivors.

hobby hq i think somewhere in 1995....i'm 21 years old...still virgin siut... :lol: :lol: :P



Scale Model Competition in 1993 if i'm not mistaken...see the crowd n see the entries...miss that times.... :) we've 2 line of tables in 'U' shape at same saize...







hope i'll find old look of HHQ....must be somewhere.... :)

Naza

Waa... really old2 pictures...

1995... hmm... I'm not really active in model building that time... interest is there but cash is not.... hahaha...

The model competiton during that time was big... I can recall watching TV3 do a coverage on the model competition for their evening news and seeing a big crowd with a big number of entries...

Just hope one day we can bring back the modelling scene like it was back then... :)

I just recall that I have sent a model car (it's an AMT Mercury) for a competition last time through my brother (wakil) because I was away in Terengganu for my studies not sure the year though but I did not win anything.. hehehehe...

Wah Mat Lobang, were you with BPR before (Bumiputera Rockers :P :D :P )?

I wonder where those hairs went to.... somewhere else kot? :lol:

Sgt Buds, Six Zero out!!

Imran.....have a look at the 1/1 Gremlin. painted by either Thompson Ong or William Wong....huge siut...that can tell us how serious the hobby during that time....Quite a number of Diorama as well participated....

Bung Bud....aku ingat lagi hang datang ngn badan hang sekeping, encem siut mcm hitrik rosyan.....hang masih belajaq or baru gred dr uitm masa tu....punya berlagak ngn aku....mentang2lah aku jd macai masa tu....hang buat lecehhhhhhhh... :lol: :lol: :lol:

...HHQ competition was 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999(tak ade), and 2001 my last competition with HHQ. Not counted Miniature Hobby n Daisheng....

mybe can ask Harman which competition yg dia enter.... :D

Ya ka? Yg belagak tu bukan aku, kembaq aku... ishhhhh... aku tak penah belagak, tambah dgn hang!! Yes, I still remember those days ya, where most of old farts like us used to hang there during our weekends. Guess it never change until now :P

Sampai naik meyampah hang tengok kami, Kalau model tu boleh cakap, siap kena ludah dah.. Palat!! But Mat Lobang, yes, we learn a lot from you and Bakri.

Sgt Buds, Six Zero out!!

I love the old pics man, I wonder what I was doing then?probably partying in base2 was the closest I got to HHQ at the time.

btw, Bomber Vince masuk that competition ar?

:lol: :lol:

I was trying to remember where I saw that hairstyle....kutu mana laaaa



or



or Jim Mandasamy from blues Gang

Kuching Lorong belakang...!

was that really vince....wahhh looks soo young & naive :lol:

shah.....2nd picture tu kan.....on the left side looks really like you brader :P

p/s:jangan marah nanti kena juai

Lan: Maybe it is me!! Just lurve the Bolero jacket mannnnn HAHAHA

Bomber vince???...PEHHH...how old are you bro?...its long journey bro....


so anybody kept an old pic can share with us here...syiok man...

Mat Lobang, gua boleh imagine if your hair looks like the guy on the 2nd right from the 2nd picture.... tebako rambut bakar spruce... :D

Ahhhh!! Hail Amir, the guy with tiger claw necklace!! Hang kena pakai satu Landy.

Sgt Buds, Six Zero out!!

Per barang mamat tu Bud....gua lg encem....rebonding...kekekeke...ni masa masih lagi gitarist IRON MAIDEN... :lol: :lol: :lol: ...2 minute to midnight...haha
could't remember what year...wif my scratchbuilt patrolboat....KD PERKASA...




:D

Wah Naza,

That is really long time ago man. Can see my 'Achtung Achtung' and part of
'Before the Bulge' dio's in there. At least got some old pix of my stuff. Thanks to you.

So many entries, damn shock man and all categories. Those were the times. You also got hair.

Richard.

Sikit lagi boleh la dremel



Dua dua pun master gak

Bud: second pic, I think the guy on the rightmost remind of you, ko tengok dia pegang rokok....machooo....simpan la afro

waalamak!!!!! gamba ku 17 tahun dulu?? huh huh....that time.....really impressed by the model kits.

I can remember that I went there, but isit really me?? but looks like me.... :D