Author Topic: Hey Fellows!!!! (Read 2888 times)

Randy Ryan · « **on:** February 20, 2015, 08:35:27 AM »

Ah yes, gotta love this cover. I can here the '50's announcer now. "Yes fellows, gals love model airplane builders, why not join the crowd and make her SWOON!!!"

afml · « **Reply #1 on:** February 20, 2015, 10:09:25 AM »

Naaa....
She just has that smile 'cause of all those opened jars of dope are INSIDE the house!

AND....He's painting freehand!

Kinda brings a tear to your eye....

Randy Ryan · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2015, 10:34:49 AM »

Quote from: afml on February 20, 2015, 10:09:25 AM

Naaa....
She just has that smile 'cause of all those opened jars of dope are INSIDE the house!
AND....He's painting freehand!
Kinda brings a tear to your eye....

HAHAHAHAH gotcha, that's what I thought too but he's putting on clear or maybe Hot Fuel Proofer!!!!

I just looked real close, he's using Comet clear, but on the bench there are also Testor's dopes and the cement is also Testors. I'm guessing they had to include their advertizers.

But the girl, nah, she just can't take her eyes of that handsome model airplane builder. Come on, the truth now, weren't you attracted to model airplanes for the money and women?

John Paris · « **Reply #3 on:** February 20, 2015, 11:53:23 AM »

Randy,
How about a remake of that cover with you and Robin?
John

Randy Ryan · « **Reply #4 on:** February 20, 2015, 12:52:51 PM »

Quote from: John Paris on February 20, 2015, 11:53:23 AM

Randy,
How about a remake of that cover with you and Robin?
John

HAHAHAHAH, she's supportive John, but she'lll never SWOON over it.....

Bill Little · « **Reply #5 on:** February 20, 2015, 01:22:29 PM »

Looks like a Berkeley kit Pitts Special, Betty Skelton's Little Stinker. Those were definitely slower times, sometimes I wish we were back then.

BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM

Randy Ryan · « **Reply #6 on:** February 20, 2015, 01:36:09 PM »

Quote from: Bill Little on February 20, 2015, 01:22:29 PM

Looks like a Berkeley kit Pitts Special, Betty Skelton's Little Stinker. Those were definitely slower times, sometimes I wish we were back then.

BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM

You and me both Brother, you and me both!

Will Hinton · « **Reply #7 on:** February 20, 2015, 01:53:32 PM »

C'mon Bill & Randy, at our ages, ALL times are slow. (Or at least I am slow.)

Bob Hudak · « **Reply #8 on:** February 20, 2015, 02:55:36 PM »

Look at the size of his billfold setting on the table! That young man is flush with cash.

Bill Little · « **Reply #9 on:** February 20, 2015, 03:03:21 PM »

Quote from: Randy Ryan on February 20, 2015, 01:36:09 PM

You and me both Brother, you and me both!

Brother Randy, you got that right! And you know about Brother Will..........

Bro. Bill

Jim Kraft · « **Reply #10 on:** February 20, 2015, 03:22:15 PM »

I did it different. Almost 60 years ago I took this fantastic girl for a ride on my 1942 Harley "45". She swooned and we were married a few years later. Then she found out I was a modeler. She still loves me after 56 years of marriage. She still lets me dope my planes in the basement and let me have a back bedroom to build in. To say I love this woman would be an understatement. They just don't make them like they use to.

Dan McEntee · « **Reply #11 on:** February 20, 2015, 04:44:06 PM »

I think the caption should read:
"Betty Skelton was a cool chick, and cool chicks dig Pitts Specials!"
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee

Jim Carter · « **Reply #12 on:** February 21, 2015, 09:27:28 AM »

Yeah riiiiiiiiiiiiiight!! If that had been my kid sister, the little bubble of thought that would be over her head would read "Ohhhhhhhhh! You did such a nice job! I just can wait to tell momma and daddy how you stunk up the house, spilled that stuff on the floor and hid the trash under the rug. You'll be flyin' faster than that silly airplane of yours ..... dear brother"!!

don boka · « **Reply #13 on:** February 21, 2015, 09:47:08 AM »

Yup! Remember five cent tubes of Comet cement without labels, fuel proofer, Aero Gloss not agreeing with other brands of dope, using empty glue tubes for wingtip weight, glue and dope all over fingers and pants and anything else that got nearby as well as stinking up the house and dead booster batteries! But who remembers "Bunny"? Fixit It Wrights girlfriend?

don boka · « **Reply #14 on:** February 21, 2015, 09:49:52 AM »

Betty Skelton flew the devil out of that Pitts and also became a Vice President at Chrysler (in Styling I believe) back in the Day!

Terry Caron · « **Reply #15 on:** February 21, 2015, 11:09:50 AM »

Makes me wanna chew some Ambroid off my fingers!

Terry

john e. holliday · « **Reply #16 on:** February 21, 2015, 11:55:08 AM »

Quote from: don boka on February 21, 2015, 09:47:08 AM

Yup! Remember five cent tubes of Comet cement without labels, fuel proofer, Aero Gloss not agreeing with other brands of dope, using empty glue tubes for wingtip weight, glue and dope all over fingers and pants and anything else that got nearby as well as stinking up the house and dead booster batteries! But who remembers "Bunny"? Fixit It Wrights girlfriend?

I remember Bunny and always wished the neighbor girl looked like that then. Then she did grow up and wouldn't even talk to me because I shunned when we were kids.

Randy Ryan · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2015, 12:50:57 PM »

Quote from: john e. holliday on February 21, 2015, 11:55:08 AM

I remember Bunny and always wished the neighbor girl looked like that then. Then she did grow up and wouldn't even talk to me because I shunned when we were kids.

Who could ever forget Bunny Doc??!!

Scott Richlen · « **Reply #18 on:** February 24, 2015, 06:28:52 AM »

He's like "Oh wow! She digs my cool plane!"

And she's like "Oooh, I can't wait until he finishes this stupid icky plane and then crashes it!"

Like..

George · « **Reply #19 on:** February 24, 2015, 04:05:43 PM »

Quote from: don boka on February 21, 2015, 09:47:08 AM

Yup! Remember five cent tubes of Comet cement without labels, fuel proofer, Aero Gloss not agreeing with other brands of dope, using empty glue tubes for wingtip weight, glue and dope all over fingers and pants and anything else that got nearby as well as stinking up the house and dead booster batteries! But who remembers "Bunny"? Fixit It Wrights girlfriend?

Everybody remembers Bunny!

...and you left out using old Ambroid (or other screw-in) tube screws as pushrod guides on profiles.

George

GGeezer · « **Reply #20 on:** February 24, 2015, 06:54:52 PM »

Mr. Kraft,
I too rode a '42 Harley "45" just after I graduated from HS. Many a gal swooned but I usually rode off into the sunset before things got too serious.

I too now have a wife who shares my hobby... both model planes and vintage motorcycles. She falls in love with me all over again every time I come home from the field after flying diesel-powered free flights!

Orv.

Chris McMillin · « **Reply #21 on:** February 24, 2015, 07:40:16 PM »

I am betting the girl in the picture was his little sister, as guessed here by someone else.
Chris...

Bill Mohrbacher · « **Reply #22 on:** February 25, 2015, 05:46:05 AM »

Bunny was a 13 year olds dream!

Randy Ryan · « **Reply #23 on:** February 25, 2015, 07:09:33 AM »

Quote from: Bill Mohrbacher on February 25, 2015, 05:46:05 AM

Bunny was a 13 year olds dream!

No doubt, but honestly, this ISN'T the best rendition of our lovely cartoon diva from our youth.

Bill Mohrbacher · « **Reply #24 on:** March 02, 2015, 01:04:20 PM »

Yeah, kind of a let down. But how about Charlene, the PCS poster girl, and you could actually talk to her at the Toledo RC show, Those were the days

Gordon Van Tighem · « **Reply #25 on:** March 02, 2015, 08:43:41 PM »

Don't forget Sandra Dee on the cover of a u-control rich copy of Flying Models.

(But I do have the Jack Stafford Chipmunk)

GGeezer · « **Reply #26 on:** March 03, 2015, 02:44:18 PM »

Quote from: Bill Mohrbacher on March 02, 2015, 01:04:20 PM

Yeah, kind of a let down. But how about Charlene, the PCS poster girl, and you could actually talk to her at the Toledo RC show, Those were the days

I have one of the items shown in the cover photo... no no, not the lady or the plane... the PCS radio!