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| Subject: | Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling |  |
| Date: | Jan 13, 2008 |
| From: | Tim Streeter | |
I'd start with toy soldiers, generally our first exposure to figures, which some of us tried to paint for fun or for class projects (the ubiquitous 1/72 scale Alamo project or Custer's Last Stand). I still have many of my old Marx figures from the 60s. The old sets were ready-made battleground dioramas.
You'd have to include the Monogram 1/32 scale series with the Shep Paine inserts and his subsequent Kalmbach books on building AFVs and dioramas.
Airfix's 30-year-old 1/32 multipose kits, which have only recently been adapted in a purposeful way in 1/35 by Dragon.
The maturing of the babyboomers--and their disposable incomes--in the 1990s, which fueled the growth of the current Golden Age.
Verlinden's publications helped promote both his products and the art of diorama building. This was further expanded (literally and figuratively) by Bod Letterman.
Dry transfers. Pre-size and Verlinden preceded Archer, but I'm not sure who the true orginator was.
The Internet. Rec.models.scale begat Track-Link, which begat Missing Lynx, ad infinitum.
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 | Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Paul A. Owen - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - David Manning - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Tim Streeter - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Dry transfers - Letraset - Paul A. Owen - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . The Internet - Paul A. Owen - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - John Steinman - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Military Modeler - the first issue - Paul A. Owen - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Tamiya - Bruce Probst - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Johannes Allert - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Julian Marles - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . The resurgence of slide mold technology - Saul Garcia - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Al Bowie - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . 1989 Tamiya Late Tiger I - Roy Chow - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Gary Cooper - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Gary Cooper - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . the local hobby shop / toy shop - Alex Borsboom - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Chris Oldfield - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Bob A - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . FSM Tamiya Panther A article - Paul A. Owen - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Reference Materials - Charles Harrison - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Quantity: I remember when I was ahead of the curve - roy chow - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Quantity: I remember when I was ahead of the curve - Rex Ross - Jan 24, 2008 |
| . . . World War 2... - Kip Rudge - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: World War 2... - roy chow - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . One visit to the LHS... - Andrew Herbert - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Acrliyc Model Paints - John Steinman - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestones... - christopher benjamin - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Milestones and History of the Same - Edward hall - Jan 15, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Milestones and History of the Same - Tim Streeter - Jan 15, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . New modellers - Paul A. Owen - Jan 17, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Discovery (Paul) - Edward Hall - Jan 21, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Arun Bauer - Jan 15, 2008 |
| . . . . . . 3D printing - Roy Chow - Jan 17, 2008 |
| . . . Hornet Heads - Glenn Bartolotti - Jan 16, 2008 |
| . . . How far back? - Michael Bedard - Jan 24, 2008 |
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