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| Subject: | Re: What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? |  |
| Date: | May 21, 2002 |
| From: | Adam Vukich | |
I agree with Alex. I grew up playing with GI Joes and watching war movies.
My father used to take me to US Civil War battlefields and played the old
Bunker Hill War Board games with me. All of this made me have a high
interest in history and that led me to research WWII which in turn made me
fall in love with the tank.
I think that a great start to help get kids a bit more interested in
modelling would be to make history classes more fun. To be interested in
the tank, you should most likely be interested in history, but history
classes in American schools is nothing more than regurgitating dry facts.
Even in college at the University of Pittsburgh, I took a class on American
history from colonial times to 1870s - 1880s (i.e. through reconstruction).
The professor condensed the Revolutionary War into a 10 minute talk and the
Civil War into one lecture. How on earth can these two EXTREMELY import,
future of this country shaping events be just breezed over in favor of dry
political and economic crap.
Adam
"Alex Hodges" wrote in message
news:3cea9eb9@dev.routehero.com...
> I believe there has to be interest in the subject before there is
> interest in the model. I'm only speaking from my own experience growing
up
> 1st) it was a love for tractors - my mom has said many times that I would
> always point them out as we drove past them. 2nd) old war movies - loved
> them. 3rd) playing Army not Cowboys and Indians mind you - ARMY- running
> around with the Tommy gun and wearing anything green. Some of us had the
> fortune of having some surplus gear to "accent our appearance whether it
be
> a helmet or pistol belt. 4th) My Dad built airplane models and one one day
> (I think I was like 10) I talked him into buying and building a tank it
was
> the Testors (Italeri) M-47 and bought my 1st kit for me a Testors Willys
> Jeep that came with a trailer and 2 guys - one holding a recoiless rifle.
> Needless to say mine looked like crap, but I was hooked on AFV models. I
> think I have built 1 model car and it was a snap-tite and a hand-full of
> planes and ships. Nothing, however, could or can compare to the AFV
model
> because it reinforces my interest in the subject to begin with.
> I don't think you want to cram and AFV down a kid's throat just like
you
> want to force him/her to take piano lessons - do you? I remember when I
was
> in summer camp they had a target shooting class - we got to shoot at paper
> targets with B.B. guns. I distinctly remember that not everyone liked it
> ( some boys ) even though they signed up for it.
>
>
> -Alex
>
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> "Tim Streeter" wrote in message
> news:3CEA94C6.141AFA56@msn.com..
>
> > So I'm wondering what you guys think about this. How do we nuture the
> > new AFV modelers?
>
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 | What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? - Tim Streeter - May 21, 2002 |
| . . . Re: What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? - Alex Hodges - May 21, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? - Adam Vukich - May 21, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? - Tim Streeter - May 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? - MSW - May 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? - Landon Olson - May 23, 2002 |
| . . . The WOW factor is missing... - Yuchung Wang - May 21, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: The WOW factor is missing... - Ruben Kremer - May 21, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: The WOW factor is missing... - Alex Hodges - May 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: The WOW factor is missing... - Alan - May 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: The WOW factor is missing... - Yuchung Wang - May 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . SF - Peter Ong - May 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: SF - Yuchung Wang - May 23, 2002 |
| . . . Several things - Peter Ong - May 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Several things - Alex Hodges - May 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Several things - Yuchung Wang - May 23, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Several things - Thorsten Wieking - Jul 3, 2002 |
| . . . Re: What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? - john.williamson3 - May 24, 2002 |
| . . . Re: What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? - john.williamson3 - May 24, 2002 |
| . . . Re: What Can We Do to Attract More Young Modelers? - john.williamson3 - May 24, 2002 |
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