Funny, my P-40 ended the same way, but it was a friend who wound it up and flew it across my room into the wall!de officiis wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:49 pm I remember building those kits! The SE-5 lasted quite awhile because it hung unmolested in one of our bedrooms. The P-40, OTOH, died almost immediately after it was finished because I tried to fly it with the wind-up rubber band that came with it. It crashed & broke on my first attempt.
But you’ll have to tell us more about your professional experience.
In my early 20's I started working in the NYC advertising industry, building models and special effects for commercials and ads. Even things as mundane as soap needed models, you didn't photograph a bar of Ivory, you had one made a foot long with a lacquer finish, sprayed it with glycerin to make it look wet, sat it on a tabletop and spent literally all day lighting it before taking the photo. I remember my jaw dropping when I learned one of my employers got $10k for a 2 foot model of a Gillette razor. 3d letters were cut by hand, this was before ubiquitous lasers or CNC machine tools. I made stuff like 6" square oat cereals and a 6" model of the Golden Gate Bridge. Predictably in retrospect, much of this industry was destroyed by digital machining and digital imagery. I ended up building mechanical stuff mostly for theater where it really has to happen.
