Page 17 The urge grows stronger
skyangel on April 28, 2024
I find it a lot of fun putting the odd ‘nostalgia panels’ in, such as the one here of me making a plastic model kit of the Apollo Lunar Module. My favourite model of all time was the Saturn V rocket which I started to draw Nick building here, but then remembered I'd already shown it built on a previous page in chapter one so had to substitute a different model!
This was before ‘glue sniffing’ became an issue and I would wonder why my head felt so tight after a day spent making a model up!
DarkVisor at 7:18AM, May 1, 2024
Poor Nik, going to forget the time or mum comes home early :(
skyangel at 10:24AM, May 1, 2024
DV: That is always the risk for sure!
Ironscarf at 4:05PM, April 30, 2024
I like the interplay between inside and outside on this page and once again all the evocative details. Speaking of evocative, this reminds me of my old English teacher who used to joke that we all drank Carlsberg and Evostick at the weekend. I remember making the lunar module prior to that, before the glue craze took off!
skyangel at 12:29AM, May 1, 2024
I remember feeling really annoyed when they put the age restriction on buying the glue because up to that point I had always just gone into our local newsagents on my own and bought the kit, the paint and the glue all in one with no problems. I used to enjoy dripping it on polystyrene too as it was like acid! XD
matti64 at 4:53AM, April 29, 2024
Nice tosee that she's building the Airfix Lunar Module, recognisable by the white plastic. this so resonates with the life of my GF as w she was growing up.
skyangel at 11:41AM, April 29, 2024
You must be English! Most UK model kits seemed to be either Airfix or Revell in our local shops. I was never much into the war stuff but I did also make a few cars and a couple of sailing ships but one of my faves was a working guillotine by Aurora which had a victim with a loose head to put in it! You are right about the Mini Clubman btw :)
Othosmops at 12:08AM, April 29, 2024
And the dress is ... borrowed from your mother's closet, or bought yourself?
skyangel at 12:36AM, April 29, 2024
Everything back then was found in the loft, mostly left behind from the previous owners. The buying comes later! :)
UnderTheBlackHat at 12:01PM, April 28, 2024
Once again you strike a chord with the team over here. A couple of us remember the watching intently as man made their first landings in those tiny, fragile contraptions! Building one yourself must have been interesting to say the least. Even better we're betting was indeed having 'space' to yourself to feel more, relaxed and comfortable in your own skin. Such an interesting train of thought for one so young, but then from the mouths of babes and all that hmm? We're also loving all the elements: Telly, model, corn flakes, 'dads' chair... and that lovely garden with an unacknowledged young lady looking just beautiful surrounded by flowers and butterflies... Thanks again! And we also remember dealing with 'fumes' from the glue. That's why they warned about enclosed spaces on those tubes (at least eventually).
skyangel at 1:04AM, April 29, 2024
Haha *Waves to the team* I did make the lunar module but it never fascinated me as much as the Saturn V(which I still have) which stands just under 3'tall and has tiny astronauts in the nose cone which are barely the size of match heads which gives the whole thing a pretty mind blowing sense of scale considering the thing is practically all fuel!... As for the 'space' that's an interesting point because it was only a few years ago that I became aware that I have certain ASD symptoms which psychologists now are saying is quite common in trans kids although I'm not sure why that should be. I've always been very insular and felt overwhelmed in large groups but of course the more obvious reason for wanting to be alone at that age was that I didn't want to be caught wearing my dresses as people would make me feel bad for doing so. I never felt lonely though!
Genejoke at 11:51AM, April 28, 2024
Glue sniffing... I'd forgotten about that.
skyangel at 12:44AM, April 29, 2024
Haha Yes, so had I! It was only whilst drawing the panel that I remembered that myself.
ohanyname at 11:27AM, April 28, 2024
Child left unattended at home - Austin Maxi on the driveway - this *must* have been a long time ago!
matti64 at 4:55AM, April 29, 2024
Mini Clubman I think. My sister had one....an automatic.
skyangel at 12:42AM, April 29, 2024
We're around the late 70's at this point but I don't want to try and use specific dates as I'm uncertain and it gives me a bit more flexibility in the 'props' I like to add in.
Genejoke at 11:50AM, April 28, 2024
times they have a changed for sure.