SPA Modeler

My dad loved building model airplanes. He would sit at a wooden table and, although not very mechanically minded, assemble these tiny warplanes, gluing and painting them.
His brother remembered: "I was visiting Rod in California and [he] was building a replica of the Red Baron’s Fokker triplane. He couldn’t get the glue to hold on the top wing which kept flopping. Rod finally lost his patience, threw the model on the floor and stamped it into a few hundred pieces. ‘Rod,’ I asked, ‘why the hell do you even build those things if you get so frustrated?'"
“I do it to relax,” my father responded in perfect seriousness.

- quoted from his daughter Anne Serling’s “As I Knew Him: My Dad Rod Serling”

Good stuff!

Stikpusher wrote:Good stuff!

Anger management... and I agree — good stuff! Twilight Zone, Planet of the Apes... the man was a writing marvel as well as an aircraft modeler!

- Kari

KSaarni wrote:

- Kari

speedgraflex wrote:

Stikpusher wrote:Good stuff!

Anger management... and I agree — good stuff! Twilight Zone, Planet of the Apes... the man was a writing marvel as well as an aircraft modeler!

Planet of the Apes was written by the same author as who wrote Bridge on the River Kwai, Pierre Boulle. I’ve read both books, and think that I may still have them somewhere. They were changed noticeably in their original film versions. Both are quite dark novels.

And they say stamp collecting is relaxing....

That perfectly sums it up - the schizophrenia of our hobby.

Carlos — you are absolutely right about Planet of the Apes—Serling adapted the novel. I am a huge original film Apes fan; the score alone is simply stunning; Nova is stunning and those damn dirty apes are so cool.

BlackSheep — haha, all too true about stamp collecting!! Very apt observation, as always!

Torben — I miss your visuals! When will your Huey project begin? Please?