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Master at Arms
This is the Polar Lights reissue of the old Aurora kit and it's showing every day of age.
I needed a pick me up, and was rifling through the stash and came across this and the Mummy's Chariot. I couldn't remember buying them, but then it dawned on me. My sons bought these when I took them on a road trip about 8 years ago, to the most amazing LHS I've ever known. We were greeted with the same "How ya doin' young fella?" that I first heard almost 40 years earlier.
Their choice was fitting, since I bought the original Aurora kits at that shop when I was a kid and here they are buying re-pops of the same kits from the same couple many years later.
To keep with tradition, I skipped the directions (couldn't find them anyway), cut everything loose from the spurs in one shot and started gluing. No pre-build sprue washing, no clean up unless there was a glaring issue, just get it together while the TV was on in the background. While I used to build in front of Creature Features or World At War, depending on what time it was on Saturday, this time I found an old anthology series called 'Thriller' that was introduced by Boris Karloff which I don't believe I've ever seen before.
After about an hour...
Now I depart from my 7 year old self and will clean this up, fill the gaps and see how I can finish it off, without getting too serious.
Thanks for looking in.
![h909b36f.jpg](https://modelersalliance.org/media/kunena/attachments/4867/h909b36f.jpg)
I needed a pick me up, and was rifling through the stash and came across this and the Mummy's Chariot. I couldn't remember buying them, but then it dawned on me. My sons bought these when I took them on a road trip about 8 years ago, to the most amazing LHS I've ever known. We were greeted with the same "How ya doin' young fella?" that I first heard almost 40 years earlier.
Their choice was fitting, since I bought the original Aurora kits at that shop when I was a kid and here they are buying re-pops of the same kits from the same couple many years later.
To keep with tradition, I skipped the directions (couldn't find them anyway), cut everything loose from the spurs in one shot and started gluing. No pre-build sprue washing, no clean up unless there was a glaring issue, just get it together while the TV was on in the background. While I used to build in front of Creature Features or World At War, depending on what time it was on Saturday, this time I found an old anthology series called 'Thriller' that was introduced by Boris Karloff which I don't believe I've ever seen before.
![h9c38e1c.jpg](https://modelersalliance.org/media/kunena/attachments/4867/h9c38e1c.jpg)
After about an hour...
![h45db8f4.jpg](https://modelersalliance.org/media/kunena/attachments/4867/h45db8f4.jpg)
Now I depart from my 7 year old self and will clean this up, fill the gaps and see how I can finish it off, without getting too serious.
Thanks for looking in.
![h63fd6f4.jpg](https://modelersalliance.org/media/kunena/attachments/4867/h63fd6f4.jpg)