My first kit was a Comet kit in 1962 or so (I was about 7 or 8) ...exactly as you described. Thank God I discovered Goldberg Models shortly after that or I would have turned to another hobby! LOL!!!
Don
ORIGINAL: Ed_Moorman
You guys don't realize what good kits we have now. In the 1940s and 1950s we got kits with parts printed on balsa sheets and you cut them out. Die cutting was a revalation until the dies got dull, turning them into "die crunch" as many of the popular Sterling CL kits were.