During the 70s and 80s - my youth and teen years, model kits were plentiful everywhere from the local Kmart & Woolworth’s to the neighborhood corner stores. Reminiscing the other night, a couple came to mind after watching a Amelia Earhart documentary on Netflix. I have a renewed interest in doing the Electra aircraft that Earhart flew before she disappeared enroute to a fuel stop. The other two....the Wright Brothers Kitty Hawk Flyer and Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St.Louis aircraft. Yeah, I know.
Funny, I did do the Titanic back then. Go figure....
Let’s hear what kit you had wished you’ve done but passed on it?
What model kit you never built...
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Re: What model kit you never built...
Monogram Badman 55 Chevy - so expensive now, hoping Round2 puts a new one out.
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If I still built 1/72, there would be a whole bunch... but I’ll stick with 1/48 and my occasional dalliances into 1/32. There are a few 1/32 between the wars Yellow Wings types by Hasegawa, Monogram, and Williams Brothers that I never built, but would like to try- Boeing P-12/F4B-4, Curtiss BF2C, Grumman F3F, and Curtiss Sparrowhawk. Maybe the old Matchbox 1/32 Lysander as well. And, although I never saw them nor knew of them back in the day, if Atlantis ever issues the old Aurora 1/48 H-21 and CH-47 I will be all over those.
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Re: What model kit you never built...
Since I wasn’t active in the hobby then, there really aren’t any. But, there are bunches I want to get to...Herkies, Ospreys, Douglas a/c, oh so many...ooh, the B-58, B-52, all that.
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Hey Lyle I have a B-58. Revell Germany boxing of Monogram kit. Wanna do a trade?
I'll never build it. Too big
I'll never build it. Too big
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Thanks, I have the Monogram kit, so I'm good.
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Ah yes, one which I have passed on in my adult years too many times and I really wished that I had not... Testors 1/48 C-130s....
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Re: What model kit you never built...
There are a lot I'd like to build but most are in the stash. I'm not good at self denial, apparently.
Re: What model kit you never built...
A lot of the classic Airfix kits - AC-130, O-1, Rotodyne, Fokker Friendship - the list goes on and one.
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Re: What model kit you never built...
I can't think of one that I never built and is now gone
I did build the Wright Flyer and Spirit of SL. The fit was horrible even for a kid as I recall, You didn't miss anything.
I even built the "visible" man, woman, horse and cricket kits as well as the V8 twice and Mazda rotary engine once. I never did get those things to work right.
I did build the Wright Flyer and Spirit of SL. The fit was horrible even for a kid as I recall, You didn't miss anything.
I even built the "visible" man, woman, horse and cricket kits as well as the V8 twice and Mazda rotary engine once. I never did get those things to work right.
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting the head off a Hydra, two more take it’s place.
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