What model kit you never built...
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tempestjohnny
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Re: What model kit you never built...
There are a few car kits from that era I'd like but I'm not taking a mortgage to buy them
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BlackSheep214
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I know exactly what you mean. I’d love to get the KISS van again and the 4x4 Dodge Camper w/dirt bike kit by MPC. There so many others too. I keep watching eBay with hopes of asking prices by sellers are reasonable.
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Medicman71
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Re: What model kit you never built...
I'd still like to build the Revell 1/48 B-1.
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Re: What model kit you never built...
Ooh, ooh....Medicman71 wrote:I'd still like to build the Revell 1/48 B-1.
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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Duke Maddog
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Right now I can't think of any kit that I passed on that I want to build now. All the ones I wanted to build but didn't build were kits I didn't have the money for and my parents wouldn't buy for me. I do have a faint memory of a kit that nobody has ever been able to confirm it's existence. I remember it well, having held it in my hands begging my parents to buy it for me to no avail. It was a model kit of a floating drydock, if you can believe that. Now there's absolutely no proof it ever existed. I don't even remember the name of the company that released it; but I recall it being one of the usual suspects back in the day. I I remember that I was mezmerized by the picture of the destroyer sitting inside this thing and that's why I wanted it.
Another kit I always wanted to build as a kid was the old Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car after having seen the movie. Naturally as is my typical luck, none were ever to be found anywhere when I was looking for one. Now they are prohibitively expensive.
Anything else I never built is either in the stash already; is not in my preferred scale, or does not exist in plastic kit form.
Another kit I always wanted to build as a kid was the old Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car after having seen the movie. Naturally as is my typical luck, none were ever to be found anywhere when I was looking for one. Now they are prohibitively expensive.
Anything else I never built is either in the stash already; is not in my preferred scale, or does not exist in plastic kit form.
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
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BlackSheep214
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Re: What model kit you never built...
Oh my God!! The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car! I've been looking for those Corgi diecast cars of them. Nowadays they're pricey. The kit even rarer.
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Author unknown- 352nd Fighter Group, Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney
“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn
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tempestjohnny
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Re: What model kit you never built...
Just had a guy on another forum build one. He literally got out the 80 grit on some areasMedicman71 wrote:I'd still like to build the Revell 1/48 B-1.
Re: What model kit you never built...
Back in the late 70's I got an Aurora VooDoo Vega 1/16th scale funny car. Not sure whatever happened to it but at this point they are prohibitively expensive.
I did get a rebuilder and finally a mint one some years ago. If I told you what I paid you'd want to smack some sense into me. There are a few kits I wish i had built/bought. The Monogram 1/32 scale gasser kits are one such thing. So expensive now for even a rebuilder.
I did get a rebuilder and finally a mint one some years ago. If I told you what I paid you'd want to smack some sense into me. There are a few kits I wish i had built/bought. The Monogram 1/32 scale gasser kits are one such thing. So expensive now for even a rebuilder.
Now that we know that.... What have we learned?...