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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DREDIOCK on April 10, 2007, 06:10:52 PM
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Remember that model kit you put together as a kid?
Or the one you always eyeballed in the store but never built?
You know the ones
The ones you dont see anymore
Well.
It may not be too late
Old Modelkits.com (http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php)
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Browsing thru that site is a trip down memory lane! But the prices - if only I had held on to some of those old Aurora kits . . . .
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Nice site there. Thanks for the lead on some old aircraft models and some others that I had never thought about.
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I have kits still in the box over many many years... been needing to get to them. I'll pass them onto my Son.
Mac
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Some of the prices are robbery.
I've got 4 of these with two still wrapped. My all time favorite model kit from my kid days.
(http://www.oldmodelkits.com/jpegs/Mono%206806P-51B%20Bl%20S.JPG)
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I've had this one for about 15 years:
(http://www.oldmodelkits.com/jpegs/Hasegawa%20JS22-700%20Rita.JPG)
I've been wanting to build it since the day I brought it home but just never got around to it. One good looking plane.
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hmm, it's time my considerable collection goes on ebay.
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LOL I knew you guys would get a kick out of that site.
I remember alot of those models.
I remember building, then burning or blowing up alot of those models LOL
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This thread makes me feel YEARS younger.
I have never heard of any of those makers or seen anything like those.
Aceshigh must be the only sim with a large percent of its playerbase on oxygen, and not just because they are sim geeks! :D
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
I remember building, then burning or blowing up alot of those models LOL
thats for sure... I remember building that Monogram Skyraider about 1970, it had folding wings, I spent days trying to get the wings right. Ended up using so much glue they never did look right.
Problem with this site is most of those will never get built, people buy them to look at the box. Of course it makes me a little sick. From 1978 until 1985 I had the wild idea that I was going to build one of every type plane that had ever been in the USAF inventory since 1947. I was young then and didnt realize what huge project that would be. Some of them werent even available in kits. I found a T-34 in a vacuform kit. I went to an old hobby store and found an old kit of YF-12-A complete with missiles for $5.00 in 1981. I accumulated probably 30 kits and only built about 10 of them in a 6 year period. Then I got divorced and lost my desire to build models and gave them all away to a couple of kids in the neighborhood.
I'm slowly working my way back to the models. Started hunting them down on Ebay. I got the perfect working space just need to get me an airbrush and compressor. I already bought two 109s, P-47, a Tempest and a P-36. I'm not buying anymore until I get those done or atleast started.
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We should start a "show us your unbuilt models still in the box" post. LOLZ.
As soon as I get moved into my new apartment I'll take pics of my stash.
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One of my favorites was the Fighting Dueces series put out in the early 70s by Revel. They were only 1/72 scale but each box contained two kits. One Axis and one Allied. Like the A6M vs the F4F , the F4U vs the Ki-43, or the Spitfire vs the Bf-109. I built a bunch of those as a boy.
EDIT I Found some on the site
(http://www.oldmodelkits.com/jpegs/Revell%20H226-130%20HurFW190.JPG)
(http://www.oldmodelkits.com/jpegs/Revell%20H2258-130%20F4U%20Ki-43.JPG)
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Revell and Monogram were what I had available. I had a few nice ones..the big F16, and a B17 that I never built. I just knew if I built them they'd find their way to the lot out back and die a glorious death to sterno.
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Can remember going to the old STERLING store (dating myself here!) and salavating over the Monogram 1/48 B-17G Flying Fortress model kit and begging and pleading with my Mom for it. When Christmas morning came that year and it was under the tree it was like I had found the Hope Diamond! LOL! :D
Man I was so proud when I finally got it together and painted and showed it to some of the old veterans that lived in town that crewed on the aircraft during WW2.
(http://www.oldmodelkits.com/jpegs/Mono%205600B-17G%20S.JPG)
Thanks for the Blast from the Past! :aok
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Hey Jester, did the one you got come with a pamplet in it with a diorama of a built kit that was battle damaged? One of the kits I bought had that in it and I used to stare at the damn thing for hours, drooling over that diorama. Oh man, the memories.
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Holy crap there's 209 web pages of models on that site?
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Ya thats the B17!
As yes I remember it showing how to make it look like it came in on one wheel and bending back the props on the low wing. Really looked cool. I never built it though.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Hey Jester, did the one you got come with a pamplet in it with a diorama of a built kit that was battle damaged? One of the kits I bought had that in it and I used to stare at the damn thing for hours, drooling over that diorama. Oh man, the memories.
Yea, had the ones for the B-24, C-47 & B-29, Sherman and several of the German Tanks as well. The Dioramas made by Shepard Pane were just master works of art. Tried several myself but never had any come out looking like his.
:aok
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Originally posted by Airscrew
From 1978 until 1985 I had the wild idea that I was going to build one of every type plane that had ever been in the USAF inventory since 1947. I was young then and didnt realize what huge project that would be. Some of them werent even available in kits.
I tried to do something similar with the Irish Air Corps, luckily there were only about 47 types in their entire history. In fact they the total number of aircraft that ever flew with the Air Corps since 1922, comes to about 328. :lol Trouble was they always seemed to have some obscure type you had to scratchbuild or an odd variant of a popular type you had to convert and had hardly any American types. No US military assistance or lend lease for Ireland.:cry
Needless to say you could never buy a kit of an Irish Air Corps aircraft. Still can't.
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Originally posted by cpxxx
I tried to do something similar with the Irish Air Corps, luckily there were only about 47 types in their entire history. In fact they the total number of aircraft that ever flew with the Air Corps since 1922, comes to about 328. :lol Trouble was they always seemed to have some obscure type you had to scratchbuild or an odd variant of a popular type you had to convert and had hardly any American types. No US military assistance or lend lease for Ireland.:cry
Needless to say you could never buy a kit of an Irish Air Corps aircraft. Still can't.
thats because they couldnt get american planes to run on whisky
Irish arcraft however did come equipped with a fully operational keg of Ale ;)
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
thats because they couldnt get american planes to run on whisky
Irish arcraft however did come equipped with a fully operational keg of Ale ;)
Yeah it was a design flaw with US aircraft that really needed fixing. BTW it's spelt WhiskEy:cool: None of your Scotch please.
Only the Brits flew with ale:eek: Strictly Guinness:p
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Originally posted by cpxxx
Yeah it was a design flaw with US aircraft that really needed fixing. BTW it's spelt WhiskEy:cool:
You obviously havent had enough to drink yet tonight
I hereby find you guilty of being Irish and sober. You should be ashamed of yourself
You are hereby sentanced to 3 day confined quarters in the local pub with nothing to eat or drink but whiskEY and sodabread
Come back when your more drunk and spell it coeectly again ;)
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Guilty as charged your honour. But in mitigation, I am on baby duty tonight. I have to give my wife the occasional night off and trying to feed little Jack while intoxicated is not good for either of us. Plus I'm flying tomorrow and a hangover mixed with a 160hp Lycoming is not to be experienced twice. :(
So I'll have to defer the sentence until tomorrow night. (Except for the soda bread)