I Wonder

My 'wonder where they went' group was the Monogram 1/48 aircraft with all the moving parts; retractable gear, folding wings, etc. Some may still be around, I guess I just haven't looked, but I loved that series when I was young.

Probably rotting in people's stashes.

I've got a couple. The "Phantom' Mustang comes to mind.

I recently built the old Revell "Midway", that goes back to the mid fifties.

The Revell Treasury Class Campbell is in there somewhere.

The Revell Burton Island too. I think I have a PE set that covers both of the above.

Bill

Revell reissued the U.D.T. boat again a few years back, I picked it up to try it out again after my childhood attempt was lost to the ages.

You likely answered your own question though of where most kits ended up though, the landfill.  I don't have a single finished kit left that was completed before the age of 23.  As time went by, pieces were broken of while being dusted by others or were crushed while in storage and it wasn't worthwhile to salvage.

Bill, i've got about 5 of Revell's Yorktown class carriers with 1 done as the Hornet over 40 yrs ago but without the Mitchells which i got later which is 1 of the other 4 kits. the other 4 kits will do the Yorktown & Enterprise with the remaining 2 to be kitbashed into the Ranger & Wasp. i've got 4 of Revell's Treasury Class cutters with 1 i built about 45yrs, the other 3 with 1 to be built as the Taney with the floatplane & 2 5" 51cal guns, the 2nd as the 4 5"38cal command ship & the last in it's present configuration. i have 3 of the Burton Island's with 1 of them to be built as CCGS Labrador as i'm Canadian.

Robert, i still have a number of Airfix British cruisers that i built almost 50yrs ago plus other ships that survived about a dozen moves due to family splitup & work.

HooYah;

 I remember all of those. and I still have some unbuilt from a box full of Monogram stuff I did buy at a Flea market. As the time goes by they will get rarer.

YeahBill;

 I have the Midway and the Burton Island.I have carefully built up my buildable Revell kits, shipwise .I do have the P.E. for the Burton Island. I have created some NON-P.E. for the Campbell. 

Doc,

  The rest of those old models you folks are talking about.... I think I have a few.

Some PT boats from my attic.  Built back in the 60's.

( And yeah, some with "battle damage"...)

 Nino.

There is a deep spot in a stream near Paoli, Pennsylvania ( about 20 miles west of Philadelphia), that is the model equivalent to 'Iron Bottom Sound'. Littering the depths (all of about six feet) are the earthly remains of many plastic warships, having succumbed to the onslaught of BB guns and firecrackers and the occasional aerial bomb (taconite pellets, dropped from the railroad overpass).

I left that area back in '68, never to return. I have no idea what may remain.

I have a Robert E Lee sidewheeler by Revell, from the early 70's, that is not built.  Also, I have a 1/48 Monogram B25H, unbuilt, from the same period.  They are among the many kits I have to get rid of, due to moving.  Still have a bunch of models I built in the early 60's.

Most of them, especially the Monogram with all them working parts, are rubble.We played with them in battle.  Or we shot the model ships with BB guns or firecrackers etc.  I did not stop blowing plastic models apart until 1970, when I started college.  Then models became "keepers".  Then they had to deal with other damage or they became parts donors.