Have you ever bought a kit based on a dream?

My best recollection of a connection of a dream and modeling was a dream about scratchbuilding a P6E.  In the dream I had an innovative idea for the fuselage construction.  I remembered it when I woke up, and indeed built the model.

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    I have to respond again .I had a dream one time , after seeing " The Enemy Below " Starring Robert Mitchum and Kurt Jurgens . I dreamed about that ship and the seas that she had to deal with , while doing her job . Well , Fast forward seven years and lo! and Behold , I am a member of our U.S. Navy ! Assigned to a Destroyer outfitted in late war fit !

      Now that in itself was amazing .I didn't even know the Navy had any like this left ! Yes , she was a Gearing . With quad and twin forties , Twenties and get this , Dual 5" 38 gun mounts  ! Four of those double barreled bad boys ! Torpedo launchers on the 01 deck and all that . Oh Hedgehogs too  ! As well as the Depth charge suite .

      This was a surprise . I went to the Base exchange and they had the " Buckley " from that movie I dreamed about . I built it while at sea ! Of course I got scoffed at for having toys till it was finished . Then the crew asked me to build a Gearing for a parting gift for our captain . Our captain was one in a million ! You Bet !  I don't know where the model is now , But I still have a move worn and decrepit " Buckley " on my shelf !

All of my aircraft kits are bought based on the dream of owning / restoring the real thing. Can't afford my own warbird, so ...........

As far as cars go, I've got a 1:1 1970 Dodge Challenger RT/SE, all the others will have to be in 1:24 or 1:25 (no more room in the garage!)

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     I guess you could say that . At the height of the early space race . I had this dream of Americans setting up a base on the Moon . Funny , the moon crawler looked just like a M-48-A-1 kit I coveted , with a clear Bubble top no less !

     Yeah this was years ago when the only kit of that was MONOGRAM'S old offering  . Still I had the ONTOS , and the MISSILES with launch rails and the ATOMIC Cannon too . Just as well , I had All the other armor kits that MONOGRAM offered as well as the RENWAL kits .

        So I saved up and bought the thing and created the Moon Crawler as I saw it in my dreams with electric drive and batteries instead of the regular tank engine .Copped a Trophy for a What If too ! Funny what our imaginations and dreams can inspire isn't it ?

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Gonna be interested to see if your wife buys into that one...LOL

It kind of makes sense though. Obviously it's on your mind.

Looking forward to that. I haven't seen one of those built up in forever.

Didn't it have a .50 cal mounted to one of the tubes as a range finder?