Some months back, I posted a thread that went something like this: "What model did you build when you were a kid that you'd like to build again today?" In that thread, I gave my answer to the question: AMT's "Vantasy," a futuristic-looking camper shell on an El Camino-like pick-up truck body that I built when I was about fourteen. It was a cool-looking model--at least I thought so. I put carpet in the back (never mind that it was real carpet from some scraps I got when my school was installing carpet in my seventh-grade classroom, so the carpet was about 12 scale inches deep in the model!) and even scratchbuilt an overhead CB radio (this would have been about 1976, when CB radios were a huge fad). Instead of using the decals, I painted it Testor's dark red; the one in the little square bottle.
Well, just this past Sunday, I found it: An old kit of AMT's "Vantasy." There was a small model kit exposition that was held here in Phoenix, less than two miles from my new apartment. Ironically, I almost forgot to attend it and when I remembered it, it was only two hours from closing time. I went, not expecting to find anything for my tornado chase vehicles or hurricane-hunting airplanes, but lo and behold, on the last table I looked at before leaving, there was "Vantasy!" I shouldn't have spent the money, but I couldn't resist!
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It's now in my bedroom closet with the P-3 and the C-46 kits and someday, I'll be building "Vantasy" again. Hmmm, now would I rebuild it the way I did when I was a kid (only better with properly scaled carpet!), or would I turn it into some tornado-chase-vehicle-of-the-future?
So, what model did you build when you were a kid that you'd like to build again? Or have you already built such a model?