Favorite nostalgic build?

Revell/Monogram F-89 Scorpion. I have at least two—the ones with the raised decal locators! First kit I built that looked half decent as a kid (clean seams, no glue fingerprints). Still love the aircraft. The other would be the old Hawk AT-6 Texan. I must have built a dozen, and played all of them to death. Might see if I can find one sometime, just for the memory.

Ah, some of those were shinin' times! 

Triarius wrote:

Revell/Monogram F-89 Scorpion. I have at least two—the ones with the raised decal locators! First kit I built that looked half decent as a kid (clean seams, no glue fingerprints). Still love the aircraft. The other would be the old Hawk AT-6 Texan. I must have built a dozen, and played all of them to death. Might see if I can find one sometime, just for the memory. Ah, some of those were shinin' times!

Cool Ross. If you can find it, post it for fun. I wish I had some of my older kits to post for the heck of it.

the only one i would really like again is the large scale (not sure exactly what scale it was) 64 1/2 mustang.  with what i know now i believe i could really do it up right.  i could do it justice. 

joe 

tigerman wrote:

Triarius wrote: Revell/Monogram F-89 Scorpion. I have at least two—the ones with the raised decal locators! First kit I built that looked half decent as a kid (clean seams, no glue fingerprints). Still love the aircraft. The other would be the old Hawk AT-6 Texan. I must have built a dozen, and played all of them to death. Might see if I can find one sometime, just for the memory. Ah, some of those were shinin' times!  Cool Ross. If you can find it, post it for fun. I wish I had some of my older kits to post for the heck of it.

Don't I ever resemble that remark!!!

fightnjoe wrote:

the only one i would really like again is the large scale (not sure exactly what scale it was) 64 1/2 mustang.  with what i know now i believe i could really do it up right.  i could do it justice.      joe

i  wish i could have and revell /monogram  saturn v rocket

and they made this model that consisted of a base  with some 30/36 rockets and missles  standing upright on the base  with a man of about 3/4 of an inch in height on the base as well to show the relative size of each missle/rocket

i did both as a kid, and now could do a much better job on them i i had them

DURR wrote:

fightnjoe wrote: the only one i would really like again is the large scale (not sure exactly what scale it was) 64 1/2 mustang.  with what i know now i believe i could really do it up right.  i could do it justice.      joe    1/16th scale i think it was

and i believe it was by AMT

I'd like to build the Monogram B-17G again someday. I looked at that kit in the Sears catalog until the ink started wearing off the page. I was so happy when I opened it up Christmas morning of 1978.

It had detail like I'd never seen, and seemed so huge. And that diorama brochure- the one by Shepherd Paine- wow! I still am in awe of his work.

Really I've got several that have some special memory attached with them, but the Flying Fortress one really stands out to me now. 

I rebuilt one of my first armor kits, the Aurora MBT70, with a parts kit I got off of eBay for $5. That was fun rebuilding that old kit. I really enjoyed myself.

But one kit I slapped together from my childhood (not really a nostalgic kit) was the original Luke Skywalker X-Wing fighter by MPC. While it pales in comparison to the tiny Fine Molds kit, I like building it 30 years ago and thought it was a fun, simple build.

Daywalker wrote:

One that really stands out for me is the 1/72 Monogram P-51B.  It was the first glue-together kit I did w/o my fathers help, and I distinctly remember sitting at the kitchen table with three bottles of testors enamel doing my first ever paint job.  I was sooo proud of it when I had finished it!  I actually still have the pilot from it, and I managed to pick up another kit of it from a friend of mine at a local model show.

Did you see that Accurate Miniatures had re-released that, along with a 1/72 P-40? Even has the original instructions. I've been eye-balling that at the LHS for a while. 

Hard to pick a favorite in 55+ years.  I've got several of the early Monogram aircraft to build again.  Revell re-released a couple of their 1956 1/32 cars, that I had built, a few years ago.  That brought back memories, so I bought them.  I built a couple Lindberg Stukas as a kid.  Saw one of those a while back, and got it.  My stash goes back 25 or 30 years.  If I build something out of the early part of it, would that be nostalgic?

These were all built when I was a kid.  You can see minimal painting, tracks, headlights, water lines on ships.  My kids played with them, also.  I might try to restore them some day.

Tigerman,

The builds I get nostalgic about were BIG scale (most likely 1/25 ?)  A king tiger and a Hummell.  Would love to acquire them again but I cant even remember the manufacturer.  I'm thinking they weren't 1/16 as this was in the late '70's and 1/16 was a little unknown then wasnt it ?

Paul.

Wirraway wrote:

Tigerman, The builds I get nostalgic about were BIG scale (most likely 1/25 ?)  A king tiger and a Hummell.  Would love to acquire them again but I cant even remember the manufacturer.  I'm thinking they weren't 1/16 as this was in the late '70's and 1/16 was a little unknown then wasnt it ? Paul.

Might they have been 1/16 Bandai? Or perhaps Tamiya, Academy, or even Nichimo? I'm not that up-to-date on larger scales.