Favorite nostalgic build?

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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  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

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

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!!!

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 

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.

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!