Could be worse..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2895714/It-s-financial-dark-parents-strike-900-build-Star-Wars-spaceship-toy.html

Mmmmm, no. Any of the 1/48 bombers by Revell/Monogram is about as big as I go in size and cost.

I've seen some of those subscription kits WIP on line. There's a big Lancaster too.

I suppose if you really wanted a 1/12 Spit, which would be very cool, fifty bucks a month is like an armor kit a month.

That's not so bad, really.

Those old subscription deals are kind of nostalgic. I did that with spacecraft, in the 60's, for about a year from an ad in Boys Life.

But is was $ 1.00 a month.

Where would one put a 1/2 Spit?  

Groot

"Where would one put a 1/2 Spit? "

In a 1/2 hangar, of course!

Naturally, that kit is sold separately at a mere $75 per month. Just kidding (I hope).

Some of the RC scale stuff is getting enormous too.  !/4 scale used to be just fighters and other single engine stuff, but now includes bombers, patrol planes, and airliners.  Of course most of these are scratch build, but there are indeed some pretty large 1/4 scale kits.

A 1/12 Spit would have a 36" wingspan.

The Edward Chavez collection of model aircraft, acquired from the old Nut Tree restaurant, are mostly 1/10 scale.

Don. There is YouTube video of a 1/5 B-29 crashing into a grove of trees.   It looks like about a 20' wingspan

Haven't seen that one, but there's also one of a B-52 crashing. Probably about a 15 foot wingspan.

Lots of smoke.

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Well, I don't have that sort of money to throw around. And I have nowhere to put a model with a yard/meter wingspan. I picked up the 1/350th kit (about a yard/meter long too) of the Trek Enterprise and now have no idea where I can put it once it is built.

Still pretty cool something like this is out there though, thanks for the head's up Chuck.

I recently picked up the Pegasus Models 1/18 scale Bell X-1.That will be a one-off for my collection due to it's size. It will be a ceiling hanger as I don't have the room on any of my shelves for it. My "gee whiz" model when people walk into our basement!