Nice Greg... I totally understand and share your joy in some of those old kits. There is no fastedious, insane, and nerve racking contest build involved. This is a build for the simple enjoyment of the hobby, and sometimes when building those kind of kits we find part of ourselves that we lost as a child. 

And accurate mold or not, your building skills are evident... it looks neat, I like it!

Ben

Looks like fun.  Enter it in a contest as a flight of fancy, you'll probably win.

Well, I think it looks just dandy! Greg, you did a terrific job on a less than ideal kit. It's builds like that one that keep the fun in our hobby. Your made-up color scheme fits the period the build represents just fine. Well done. I've been on the look out for the old Aurora P-51H for the same reason. Not a great kit but a fun build. I really like the finished model.

Thanks, Gents, for your kind words.

These old sub-par kits are great as 'get the juices flowing' projects. Almost any love you show them is nothing but an improvement...and if something does go badly awry, you're only out 'fast food' money rather than the 'steak and champagne' level of today's vastly superior but dearer kits.

I'm sure you'll hear 'you built that from THAT kit?!'

(If you show it to anyone else).

Nicely done, despite its shortcomings.

It looks like it would be at home in Disney's "Planes" 

That looks damn good! It may be lacking features in the original kit, but you did all you could with what is in the box. Above and beyond the call of duty. A little imagination, skill, and scratch work went a very long way here! Thanks for reminding us what modeling is really about, having fun!

Phil_H

It looks like it would be at home in Disney's "Planes" Smile

Funny you should mention that. Its long bulbous schnozz reminded me of a leering shark in the old Tom & Jerry cartoons. It nearly got eyes and a grinning shark's mouth---which I'm pretty sure the original F-94s never got!

Not an affront to modeling at all.  You have achieved the Zen of Modeling.

When you understand that fun and enjoyment are the reasons you build, you realize that rivet counting, back biting, “it must be 100% accurate or it’s an unbuildable egg-plane“ absolutists are forever unhappy.  Their egos tell them they live fulfilling lives, but it is nothing but self-delusion masquerading as self importance.

That might sound like mumbo-jumbo spewing from The Sphinx in “Mystey Men”, but it is an honest observation of mine.

”If you are a rivet counter, you will only forever count rivets.”

BTW your F-94 turned out great!

You did real well on that old kit.  I'd like to find a XF-91 and do that well.

Ha ha, it's not a C, but....

jeaton01

Ha ha, it's not a C, but....

 

 

I stand happily corrected!

(And that's exactly the toothy grin I had in mind! It strikes me that I might have seen that photo...and then forgotten it. Happens a lot these days....)

Thanks, John!

What a marvelous work, Greg!

"Whom gods would destroy, they first make build a Lindberg kit!" 

I think you did a wonderful job. It looks a lot better than the box art .. for sure. And, as others have mentioned, your model building skills are on display in spades.

Good work and a great post, Greg.

I'm glad to see it (your post) so enthusiastically recieved, too. A bit of light-heartedness and dare I say fun is, well......, that's what I'm here for.

Greg

I'm glad to see it (your post) so enthusiastically recieved, too. A bit of light-heartedness and dare I say fun is, well......, that's what I'm here for.

Me, too...and me, too!

Well, by the rule of cool- aka coolness trumps everything else- you win!

Very, very cool model 

Sometimes It's nice to build something that reminds us "this is suppose to be fun!". I enjoyed your post, great work.