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Don Stauffer I like to build the old wooden models- the kind I started on. Both the stick and tissue ones and the solid wood ones. I have found some great ones in antique stores!
I like to build the old wooden models- the kind I started on. Both the stick and tissue ones and the solid wood ones. I have found some great ones in antique stores!
I found a die cut Guillows Fokker DR I Triplane kit at a comic con for $12. It was in a stack of toys under the vendor's table.
I need to start checking out thrift stores.
A friend of mine this week got a brand new in the box 1/48 ICM C-45 for only $3.50 at a thrift store.
WIP: Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 73rd BS B-26, 40-1408, torpedo bomber attempt on Ryujo
Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 22nd BG B-26, 7-Mile Drome, New Guinea
Minicraft 1/72 B-24D as LB-30, AL-613, "Tough Boy", 28th Composite Group
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Nice score. Merry Christmas!
I once found two old Revell 1/28 plane kits in a garage sale for something like a buck, the Dr.1 and Camel. The Fokker had part of the fuselage started and the Camel was unbuilt, both complete. The Fokker made it as a build article in FSM a while back. The Camel is in the stash waiting its turn for glue and paint.
Too many models to build, not enough time in a lifetime!!
This is the second one I've found. I found a 1/24 old school Red Baron Hot Rod kit, which is really hard to find. Bags were still sealed. Paid $2, sold it for $24. I'll keep looking.
BK
On the bench:
A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!
2024 Kits on deck / in process / completed
14 / 5 / 2
A a local goodwill store, found a Moebius Iron Man kit, complete, but pieces were everywhere along with a Monogram B-25 Mitchell bomber in 1/48 scale. Iron Man was $2 and the plane was $5.
BrandonKHas anyone had any experience with this cheap little kit?
If it's the old multi-tone 1/72 offering (am I correctly recalling dark green and baby-poop brown plastic?), I built a small squadron of them 'back in the day'; the only vague memory I have is of a seemingly-truncated or otherwise slightly funny-looking canopy...not uncommon in the early MB kits.
But what the hey...it's certainly worth a build!
Greg
George Lewis:
William (Willy)
I was in our local thrift store warehouse "buy by the pound" store and ran across a beat up Monogram P-51B box lid and thought, "oh cool, now all I have to do is find the kit". I kept diggin through the bins and found a bottom of a box with a sealed parts bag. "Sweet, I found the kit". "This is a Fw-190, not a P-51B".
So I kept diggin and never saw anymore kit parts. Turns out the kit I found is complete, except for the box, and is a Matchbox Fw-190 still sealed in the bag with decals. It looks like a decent little kit with old decals. I think I'll make a hanger out of it and use some extra decals from the stash to finish it off. Has anyone had any experience with this cheap little kit?
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