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Just curious , what vintage kits are your favorites. I am talking about kits you would want to buy and build today? I am talking raise panel lines and rivets here guys.
Personally, I built an Airfix/MPC F-14A as a kid. I still like the kit. It builds well and the clear parst and decent and fit pretty well.
Also like the Monogra (Aurora?) fw-190. Have build a few as an adult and they look suprisingly good.
I also like the Revell 1/72 HH-3 Jolly Green Giant.
The revell 1/32 P-40E is another one that I can't resist..
Well, what say you?
On the Bench: Too Much
I think mine would be Monogram's "Phantom" P51D Mustang.
Though I've mentioned this before here, I think this kit led to my lifelong interest in aviation. It was fun to build, yes, but I played with it for hours on end.
If I ever saw one at a show or a LHS, I think I'd have to buy it. It would probably end up being another 'vintage' kit in the box I'd never build though.
Not sure how old would constitute vintage,but how about these ?
From the early 80's
Hasegawa 1/48 Phantom Series
Tamiya 1/32 F-14 Tomcat
I would have to go with any of the 1/48 Testors C-130 kits.
Chad
God, Family, Models...
At the plate: 1/48 Airfix Bf109 & 1/35 Tamiya Famo
On deck: Who knows!
Monogram P-38, one of the first aircraft kits I built. I've built it multiple times and have one in my stash I want to build yet again.
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
Mine is Monogram's 1/48 B-29. It's size makes for an impressive model.
Your comments and questions are always welcome.
Can't say that I have a favorite vintage kit. Since I came back to the hobby, every kit I've built has been a vintage kit except one. I generally buy my kits at shows so vintage kits are a given. I'm not afraid of raised panel lines and rivets. Right now in the que is an Airfix 1/72 Brewster Buffalo. Ahead of that is an old Monogram 1/72 F11-C Goshawk. Modelpalooza is next month and my shopping list is all vintage kits I hope to find.
Well, maybe, like Greg, I could say that the Monogram Phantom Mustang could be a favorite...
OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...
I’d probably have to list the 1/48 Monogram SBD as my favorite vintage kit. Operating dive flaps, landing gear, tail hook, and swinging home to drop the bomb... an LSO figure with the canvas wind screen, and a deck crew figure. That or their 1/48 TBD-1 kit. Beautifully detailed and still featuring foldable wings and rotating prop.
Revell’s 1/32 Huey’s, the slick and gunship, were pretty good too!
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
- Plankton
LSM
I liked the 1/48 Monogram A-1H Skyraider and P-40B Warhawk kits.
Thanks,
John
stikpusher Revell’s 1/32 Huey’s, the slick and gunship, were pretty good too!
I actually did go shopping for older kits I built as a kid, and my fav is Tamiya’s 1/35 Chieftain Mk.V.
If I were to name my most enjoyable model ever, it would have to be Monogram’s 1/48 SBD Dauntless, bought shortly after watching “Midway” back in the 1970s. A product of its time, with gobs of well designed, functioning parts, for a customer of the time, namely an 11 year old me!
For old kits I have in the stash but never built as a kid, the 1/12 Tamiya Tyrrell P34 6-wheeled F1 car is clearly the king of the heap.
“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”
Monogram P-40B and Mustang P-51D. Both I still build to this day repeatedly lol.
Absolute favorites from childhood.
- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"
Easy choice for me.
The old 60's Revell 144th 727. So many decal sets for early and newer paint schemes, they make nice gifts for my airline pilot friends that flew them decades ago. Favorite scheme is the older Alaska Airline Eskimo face on the vertical stabilizer, then the very early Golden Nugget.
Some from the early 70's were the onion dome Russian church, the old prospector and a symbol of a totem pole bird head carving.
Old airport joke, "the 727 is the most efficient way to convert jet fuel to noise." And it was.
Patrick
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