Post pics of your fave Vac-Form kits!

Welsh Models 747SP shorty,Rareplanes Boeing Stratocruiser,Rareplanes Coronado ️ bg Boat and an Air model C-160 Transall High Tail 

Air model Blohm& Voss BV222 Wiking.  

Contrail Hp-42...

I am interested to see how many modelers have built a vac kit. I have a partially built vac B-47 sitting in a box that I started years ago. I think that it may be a fun kit for someone that likes to do scratch building.

Yes once you know how ,Vac forms are pretty straightforward to build!

Well...  Yes and no.  It takes a Herculean effort to make a vac look like an injection molded one.

The irony is that today, despite the decline in vac popularity, there has never been more aftermarket parts to choose from.  Heck, even complete resin airliner jet pod assemblies can be had.  Gone are the days scrounging around old kits to hopefully find a matching set of wheels or radial engines and propellers.

I only pushed two vacs across the finish line, a War of the Worlds Martian war machine and a scratchbuilt Berezniak-Isaev BI-1.  The martian war machine's Metalizer copper finish has since oxidized to look like a dirty penny.

If I could get another chance with a vac kit I once owned, it would be Nova's 1/72 C-141 Starlifter.

Post some pics!

I do better with vac conversions, though I do have a Sierra Scale Curtiss Wright CW-21B under way at the moment.  Here's a Monogram/Koster XP-72:

Souped up P-47

Eugene Rowe

Post some pics!

 

Well OK, but I'm not sure I have decent photos of the MWM in it's shiny youth.  Let me dig around and see what I find.  I still have the Nova C-141 instruction sheet somewhere, as well the unused Microscale decal.

Cool!

Oh BTW Eugene, your ability to actually finish multiple vac-form kits shows serious modeling horsepower!  I am awed.  Now where is the giff where the Ewoks are bowing to C3PO?

Well to tell you the truth ,after I learned how to make vac forms ,I find them pretty easy to construct,but the quality of the kits I obtained really helped!