Down Memory Lane Group Build

Awsome! I am in for the Revell/ Monogram 1/72 P-51B. I will try and get some pictures this weekend.

Got you updated, Dont know where my old Schwimmwagen is think its in a box of junk.

I remember my parents bringing home a bunch of old Hawk ship kits  from Woolworths.  Testors is now making them and I picked up the old Coast Guard Cutter.  So count me in on that one.

Scott

I think I may build the old Revell 1/40th (the box listed scale) M4 Sherman. A real conglomeration of Sherman variants: an M4A1 hybrid hull, horizontal volute suspension system, early 75mm turret with a 76mm gun. Real strange version of a tank that probably never existed.

I believe the actual scale of this kit measures out to 1/36.

Since there are no rules, I may replace some of the undetailed or omitted parts with some parts that are more detailed.

Rob, I like your thinking with the details.

I had planned to build mine OOTB, but I know I have some parts left over from a Hasegawa P-51B I built. I think Ill try and add them to the R/M kit and spruce it up a bit.

Rob Gronovius, scottrc and TAdan got you updated. Also adding AM/PE and whatever else to the kit to updated it is ok.

Count me in. I'm building a Lindberg P-47, that I'd first mentioned in this thread. I orginally built it in 1975 or so, and this was my first kit.

I've got two vintage kits of the bird- one still in the original sealed box, the other opened up but complete. I'll actually building a re-issue of the kit, courtesy of Rob Gronovius (many, many thanks Rob!). So I've got 3 identical kits for this GB!

I'm not sure exactly what I'll end up doing for the final presentation, but I'm working on ideas so the final "product" will be the built re-issue version worked into a display of the one kit in the sealed box, with the instructions, decals and parts on the sprue from the opened kit.

Here is the still sealed kit. This is the 1974 version, and is the one I actually built as a kid.


This is the kit that is open, which is actually an older version, from 1967. All parts are there, as are the instructions and decals. They appear to be exactly like the '74 version I built, so I'll use them to show parts on the sprue.


Finally, here is the re-issue Rob so kindly provided for me.


The only difference I can see is that the reissue is cast in dark green, and the pilot has been left out- it's not on the instructions. Ironically, the stub on the sprue is still there- part #24! But you can see it was not cast, only the stub. Wonder if they used the original molds?

Believe it or not- here's a photo of the real bird. Tail number is the same, though the # on the fuselage is different on the kit. How about that? That's the REAL Captain Thunderbolt. (Which makes more sense if you read my previously referenced post....) [;-)]

Ok, I have decided finaly! I will go with the 1/72 Airfix Firefly with minimal extras except almost 30yrs of modeling to make sure I don't use as much glue this time.

harvs got you updated.

jwb looking forward to seeing that P-47 built up.. Thats nice that you found a picture of the real plane you are building also.

FrogFoot wrote:

harvs got you updated. jwb looking forward to seeing that P-47 built up.. Thats nice that you found a picture of the real plane you are building also.

Yeah, I was just looking through one of my reference books, and found a similar pic- in color! So now I know what the colors really looked like.

Here is my before shot. Not all the parts are pictured, but you get the idea. Off to the right I included thee horizontal stabilizers from my first kit, and the display stand base. I know the rest of the plane is around somewhere, I saw it recently, just cant find it now, lol.

 

jwb good that you know how the P-47 looks.

TAdan looks like that P-51 should not take you to long to build.

As for me here is a pic of my kit

TAdan wrote:

Here is my before shot. Not all the parts are pictured, but you get the idea. Off to the right I included thee horizontal stabilizers from my first kit, and the display stand base. I know the rest of the plane is around somewhere, I saw it recently, just cant find it now, lol.

Cool! I remember building that one myself. LOL I tried to hand paint the white stripes.....

That P-51 does bring back memories.  Built that one and the B-25, and the F4F.  All bought at the drugstore adjacent to the grocery store.  Every Friday my parents would get groceries and I would go next door and hang out in the model section which was stocked with all those old Monogram kits.

Scott

Brilliant!  Already lots of participants and lots of fun in the making, I see!  Thanks, David, for this thread and the forthcoming badge.  I've indeed checked availability of the Airfix 109 and I was surprised to see it's still in production...   I wonder how many younsters have given up scale modelling after buying that kit...  It's been around for at least 30 to 40 years!  Actually, I wonder how really bad it is.  Does anyone know??? My first and only experience with this kit, so far, had little to do with 'fine scale modelling'...   I'll get one from the local Toys'r'Us tomorrow, I guess!

i might be in with a airfix 1/72 lancaster b111 the first ever model i built

djmodels1999 you are welcome, now to get to making that badge any idea's?

tornado thanks for joining you are on the list.

FrogFoot wrote:

.... now to get to making that badge any idea's?

I don't know why this comes to mind, but the image iIgot at thinking about that was picturing a country road, stone wall, a small farm cottage, and then a flight of WWII fighters passing over. Sorta think of a kid in Europe in 1944 watching a flight of Mustangs/Spitfires/109's taking off as he heads to the farm house up the road.

I know not everyone is building airplanes. :-)

And that's a lot of detail for a badge.

Wait, I got it. A fat guy asleep on a recliner at 7:30 in the evening. I can send you the picture..... ;-)

Wow! this sounds awesome! I'll have to go through my old stuff and find that kit! can't remember what it was, but count me in!

I'd make it simple, like a 79¢ price tag (or something similar). For some reason, I recall the old Monogram and Lindberg 72nd scale kits to cost around that price back in the day.

Rob Gronovius wrote:

I'd make it simple, like a 79¢ price tag (or something similar). For some reason, I recall the old Monogram and Lindberg 72nd scale kits to cost around that price back in the day.

Yeah- my grandma would give me $5 when she came to visit, drive me over to K-Mart, and I could easily get 2 or 3 kits, paint, and still have money left over for candy and pocket change.

I recall visiting the BX at Moody AFB with a neighbor's kid. They had models (in bags) for $.50! I was in heaven. I had like $10 with me- and spent it all. My dad couldn't believe I came home with that many models. I didn't care- I was too busy slabbing paint and squirting glue. LOL

i got an idea for the badge the wright brothers plane flying as it was the first plane built i no we arnt all doin planes but i recon that would look great as its somthing from the past n these models are the things we first built wich is in the past

                           ryan

JayPackk55 thanks for joing the build

Rob I like your idea for the badge easy for me to make

tonado good idea for the badge, I will see if any other idea's come up.

Edit I think I got it for the badge has a model box with a 79 cent sticker on it, with the words down memory lane GB at the bottom.

Sounds good, this 79c badge idea!  Those were indeed the good old times!  The Airfix kits that came in blisters and some still in plastic bags cost 20 Belgian francs at the time (mid to late 70s).  That's 1/2 of a Euro or a US dollar nowadays.  The Humbrol tins of paint also used to cost 20 Belgian francs...

The shop I got my kits from was a toy/model shop in the town I was born,and they had a pretty good selection of Airfix and Revell kits at first, then also Matchbox.  I'd go there on Friday latee afternoon with my dad, while we waited for my mum to have finished her job at the nearby supermarket.  It was a great thing, that weekly visit with my dad, stocking up for the week end...

yer that sounds good for da gb badge kool

                           ryan

 

Thanks, I will get to making the badge very soon. Should be easy enough, I hope

Hi Ryan,

 

welcome to this GB indeed!  That Airfix Lanc, I must have built it 3 times in my early days...  I remember very well the black plastic, and the rivets..  Thanks for bringing that memory back!

yer i just been modeling for a few months so it wasnt that far back but my modeling skills have been goin uphill still

The pricetag badge sounds like fun to me.

So, what stores (drug and department) as a kid do you remember going to and ogling over their selection of cheap models?  And it seemed they all carried models.

For me, it was.....

Skaggs Drug
Bonanza 88 cents store
Woolworths
The Bon
ValueMart
Osco Drug
K-Mart
Gills Drug
Ben Franklin
Scheels True Value
The Downtowner Dept Store
Public Drug


Woolworths, Bonanza, The Downtowner, Public Drug, and the Bon were all on the same block downtown.  My mom worked at an ad agency in the same building and after school I would go and hang out in these stores while waiting for her to get off work.  Usually she would have to come and get me and we would end up going home with some $0.88 model.

We also had a big hobbyshop downtown where I would spend hours making our my Christmas list since they carried the  premium stuff that was out of my allowance budget.

Mom was a comparison grocery shopper, and the days before superstores, all the neighborhood grocery stores had a drugstore next to them.  While she went in to get the groceries, I would go over to the drug store and end up with some sort of wingy or floating thingy.  While she compared the price of Tuna between two stores, I was comparing the price of a Airfix Avenger or trying to decide if I wanted the MPC 1/72 Dauntless at Skaggs or the 1/48 Spowith Camel by Monogram which was hiding behind a stack of BF-109s and Spitfires over at Bonanza..

Those were also the days when a 10 yr old could roam freely without the worry of ending up having his picture on the side of a milk carton.

Man, now I'm feeling dated.  All these stores are gone now, including K-mart.  All replaced by the 200,000,000 sq ft Wallymart that carries at the most three Revell F-106s and a Wright Flyer.  And these are over $11.  Or for $39.99, I could get a pre-built, pre-painted 1/48 P-47.  YUK!

Scott