Rob Gronovius

Shout out to Josh who got me the landing gear parts for my ancient Falcon. I want to try to repair this kit and actually put it on display.

 

Sorry, Ive been busy on my walker project and not catching up over here on the forum. 

I hope you get a chance to repair and display your falcon Rob. Interesting to see this kit is planned to get a re release with more correct side walls. No word on updating the engine area however.

Cheers,

Josh

Used to go to Kentucky alot when my grandparents were still alive  as my dad is a born and raised Kentuckian from Northwest Kentucky. Once in a while we got the SOAR birds out of Campbell flying over my grandfathers house in Calvert City.

Rob Gronovius

 

 

Back to the bench

Now that is a cool time capsule! I suspect you can remember exactly where you were when you built that kit.

 

 

 

Of course. Based on the date of the sales receipt (7/84), I was at my parents' house in Vermont. The kit was bought at a nearby store called Ames in New Hampshire (no sales tax). As a college student, National Guardsman and ROTC cadet, it is rather easy to extrapolate my location during any particular span of time from 1982 to 1987.

 

From September through December, I'm at college on Long Island. Home in Vermont from mid-December to early January. Back in college January through late May. And back in Vermont May through August.

I know I still have my National Guard annual training pay statement for the summer of 1984 and could look up the exact dates for that 2-week span. It was most likely in June or July when I would have been at Fort Drum, New York.

Anyway, I would have been in my room or building it on the dining room table. It might have taken a day or two. I built it, put it back inside the original box, put the box in my closet and it sat there for almost 20 years.

I was stationed in Massachusetts from August 2001 to January 2005, only about 100 miles from home. My parents were planning on moving to Florida so I collected up all my old model kits from their home to my quarters in 2004.

All of those kits were in a moving box from Hanscom AFB to Fort Knox to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I dug it out when I was looking for an old Batmobile model.

 

Back to the bench

Now that is a cool time capsule! I suspect you can remember exactly where you were when you built that kit.

From September through December, I'm at college on Long Island. Home in Vermont from mid-December to early January. Back in college January through late May. And back in Vermont May through August.

I know I still have my National Guard annual training pay statement for the summer of 1984 and could look up the exact dates for that 2-week span. It was most likely in June or July when I would have been at Fort Drum, New York.

Anyway, I would have been in my room or building it on the dining room table. It might have taken a day or two. I built it, put it back inside the original box, put the box in my closet and it sat there for almost 20 years.

I was stationed in Massachusetts from August 2001 to January 2005, only about 100 miles from home. My parents were planning on moving to Florida so I collected up all my old model kits from their home to my quarters in 2004.

All of those kits were in a moving box from Hanscom AFB to Fort Knox to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I dug it out when I was looking for an old Batmobile model.

Now that is a cool time capsule! I suspect you can remember exactly where you were when you built that kit.

Message sent, thanks in advance!

Rob Gronovius

 

 

Josh_the_painter

Very cool to see! They were a good kit for their day, too bad the sidewalls weren't that much shorter. Based on the 5ft model.

I have a parts MPC falcon here so if you need any parts to replace let me know and I will see whats there. 

Will you finish it i.e. paint, or leave it as is? 

Cheers,

Josh

 

 

 

I painted it like AMT/Ertl suggested for their later Enterprise kits (1701-A); spray paint it silver and then give it an overspray of flat white.

 

I am tempted to try to repaint it. I know any deconstrution will result in the old plastic falling apart.

I am missing a few parts; one of the rear landing gears has broken in half and that half is missing. It's strange because the kit's been inside the box for 30+ years and there's no where for the parts to have vanished to.

While I would prefer a complete rear landing gear, all I really need is part #54, 55, 57 and 60. Basically, if you snap this assembly in half, I still have the right hand side.

 

Hey Rob,

I seem to have it all there. 54 is one piece, 57 is one piece. 2x 60s and a 55 and 56.

Just get in touch with me and let me know where theyre going.

Cheers,

Josh

I will pull the box out on the weekend and have a look for you bud.

Cheers,

Josh

It just looks so clean for the Falcon... and for a kit so old. I do hope that you get her fully restored. 

Josh_the_painter

Very cool to see! They were a good kit for their day, too bad the sidewalls weren't that much shorter. Based on the 5ft model.

I have a parts MPC falcon here so if you need any parts to replace let me know and I will see whats there. 

Will you finish it i.e. paint, or leave it as is? 

Cheers,

Josh

I am tempted to try to repaint it. I know any deconstrution will result in the old plastic falling apart.

I am missing a few parts; one of the rear landing gears has broken in half and that half is missing. It's strange because the kit's been inside the box for 30+ years and there's no where for the parts to have vanished to.

While I would prefer a complete rear landing gear, all I really need is part #54, 55, 57 and 60. Basically, if you snap this assembly in half, I still have the right hand side.

That's so cool Rob! 

I still have some of my stuff from back then... but in pieces- it all ended up in the spare parts bin.

Very cool to see! They were a good kit for their day, too bad the sidewalls weren't that much shorter. Based on the 5ft model.

I have a parts MPC falcon here so if you need any parts to replace let me know and I will see whats there. 

Will you finish it i.e. paint, or leave it as is? 

Cheers,

Josh