i have that too

didn't see the oil rig but will keep looking.

You can still get the oil rig? Do you know of any distributors you can get it from or do you have to go straight through R/G?

tankerbuilder

Hey ! Spru-ce Goose !

  The kit when first released had a collection of figures up to and including HARRY S. TRUMAN ! When I got mine the odd part was , it had a cardboard roof !

Hey ! Spru-ce Goose !

  The kit when first released had a collection of figures up to and including HARRY S. TRUMAN ! When I got mine the odd part was , it had a cardboard roof !

Hi :

  They came out about 1960 for the reactor and 1965 for the oil rig .the Oil rig is still availible from REVELL of GERMANY . It is the " North Cormorant " oil rig .Its a box full , and I mean full of plastic !

mitsdude

JimNTENN

I've seen the White House model before. Wonder if it comes with a "presidential" figure to place in the window?

The Whitehouse kit doesn't come with figures but the U.S. Capital building does.

Unfortunately, I never saw the Capitol Building kit in hobby shops ........

JimNTENN

I've seen the White House model before. Wonder if it comes with a "presidential" figure to place in the window?

The Whitehouse kit doesn't come with figures but the U.S. Capital building does.

I have both of these kits and want to build a diorama using them but haven't figured out how I would do that.

Yeah, especially if you did them both in 1/144 scale so you could have a good display of canyon walls for them to fly through. That would be so cool.

JimNTENN

Or....an alien ship chasing an F-18.

that would be a very nice action diorama

Or....an alien ship chasing an F-18.

JimNTENN

That would be cool.

especially with a levitating alien space ship

That would be cool.

JimNTENN

Or...you could do the scene from Independence Day where it blows up.

Or...you could do the scene from Independence Day where it blows up.

JimNTENN

And Marine 1 parked on the lawn.

that is a good idea.......

And Marine 1 parked on the lawn.

JimNTENN

Oh well. Be cool if it did.

Oh well. Be cool if it did.

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JimNTENN

I've seen the White House model before. Wonder if it comes with a "presidential" figure to place in the window?

I've seen the White House model before. Wonder if it comes with a "presidential" figure to place in the window?

Mine would be a 1/72nd scale Airfix kit of a Supermarine S6B. You don't find them too much anymore. Yesterday, while visiting my LHS, I did see an unusual model kit he had for sale - The White House.

This is the kit :

www.scalemates.com/.../product.php

He's selling it for $30.

JimNTENN

Offshore oil rig and nuclear reactor? Now those are models you don't see everyday. And I've NEVER seen either one of them.

I've seen the nuclear power reactor kit at kit shows once or twice. It's an old Revell kit from the early 1960s.

Rob Gronovius

JimNTENN

The sand worm from Dune? This thread is getting interesting.

Revell did three model kits that tied into the Dune movie. The best of the three was the 1/72 Ornithopter they used to escape into the desert. They also did a sand crawler in a much larger scale, 1/25 or 1/32 if memory serves me. I've got them somewhere. The sand worm is a very small scale, but a very large worm and even comes with the little Freman figures to pose on top of the worm and the worm itself is molded on a sand base.

Below is a link to the box art of the kits.

http://www.arrakis.co.uk/colpage5.html 

That's interesting Rob. I've got the three kits somewhere in my stash. Picked them up at a show years ago, only time I've ever seen them. Guess I totally missed them on their release. I intend to build 'em some day- though I'd like to add some detailing. A guy in our club took the Ornithopter and modified it and built a small diorama to depict the crashed one that Paul and Jessica escaped with early in the movie version of the story. 

This isn't as unique as some of the models you guys have posted, but I think it's pretty cool. I just picked it up today for $9 

I have the Guillotine but mine is the Polar Lights kit.

I just recently picked up on Ebay the old Aurora re box of the Guillotine. That one sets it apart from my entire stash.

Texgunner

Yep, that's it.   Thanks Rob!  Phoenix was the company.   I wonder if those kits are still around?

Gary

Got a Renwal Cosmorama Science kit (not really a model) which I sold for a small fortune. Still have the Forb Planet Robot, James Bond v. Odd Job and 2 Airfix (?!) Royalty figure kits. As a kid I bought the Aurora Johnny Unitas kit but sent it back for a defective part and never picked up the replacement. Dumb

Very rare and valuable kit.