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A "unique" modeling discussion: What is the most unusual model you own or have owned?

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Posted by the doog on Monday, January 20, 2014 2:30 PM

Devil Dawg

Three different houses???  Holy cow! How many models do you have in your stash??  Propeller  I thought having 104 in my stash was overdoing it! Heehee! Hey, wait a minute....... You own three houses? Cool!! Yes Toast

Good lord, NO, no! Surprise I don't OWN three houses---Jenn and I Are only now building a modest home in the Charlotte area. My stash is split between what I have here in our apartment, a few dozen up at her mom's house in NY were I stored some of my furniture and other things when I moved from there to NC, and some are at my parent's house in PA. All in all I'd have to estimate my stash at about 200 kits, fully 1/4rd of that is cars.

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Posted by JimNTENN on Monday, January 20, 2014 1:21 PM

Doog, I think both of those are certainly unique kits. I've been tempted to buy the Psycho kit but haven't done it yet. And the Chariot is a new one to me. I've never heard of UPC. Is that an old or new kit?

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Posted by Devil Dawg on Monday, January 20, 2014 1:02 PM

Three different houses???  Holy cow! How many models do you have in your stash??  Propeller  I thought having 104 in my stash was overdoing it! Heehee! Hey, wait a minute....... You own three houses? Cool!! Yes Toast

Devil Dawg

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Posted by the doog on Monday, January 20, 2014 9:55 AM

Cool thread!

Wow, I can't even get into my collection---it's spread between 3 different houses right now for lack of space, but I would say that if I had to guess from memory, i would be the Polar Lights "Psycho House".

The other candidate would be the UPC "Roman Chariot" kit

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Posted by Tojo72 on Monday, January 20, 2014 8:56 AM

None really,now just a mix of armor,aircraft,and ships.When I was a kid,I had the Aurora Monsters,but that's it

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Posted by JimNTENN on Sunday, January 19, 2014 12:21 PM

I have the brick wall, too. Why does a Pink Floyd song suddenly come to mind?

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Posted by panzerpilot on Sunday, January 19, 2014 12:13 PM

I looked around. The strangest thing in my stash is the Tamiya Brick wall.

-Tom

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A "unique" modeling discussion: What is the most unusual model you own or have owned?
Posted by JimNTENN on Sunday, January 19, 2014 11:38 AM

I have a large stash of unfinished kits....200+ is large to me, anyway. And it's a rather eclectic stash as well. I have kits from just about every model category there is and they aren't stacked together in any kind of organized manner. I have an Aoshima Nissan 350Z kit sandwiched in between Revell USA's Mi-24 Hind and Monogram's F-4C Phantom. An old AMT Monte Carlo NASCAR kit from the 90's is trading paint with a War of the World's kit from Pegasus. There are muscle cars on top of Tiger tanks. A creature kit from the Alien movies shares space with a PV-1 Ventura. Aoshima's Airwolf kit sits alongside Academy's USS Oliver Hazard Perry Guided Missile Frigate. I'm sure by now you're getting a pretty good idea of how varied my stash is. As I'm glancing over the stacks of tanks on top of prop planes on top of spaceships on top of race cars I come across one particular model and I think to myself, "This has to be the most unusual model I have."  It's Revell/Germany's Bucket Wheel Excavator.

I first came across this kit back in maybe '89 or '90. I found it at the local Walmart back before there were Super Walmarts. I had it for around ten years and actually started building it but eventually sold it because I didn't think I would ever get around to finishing it. At times since then I found myself thinking about that kit and regretted selling it because I thought I would never see another one again. Last year, while browsing the Squadron website for nothing in particular, I was blown away with surprise to find it had been re-released in a limited edition. I wasted no time in ordering it and a good thing too because shortly after that they had cleared it out of their stock. 

Even though I haven't built it yet it is the Crown Jewel of my collection.

So, what is the most unusual model you own or have owned, either built or still in the box?

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