Some more recent shopping:
The last of the original boxing Monogram 1/48 kits that I will get -
Corsair
White box Monogram Helldiver. The reason I went for the white box over the original boxing from the early 60s has to do with a memory of getting to go to stay with my grandmother, who took me to a local store called Bottom Dollar, and there was this immense row of model airplanes. My memory is all these blueish warplanes. 4-year-old me was in awe (and got to bring one home to boot, although I don't recall if it was the Helldiver, but I do recall that kit being on that glorious row of kits).
Then some more nostalgia kits, all Monogram (well, one is ex-Aurora I think)
This one is ex-Aurora if I remember right. What I do recall is a couple of years in a row, I would get really sick in the early fall and miss a bunch of school. My mom brought this one and the Flying Sub home one day to help with the loads of homework she also brought from the school.
And then in the wake of Star Wars, must-watch TV was Battlestar Galactica. I probably built 3-4 each of these in those couple of years.
I want to say that these Galactica kits had internal mechanisms for firing plastic rockets, but perhaps I'm remembering some Mattel toys rather than these models.
The UFO and Raider came in the same lot and still had price tags of < $5.00 from a place called Toyorama.