Lindberg kits

They occupy the attention of a group of modelers I call the "I wrestled it into submission" set. Some people like a real challenge.

If you are interested, take a look at the Round 2 company. They are reissuing old Lindberg, MPC, Hawk and other kits.

I'm 53 years old and most of Lindberg's kits were old and terrible when I was a kid. I think some of their last, brand new tooled kits were in the 1990s and were hit and miss compared to other manufacturers like Monogram, Revell, Tamiya and Italeri.

Many of their last new kits were tied into movies like the original Jurassic Park movie and Independence Day (ID4). Both of those movie lines used some decent new tooled kits that were rounded out with very ancient similar models.

For instance, with Jurassic Park, they had new tooled T-Rex, Raptor and Spitter models and added several other dinosaur models from the 1950s. They also added JP markings to their current Ford Explorer kit to represent the one from the movie, but that kit wasn't close to looking like the movie vehicle.

In ID4, they did an alien ship and alien exo-figure and added an older F/A-18 and ancient Stearman PT-17 trainer kit.

Their final new tooled armor kits were a very bad T-55, T-80 and BMP.

Today, their line consists of their old stuff along with some abandoned kits from Testors and Hawk. Some of their car kits are pretty good though, but of older subjects.

The only Lindberg kit I've built is thier 1/32 (closer to 1/35) LCVP.  Overall it looks the part, although the machine guns in the kit were a joke.  I've looked at a few other Lindberg kits and like you said they lack detail and in some cases accuracy.  I think they'd be good for practicing new techniques and experimenting.