Bish

Really, are they that bad. I have only bought the A Bomb set but not used it yet. I will have to have another look at that set.

My sample looked and felt like Pez candy!

I think I might dig it out tomorrow and have another look. I only got the set as I wanted one to go with my Ar 555.

I was wrong. Its not the Unicraft bomb set I have, but the Antares. But I was sure I ordered the Unicraft set. I was just doing some checking and found out they both do exactly the same set. Not sure if the two companies are links. But the shop I ordered mine from carry both. So I wounder if he sent me the better set. They look fine, no flaws or holes and the resin feels just like any other resin set I have got

Thought I would kick this one back up to the top of the list. Lots of newcomers here and just was interested in their oddball kit and anybody else who hasn't had the chance to share also. So far there are some pretty interesting kits here.

that was going to be my wierdest airplane too. overall the BASTE (Big Ass Saw Thingy Excavator) the 1/200 geramn wheel bucket excavator

Well, I'm not sure if this is considered weird but I first saw it about a year ago when I bought mine in Minneapolis. Wish I had bought all that they had cuz I've seen them for sale online for twice what I paid. I originally wanted it for stuffing the scratch build box but it's kinda grown on me now.

It's really a rather beautiful ship, in it's own way. I wish I had a few to build in various schemes.

waynec:I remember seeing that excavator! That was an unusual kit! Even in 1/200 its still gotta be big! Revell made it if I remember right.

flyitlikeyoustoleit: ok that is weird and definitely different! I have never seen that one. It's got a cool appearance. I do like out of the ordinary stuff as a number of us do.

Cool kits guys!!

Anonymous

If I showed you I would be suspended...

F105nut711

I have a Testors F-19 Stealth fighter. Thought it would be a good "weekend" build.

Halcyon Alien Warrior, about 1/8 scale;

it creeps out and kills

neighborhood pooches and cats, then leaves a blood stained trail all

the way back to the box.....bastige....

Yeah, have to scrape all those eggs off the cellar floor....

I also have a Joe Ott B-29 from the War, 3 foot wing-span, the entire kit

is balsa, card board, and some kind of thin veneer American hardwood,

- and it might have styrene props.

Maybe not so much a weird subject as the idea that they built display kits

like that before the age of styrene, pretty much the same as a tissue paper

flying kit, but you would never have the guts to throw this thing.

The glue tube is definitely weird, no neck

Oh well, i gotta run and find out where the alien bastige got to, the animal cruelty

folks are combing the neighborhood again..........what a mess....weird

A 1/72 scale Ju-52. It's all white plastic. No decals. No instructions. No reference. No nothing. Just a bag of parts given to me by a friend.

panzerpilot

A 1/72 scale Ju-52. It's all white plastic. No decals. No instructions. No reference. No nothing. Just a bag of parts given to me by a friend.

I have a couple kits like that. Not necessarily in white plastic; some are green and some silver, but yeah, I got that too.

I had a couple of the old motorized kits that would just turn the prop. I believe it was a green Stuka and a blue Hellcat or Wildcat WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back when! Got em both from the True Value hardware store.

mustang1989

I had a couple of the old motorized kits that would just turn the prop. I believe it was a green Stuka and a blue Hellcat or Wildcat WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back when! Got em both from the True Value hardware store.

That wire can be very useful for detailing other kits.

I like to pitch this one around every once in a while just to see the cool stuff that pops  up out of this thread. I'm stealing the following pic from another site that's in somebody elses stash but I've simply  gotta post this one and say that this one tops all of em that I've seen.............

mustang1989

I like to pitch this one around every once in a while just to see the cool stuff that pops  up out of this thread. I'm stealing the following pic from another site that's in somebody elses stash but I've simply  gotta post this one and say that this one tops all of em that I've seen.............

Interesting. Now, how would you weather it.

When a wash just simply won't do..................................lol

Not in my stash any more, but already built.  Probably the strangest real 'aircraft' I have.  The 1/72 Roden PKZ-2  WWI 'Helicopter':

Quite a challenge to build.  I didn't add any of the rigging, which would really enhance the finished kit, but I'm happy with the way it turned out.  While building it, I couldn't help but imagine the incredible noise the thing must have made when all three engines were running, and the 'blender' blades were spinning below the observer/pilot.  I also couldn't imagine riding in the thing.  Luckily, it was tethered to the ground by guide wires, but still.

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

Bish

mustang1989

I like to pitch this one around every once in a while just to see the cool stuff that pops  up out of this thread. I'm stealing the following pic from another site that's in somebody elses stash but I've simply  gotta post this one and say that this one tops all of em that I've seen.............

Interesting. Now, how would you weather it.

There are some strange ones here folks, but I think the Amoeba takes first prize!

CrashTestDummy

Not in my stash any more, but already built.  Probably the strangest real 'aircraft' I have.  The 1/72 Roden PKZ-2  WWI 'Helicopter':

Quite a challenge to build.  I didn't add any of the rigging, which would really enhance the finished kit, but I'm happy with the way it turned out.  While building it, I couldn't help but imagine the incredible noise the thing must have made when all three engines were running, and the 'blender' blades were spinning below the observer/pilot.  I also couldn't imagine riding in the thing.  Luckily, it was tethered to the ground by guide wires, but still.

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

BTW Gene, I've been to Pearland a couple of times to visit my brother in law. Cool place in the middle of a big city.

f8sader

There are some strange ones here folks, but I think the Amoeba takes first prize!

Depending on the version you want to build, I'm sure there's got to be at least one photo etch after market available for each variant.  Probably some debate is still raging on the various websites as to whether this is an accurate build out of the box or if you to scratch build to make more accurate. LOL.

CTD: Ok, that WWI chopper is pretty odd.

But I think Mustang has to win here, I mean the amoeba, euglena, and paramecium is just wow, ultra, crazy, over-the-top, weird...

Plus they're even anatomically accurate!!!

I wish I could find one to play giant space amoeba with my 1/1000th scale Polar Lights starship Enterprise!

mustang1989

Now that is interesting.......and there aint no WAY I'd fly that contraption! lol

BTW Gene, I've been to Pearland a couple of times to visit my brother in law. Cool place in the middle of a big city.

We're actually out in the country, between Pearland and Friendswood.  We're not far from Clover field, so we get to see a lot of restored aircraft fly over, and are within walking distance of Life Flight's Brazoria County hanger.

I'm not sure why this didn't show, but I remembered I had another odd one in my stash:

Haven't started on it yet, but have stashed away a ton of pictures of the real things.

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

I have to say that I don't think I have any weird kits in my stash,just the conventional stuff.

I can't help wonder what kinda weird kits never made it into production................

If I remember correctly Airfix did a 1/72 scale BV141 back in the 60s or 70s. The Aurora X13 was kinda weird in a cool way, but it and the POGO and one other VTOL were models of real aircraft. When I first saw the Harrier "jump jet" I thought it was the weirdest thing ever, but  it accomplished the VTOL role and lives on. There was a German HE 111 that was two aircraft put together and it was intended to tow the huge glider. I do not recall the designation at the moment or who did a 1/72 scale model of it. The  German PO1011 would go on to be flown as the Bell X-5 and the Jaguire swing wing would follow and then the Successful TFX project (F-111), and the F-14, and the Tornado.  Variable geometry wings were thought to be impossible, but then again so was manned flight. If I recall correctly the Tommy Ivo four engine car was a Salt Flats Record Holder and a real "car". The Munster dragster was done for the TV show as was the Bat Mobile and they are still on the car show circuit, as are a number of George Barris's "hot rods", Boyd  Codington's cars and the "Rat Finks" hot rods. There are models of some of these cars. Aurora did a bunch of horror movie stuff such as Dracula, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Mummy, and I would not be surprised if we see models of Zombies sooner than later. It is all fun and creative. I still have the Aurora Knight series and some of the molds are being produced by Polar lights and RM, as well as others. Lindberg did a stage coach with numerous horses and someone did a borax wagon with a mule team, and there was a Budwiser wagon with horses. Neat models, weird but neat and they followed me home. That's my story and I'm sticking to it..

Not so much weird, but premature. Italeri's RF-18A Photo Hornet. Never entered service, only a few prototypes built.