Whats the weirdest kit in your stash?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

F105nut711

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

Anonymous

If I showed you I would be suspended...

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!!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

Bish

I did a search it it and found a couple of old entries on E_Bay, but they were very pricy. But I found that Unicraft does a resin one as well, and its not a bad price, about £26. Theres a couple of theres I want, so will defiantly have to add this. It will go nicely next to my Triebflugel.

Bish,

Unicraft!  That name evokes hard, brittle, bubbly resin, crappy mastering, and high prices.  I bought a few of them, like the German atomic bombs and the British tank killer thingy.  All were consistently bad!  Their earlier efforts looked like the maker pushed epoxy putty into molds by hand to produce parts.  I took some notes and measurements of the A-bombs, then immediately gave the kit away.  The British tank buster still resides deep in the closet of doom, but aside from serving as a pattern for a possible scratch build, will never be completed.

I think I paid something like $36 USD for the Fruitbat Lerche kit when it was in production.  The resin was cleanly cast, and the only rough area was the inside of the annular wing leading edges where the mold parted.  The casters were in white metal and were similar in quality to Aeroclub stuff.  The only thing not included in the kit was a decal sheet, but for Luft '46 kits, is no big deal.

I did a search it it and found a couple of old entries on E_Bay, but they were very pricy. But I found that Unicraft does a resin one as well, and its not a bad price, about £26. Theres a couple of theres I want, so will defiantly have to add this. It will go nicely next to my Triebflugel.

Bish

Damn, I missed that post by Real G. That lerche is defiantly one to add to the list. Is that a resin kit or plastic.

Bish,

Yeah, the Lerche is a resin kit by Fruitbat.  It was unusual in having an ultra-thin, pre-cut Plexiglas canopy.  I have never seen that in any other kit.  It is long out of production, but a drop tank and some sheet plastic could get you there!

Cool. I'll give it a shot! Thanks guys

I use paint.net. I open one new file and make sure its big enough to hold the badge I want to add. Then just add all the badge. Once I want to add some more, I can just add as needed. As wayne says, because its only one image, it isn't to big to post.

It confuses the hell out of me, but it works.

probably the same way i do. i have a photoshop file and add a new badge on a new layer, scale it to the size i want save it and export as a JPG. than drop the picture into photobucket and add the image code in the settings. it is only 1 file so there is enough character space.

Hey Bish....How did you get all of those badges to fit on your screen????