Classic Kit GB [Official Thread]

Its a fairly risky proposition. Not accepting Paypal is a bad sign to me, removes a layer of protection. Cash only is not good at all. No return policy specified? Be sure to get a firm quote on shipping before bidding.

What can I say these are the best

viper_mp wrote:

LOL, I've been thinking about that too. thats a lot of holes though...  Hey jwb, what size drill bit was it??

Got me.... I just kept testing 'em until one seemed to fit right. They all look about the same size to me.

I mean, I can tell the largest from the smallest.... but those in the middle ones all look aline! LOL 

Ok guys, I dont know about you, but I'm finding it hard to hold off till the "official" start.  My workbench is getting empty as I finish off projects.  So i'm opening this one up. 

Gentlemen.........Start your building!!!!!!!!! 

WHOOOO   HOOOOOO!!!!!!

Now I just need to get home.....I'm stuck at work.......

I'm going to have to reduce the size of the rivets on the Sunderland, to keep up with you guys!

Maybe we need a weekly "can you believe I had to.." session, say at 5.00pm over beers?

This is fun!

I'm still at a point where I know every kit in my stash without looking!

We'll soon remedy that!

nam 

namrednef wrote:

I'm still at a point where I know every kit in my stash without looking! We'll soon remedy that! nam

 LOL!!!  I'll try to get a pic or two later, but my STASH has overrun the two shelving units I got to hold it [promising myself they would never be over] and is now in several piles on the floor.  I have over 200kits in my stash.

This is the first kit I ever made. I was given it on my 8th birthday. It was packaged in a box in those days (1970). Several thousand kits later, I find myself making it for a second time. Airfix, of course, retooled this kit into the FGA 9, losing the nifty working features in the process. I have wasted a bit of time this evening looking for a decent photo of the Aden pack. I have it in a book (the cover of which I found on the internet) but my book is in Vancouver at the moment.

Here, we see the bag this kit came in (no box here!)

The transparencies - note the old-style stand. Also note, if you can, the dimple in the canopy

Brews- LOL!!  Only 58 parts!!!  Gotta love the simplicity of classic kits.  Not like the modern stuff.  I have a Tamiya 1/32 F4J with the BigEd PE set.  I swear its over a thousand pieces. 

Nam- These are for you.  It would be near impossible to memrize all of this.  I seriously need to thin the stash.  I think my club's upcoming contest is going to be sale time. 

OMG!!! Everything there but the cash register! When one must stand a box on end to keep things on a shelf. wow!

(If I knew you weren't building it....I'd take that TBD of yer hands!) 

Where do you keep the family?

Nam 

bondoman wrote:

Is that an extra AWACS I see?

Kinda, I have the EC-135 Aria and two NKC-135 Laser Labs.  I was thinking of doing one of them as a C-135 [I already did a KC-135].  Or do it as Air Force One.   Though if I could find a conversion kit, I really want to do an AWACS.  I was down at Tinker last year, and became adicted to the C-135/707 airframe.

viper_mp wrote:

Brews- LOL!!  Only 58 parts!!!  Gotta love the simplicity of classic kits.  Not like the modern stuff.  I have a Tamiya 1/32 F4J with the BigEd PE set.  I swear its over a thousand pieces.

Well, they're 58 challenging pieces, particularly since the rule is to make the working parts work.

The nosewheel retracts ... but I was going to make this "wheels up" - on the stand. I'll make it so the wheel retracts, but the doors won't work.

If anyone is interested in a Hunter with working parts, the Nichimo 1:48 model has a working ejection seat

By the way, the ejection seat is missing its headrest, so I'll have to make that. Are we permitted to scratch wheel well and cockpit detail, or do we leave them "as classic as they come"?

What, no pilots? I hope someone, and I think you Navy Mono guys do, have lots of little guys on oval stands with flags in their hands! Viper- you otta award extra points for pilots.

Miss Sunderland is sure going to have her gunners! Otherwise, I have nothing to glue the machine guns to! And yes, they'll pivot up and down.

Same here, I never put figures in my cockpits. Unfortunately, the pilot has a seat molded to him with the Revell Dauntless kit, so I have to scratch a seat and perhaps a stick.  I build models, screw them up, throw them at the wall sometimes, but I don't do figures.

Actually, I almost had to throw away this kit because I thought I'd be "classic" and use the old Testors tube cement. Not a good idea, and I will never use that stuff again. I pryed it apart, sanded the cement off, and used CA.

That would have been a twist on things, Having to use tube cement. I still have flashbacks of when I was a kid using Ambroid tube glue. Yikes
 

Okay, no pics....but I have assembled the tail fin/rudder, and the ailerons, and painted the engine parts for the P-40E, last night. Engine parts might need a second coat of paint though.

Man, this thing has working landing gear, and all the control surfaces move, I just hope I can get them all to work right.

Cheers,

Dave