60 years to make a model.
With all this talk of plastic model kits, it's got me wondering what the longest amount of time anyone has spent making/assembling a plastic model kit?
I've got a kit, The Visible Man, intended for medical students/Doctors etc that was purchased when it first went on sale in the UK in the late 1950's/early 1960's. The kit was nearly assembled/completed in the 1960's but never fully finished. Since then it has been "trampled in the attic" with "bits broken" and some of the model's internal organs mysteriously went missing. Since inheriting the kit, several years ago, I have sourced some replacement parts for some of the bits that are missing/broken and I have carried out a little bit of work on the model but it is still not fully completed some 60 years after purchase. It's mainly some bits requiring painting that I haven't got round to yet.
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old models from years ago
Sometime while in grade school, I made a Russian Bison jet bomber, the paints available at the time were gloss as you can tell from the photos. By luck, this model was found in a box of old models that were saved and complete except for the landing gear. I used 1/4 inch round aluminum stock to make the wheels which were long lost. The other kit was a Monogram 1/2 track which I mounted a 105 howitzer and added details this being 1/35 scaleAttachment 129660Attachment 129659Attachment 129661Attachment 129662
