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.
F10 ~ the Panther is fully running and on display at the museum its on my bucket list for the tankfest 2024 hopefully!!!! my chance of going to the Ypres salient and Flanders etc will never happen.
So I'll not see where my father was born & lived in England but will console myself with looking at their static Tiger 1, Jagdtpanther and the full running Panther.
The refurb that Compton and his crew did on that tank over the 4 years it took has it like it just left the factory in WWII just amazing but its the Tiger 1 that I want to see plus all else.
In France they have a running King Tiger now why don't they take it to Bovington on tankfest day and have them both running around the arena that would be special.
Here are all the 1/72 kits I can find to take photos of. I know of two that are missing, not sure where they are but I still have them. A British Wellington Bomber and a Japanese four engine bomber G8N Renzan. With those two missing, I suspect there might be others with them in the same location. Probably not many, this has to be the majority of them. It's possible there is a B-17 with them as it seems very odd that I wouldn't have one of them.
I have no idea what I would do with all these if they were built. I'm partial to seaplanes and floatplanes. Heavy on Japanese and Russian aircraft. There are two Bristol Blenhiems in the same box. One can be done in Finn Colors, the other in British.
I have more 1/48's than I realized. Not sure what I'm going to do with these. There are a couple I might make but should probably sell them. I'll try to get them photographed soon. I have a few 1/35's also, tanks, guns and men. And some ships of various scales.
I believe I have found all of my 1/72 models. There were more than I thought. It wasn't a Wellington, but a Sterling and I apparently do NOT have a B-17. I'm thinking I do but where it is I have no idea. It took looking in the last of my nooks and crannies to find these. The last batch is added below.
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You'll have to do research on some of the lesser known brands Steve who have gone out of production or been swallowed up by the bigger makers some NIB unopened can fetch a pretty penny from collectors.
Actually Syeve collectors like the early boxes because the box art was so much better that what we get today Airfix and Revell are still around but the early boxes/models can get good $'s for wont be millions but you should get a bit for them, pity your so far away from me.
My F14A 1/32 Tomcat kit is a Tamiya but is 30 years old BNIB funny thing the first kit my wife got me I opened it up and it had no wings in the kit so had to return it and they gave me another one straight away.
Pics # 1, 2, 3. Pigments done as sooting of main gun, MG and exhaust (Still gotta flat black inside the exhaust pipe though).
The Hetzer is rest day today so the 2 coats of acrylic clear can harden and dry (Had a coat of enamel clear before the white) I can then do the washes, panel lines another coat of flat clear to seal it and she's done then onto the Jagdpanther.
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 scale
Damn nice effort there RCS the half track looks the goods, yes I remember making models and painting by brush it was very hard not to get brush streaks painting out of the small enamel Humbrol tins still use them today.
But paint wise I use mainly Tamiya Acrylics going to try some Mr Colour as they are pretty good to got a mid range Iwata air brush with a small compressor with water trap it has a pressure regulator I usually paint at 15psi I am really enjoying it and sharing with you chaps.
Tonight I have been doing panel lines and some rust wash damn fine pain/t brush work still yards to go!
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A T-34/76 was Peter could not find anything on the Hetzer.
this was in the year 2000
I think I found the last of them today. I put the newly found 1/72's in the earlier post. These are everything else. I'm probably going to keep the 1/35's and the ships but not sure I want the 1/48's and the odd ball stuff. One's a robot I think, not sure. I didn't purposely buy all these. Some were given to me, some were in bulk auction lots that had ones I did want, and a few were just so cheap at yard sales I couldn't let them sit. 25 cents or a couple dollars for a model kit with a lot of these.
The 1/35's
The ships
The 1/48's
The odd ball stuff including two balsa flying models, some 1/100 scale planes, the robot, etc The SE-5 is pretty nice, will probably keep that. It's one that is screwed together rather than glued and is pretty large. The Titanic I'd like to build someday also. My son in law has an MG so I may build that one like his car for him.
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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