Models of whatever in plastic kits

[Beth Andrea]

You name it & i've probably built a kit of it, cars, planes, bikes, ships & spaceships.
My real love was railway modelling, in 5 or 6 years I built 4 railways, 2 were OO gauge & 2 were N gauge, I would lose myself for days on end working on them, If I put my eye to track level & could believe it was real then I was satisfied.

I bought a spitfire model last year to see if the interest was still there & a few weeks ago I gave away the unopened kit to a friend, i've lost my interest in kits. I saw a Voyager kit & thought it would look great if I did it like the wrecked Voyager from the episode where Voyager rams the time ship to reset the timeline but as soon as I thought about the effort that would take I lost interest.

Unfortunately, that's how I am about nearly everything...no interest at all. I can think about starting something--models, sewing, journaling, exercising--for about 3-4 minutes, then...*poof* it's gone.

The one thing I do really, really well is to dissociate. I can do that literally all weekend long...go back to work on Monday, and...what did I do this weekend...? Don't remember.

Sorry, I digress. Back to the models!

[big kim]

I found a 1/72 P 40 on the bus a few years ago and when no one claimed it after 3 months it was mine.I haven't the patience to make it so it sat unopened for a few months til I gave it to a friend's son.

[V M]

I found a 1/72 P 40 on the bus a few years ago and when no one claimed it after 3 months it was mine.I haven't the patience to make it so it sat unopened for a few months til I gave it to a friend's son.

Nice    Was he excited about it?

[big kim]

Yes thanks he already had a few  P40s and built it as a Russian one. I remember making Flying Tigers and RAF P40s with shark's teeth as a kid,didn't know just about everyone who was on our side in the war flew a P40

[V M]

Ах, да 
(Oh yes)


RAF поставляется с русскими P40s по ленд-лизу программы
(The RAF supplied the Russians with P40s on a lend lease program)

[Lesley_Roberta]

Thanks to an increase with my hate/hate relationship with technology recently, I have been more aggressive with letting models have my spending money.

There has been a great boom of buying 72nd scale aircraft to the purpose of hanging them from the ceiling (that's the plan at least).

And I have stockpiled a nice pile of ships in 700th scale recently.

But the most hopeful, is my finally getting to making my hobby room user friendly to making a train layout.

I don't need to buy the trains, I just need the place to play with them. Thanks to dad, I will not need to buy much if anything at all.

[Beth Andrea]

If anyone wants some 1/72nd bombs, I have 4 boxes of them, most are present.

Only the "6-pack" MERs and the 500 GP bombs are gone. (There are extended fuse 500's and the smart bomb 500's, but the plain jane ones are used--see the F-111 post for pics)

This is what I have (not my auction)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hasegawa-X72-1-AIRCRAFT-WEAPONS-I-U-S-BOMBS-1-72-scale-kit-/320958220396?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item4aba99c86c

Pay for shipping, and it's yours.

[Keaira]

I still do models. This is my own design I've been working on for a little while now.

[Charley Bea(EmeraldP)]

That is a sweet design Keaira.

I am not sure if my hobby(main one) fits in any of the categories on the site, at a stretch probably with this subject

[DirtyFox]

I have a love for building military and fantasy tanks, though the urge to build comes in cycles.

[Lesley_Roberta]

As just a simple convenience to my friends on site here.

I recently had the great dissatisfaction to purchase the 72nd scale Liberator bomber kit from Airfix, listed in the 2011 catalogue as 'New' which is in fact a kit from 1963, and considering I have made countless hundreds of planes, quite a statement when I declare this kit to be the most wretched most worthless most inexcusable piece of deceitful marketing in the hobby.

The kit is not merely bad, it is worthless to the point that even though I spent 40 bucks on it, it was completely unworthy of even making it just for the laughs. It not only does not assemble worth mention, but it is quite the eye sore. It would likely have sucked in 1963, but this massively over used and totally fraudulent kit has not merits at all. Well it has a new decal sheet for 2011 apparently.

If you are seeking to indulge a kit, you do NOT want to even ponder for a second this company. Forget if you saw a review that was even remotely positive, the company if nothing else, has not earned the business.

I might have bought more kits, I was planning to buy more kits, and now, well the company has not replied to my email which I kept entirely polite. So they also simply don't care, they want your money, but they couldn't care less about you.

There ARE good kits out there from good companies, but Airfix is not one of them.
I don't care about the past, they are now a brand of someone else. Apparently the name Hornby is all over their products.
Horny, you can forget my cash. 

[Beth Andrea]

quite a statement when I declare this kit to be the most wretched most worthless most inexcusable piece of deceitful marketing in the hobby.

Now, now L_R...tell us what you *really* think..


Remember, the B-24 was an ugly and ungainly plane to begin with...!

[Padma]

I have fond memories from when I was a little kid of aircraft model kits called Frog, in which the plastic was bright yellow, rather than grey. Natty! I had a lovely biplane, I've no idea what plane it was since I was like 7 at the time. I liked the smell of the glue, though .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_%28models%29

ETA: it was a Gypsy Moth!

[ZoeM]

I have a 1/10-done 1:350-scale "Pola" warship model in my living room, and an aircraft model waiting for that to finish. I procrastinate heavily where this is concerned, though.

[Beth Andrea]

I have a 1/10-done 1:350-scale "Pola" warship model in my living room, and an aircraft model waiting for that to finish. I procrastinate heavily where this is concerned, though.

I used to have the WW2-era USS Missouri when I was a kid...first part of the kit to be built was the little spotter-plane! LOL

[Devlyn]

I have fond memories from when I was a little kid of aircraft model kits called Frog, in which the plastic was bright yellow, rather than grey. Natty! I had a lovely biplane, I've no idea what plane it was since I was like 7 at the time. I liked the smell of the glue, though .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_%28models%29

ETA: it was a Gypsy Moth!

Like this one?

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=321083475497&index=5&nav=SEARCH&nid=30994090524

[big kim]

Frog models were great,they were a bit more expensive than Airfix but you got 2 or 3   different versions that could be made.I remember making a Free French P47 Thunderbolt. They also made models of planes no one else did.

[Beth Andrea]

As just a simple convenience to my friends on site here.

I recently had the great dissatisfaction to purchase the 72nd scale Liberator bomber kit from Airfix, listed in the 2011 catalogue as 'New' which is in fact a kit from 1963, and considering I have made countless hundreds of planes, quite a statement when I declare this kit to be the most wretched most worthless most inexcusable piece of deceitful marketing in the hobby.

The kit is not merely bad, it is worthless to the point that even though I spent 40 bucks on it, it was completely unworthy of even making it just for the laughs. It not only does not assemble worth mention, but it is quite the eye sore. It would likely have sucked in 1963, but this massively over used and totally fraudulent kit has not merits at all. Well it has a new decal sheet for 2011 apparently.

If you are seeking to indulge a kit, you do NOT want to even ponder for a second this company. Forget if you saw a review that was even remotely positive, the company if nothing else, has not earned the business.

I might have bought more kits, I was planning to buy more kits, and now, well the company has not replied to my email which I kept entirely polite. So they also simply don't care, they want your money, but they couldn't care less about you.

There ARE good kits out there from good companies, but Airfix is not one of them.
I don't care about the past, they are now a brand of someone else. Apparently the name Hornby is all over their products.
Horny, you can forget my cash.

Also, I found a site with a review of the build process of this model...1/72 Airfix Liberator...myself, I enjoy reading other people's builds (really I do it just to show myself how my skills don't measure up LOL)...

[Lesley_Roberta]

Not wanting to be overly cruel to the individual of that thread, but two things need to be said.

It's a fan page ie Airfix fan ie biased as the day is long.

That, and well to be honest and blunt, but that blokes chances in a contest, he'd be unlikely to win any prize with the kit he did against anything older than a 10 year old, maybe.

I've seen better creations from 10 year old actually, but then, starting with a better kit would have helped.

That kit cost me 40 bucks. For 40 bucks, I might have bought many things. I might have bought this kit here for instance.
http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=18126&cat=Military%20Aircraft&manu=Hasegawa&searchtext=fortress

Not from 1963 yes, but also not a total waste of 40 bucks in all likelihood and at least worth the 40 bucks.

And Hasegawa is known for excellence in their kits.

Anyone saying the Airfix kit is anything other that useless garbage, likely LIKES eating MacDonald's food too.

[Jamie D]

I am sure this will cause sadness among the modeling community, but when I was much younger, I built the inexpensive plastic models for the purpose of photographing them in the process of being destroyed.

I remember building the CV-34 Oriskany, probably because it had been in the news.  When it was just about complete, I ballasted it with marbles, so it floated properly, and loaded it up with firecrackers.  It the went into the swimming pool, with the long fuse lit.  Picture time.

Blew it to smithereens.  My dad got mad because all the marbles rolled down to the deep end, and made me and my brother fish them out.  Also there were little plastic A-4 Skyhawks, red paper, and unexploded firecrackers floating in the pool!

Little did I know how the real Oriskany would meet its end: sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to form an artificial reef.