Me I'm going with this one!
I still love this box top, and built it still looks "good enough". I built one about 43 years ago,and loved it! Accurate, nope, fun...yep! That and the Tamiya 1/25 Tiger I, because sometimes you need to stop being so darned serious!
I had one too! Must have been 35 years ago.
Did the yellow ribbon with nothing but a brush. It got wider and wider each time I circled the fuselage.
Hell Yes! That was the first 1/32 kit I had ever built. I was 9/10 years of age. Bought it from the T.S.S. Department store in Levittown. It was the box art that really grabbed me then as it still does now.
Rob,
I built this one Many years ago and loved it. I have old photos of it but as for the model itself I have no idea where it wound up. It was one of early kits I did when I came back to modeling. There is a pretty major boo boo with the kit but I will leave that to others to point out. I also built the early Spitfire by Revell and loved it.
yep I did also and I crashed into the cat
Yes Frank there are a couple of big boo bos in the kit, I think Large Scale Planes have a good article on it if I recall, but I love all those old Revell kits. My favorites are the P-40 and the Corsair.
Yep, old school Revell 1/32 kits were/are great! I've got the Seafire and Me 262 in the stash, but remember building the Fw 190D long nose and the Me 262B Nightfighter. Happy days
you really know the the way to an old mans heart
That will be a fun build! It's a nifty older kit. With a few minor changes/additions it can look pretty sharp IMHO. Matter of fact I've been looking for one to do a quickie build. Good luck and I know it will turn out nice!
That box art also inspired me, very many moons ago! Fond memories of this kit. I think the surface engraving on this kit was years ahead of it's time, when it first hit the shop shelves.
I built this one, along with the Spitfire and P-40, when it first came out as a Bf-109F. Got another one on the pile I've been trying to detail and correct for the last 15 years.
Rob,
Love your posting here, it really does bring back memories. I made that kit, and I think it was one of the last models I built before getting an airbrush. Did it as a JG54 aircraft with a scheme I found in William Green's book "The Augsburg Eagle". I think the box art was done by Jack Leynwood, who did a lot of the early Revell art. Some years later I made it again, as an aircraft of the Ilmavoimien, the Finnish Air Force, and did a certain amount of modification/correction to it, based on John Beaman's book "The Last of the Eagles". The rear fuselage length is the main problem. I still have this model, and am going to post it one of these days. Thanks for sharing this!