Oldies but goodies........
Here are some of my vintage kits, all Airfix and all very old mouldings, according to the time line on Scalemates they are dated as follows;
Handley page Hampden 1968
Boeing Clipper 1967
HMS Victorious [...]
Did someone say "vintage"?
Here are a few of mine. I like building the older kits, partly for nostalgic reasons and partly because I don't like having to build a landing gear strut out of ten plastic parts and two pieces of photo etch!
Lindbergh 1/48 XFY-1 Pogo in [...]
Vintage Models
Monogram F-102A in California ANG scheme. Encore kit of the vintage kit.
Monogram P-51D in IDF Suez War markings
Monogram B-24J
Monogram B-25J - "Betty's Dream"
Monogram F-80C
Monogram Kingfisher (with a lot of resin aftermarket [...]
Some of my “vintage” model builds
1/48 Testors P-51D Authentiplate
1/48 Monogram P-51B
AMT Model T as a farm truck
4.AMT Model T hot rod
1/48 Monogram Fw-190A
1/48 Aurora Fokker D-VII
1/35 Revell Lacrosse Missile Launcher
Hawk Weird-oh Huey’s Hut Rod
1/48 [...]
Let's see your vintage kit builds
Tom's most excellent build of Aurora's Red Knight made me think maybe folks would like to share their vintage kit builds. These have all been seen here before, and are not all my vintage builds. Some are true antique kits, others [...]
M3 Scout Car, IDF, 1/35
Greetings to all forum members.
Today I want to show you the last military vehicle I could finish. It is a M3 Scout Car from HobbyBoss in 1/35 scale.
It is a kit known to all. It has a quite correct detailing, with a very good fitting of [...]
T-28 from Argentine Navy, 1/48
Greetings to all forum members.
On this occasion I wanted to show you a kit that I recently finished. It is Roden's T-28 Trojan in 1/48th scale.
It is an adequately detailed kit, although some things could be improved, such as the [...]
Matchbox Replacements: 1/72 Curtiss SB2C-4E Helldiver & Vought F4U-1D Corsair
These two new completions - an AMT SB2C-4 Helldiver and a Hasegawa F4U-4 Corsair - will be significant upgrades from the Matchbox models they replace in the display cabinet. The AMT Helldiver kit is actually older than the Matchbox - it [...]
Review: ICM 1/48 Polikarpov I-16 type 24
Nikolai Polikarpov was perhaps the leading Russian aircraft designer in the early days of the Soviet aircraft industry. In 1918, he was put in charge of preparing manufacture of the DH-4 at the GAZ-1 facility where at least 63 were [...]
Airfix 1/72 P-38F/G Lightning
I have to thank Jay @ssgt, for providing me this kit to build. This is my second build from the four that Jay has sent to me, my first was the Hasegawa 1/72 Hi-61. I have two more to go.
This is the Airfix 1/72 Lockheed P-38F Lightning [...]
