Two bugs to choose from, two bugs per box! I hope the molds are sharper than what is shown, but they are still miles ahead of those dreadful Heller kits. Molded in color, snap-fit construction, and moveable parts as well as interchangeable open wings.
Now if they would branch out to other weird animals like horseshoe crabs, mantis shrimps, those deep sea pill bugs, etc! A big old Ameican cockroach would be just nuts! How will Eduard and Quickboost get their aftermarket accessories into this line? PE leg hairs? Turned metal antennae? Uschi Van Der Rosten decals for the body and wings? The possibilities boggle the mind!
We now return you to your regular programming. Time for my meds; good night.
When I was small, I craved those Bandai bug kits with the wind-up motors. My favs were the praying mantis and the diving beetle. I remember my diving beetle “swimming” in the kitchen sink! Now how it was supposed to NOT corrode the clockwind motor, I’ll never know.
There have been animal kits in the past, like Revell’s endangered species series, Heller’s really bad bugs, and even kits of mounted fish trophies (I saw those at Tokyu Hands department store in Shibuya). But nothing recent. I built a fiddler crab in college, out of sprue, sheet plastic, styrofoam and… spackle! I think realistic animal kits might be just the cure for Bf-109-itis. Not cartoon caricature approximations, but scientifically accurate models.
Some Japanese maker (LS?) may have reboxed the Airfix bird kits. A friend picked one up while over there. It was a blue tit I think. Huh-huh-huh, I said “tit”!
Renwall made those “visible” models with clear bodies and internal organs. My sister had the horse, and I remember sneaking into her room and stealing its brain!
Ah yes, I had the scorpion and mantis kits way back when. The scorpion had a crushed Corvette Stingay! I saw the wasp kit only once at the store. Someone re-released these kits, except for the wasp. I picked up the mantis - it was pretty good, but needs a lot of work to bring it up to modern standards.
Now, an R/C diving beetle with functioning swimming legs would be a hoot! It would scare the hell out of the ducks in the pond!
Now that you woke me up with your bad " Bug " dream I gotta ask you . Did any of them have a candy pearl paint-job with the single exhaust stack in the back ? Oh , you were referring to " Bug " Bugs .
Airfix did do the Birds . And then Pyro picked them up . A Robin , Blue Jay , Sparrow and yes a Blue Tit ! Have you ever seen the last bird ? They are almost as small as Humming-Birds !
I had all four and I gave them to my sis when I left for boot camp . A few years later in Japan I found a life sized Red Tailed Hawk and an Eagle . What I would like to see now is a Burrowing Owl and an Osprey ( bird , not the plane ) life sized .That small burrowing Owl would get your laughing juices flowing . Oh , and last but not least a great Snowy Owl !
Um TB you’re not thinking about ‘The Giant Spider Invasion’ by Bill Rebane are you? They covered a VW Beetle with fur, added legs to it and then drove it along behind some extras in a few scenes of the movie.
If you ever want to see it the ‘MST3K’ version on YouTube is probably the most tolerable.
