I just finished an F-86, a plane I like. Straight from the box. It is probably the best I’ve done, but now I want to go out and buy another kit, and an aftermarket cockpit, and get it done right this time. Question: am I crazy? Is it move on time, or do some of you build it all over again, next time better (and is it?). Thanks
jayzee
Nope, have built plenty of “repeats”…working on my second Hasegawa F-14; have built numerous Monogram and Hasegawa F-4’s (mostly E and J variants); have built many of the 1/72 Hasegawa Bf-109 and Fw-190 kits, the old, old $5 ones with 20 parts, called them “six hour builds”.
I think a lot of people build multiples of the same kit; a lot just because they like that plane, that kit, etc.
I have probably built the same kit a dozen times. (Mongram 1/48 p-47) In NMF, camo, with invasion stripes, with photo etch and without. I built the first one in the late 60’s and one just last year. So as you can see some people think like you but, I wouldn’t call us crazy. A little mental derangement maybe. Besides some aircraft just look neat. Whether it be the Thunderbolt or the Sabre if you want to build it again, do it. Enjoy.
I’ve built a dozen 1/48 Trimaster/DML/Dragon Me 262 kits, and I have six more Trimasters in the pile. I’ve built all of DML’s 1/48 kits a few times. Hasegawa’s Bf 109 and A6M kits are also multiple builds for me. There are too many to name that I’ve only built twice.
Build a model of the exact same aircraft? Nope. Build a second or third models of the same kit with different markings and camo schemes? Of course.
I Soaked up every variation of Hasegawa EF111 I could find last year,and did the same with the F111s
They “get better with experience”,my lastest EF’66-041,I did in the “Test Scheme” with Flourecent Orange Panels (I Thought these would have been decals in the kit but you have to do the colors yourself)
I`m proud of it,it sports an (Uncorrect but close) Eduard Photoetch Cockpit,and it is my first “Pencillined” engraved panel line attempt
Sometimes,you wanna build a fleet of stuff,I`d like to complete my “Sundowner” F14,then a Jolly Roger F14 then a VF114 “Zot” Aardvark F14
Sometime the only drawback is running out of display room
Well there`s always the ceiling
Phil/Rt4957
I have done repeats many times. I have done the F-4 Phantom 19 times, 7 or 8 Airfix, several Hasegawa, several Italeri/Testors, etc. I have done the 1/48 Monogram F-105 Four times in the last two years and have twelve more kits on the shelf, D and G models combined, plus 6 1/72 scale and One 32 scale. The list goes on and on!
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
Just one.
The Monogram 1/48 F4U Corsair.
There was more than 20 years in between the two builds. What fun !
Chris
I built the 1/48 MM A-4 skyhawk…4 times…did a Blue Angels Display. So, no, you’re not crazy.
Take a look at my build list for this build season. I’m building two of everything I build this year. Except I like to do a variation from the first. For example, my B-25Js are different, one has a glass nose the other has a solid nose. My Wildcats are different, one with floats - the “Wildcatfish”, the XF5F-1 and XP-50 are the same plane with different noses, AT-6 Texan and SNJ-2 Texan differ due to different canopies and rudders, and the A-36 is really just a P-51A in disguise with air brakes. Will likely add a bubbletop and a razorback P-47s to the list, and maybe a couple of American Spitfires, one as a PR version and the other a regular fighter. Y’know, the P-39 and P-63 might be close enough to count as building the same plane twice… or is that stretching it?
I want to know where Pix gets all those Trimaster Schwalbs. When I had my fire, and 300-odd kits went up, I only cried over about 10 of the kits (it was the books, decal and obscure AM stuff that really killed me and does to this day), and of the ten kits, four were by Koster, but the other six were TriMaster: two Me-163’s, including the 163S unpowered two-seater, two different Me-262’s, an He-162 and an FW-190A or F something. Of course, five years ago when this happened, it was believed that these kits had all fallen off the face of the earth and I treasured them. But now they seem to keep cropping up everywhere but where I am. And I don’t want the DML or Dragon versions. I want the ones with the white metal and the PE parts.
Oh, and yes. I have no problem building more than one example of a type. I did so many production models of the Has F-4C and D for members of the 111th FIS for all the rides they gave me, I think I probably built the whole squadron. I was ordering several of the same decal sheet from Experts Choice (Bare Metal), because when you’re building ANG aircraft, they’re the people to see. And I gave each one of them a different tail number, first corresponding with the ones I rode in, and after those four, I just went down the ramp. I think I made eight in all. And all in the same squadron markings. But each one got a little better, and each one was a little different.
This took place over five years, and the first one had – this is for you old-timers out there – Hi-Tech brand PE parts, the toughest, stiffest, cheesiest PE parts you never wanted to see. But they were all we had back then, as old people like to say. Remember, you youngsters, this was the mid-to-late ‘80s, and we had to carry our mobile phones in a big holster on our belts because they weighed three pounds, and on the other hip, next to my shootin’ iron to keep the Indians away – I’m from Texas, kids, and as every New Yorker knows, even the pre-schoolers in Texas are strapped with a hog leg – but anyway, on that other hip we wore a device called a “beeper.” Primitive thing. Had to actually find a pay phone and call people back sometimes when that huge, $800 mobile phone battery went dead after ten minutes. Times was hard back then, lemme tell you.
–TOM, going to bed, because, well, because he’s OLD and…and FEEBLE
Yeah - I’ve built LOTS of models again and again…the old Revell 1/144 TAA 727-100 for example…and the Minicraft 737-300 in Qantas livery (a bloody nice little kit, I might add)…I’ve built these for a couple of model shops that specialise in pre-built airliner models.
But Military repeaters? Well, probably not - mainly because there’s such an incredible variety of markings available for the same variants - and having a wide variety of things to look at in the display case is a good thing.
I plan on building three different 1/48 Hasegawa Bf-109G-10’s, all with varying levels of detailing. The first is getting scratchbuilt additions to the main office,and a little on the landing gear. The second I plan on using the Eduard Me-109G cockpit detail set; and the third I hope to be able to scratchbuild the interior,engine compartment/gunbay, and who knows what else.
I then plan on transferring those skills to three 1/32 Hasegawa Bf-109’s:original release(?) Me-109E,new Me109G-6(Hartmann),and Me-109G-14.
No, YOU are not crazy.[(-D]
Well, I’ve built Monogram’s 1/48 F-14 Tomcat three times.
I’ve built Academy’s Me-163 Komet once and will probably build more of them just for the sheer joy of building such a gem of a kit.
I built 6 Matchbox 1/72 ME-109Es for a Battle of Britain airfield diorama several years ago (regretably no photos)
done the 1/32 F4J(UK) Twice
I’ve got 9 of the Monogram F-106 and seeing as they’ve recently rereleased it , guess I’ll have to get somemore. These are on the shelf next to the four Mono F-102, 3, F-80, 7 T-6 and 5 B-52. Now where I’m going to display all of these at is a different question and the reason their still on the shelf.
I’ve built the same kit multiple times for several aircraft. Always with different markings.
Regards, Rick
I had, at one time, three different 1/72 MPC C-130s built, different variants and markings; two 1/72 Italeri C-130s (one as an HC-130P, the second as a C-130H) - I also built a 1/72 AC-130A from Italeri; it is the same basic kit as the C-130s, I have a bunch of unbuilt Herks waiting for me, including one that is being converted into an EC-130H. [:D] (Yeah, you can tell that I am a Herk Nut!!! [8-] )
Started building a second Monogram B-52, as a OOB kit; I have another B-52 that I am planning to build as the CCV NB-52E; I also have built about 5-6 Monogram 1/72 A-10 kits over the years.
Spacecraft, I built about 5 of the ‘Eagle’ from “Space:1999” series when it was first run. Unfortunately, they did not survive my childhood… [}:)] And a similar number of X-wings… they lasted a little longer than my Eagles…
Sooo, in my opinion, building more than one of a kit isn’t unusual…
i’ve built Tamiya’s 1/48 P-51D 4 times and i’ve been in the hobby not quite 2 years, and have 2 more “in progress”, with yet 2 more in the stash!![:)] i’m a little partial to this war machine to say the least!! so, i say go for it!! later.
An F-86 again it is! Well, I’d probably do it anyway, but now I can smile about it! And use different decals. Thanks[:D]