I was in our local thrift store warehouse “buy by the pound” store and ran across a beat up Monogram P-51B box lid and thought, “oh cool, now all I have to do is find the kit”. I kept diggin through the bins and found a bottom of a box with a sealed parts bag. “Sweet, I found the kit”. “This is a Fw-190, not a P-51B”.
So I kept diggin and never saw anymore kit parts. Turns out the kit I found is complete, except for the box, and is a Matchbox Fw-190 still sealed in the bag with decals. It looks like a decent little kit with old decals. I think I’ll make a hanger out of it and use some extra decals from the stash to finish it off. Has anyone had any experience with this cheap little kit?
BK
Hey BK, Cool! Yes, I have found quite a few neat things at thrift stores over the years. I remember my brother found a bunch of older kits years ago for dirt cheap. At my nearest hobby/collectible/antique shop he has a bunch of older kits for dirt cheap. I remember he has a Revell 1/72 B-2 Stealth for $25.00. I also know he has a bunch of newer hobbycraft kits for really cheap.
If it’s the old multi-tone 1/72 offering (am I correctly recalling dark green and baby-poop brown plastic?), I built a small squadron of them ‘back in the day’; the only vague memory I have is of a seemingly-truncated or otherwise slightly funny-looking canopy…not uncommon in the early MB kits.
But what the hey…it’s certainly worth a build! [:D]
A a local goodwill store, found a Moebius Iron Man kit, complete, but pieces were everywhere along with a Monogram B-25 Mitchell bomber in 1/48 scale. Iron Man was $2 and the plane was $5.
This is the second one I’ve found. I found a 1/24 old school Red Baron Hot Rod kit, which is really hard to find. Bags were still sealed. Paid $2, sold it for $24. I’ll keep looking.
BK
I once found two old Revell 1/28 plane kits in a garage sale for something like a buck, the Dr.1 and Camel. The Fokker had part of the fuselage started and the Camel was unbuilt, both complete. The Fokker made it as a build article in FSM a while back. The Camel is in the stash waiting its turn for glue and paint.
Nice score. Merry Christmas!
I like to build the old wooden models- the kind I started on. Both the stick and tissue ones and the solid wood ones. I have found some great ones in antique stores!
A friend of mine this week got a brand new in the box 1/48 ICM C-45 for only $3.50 at a thrift store.
I need to start checking out thrift stores.
I found a die cut Guillows Fokker DR I Triplane kit at a comic con for $12. It was in a stack of toys under the vendor’s table.