Some ask me at the airport is there a Cessna 210 kit? Anyone know about it please. Any Scale.
Gumiflex
Some ask me at the airport is there a Cessna 210 kit? Anyone know about it please. Any Scale.
Gumiflex
Gummi
I’ve looked around a bit and I can’t find one.You can get 150s, 172s, Bonanzas and a Cherokee, but no Centurions!
Plus, there are numerous 210s, the early strut braced wing with the chin bulb for the nosegear, all the way to the pressurized version. This would be a great time to try scratchbuilding. Don’t be skeerd, you can do it!!
ebay is your friend
Ebay Item #300042244745
All i have to say is, if its a minicraft youll pull your hair out if you have any, i built there 1/48 cherokee kit and it had no alignment pins, fit was garbage and the complete nose was so warped it looked like it was making a left turn while sitting still. And to add to that none of the windows fit.
Actually, that Ebay item is either a Cessna 336 or 337. The seller mis-listed it.
stinger
I stand corrected
I’m in full agreement with S. Guns on the Cherokee, and all those Minicraft “bug-smashers” in the series, like the Cessna. They are garbage from the get-go. I wanted to model the Cherokee I soloed in, and paid the local hobby shop a ridiculously inflated price for it.
The engine was a small sprue of utterly unidentifiable lumps of plastic, none of which seemed to attach to any other. The interior was garbage, and it would have been fun to try to detail it had any other part of the thing fit, but it didn’t. I know these are old kits, but so are the Tamiya 1/48 Zero series, which are just as old and cost the same (about $12-14 when I bought the Minicraft kits), and those Zero kits are still fine builds by any standard, even today.
TOM
While I haven’t built a ‘bug-smasher’ I would have to agree about the general sentiment about Mini-craft. My wife’s father was an executive for Pan-Am so I wanted to build her a Pan-Am 707. Now a certain popular magazine has given this model the big thumbs up. But in truth, this model leaves much to be desired in terms of fit and accuracy. Something about the windscreen on this thing never looked right, even in the photograph of the completed model in the review. So I put alot of effort in changing the rake angle of the windscreen. It looks better, but it was a bother. And it takes me about an hour to put together a single engine nacelle, after cleaning up the seam, the step between parts, and restoring the lost recessed panel lines. And that doesn’t even address oval shape of the intake. The tedium has complete squashed my desire to finish this model, since it was my hope to make it an inflight display for my wife’s desk, but now it just collects dust…
In 1/48 maybe the modelcraft 172 “Kitbashed”(love that word,don’t know why?) with the Testors skymaster would get ya’ rollin’? It’s a start anyway?..
I tried to built this kit also…Its complete crap!!
I haven’t seen one in a while (they pop up on occasion on Ebay), but during the late 50s or early 60s, Aurora had a kit of the 310 (and a Beech 18S). Box scale (and a really small box), probably somewhere around 1/87. Problem is being Aurora you’re probably going to be shocked at the price if you do find one.
Thank you all for your input.
Gumiflex