Hi all, Its been a while since I posted anything. But I have a question for you guys. I was cleaning out a family storage building today and found some old kits from my early years. In your opinion are old kits that you have built worth salvaging and re building?
Depends on what you have and how much you are willing to put into it. Sometimes doing those old kits provides us with a challenge
Yeah… here’s an example: I have an Airfix SM.79… think this is a very old kit… so I want to detail it 'cos is a good kit… and I really like this planes… and is a true challenge… I don’t know about you, but I prefer to build this kit than building the Italeri kit…
I’ve hung on to about 7or 8 that I built in High School back in the 60’s. I repainted and put new decals on Monograms old Dauntless that I had detailed up a bit to get away from it looking toy like. Even had formed canopies for the front and rear offices so I could have them open way back then. They remind me of the simpler times. I plan to “overhaul” a couple of the others eventually. They were all brush painted of course. No airbrush then.
I like overhauling old kits! [:)] I have a 1/72 Carabou that started life as an Air Force C-7A, then it became the glossy black & white flagship of the “Golden Knights”, and now it’s an overall semi glossy OD Army CV-2. [;)]
It’s like getting a brand new kit! [:)]
Take care,
Frank
Its a great way to learn and practise modelling skills ! Sometimes it the only version available in kit form and its nice to have a model that not many other people have. I have an old matchbox 1:32 tigermoth waiting to be revamped.
Have you seen the mtv show " pimp my ride " ? Many modelers do to their kits what this show does to peoples old cars .
It’s amazing what you can ‘scratch build’ with enough old relics sitting around on the living room mantle piece [:D]
I’ve got 2 old ones which I’m going to re-do
just watch out for the decals. Someone mentioned it above, but an afterkarket set might make the difference in you enjoying the “new” model and wondering why you built the dinosaur in the first place. Please post pics.
I saved a few from my old collection, and I stripped them down and re-scribbed them a few years ago, and now just waiting on getting a house so I could rebuild them with some AM stuff’s because they where great kit back in the day and today they still have the class of being a great kit
Hey there !
Personally I love the old stuff. With the advances in AM parts there is not much that can not be accomplished…Those old kits were pretty barren so there is a lot of room for creativity…Right now I have the 1/72 Airfix Invader and the 1/67 (Box Scale?) Monogram invader. Airfix is definitely the better of the two…Airfix will be a fire bomber and the Monogram is going to be something fanciful…perhaps a paint job with flames…who would do this with a “modern” kit that ran them $40+ ?