Apologies if this is a duplicate posting, but I thought I should crossreference Stikpusher’s thread, “Show Us Your Monogram Builds”:
cs.finescale.com/…/134679.aspx
I think it’s relevant and useful to this discussion, to see what folks build from the old Monogram kits. Full disclosure: I just added my latest build there, too.
Thanks Baron, but I actually started this thread BECAUSE of the excellent other thread ! [:P]
By the way, I bought not one but 2 kits :
the 1/48 Mosquito Mk IV over at the toy store
and I couldn’t resit : I was able to get a 50% off coupon over at Michaels, so I also got the Revell 1/48 A-10 Warthog
Good times [H]
Oh somebody has some good times ahead…
I got a first-hand look at the Stearman kit last night, at our club meeting, and it’s on my shopping list.
I also got to see that there really are civilian registry markings on the decal sheet; for one of the subjects, Revell apparently used a restored warbird for reference.
the more I hear about it, that PT-17 keeps sounding better and better, but I’m still a little leary.
On a high note, I am working (excrutiatingly slowly) on a Revell A-6 I got second hand, it’ll hopefully be done sometime this year lol
Marine, that sounds like a description of my progress on a Revell A-6E TRAM. I started mine back around mid-July 2013. [:O]
http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/t/155248.aspx?sort=ASC&pi240=1
I’ve got the airframe assembled and ready to begin painting but I haven’t touched it in a month I guess. I must be the world’s slowest model builder! I just have to be in the right mood, and lately other things have been in the way too. Good luck with yours!
Gary
Mine was gotten from a friend that owns an RC hobby shop, he bought a local collection, then I bought most of it at knock down prices.
Mine came already started, lots of parts already painted, or assembled, and most of them not even to my out-of-practice standards. So I’ve been working slowly, and since school started in January, I havent touched it. I used to bring it to work with me to get a little done in between rushes, but with the two classes I’m in, studying takes precedence over everything but picking up books and new treasures for the stash.
I’ll take some pictures of it and start a WIP thread for it if you guys are interested
The stuff coming from Revell of Germany is quite nice…never thought I would see a 1/32 scale HE111…
Too many choices! Those are all outstanding classics!! The Mossie is particularly cool because it has multiple build options. The Typhoon is also impressive with that huge air intake under the prop…You won’t be unhappy with any of them!!
.speaking of choices…[:D]
…I have been browsing some old on-line Monogram catalogs here…
http://www.boxartden.com/gallery/index.php/Model-Kit-Catalogs/Monogram
…I’d forgotten about so many of those kits …thankfully, many are being re-issued.
Yes, there are a few that I have not seen in many years here that I would love to see re issued.
HobbyBoss is the way to go.Also Trumpeter will be good on the F-105 family.Kitty Hawk will release an F-101b.Tamiya is on the board for a future release of the F-100D and a T-33.All kits are in 1/48 scale.
I wish Monogram had re-released their Voodoo’s as ProModeler kits, especially the RF-101, if Kitty Hawk does their F-101 the proper justice I’ll happily buy one
Tamiya is opening an interest in a 1/72 and a 1/48 line of the F-101s.I have a Japanese friend in japan who works at the Tamiya plant.Hopefully it will happen.
NOT the B-36!..well, it’s a love/hate thing for me, pix are coming soon to explain.[;)]
Anything coming from Tamiya or most other Far Eastern model companies will likely be out of my affordable price range. At least in 1/48 which is my primary aircraft subject area.
stikpusher everything is sold for cheap at one time or another, youre like me most likely, you like to get stuff on sale lol
I’m with you guys on that one. I’d estimate that 95% of my stash today, consists of kits I’ve bought on the secondary market, so, via eBay, at shows and flea markets. I’ve bought very few new kits from a retail store. I look for bargains wherever I can find them.
Oh definitely USMC. I picked up my Tamiya Betty and Uhu on clearance from a chain store where I presume they could not sell due to the high MSRP. My DML Scud TEL as well. Many of the kits in my stash added in the past 10-12 years came from Ebay, or guys at IPMS and AMPS thinning out their stash for a good markdown. But I seldom have any qualms about the sticker price on a new release from Revell, Airfix, or Hobbycraft. or an Eduard “Weekend Edition” kit. Why because their sticker price at most any retail outlet is far more affordable. Revell’s 1/48 Strike Eagle and Super Hornet kits were in the $20 range when first released. Sold! Hasegawa kits of the same subject and of comparable quality cost 3 times that much at that time. The Revell 1/48 Thunderjet cost probably 1/3 or more less than the Tamiya Thunderjet released concurrently. Both are beautiful kits. I know that direct comparisons like that are few, but they are quite telling nevertheless. Revell’s new Ventura kit (and forthcoming RAF variant) would easily cost double coming from Asian model companies. I won’t go into the past where it was not always the case, but I do remember a time when Hasegawa kits were not outrageously priced compared to domestic kits.
I have also been buying most of my kits second hand…all at swap meets.
My cost of living in Illinois has skyrocketed lately and that has had a big influence on my purchasing abilities. No doubt cost of living in Illinois also an influence upon why so many kit stashes are being sold at Illinois swap meets.