What is the oldest kit that you have bought but never started? The one sitting on the shelf covered with a thick layer of dust. [;)]
leoman su 25, can nayone tell me any info on it?
That would be a lepord tank-Tamiya.Bought it over a year ago,other then that,I have a bishop sp bought that 7years ago and is a 3td of the way done.Digger
OOPS,I found a Ford MUTT that I bought 7 years ago and yet putt together.
I probably have 10 kits from the 1970’s in my stash - I think 1973 is the oldest, but I intend on building them all…eventually.
This may change in the morning as there is a garage sale ad that says they are selling model kits from the 40’s through the 70’s. I’ll let you know if I pick something up.
Enjoy your modeling…
The Revellogram 1/32 SBD Dauntless…there is so much wrong with this kit it’s frightening…
Monogram 1/72 Bearcat. Always meant to build it, but others keep getting in the way. Maybe someday still.
Regards, Rick
it’s got to be that 1/32nd scale revell mosquito i picked up before i enlisted in '77. don’t worry, i’ll get started on it any day now.
That would have to have been an old Aurora B-26. Always wanted a Marauder, but after opening the box and seeing that even the national insignia had raised panel lines, I never started it.
I ended up trading it to a guy at a hobby shop in Portland, OR for 2 other kits and some reference material.
Randie [C):-)]
I’ve got a bunch of old Revell 1/8 motorcycle kits gathering dust. The oldest is a Honda 250 RC163 GP Racing bike that I bought in the early 70’s.
Remember those old boxes the kit comes in? Thick and strong enough to hold up the rest of the aging collection of unbuilt models!
Tamiya 1/25 Tiger I got back in the late 80’s. It needed so much work I put it back on the shelf. I’m thinking about putting it next to a 1/16 Tiger (both built OOB) to show how far things have advanced for modelers. Good idea?
Tamiya 1/35 Saladin with motor.
The Academy 1/3th Chieftain. I want to build and paint a Berlin brigade Chieftain, but I haven’t summed up the courage to buy the Accurate Armour conversion that is necessary to make this vehicle. Along with that I need to replace the tracks and probably the barrel and the add a p/e set.
I have Revell’s 1/24 Vostok Russian spacecraft. I built one when I was a kid, and the kit was new. After finding pics on the internet of the actual vehicle, I realized that much of the detail will have to be replaced with scratchbuilt stuff (there’s a seam down the middle of the instrument panel, which is molded inside the interior “can” halves !). I do want to see it on the shelf one day, though.
i have a frog 1/72nd wildcat in my stash. had a frog blackburn shark and had a airfix control tower bagged with card header that i traded.
Greg
I have a couple, revell’s box’d and monograms bagged ch-54, revell h-19, Aurora XF-91 Thundercepter and Tamiya’s M1 MB tank
I have an old ESCI 1/48 Tempest which has been sat waiting patiently for a great many years, somewhere between 5 and 10, I can’t exactly remember
Without a doubt, it’s a vac-form “Heinkel He-112 B0” from Rareplane. I bought in my mit-teens, back in 1979, when I didn’t know what a vac-form was (or a Money order, by the way). It’s the only vac-form in my collection, and for the foreseeable future it’ll remain that way.
If partially buildt counts, then the prize for injection-moulded goes to a “PT boat ELCO 77 feet” from Lindbergh (bought in 1980).
Regards to all, and have fun with this wonderful hobby.
The 1/72 Hasegawa F-8E I bought way back in Agust of 1980. Before that all models I bought, numbering about a hundred, were promptly built. For this one I was waiting for suitable decal set and still haven’t found any so it’s still collecting dust. It’s also the first of the so many, about two hundred, models bought but never built that followed.
Have a number “family airlooms”.
Aurora Stage Coach and Viking Ship bought by my mom 1964 with price tag from Skaggs Drug.
1959 Revell Eastwind Icebreaker my dad bought new from Gills Drug Store in 1960.
Revell SR71 and F111 with date of receipt in the box of October 1971. My dad got them for us because my uncle was a test pilot for the F-111 during the time.
Revell 1:96 Bicentennial Constitution bought in November of 1976 and never opened.
Revell 1/48 EA-6A and Revell 1/48 MIG-25. Someday I am going to start on them. That is when I get the other 250 unbuilt kits I have completed.