Or as an answer for that hard to shop for modeler that labels any kit “a box of garbage”.
Hi Tojo72, no they are build only a few years back, but I also built one many years ago!
You can see a picture of the new and and an old Frankenstein in one of my first “dioramas” here:
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You did an amazing job. Frankie looks great. Well done. I want to get that kit but it hasn’t been re-released yet. Not that I’m aware of anyway.
Cheers,
Mark
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Love that vintage Franenstein kit! You did a great job with the painting and that grass just adds to your base.
Thanks, I am also very pleased with it 
As far as the weirdest models I have built, I have these:
This is a scratchbuilt 1/72 AD Police helicopter from the anime Bubblegum Crisis. This was one of the minor machines that appeared here and there in the background. I thought it looked pretty cool, and I really wanted a model of it. Bubblegum Crisis kits, even resin garage kits, were pretty thin on the ground, so I decided to make one myself. I only had some line art and screen caps from the videos, so it was all eyeballed. I started it in the late 1980s but took over 20 years to gain the skillset and resources to finish it. I think it still needs an oil wash to grubby it up a bit.
This is Pit Road’s Ocean Engineering Jim diving suit. I picked up this 1/20 resin kit from Hobbyland in Osaka. I had visited the Tokyo Maritime Museum earlier in the trip and had photographed a real one there. So naturally I was thrilled to find a kit of the Jim! The body was solid resin, so I hollowed the helmet out through the window openings and inserted a spare head from a MaK Jerry. The windows were replaced with sheet plastic rings, punched bolts, clear acetate, and some vac-formed cones to suggest the thickness of the suit’s shell.
This is MRC’s (1/9/?) Mean Machine, from the silly Stallone version of Judge Dredd. I just improved some of the detail on his mechanical arm and added some junk to the base.
“Akushon Kamen, seigi no kamen. Go-go-go, lettsu go~!” This is the most meta kit I have. It is Action Mask, a Japanese superhero type that appears in a TV show watched by Crayon Shinchan, a cartoon character from the anime of the same name. Sure he’s got visible joints everywhere, but da~ng, he can sure pose! “Akushon Punch! Akushon Kick! Akushon Beammu wo omimae suru ze! Ohhh! Yuke, yuke, seigi no Akushon Kamen!”
And my latest completion, the Jashinhei from “Panzer World Galient: The Cross of Iron”. You don’t see many snakey centaur-like mechs every day!
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Wait, wait, I’m not done yet!
This is OKB Grigorov’s 1/35 Chrysler TV-8, a proposed US tank that was to eventually incorporate a nuclear reactor! It featured an oscillating turret (the gun was fixed so the entire turret moved up and down), the gun was equipped with an autoloader, the tracks were driven by electrical motors using power from the engine located in the turret, and the whole thing was supposed to be able to swim!
These have got to be the weirdest airplane kits I have in the stash that had the distinction of actually getting into the air. The Martin XB-51 was a highly unusual medium bomber that defied what a US aircraft should look like in the 1950s, despite there being no shortage of oddball prototypes at the time.
Similarly, the French LeDuc 022 was a Buck Rogers-looking experimental turbojet/ramjet aircraft that was supposed to eventually be developed into an interceptor. Despite its outlandish appearance, it was built, flown, and survived its test program, and currently resides in the French Air & Space Museum.
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More pics of the Mummy:
I love your Jashinhei and the Police helicopter so much! They look so cool! I’m also a sucker for funky looking tanks, so I’m excited to see where that TV-8 goes! It looks like a mix between a cockroach and the obj 279!
Mine’s not built yet, but this thing does look cool. It was never even a paper panzer; rather, it was some guy’s photoshop picture that caught the eye of somebody at Magic Factory:
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Well, the Bradley seems to be giving a good account of itself in Ukraine, so who’s to say a mobile gun system won’t become a reality? Apparently, the US Army has decided that large bore cannon armed wheeled vehicles are not what it wants, since it has withdrawn the Stryker MGS.
Heck, they can’t really decide WHAT they want, as they recently cancelled the M10 Booker tracked, well… whatever you want to call it. You know a project is in trouble when they tell you that you can’t call a tank a “tank”!
I think it was Hobby Boss that did a German E100 tank with a turret design they cribbed from a scratchbuilt whiffer model by Michael Rinaldi (without his knowledge or permission). I do believe they belatedly gave him credit. Still, it is a cool looking model.
A far cry from my childhood versions !!!
Woah that’s pretty cool! Is that the same gun that they used on that one mobile gun unit Stryker?
So, it is and it isn’t. It’s similar to the Stryker MGS, but they changed a lot of details. The entire turret is 3D printed and I have to say, this is my favorite ever 3D printed assembly. It comes off the supports easily and goes together flawlessly. I’m tempted to get another one to swap the turret into a modernized (albeit obsolete) Stryker MGS.
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Great job on Frankenstein! The base definitely looks the part. The high lighting on his clothes, 
OK, I thought I only build the regular stuff but then I remembered one… It’s pretty regular in comparison to many amazing postings above, the again I want to post something too!
So here it is - Amodel 1:72 Piaggio avanti:
And for those who say Amodel kits are not buildable:
Have a nice day!
Paweł
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Very nice! I’ve yet to try an Amodel kit - their catalog is so tempting. Great civil aviation options.
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that’s good info for me! I’m always on the hunt for a new civil subject!
Pawel, the Piaggio has got to be one of the weirdest civil aircraft to see production! And a nice build, sir! Amodel kits are not easy at all, and often require some heavy duty tweaking and scratchbuilding.
Those Ukrainians are not afraid to kit some really odd kits, civil aircraft not escaping their attention.
The Leopard is really bad in the fit department and will definitely need new landing gear. The other two look much better.
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