This is weird, I can't see my own pics, just links. Can everyone else see the pics on the post?
Anyhoo, forgot some info in my post and fixed my workbench link so it works now.
Thanks Kerick I'm glad you like it, much cold water and tea was consumed during and after this completion.
Thanks Wombat for the kind words, not up to your standards though. Just remember a nice coat of paint can hide a multitude of sins. Never again will I 'punish' myself I hope . . . . . . . . . but I found another H-47 kit in the bottom of the stash a few weeks back
Not sure what you're post is referring to Retired In Kalifornia. I know that the first Airfix kits in the USA were straight imported kits from the UK sometime in 1960. Then along came Airfix of America with it's ridiculously poor box art which unfortunately was also a feature of a lot of US box scale aircraft kits.
Revell were the first in the US, though not by much, to produce a line of constant scale aircraft kits (an idea they got from Airfix and Frog), Monogram, Lindberg and Auroura produced mainly to a constant 1/48 scale with some 1/72 scale and the large number of 1950's produced random box scale kits so beloved in the USA as well.
My model club (when it existed) back in the late 1970's used to have an annual Awful Kit Competition where you built Out Of the Box using the kit's own decals and paint guide to produce a well built model. It was then judged on how 'wrong' it was. Lots of Lindberg, Aurora, Renwal and Monogram kits on show, the worst being an all red zero and of course the Revell Mustang above. Wrongness was also a feature of Airfix (original Fw 190D, Spitfire BT-K and Spitfire Mk.IX) and Frog (Mosquito, Fw 190, Spitfire Mk.I).
From your list I've built the Spitfire (a later boxing Collector's Choice kit as an early two blade MK.I that I still have), the '109, P-51D "Sorta Stang" (2 of
), Tempest (still have) and Hein. I'll find replacements for the two missing models from my collection.
I suppose what was surprising to us as kids and now as adults that the earlier 1958 Airfix Mustang (
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/airfixtributeforum/1958-na-p-51d-mustang-1-72-t166.html ) was so much better than this awful kit. I remember clearly being in the playground and a kid came up to join into our game with an Airfix Mustang his brother had just helped him finish, very different from our red Mustangs, and one of us asked " . . . . where's the grill? . . . . " on the radiator intake that is. We were very surprised at how wrong our models were compared to the (older mold) Airfix model. The Revell kits cost 85 cents Oz, more expensive than the Airfix baggies at 75 cents.
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