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Hello, in June 30 there is a model competition/meet here in Sweden called "Grevens Glue Galore" (The Count´s Glue Galore, the guy who arranges it is actually...
That competition/meet sounds like loads of fun. I had to chuckle at your inclusion of Lindberg's Harrier as that is definitely a very bad kit of a Harrier....
Oh this is going to be FUN!!: ) Should get alot of great posts here. Right off the bat, two of THE WORST are the Aurora United CV-990 & X-15. Aurora B-58;...
Let us remember also that the Lindberg SR-71 is actually a YF- 12A! : ) Christian "The Boxart Den"-World's largest display & collection of FULLY RESTORED rare...
Another misery has to be the Busch F-84F Thunderstreak. Christian "The Boxart Den"-World's largest display & collection of FULLY RESTORED rare & collectable...
Stefan - My candidate for "worst kit" is the Lindberg Stuka. It took me six weeks to turn it into a Ju 87. Another is the original Aurora Spitfire and/or the...
Stefan - Just a quick follow-up to my previous posting. The reason for so many bad kits in the early days (1950's-'60's) was the absence of decent plans. In...
I think no one has even come close to the worst kit with what has been mentioned so far. Attached is a photo of the three sprues of what I consider the...
Christian - Do you remember the original 'MiG-19' kits by Lindberg and Aurora? I think that these were unique in that they depicted something totally...
Oh yes Bill; absolutely. Well, being born in 1961, I didn't get this stuff first time around of course! Love those kits though; Hawk Beta-1, Aurora M-50,...
Good one, Jim! Think you got me too. I'll say they are pieces from the Pyro "Design-a-plane"? That's probably wrong! Something from Dubena? Busch? Chris r---...
Sorry, I don't have the breadth of experience a lot of you have in the field. I'm enjoying this thread, even though I'm ebarrased by the fact that with some...
And Chuck makes three! The Nitto/Entex (Did Doyusha bring out this monstrosity?) 1/144 747 is one big turkey, that's for sure. I think I said Otaki before. My...
... Aurora? I think that these were unique in that they depicted something totally non-existent ... The Aurora one looked quite a bit like the Focke-Wulf...
... many bad kits in the early days (1950's-'60's) was the absence of decent plans. In many cases, there were none, and often what there were were hopelessly...
... Attached is a photo of the three sprues of what I consider the absolute worst kit ever made. I'll give a genuine "atta boy/girl" to anyone who can...
I just remembered another bad kit, the Crown 1/144 B-17. The left and right fuselage parts has not the same cross section where the cockpit is. And i think...
No one has mentioned either Maquette or Mach 2...don't these companies make only "bad" models? Just take a look at the Maquette Stratoliner in 1/72! At first I...
The Crown B29 is not alone in having a tail problem. I have forgotten the story, but there were a set of plans that were circulated in the mid '40s showing the...
I would nominate the Zhengdefu kit of the E-3A sentry where the airframe they used was not a 707/C-135 at all instead their Boeing 747-400 kit (which they also...
I agree, which is what made it just incredible that Minicraft would go ahead and release some of the worstest kits in modern history! ...and they had the...
Christian - Oh, yes, I forgot the Aurora 'Bounder'. Even all those years ago, I couldn't accept it as it was, and did my best to turn it into something that...
Butch - Talking of kits whose parts were different sizes when they were supposed to fit together. has anyone tried to make the Merlin Lockheed Electra - or any...
I agree with these two, but, they're so cool to have and to have built them. especially, since they were bought at the original price and are still together...
Attached the box art of the Doyousha parade of six and another shot of the fuselages. The aircraft are left side top to bottom ;F-106, UH-1 and F-90 and right...
A question about the Lindberg Monitor and Merrimac kits. It seems that Lindberg had these two kits in their cataloge from the early sixties. But Pyro/Lifelike...
I think they are older than the '60s - perhaps from the late '50s. The original issue included electric motors as with similar aircraft kits. According to the...
