I will be at the IPMS/Houston ModelMania contest this Saturday, the 5th. Located just SW of Houston in Stafford, Texas, at the Stafford Center, we'll have an...
CVG says 1/230. These originally were Siku toys that were sold as being 1/240. I still need an Electra from this set... Michael "Christos G. Psarras"...
In the late 1950s Revell issued a number of kits in 1/40 scale. The most significant are their military armor models, but they also scaled their missiles in...
... scaled ... size, ... of ... the helicopter,Cessna YH-41 and La Coquette Balloon were 1/40.For aircraft I'd say 1/48 became the choice. Revell also went to...
Tom - Two I know of are Lincoln's Auster Autocar and Kogure's D4&-1 Judy. Monogram's Wright Flyer is also to this scale, as is their Cessna 180 Bill...
Many of the 1/40 armor models issued by Revell--as well as the 1/48 scale horse-drawn vehicles--were designed and made by Adams. Revell used their molds for a...
Tom I have attached a list of 1/40 scale kits as contained in Burn's CVG-7. It appears Adams and Revell made a concerted effort to market kits in this scale...
... I don't have the kits now, but I sold one of them a couple of years back on Ebay (it was in a collection I was parting out). The P-51 and P-40 were snap...
Nice assessment, Matt. I hadn't considered 1/40 to be an "also ran" scale, just a "fit the box" compromise. BTW, I really love my big Revell Skyraider kit! MJB...
Title should get everyones attention. While going through the basement on one of the wife (of 44 years instructions) I came across something that should make...
I was and loved every minute of it. I still remember all the good times and a few of the bad. cheers to all us old guys and those not so old as well! John W....
It is a pretty big club, I think! I had 30+ years of KCC, 4 decades' worth of Navy-related magazines, 4 years' of college newspapers, and assorted space and ...
Hi James I think I am a good canadate for the oldest pack rat collecer. I started when models were first comming out in wood and paper.They gave you a block of...
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Collecting started back in the stone age (not of plastic kits, of course!). Homo Sapiens, especially the male of the species, seems to have an irresistable...
I always thought that the ground zero for kit collecting would have been when the first modeller got married and 'procurement and production' switched to...
Well, as you said Bill. You are a modeller (and a very good one too!), not a dyed in the wool collector. However you do fall into that well known group of us...
Great stories all! I am late to the game of collecting, having bought my first "old" kit in 1991 at an IPMS show. I was outraged that the "old" Revell kit was...
Josef, The best thing about this hobby of ours is the way that it brings people together, of all ages, nationalities and languages. I appreciate that it is...
... Here's the line that best (IMNSHO) sums up the hobby of model building. When I am building, the hobby takes me back to a simpler time, when I might have...
... I appreciate that it is naive to consider it but I wonder what I would do if I were facing my enemy in a trench somewhere, guns in hand, and discovered...
It WAS said tongue in cheek during a pious moment Christos, but thanks for bringing me back to earth. Oh!, and the officers wouldn't have said a word, like me...
Fractious parties have long found common ground and yet returned to fighting the following day. That's what ideologies are all about...you believe what you...
Absolutely right Michael. I was prepared to fight to the death for an Airfix Ferguson Tractor kit, ever since Arthur Ward in his Model World of Airfix book...
