How Many Of You Did This When You Were Little??

[Jack Cook]

Or still do No not that
I must have built the Monogram 1/48 scale P-38J "Jeanne" 20 times

P-38J "Jeanne" KI+N s/n 43-28430 flown by Lt Roy Struchfield 55th FS 20th FG June 1944

[Robbie Roberts]

I built hundreds of models as a kid- not many survived, and some are in a few boxes I have, awaiting reincarnation... At today's prices, I couldn't afford 1/3rd of the ones I built! One of my favorites was Shangri-La, Don Gentile's P-51...

Robbie

[Matt Gunsch]

I built hundreds of models as a kid- not many survived, and some are in a few boxes I have, awaiting reincarnation... At today's prices, I couldn't afford 1/3rd of the ones I built! One of my favorites was Shangri-La, Don Gentile's P-51...

Robbie

You just have to know where to look. I just picked up a Tamiya 1/48 P-51B with Shangri-la marking for $5, and a 1/32 Revell J2M3 Raiden for $30

[Jack Cook]

I have a couple old Minicraft 1/32 kits ya'l can have if you want.
ME-163 and FW-190.............maybe a couple old Revell 1/32s also.

[Matt Gunsch]

I have a couple old Minicraft 1/32 kits ya'l can have if you want.
ME-163 and FW-190.............maybe a couple old Revell 1/32s also.

Jack, PM sent

[Second Air Force]

I've still got several decal sheets from that kit. I built it every way but as "Jeanne" for some reason. I think I still have an unbuilt one somewhere in a box, too.

[Mudge]

Don't mean to pull "geezer" on ya' here, but...when I was a kid everything was balsa with paper covering or the WWII silhouette ID type. Didn't start building the plastics until I was in my 30's.

Mudge the elderly

[Swiss Mustangs]

awwwwww YES.... I built hundreds of models.... and still got a stash of unmade kits (hundreds !!!) stored - I guess if I re-started today with the goal of finishing them all, I'd be done at the age of around 250 or so.....

some fine day I will flood epay with my treasure trove....

Martin

[TAdan]

Here is my latest attempt at that kit from a year or two ago...

Finished as Richard Bong's airplane.

[Jack Cook]

That looks like the Revell 1/32 kil

[TAdan]

That looks like the Revell 1/32 kil

Nope, It is the most recent boxing of the Monogram 1/48 Kit.

[Jack Cook]

They must have used the Revell 1/32 box from the 1960s
I built a few of these also.

[gregv]

Jack

good eye, that is indeed the artwork from the original issue of the 1/32 scale Revell kit. When Revell & Monogram merged I guess everything was chucked into the same pantry, so to speak, so when the old 1/48 P-38 was re-released some time ago it came out with the 70's Revell artwork on it.

Blasphemous, if you ask me

greg .

P.S. the artwork from the 60's & 70's Revell 1/32 scale kits is, in my opinion, some of the finest ever created for scale model kits, second perhaps only to that of Roy Cross for the same vintage Airfix kits.

[Robbie Roberts]

The old artwork beats the daylights out of the bland photos of the assembled kit you see on most Testors and Monogram Snap-Kits(I remember when that concept was new!)... I still love to wander into my favorite shop, and look at the decades worth of old aircraft models on his shelves...

Robbie

[k5083]

I (at age 12) preferred the look of the glass droop snoot nose supplied with the kit, so I built it that way but also liked the Jeanne markings so I used those as well.

August