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

[Jesse C.]

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

You can thank the "Truth in Advertising" laws for that. Model companies where told to show what was in the box, hence the demise of cool art work. But, overseas kit makers can still use the art work covers. I really do like the Tamiay art these days along with Hasegawa.

[tom d. friedman]

be careful...... i went to a model show, thought i was buying a vintage 60's kit, it said so on the box only to open the kit & see 90's dated directions. screwed royal!!!

[k5083]

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

You can thank the "Truth in Advertising" laws for that. Model companies where told to show what was in the box, hence the demise of cool art work. But, overseas kit makers can still use the art work covers. I really do like the Tamiay art these days along with Hasegawa.

Told by whom? Was a case ever brought? It doesn't strike me as impossible -- generally it's consistent with the FTC's policies regarding advertising to children -- but I've never heard of a specific action against any model kit company.

August

P.S. US built kits sometimes still have paintings on the box; I know I bought a Revell (ex-Monogram) 1/48 Dauntless released within the past 2 years that does.

[Mike Bates]

Hey Jack did you notice the wire bracket behind the drop tank? Don't see to many photo's with those attached.

Here's a couple of other pictures they can be seen in. Looks like they might be of a different layout.





By the way that is the kit that got me hooked on the P-38.

Mike

[Jack Cook]

I've got those originals in my collection.
That's Capt Chet Trout 27th FS OPS and his flight not to long before
he and his wingman were KIA over Germany.

[Second Air Force]

I just wandered out to the shed and dug in my parts boxes, and look what I found. I built this when I was about ten and converted it to a P.R. airplane when I was twelve.


Here is a spare decal sheet from one of my first P-38s way back when:


And here is a bit of trivia--when were each of these kits first issued?

[TAdan]

I would guess most of them were issued somewhere from 1963-1968...

I've built plenty of the re-issue's and that is usually the date on the mold.

As for the pics you posted... I'm guessing P-47, Hurricane, and two P-51 kits?

[51fixer]

Hey Jack did you notice the wire bracket behind the drop tank? Don't see to many photo's with those attached.

Here's a couple of other pictures they can be seen in. Looks like they might be of a different layout.



Mike

Looks like a field mod for keeping the drop tank from hitting the aircraft. Normally there was a short pole which attached to the drop tank and the top of this pole attached to a small fitting in the wing you see in line with the pylon and just in front of the flap. It would at as a pivot to swing the drop down and away from the tail.
Rich