This happened to me this summer,was visiting over in Penna.,State College,went to the local hobby store,saw a Enterprise glueless snapper,from Ban Dai,illuminated,Thought."Eh,it looks o.k."Built it a month later,turns out to be one of the greatest ones I have.This the enterprise w/Scott Bakula.
I bought an Airfix 1/72 SPAD VII on an impulse because it was cheap. I decided I would build it really fast and just glue it together and brush paint it over a weekend. Well that didn't last long. For some reason, I found it worth building "right" and had a really fun time working on it. I even worked on it a few minutes in the morning before going to work on some days. It came out really well except that I was still to "chicken" to attempt to rig it (only my second biplane model). I put a lot of work into it and for some reason, had a REALLY good time building it.
Martin
A couple of years back I picked up an Emhar 1/72 A7V WWI tank. Not really my interest area, but that thing is just so ugly I thought "What the hell".
Well, that had to be kept company with their other WWI tank kits, then RPM came out with their really cool Model T Ambulance, then their Mack Bulldogs, Hat's new WWI German, Turkish and Russian figures, etc., etc.
So now I can build an entire diorama from just about any WWI front.
Not that I ever intended to do that...
Tom
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Did it today. I went into a local establishment to pick up a tube of putty, and walked out with the putty and the new Hasegawa Lancaster... new stock, not even priced, let alone on the shelf.Haven't built it yet, but it looks like it'll be good.
RobG
I've been tempted to do that myself. At FIFTY BUCKS a pop, those Lancaster kits are worth "walking out with."
(INSERT VERY BIG GRIN HERE)
When I was a kid, I remember building biplane kits that must have been
1/32 scale or even larger. Does anyone still make those? I've been looking for a Spad VII in a large scale for a couple of years now, and the best I've done is 1/48.
Sounds like Revell's 1/28 SPAD.XIII, Sopwith Camel and Fokker Triplane. I don't know if they're currently available but they've been re-issued many times over the years. Check E-bay or your local hobby shop. I don't know of a SPAD.VII but the XIII should give you a starting place for modifications.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
Yep, I've done that. Sometimes the best models arise from kits that were bought on faint impulse.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
Thanks, I'll try that. It probably was the Spad XIII. It was nearly
40 years ago when I built it, and I've forgotten a lot since then.
Ban Dai's Albion carrier (a non-Gundam Gundam model, if you know what I mean). Douglas Adams has a quote about how going from not knowing a thing exists to desiring it to owning it in the space of a few minutes being something of an epiphany.
Looking inside, is this what they mean by "shake the box and you've got a model" engineering? Many of the attachment points to the sprue wind up inside, if you don't want to clean them up, and the seams can be easily covered, or accented with pen lines to represent the "real" item as it appears in the cartoon. I know it's easier having an imaginary subject, (and with Ban Dai producing the show as well as the model, they may design it with such in mind,) but this is a real treat. In fact, it looks so easy to build (famous last words?) that I've set it aside to add the task of taking measurements of the pieces and scratching a version smaller than the "box scale" of 1/1700 into 1/2500 to match other stuff I've got.
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