Early model kit web page

Stumbled on this:

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has a section devoted to early plastic aircraft models as they evolved from wooden aircraft models. Some of these are so early, that even I never ran into them as a kid. ;-) The plastic-related ones are:
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early take on Bare Metal Foil:
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plastic bodies and wings/styrene details; build either as gliders or for display:
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had one of those when I was a kid, but don't remember which one. I didn't know that anyone ever made a model of this as a injected-molded kit:
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I was a kid, I wanted their X-1B kit...I didn't miss much:
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Pat

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Pat Flannery
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Pat - Was talking with Nick Argento of Glencoe one day last week and he stated that he wants to release the X-1B later this Spring. So you might get a chance to try anyway.

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The Old Man

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I also found, awhile ago, a similar page on the wooden "solid models" that I started with in the BP (before plastics) era. I have been buying old wooden kits from a few older gentlemen (that is, my age), so they are still around in the storage cellars of some folks. I fondly remember them. Every so often a company starts up that rekits some of these, but these companies never seem to stay in business.

Strombecker, Monogram, DP, Megow- those were the days of REAL modelers :-)

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Don Stauffer in Minnesota

Did you look at the pictures of that thing? No, it would be a lot better to start over from scratch than reissue it. Molding was very crude even in the original release; Lord knows what the molds would turn out nowadays.

Pat

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Pat Flannery

I liked the two simple kits on that page - the V-1 and Baka:

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's not much to start with for a kit. You can see why Cleavland ended up just selling the plans. :-)

Pat

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Pat Flannery

i'd kill for those baka decals.

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someone

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Whatever happened to the Stinson TriMotor? For awhile it was listed as coming soon. AFAIK, it never did.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

...who would like to try and build it better than he did 50 years ago...

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Mad-Modeller

I spent some time last night going through his site. There's some great stuff there along with lots of good memories.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller

I neglected to mention that some of those Allyn kits made a comeback in the '70s. Microscale (Yep, the decal people) had them moulded and were available in large square yellow boxings that were about 4-5 inches deep. I recall the XF-92A and the YF-102A and I have seen the A3D built up. I'm not sure it wasn't an original Allyn though.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller

Although the web pages are very large, there's a lot of great stuff on old model kits here also:

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Pat

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Pat Flannery

I have an A2D Skyshark as well.

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The Old Man

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