Trumpeter's F4F-4 Wildcat. Absolutely lousy fit, at least with mine.
I'm finished with Trumpeter. For me, they're over-engineered, *way* overpriced, and simply unsatisfying. I'm going back to simplicity; I'll build the old Revell Wildcat and Hasegawa F6F. In fact, I think I'll spend some time with a number of these old kits...
-- david
oops. I just bought the pre war version. But I agree totally with you re the simple kits. With the Revell 1/32 kits, they are always gonna work, and you will get what you want. A model of a Wildcat. Except for the weird undercarriage that I have not once built right in
30 years, Revell planes are a relaxing way to enjoy the hobby. never did quite figure out why models have to have 1000 pieces, many of which no one ever sees........Craig
isn't that $100 kit?
I got mine for substantially less, but even so it took a lot to get me to toss it (I don't like to give up). I just finally realized that fighting with a kit isn't what I'm looking for in this hobby.
-- david
Hasagawa over Revell for me...but I've got two Trumpeter F4Fs and a host of their other WWII and jet kits, and I'm buildin' 'em all!
...if I live long enough...
"Musicman59" wrote
Because what wins at contests are models with every door, hatch, and panel open; parts laying on the ground, guts hanging out everywhere . . .
KL
(Oldster cackle) You kids. Back in the olden days we used to glue up two mishapen parts, wrap 'em in rubber bands and lay a dictionary on them to get a straight wing. But you're absolutely right. The only kits I buy sight or review unseen are Tamiya. Life's too short.
I remember helping my dad wrap the copper wire around the engine, hoping to get that "jet sound" from those early 1960's kits. Hawk? Never worked. Not once.
Craig
i was the only one i knew that could make those wind it yourself lindberg motors work. my friends would do everything but follow the directions, which seemed really easy. wish i had one to build now, but the prices...yeech.
Hehe. I'll bet I'm not far behind you. I remember watching my mother build an old Aurora Spitfire for me (I was six, I think); that kit was molded in emerald green (at least that's the image in my mind).
-- david
Lindberg, although Monogram put one in the first edition of their 1/72nd B-52.
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
Good! Got anything you want to trade? I have four trumpeter kits in my stash: 1/32 mig-21, 1/72 f-105, 1/72 ra5c and a wyvern. Most opened, all unstarted. Got a 1/32 Revell Wildcat by chance?
-- david
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Sounds like the people who build for contests are building Transformers.....
That's a good story.
-- david
I have the Trumpeter Mig-21 (I have most of the Trumpeter 1/32 Migs - I'm missing the Fulcrum...but I have the Revell ones), and I had a Revell 1/32 Wildcat...but I think I either trashed it or gave it away some time ago.
...ooops - nope, I still have it - the Martlet one. I think I was planning to rob the windscreen from it, or use it to correct the shape of the Trumpeter one. I need to look it over.
OM wrote: : : ...Time to run a poll: How many of us had our first kit built by our : moms? : My father insisted on "helping" me assemble a Revell Tarantula dragster. What an unmitigated disaster.
He meant well, but has zero spacial ability. It was years before I built another model.
Bruce
Me.
Dad criticized my choice of paint schemes and my Mom threatened to kill me every so often if I spilled paint on her new orange shag carpet (that should help date it)
WmB
pre cambrian extinction?
pre Billy Beer
WmB
Me too, an Aurora F-100 Super Sabre (small size). I was about 10 (1957) and we'd do one step each night before bed and after homework. Didn't paint it and learned about decaling from the instruction sheet. Wish I still had it.
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