Aurora had 4 or 5 lightplane kits. Some were close to 1/48th.
Monogram made the Cessna 180 with and without floats. The other was a Piper TriPacer, usually with two figures and a dead puma. Turning the main gear around and eliminating the nose wheel would get you almost to a Piper Pacer. Both were closer to 1/40th.
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
Wait a second here...way, way, back when I was a kid trying to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs, some candy company (or was it soap?) had models you could get if you sent in wrappers plus 10 cents per model. They had quite a few different types also. I ordered some but they never showed up. I wonder if these were related to those? There's something about ones with soap here:
I've often wondered if they were original from Lindberg or packaged from another source.
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
were they diverted by the baking soda 'summarines?
...or re-inventing it.
endlessly
Mad-Modeller wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@nextline.com:
I don't think mine is in a Lindberg box. And it has to be 1.48 or thereabouts cause the kit is a fair size and the real deal is small.
Frank
I think you have the large version that was a individually released kit around 1/48th scale. The little dual kit one would be around 1/100 to1/144 scale and have a span of around 2 1/2 to 3 inches if I remember them correctly, and if they actually made a set with a Ercoupe in it... I think they did, but I'm not sure.
Pat
They were originally done by "Busch", a German model company I'd never heard of:
A 1/175th scale X-15 would fit the old Revell B-52 to a 'T'. Indeed they did produce a B-52 with an X-15 and made modifications to the wing & tail and hung a pylon and glove under the right wing. I wish I'd kept that one.
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
They were in the Lindberg catalogue sometime back in the early '60s and IIRC, there is someone with catalogues online. I captured a couple images from the '65 Aurora edition. Now, how to find my way back there?
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
I have seen cartoon versions of them in Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex (phew!)
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