I've been doing this since 1956 and standardized on 1/48th in the mid
1970s. I skipped over the Monogram funny kits during the years they were owned by Mattel. The word I would choose would be "unusual" or "obscure" rather than "weird" for some of my subjects. High on my list would be scratchbuilds, including a Curtiss XP-62, a General Motors XP-75, a Consolidated XPY-1 and a Boeing XPBB-1.