What kit did you miss when it came around?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 10:31 am
In the course of talking to Tom in PM about our trade in progress, I asked him if there was a kit he "needed".
That led to a convo about each of our kits that we "missed" and have now become "Ebay search and hope" kits, except they have more than doubled in price since they went OOP.
We both have a kit like that, and both of us agree that we would rather let that spot just stay open instead of trying to pay hundreds of US dollars for it, and make somebody rich.
Mine is the AJ Savage. My choices are the very expensive Anigrand Savage. A beautiful kit, all resin, crisp molding, but $106 when it was introduced at the Nats a few years ago. Next comes the Rareplane Vac, also a great kit, but, it lives up to the name "rareplane", and gets auctioned off at extremely good profit for anyone that bought one back in the day. Third choice is the Mach 2 kit,,,,,,,,and I have some their kits, and won't pay the Ebay price for what Mach 2 puts in their boxes. I was talking to a Navair aftermarket guy about it, and he agreed,,,,,,,,,and then said he had a started vac kit of the Savage that someone sent him to finish,,,,,,Airmodel vac is the closest we can come to identifying it. It came with no instructions, no landing gear and no props,,,,,,,,but, it will fill that A-2 slot in my collection without causing a divorce here at the Hangar Deck.
So, what did you folks do? Just miss the model in your set,,,,,,,,,,or build something like this Airmodel Vac as a 30-footer? (that is a model 10 times worse than the 3 footers we talk about, lol) I also missed some releases that had special decals in a mainstream tooling, but, that can be solved by searching for the unused options on someone's old decal sheets.
What did you folks miss that you wish you had bought when it was first out?
That led to a convo about each of our kits that we "missed" and have now become "Ebay search and hope" kits, except they have more than doubled in price since they went OOP.
We both have a kit like that, and both of us agree that we would rather let that spot just stay open instead of trying to pay hundreds of US dollars for it, and make somebody rich.
Mine is the AJ Savage. My choices are the very expensive Anigrand Savage. A beautiful kit, all resin, crisp molding, but $106 when it was introduced at the Nats a few years ago. Next comes the Rareplane Vac, also a great kit, but, it lives up to the name "rareplane", and gets auctioned off at extremely good profit for anyone that bought one back in the day. Third choice is the Mach 2 kit,,,,,,,,and I have some their kits, and won't pay the Ebay price for what Mach 2 puts in their boxes. I was talking to a Navair aftermarket guy about it, and he agreed,,,,,,,,,and then said he had a started vac kit of the Savage that someone sent him to finish,,,,,,Airmodel vac is the closest we can come to identifying it. It came with no instructions, no landing gear and no props,,,,,,,,but, it will fill that A-2 slot in my collection without causing a divorce here at the Hangar Deck.
So, what did you folks do? Just miss the model in your set,,,,,,,,,,or build something like this Airmodel Vac as a 30-footer? (that is a model 10 times worse than the 3 footers we talk about, lol) I also missed some releases that had special decals in a mainstream tooling, but, that can be solved by searching for the unused options on someone's old decal sheets.
What did you folks miss that you wish you had bought when it was first out?
