SPA Modeler

...after 20 plus years after removing them from my grandmother's house after her death in the 90s. I had tossed a majority of them due to too many broken parts, don't want them anymore and the missus needed me to weed out a few to make space in storage (that one I won't talk about and painful to discuss)


Most of my car kits were... well crappy builds from my youth years I did save 4. All were original kit color as out of the box.

Monogram 1/25 scale '56 Chevy. Kitbashed it to a 4x4



Why? Cuz it was cool to build my engine this way...



Monogram '57 Chevy Nomad



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Funster Trans Am... remember those????



I saved the best for last. A Monogram iconic kit...S'Cool Bus Funny car. Only the black was painted on the body.




Wings and whirlybirds....

All are Hasegawa kits in 1/72 scale. First... a few broken off parts I managed to save while unloading from box filled foam peanuts.

Few parts..



The aircrafts...

OV-10A Bronco. A tailsitter too. Missing one wheel. Not found in box it was stored in. I have several replacement wheels in my parts stash.





A-6E Intruder




E-2C Hawkeye. I remember having a lot of fun building this old bird.




The Whirlybirds... I only built 2 during my teen years.

SH-60 Seahawk




AH-64 Apache Longbow

Some pretty cool old builds Tom. And pretty nicely done for a youngster.

keavdog wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:50 pm Some pretty cool old builds Tom. And pretty nicely done for a youngster.

That's what I says too! None of my early teen stuff was that good. Little survives, but I could do a model car junkyard with what I have left...

Nice,wish I had some of my old old stuff,but just too many moves.

Some really cool stuff there Tom, Your builds then are probably better than mine now lol!

What I'm really stunned by though is the dot-matrix printer paper. Where on earth did you get that from, I haven't seen any of that since the 90's!

Another chest opened and more aircrafts came out of the mothball storage

Monogram Goshawk F11C-2. I loved building this vintage Monogram kit




More Hasegawa kits with broken pieces and parts.



EA-6 Prowler
F-15 Eagle
S-3 Viking
F-5 Freedom Fighter
F-4 Phantom
Panavia Tornado
F-14A Tomcat - wheels up version. I will be hanging this one over my bench




Cayuse helicopter - unsure the type
F-16 two seater Viper
A-4 Skyhawk two seater
A-6 Intruder 1/48 scale
OV-1 Mohawk

They ejected out of the S3

And Stuart - yes - Tom do you have a tractor feed printer?

No. My workplace had excess of those paper. I grabbed a small stack for scratch paper on my bench.

Very cool! I wish I had pics of my old builds as a teenager. I'd like to see how bad they were.

Medicman71 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:55 pm Very cool! I wish I had pics of my old builds as a teenager. I'd like to see how bad they were.

Many of my early adulthood surviving early builds were done as a teenager… 18 and 19 to be exact. I think I still have a handful of other surviving pre adult teen years builds. But most have been rebuilt and/or repainted in the ensuing years.