Kits of Years Past - Sole Survivors, Part 1

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Kits of Years Past - Sole Survivors, Part 1

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These are the sole survivors model kits from my past...

Monogram '56 Chevy. I converted this into a 4x4. LOL!! It looks pretty good when I did this about 12 years old.

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Next I believe these were called Funsters. Completely forgot I still had this.

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Monogram '57 Chevy Nomad

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One of my favorite Monogram kits - S'Cool Bus

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This one is a real oldie! Didn't realize I still had this. I don't recall the kit brand so I'm thinking Revell. The only surviving Space themed kit... in a bottle too!! :giggles:

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Didn’t know that Chevy did a cross ram. Cool brother.
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I probably kit bashed the engine on the ‘56... :giggles: :giggles: :giggles:
I will admit, I never painted the body on any of those car kits. Decals on bare plastic :headbang: Ah well, when you’re a kid........ :whiteflag:
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Cool stuff Tom !

Especially that Apollo-Soyuz kit in the bottle!

How cool is that!

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I am thinking of restoring this one soon. Nothing but a simple oven cleaner bath to strip off the old paint.

I may even add a cork to finish it off. Maybe even a new background too. Should be an easy resto session.
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Pretty cool stuff! I wish I could see the kits I did as a kid/teenager. No airbrush and old Testors glue. I don't even remember that the hell I painted them with.
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Medicman71 wrote:Pretty cool stuff! I wish I could see the kits I did as a kid/teenager.
Pretty cool indeed! And quite a few have survived the decades here! :shoutout: That’s gotta count for something. Aside from a handful of 1/32 & 1/35 amor builds, mine all were given away or went to my kids to play with when they were little. There were no survivors… :whistle:
Medicman71 wrote:No airbrush and old Testors glue. I don't even remember that the hell I painted them with.
Yup, Testors tube glue here too. Paints were Pactra International, Polly S, and Model Master…
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I think I used Model Master Acrylics too.
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I don’t remember finding those before the early 90’s… Their first formula. Just like the original Tamiya acrylics they hand brushed much better than their second formula. I was not able to get my mitts on any Tamiya acrylics before ‘84. Before then it was only Polly S for water based hobby paints that I was able to find.
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Model Master enamels yes, acrylics wasn't out yet in the early 90s.
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“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn
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