Coming out of the Mothballs...

[BlackSheep214]

...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

[keavdog]

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

[Gary Brantley]

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...

[Tojo72]

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

[Stuart]

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!

[BlackSheep214]

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

[keavdog]

They ejected out of the S3

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

[BlackSheep214]

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

[Medicman71]

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

[Stikpusher]

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.