Re: Lindberg HMS Hood = Ironic Find

The Old Man wrote:

On Jan 30, 6:33 am, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rob van Riel wrote:
If I feel a kit qualifies as having either historic or sentimetal value, I
would certainly try to build it straight out of the box (I've done just
that with one kit, and have several in the stash that will get this
treatment).
If I were to take this one step further, I would try to get two copies of
the kit in question, and display them together, one unbuilt, the other
built straight out of the box to the best of my abilities, with the box
as a backdrop. I'd need a heck of a lot more time, a much bigger house,
and preferably an audience to make that worth while though (I'm not rich
enough to be excentric enough to do this).

This is what I was talking about.
This would be a fascinating topic to discuss here on the newsgroup,
especially for the "old boys" who can remember the models that came out
in the the late 1950's-early 1960s...and they bought as kids.
Do you buy them again if you find one, and never build it? Build them as
they were designed to be built at the time they were issued - to
recapture a bit of the past; or try to fix them up to today's standards?

Pat

It depends on the kit, I suppose. The Aurora F7U Cutlass turned out to
be a 1:72 (or damned close to it) F7U-1 (and who else made one of
those?). The decals were for the Naval Testing Station, making the
model one of an obvious prototype. I built the model "as is" and
painted it Navy Blue, with silver over the rear fuselage, over the
afterburner. The instruction *** called for it to be painted ala the
box art, which showed the later sea grey over light grey coloring of
the later 1950s.
The only repair work needed was because of poor molding to the wings
(both of them) where the plastic at center of the wing at the root
didn't flow completely into the mold. It was repaired with lots of
Green Stuff. Oh yeah, locomotive-style rivet heads to, lots of 'em,
were removed.
Other than that, it was a quick, easy and fun build.

Must have been quite a few came out that way as my last one purchased
was in the same shape. Still have the first one and that's undergoing
restoration using some parts from the second.
I also have the Revell 1/64th kit. The model had been built and I got
it secondhand. I stripped it down and reassembled it, painting it Gloss
Gull Grey over Gloss White. Seams and irregularities were smoothed
over. I haven't gotten beyond that point but I believe I'll use decals
from stock here to make it look like a publicity photo model.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
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