Post by Brandon on May 15, 2007 11:35:03 GMT -6
As I dunked the latest victim of my parts stash into the great purple lake, I pondered the out come of this rare and old kit.
She's a beaut, a 42' Cris Craft Flying Bridge yacht.... gonna get crossed with parts from a Johan funny car and the side coves from a Mysterion.... I looked over the brittle instruction sheet and laughed. As I rinsed the last bit of brushed on white enamel from the hull the brown and black marbled plastic sparkled like it was just plucked from the molds... I wondered what eager freckle-faced kid glued the roof on crooked with a tube of now outlawed model cement, and as I peered in through the cabin windows I saw "Revell Venice, CA Copyright 1955" This will be by far the oldest model that I have sliced and diced. I thought about the boat's whereabouts for the last FIFTY-plus years, stashed in boxes, wondered who finally stuffed it in a tattered freezer baggie, and sold to me by a nautical enthusiast with a table full of ships at the NNL West.... "that's a nice old boat kit" he beamed proudly, "It'll clean up nice for a restoration..."
"Oh yeah, " I nodded, looking down at it through the baggie and over to the huge Halibrand-equipped slicks in my other hand that I just picked up for a dollar.... the wheels already spinning..... Muwhahahaha...
The instructions also say 1955... When DID Revell start?
She's a beaut, a 42' Cris Craft Flying Bridge yacht.... gonna get crossed with parts from a Johan funny car and the side coves from a Mysterion.... I looked over the brittle instruction sheet and laughed. As I rinsed the last bit of brushed on white enamel from the hull the brown and black marbled plastic sparkled like it was just plucked from the molds... I wondered what eager freckle-faced kid glued the roof on crooked with a tube of now outlawed model cement, and as I peered in through the cabin windows I saw "Revell Venice, CA Copyright 1955" This will be by far the oldest model that I have sliced and diced. I thought about the boat's whereabouts for the last FIFTY-plus years, stashed in boxes, wondered who finally stuffed it in a tattered freezer baggie, and sold to me by a nautical enthusiast with a table full of ships at the NNL West.... "that's a nice old boat kit" he beamed proudly, "It'll clean up nice for a restoration..."
"Oh yeah, " I nodded, looking down at it through the baggie and over to the huge Halibrand-equipped slicks in my other hand that I just picked up for a dollar.... the wheels already spinning..... Muwhahahaha...
The instructions also say 1955... When DID Revell start?
