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Post by germaneighter on Jan 16, 2020 15:37:53 GMT -6
Sorry if this has been done before! I'm new here...(but old everywhere else)!
The most frustrating/difficult car kit for me was the Revell '57 Chevy Nomad. (Flamed paint sitting on the beach)
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Post by petec210 on Jan 17, 2020 11:05:04 GMT -6
When I was a kid I didn't have the patience to scrape the plating off the chrome parts, so building never went well for me. I don't think I ever actually finished a kit.
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Post by rocketeer on Jan 17, 2020 11:27:37 GMT -6
Revell 1956 Chevy. Molded in black so I had to put multiple coats of paint on it to get a white interior, finicky assembly and fragile working parts. Poorly done chrome bits which began to fade. And the separate chrome trim along the sides was impossible to get looking good.
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Post by 41chevy on Jan 17, 2020 11:40:52 GMT -6
Nine years old and trying to build the Hubley Model A 5 window. 95% metal castings, screws and a ton for flash that had to be filed and sanded. Paint that fell off the parts (who know about prep ). That was followed by the Revell Visible slant 6. 10 years old, working parts and TUBE GLUE . . .a recipe for adventure. Paul
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Post by donculley on Jan 17, 2020 20:22:05 GMT -6
Revell Henry J gasser ; like most Revell kits of the time its got little fragile parts and brittle plastic ; Unlike Monogram kits, the fact that Revell kits could not be completed (unpainted of course) in a couple hours without bits constantly falling off made for one messy gluebomb .
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Post by stevielewis on Jan 18, 2020 7:26:29 GMT -6
I think I was 9 or 10 years old when I tried to put "The BOSS Mustang" funny car together with tube glue. I don't think I ever finished it. I know I broke off one of the "steamroller" rear slicks. Never could get the rear wing to stay on. Here's a pic of the box cover I saw on eBay: I know I didn't scrape chrome off parts either. What fun we had!
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Post by davevan1 on Jan 18, 2020 7:30:31 GMT -6
Revell Orange Crate drag car........tons of tiny little parts. I am seeing a theme here
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Post by germaneighter on Jan 18, 2020 12:25:11 GMT -6
I was thinking the same thing!
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Post by hobbybobby on Jan 18, 2020 16:08:23 GMT -6
Now where do I start? I started about 35 years ago, my first kit was an airplane, a PBY-6A Catalina amphibious flying boat, the Calypso flown by Jacques Yves Cousteau, the french marine explorer and diving pioneer. I was so enthusiastic and wanted to assemble the kit as quickly as possible, too much glue and no colors... A disaster... Then came more planes, ships, spaceships and all kinds of Thingsā¦ Cars? Yes, of course, but, bodies painted with brushes... My difficulties were kits with what felt like a thousand, very delicate parts and huge decals that tore into several puzzles... I got better and better, I learned from the best modellers, the way, tricks and skills... The only thing left now is the challenge...
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Post by flounder on Jan 20, 2020 11:42:04 GMT -6
41 Chevy - I'm with you on the Hubley metal kit. I remember we had one that was never finished, which was rare for me then. The body did not fit and the screws did not screw into the holes.
The plastic one that I never finished as a kid was the Scorpion. That was because I could not get the multi-piece body to stay together when I applied tube glue over a thick coat of testers light blue paint. I also remember have a problem figuring out the foot board on the Boot Hill Express. I think my brother helped me with that .
Amazingly, I did manage to finish a Chopped Deuce and Dual Jewel when I was 14. Can't speak to the quality.
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Post by colbart/colin on Jan 22, 2020 3:33:41 GMT -6
Up to age 14, assembled models of anything, planes, ships, cars. Later discovered Airfix models of Cars on the street, and Dream Cars. E Type Jaguar. Very fast, not usually painted. Then finding different ways to destroy them..Enactments of crashes. Wondering why cars explode in a fireball, after rolling down a hill...'Lighter fuel experiments' always outdoors...
14 years old moved from Brixton to Oxfordshire.. In Abingdon Zodiac store sold Custom Car Kits for 50p each. (Mainly Monogram Tom Daniel) at Pocket money price.I would take a model, on Holiday (Touring Caravan Holiday over 2-3 weeks). A plastic box of a few enamel paints, tube of glue etc...Assemble the kit and apply decals on the plastic...Attempted to paint the Silver Fox onto a body. over primer of Matt Grey enamel...Think it was Quicksilver Tom Daniel Kit. Years later, they are now collector kits.
later in life, set up an area to spray in the garden shed, spent hours building in there. Especially 1980 to 1984, when Unemployed...Until the Zodiac store closed. Fortunately there was an alternative shop that stocked a few of the Wacky Show Rods I love today.
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Post by rapidtransit on Jan 23, 2020 10:51:47 GMT -6
Revell Orange Crate I would say was the hardest kit I ever did and the Canned heat !
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Post by willys36 on Nov 10, 2020 16:53:43 GMT -6
I vote for the Revell Mickey Thompson Challenger I kit for ANY age. I just built one this week that has been in my stack for years and at 72 with 65 years of modelling experience, it was as challenging as I have ever seen. I had to modify a lot of the kit parts to get it to go together and some parts wouldn't fit no matter what I did so I just glued them close. Had to leave the front right backing plate off the brakes or the wheel skirt wouldn't snap on. An exhaust header had to be sectioned 1/16". I got a Challenger kit when it first issued and I was probably 13 or 14 and it was never in my collection. Kit parts are in a lot of my custom builds and now I know why. I'll bet you could count on toes and fingers (no need to remove shoes) how many of these models were ever finished. Attachments:
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Post by showrodjohn on Nov 11, 2020 5:41:22 GMT -6
The first kit I built was Badman. Just glad that Tom's kits could be built with out painting the body.
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Post by badroadahead on Nov 11, 2020 12:27:31 GMT -6
I started building models when I was 8 - 55 years ago....man I'm getting old! I put together an elephant, the Lunar Lander and a few others before I met the '51 Anglia. It had opening doors and hoods. The plastic was red and very thin, I was young and inexperienced (thats what she said!!!)in anything close to assembling that. Needless to say it didn't come out well at all. But like Bobby said I kept at it and learned, experimented , failed sometimes and finally am able to meet almost any challenge. My biggest problem now is dealing with arthritis and continuously dropping parts I spend much time on making. Now if I had the hands I had back then with the knowledge I have now.....
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Post by rodsnracin on Nov 11, 2020 14:21:04 GMT -6
If the original question had said "12 or younger", I would have said "All of them!" Serious answer would be Starbird's Futurista, my father brought that one home one day when I was probably 7 (started building when I was 5, mostly Lindberg and Palmer 1/32 stuff), and that one even beat him! I've always wanted to give it another shot now, if I can find one at a reasonable price!
Brian
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Post by stevehammann on Nov 11, 2020 15:24:49 GMT -6
I hated all of the early Revell kits. Even though they had some really cool subject matter, their parts were less than desirable and broke easily. I loved anything Monogram because kit quality was light years ahead of everyone else. AMT was ok quality-wise but subject matter was a little lacking. MPC had great Drag racing stuff but quality sometimes was just above Revell parts.
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Post by snakeplissken81 on Nov 11, 2020 18:22:39 GMT -6
Monogram quicksilver. Could not get the front hinge to stay glued. Thought that whole front end flip nose was soooooo cool.
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Post by chromecop on Nov 12, 2020 6:31:52 GMT -6
Never had any real problem with any kit, but one of the most tricky ones to build (at age 12 or 13) was the chassie on the 26 Buttera Model T Sedan.
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Post by kabdriver on Dec 2, 2020 9:53:30 GMT -6
I struggled with the Revell Orange Crate - dozens of tiny little parts with a load of flash and thick chrome.
I'm gonna try that one again though, now I know what to do to work around that stuff more (a tiny bit, kinda)
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