My fairly intact old models

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All of these were built by myself before I turned 18. They look OK from a distance!
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Oldies but goodies from my early days. I can't believe that I still have them!
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The ancient but very accurate Frog kit with aftermarket decals. I had to mix most of my colours myself. No airbrush back then as well, all brush finishes.
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Mottling was done with a short bristle stiff brush. I still have it!
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These were aftermarket decals from Europe. A bit of register issue on some of them, but not too often.
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Looks not too bad for a kid who was 13 years old!
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The Monogram 110 kit with aftermarket decals! I was lucky back then to find them in a little hobby shop and the owner imported them from Italy, I think.
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Overall black with a Dark Green fuselage.
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The old Revell Brewster Buffalo. The canopy slides and I cut the rudder and posed it a bit too.
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A neat Revell feature for such a small scale in the early days. If you didn't glue the prop on, you could remove the cowling to show the engine! And the engine looked pretty good!
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The Airfix Blohm und Voss BV141. I was amazed by this kit. It was so weird, but real!
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The Airfix DHC-1 Chipmunk, which I cut the flaps out and posed.
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I also cut the elevators on this one and put them in the taxiing position.
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Frog's really old DH88 Comet model. Poor old girl lost a prop blade somewhere! No canopy masks back then. I had a special brush for the frames.
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I remember thinning the Testor's red enamel to get a smooth finish when I built this.
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Revell's very nice Fokker Triplane kit. So tiny! I tried to replicate the late war Fokker factory green over blue camo finish, just using a description, no photos.
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I had some of Humbrol's 'Authentic' WW1 German colours by the time I did this replica of Werner Voss' triplane. It was 1972.
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I had almost perfected the wood prop laminations by now. I also painted the face on the cowling by hand.
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This paint job was a real challenge for me. I never got the prop finished though! Maybe I'll do it now, 45 years later!
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The upper wing stripes done by hand, no masking!
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And there were no lozenge decals in 1971! I did that by hand too! I drew it out with an HB pencil first, then painted one colour at a time!
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Airfix Gloster Gladiator. One of my first silver planes, using Humbrol enamel. Took weeks to dry!
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My first rigging done with stretched sprue, and most of it has survived! Good Grief!
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Airfix was making some much nicer kits when the Hanover was released. The posed gunner looked so real!
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I loved the munitions in the fuselage racks!
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I was pretty happy with the camo job too. It took a long time!
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More hand painted lozenge! That took patience, I can tell you!
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An Airfix Harvard II. My first attempt to cut open a one piece canopy. Airfix canopies are way too thick for it to work! But I did cut the flaps out and pose them down.
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Very early panel lines effort on the flight control surfaces. And I tried to mix my own zinc chromate green too! Got the navigation lights wrong. Left should be red!
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Airfix Hawker Hart. Pilot was doing aerobatics and the gunner fell out....with his gun!
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I made the crew step from stretched sprue! Can't believe it is still there!
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I put some weight in the nose, just barely enough.
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I made my own tropical filter from balsa wood and converted a Frog Hurricane II to desert configuration. I think it was my first exhaust streaking too.
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Mixed up my own camo paints for this Hurricane Trop! Hand painted the codes and serial number as well!
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This is the tiny Revell Morane Saulnier "Bullett" kit. It was fully rigged but it's all gone. I might redo it sometime.
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The engine turns with the prop, just like the real ones did! And the wheels turn on this kit as well.
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Very early attempt at an XP-51, using a Frog P-51A kit. I'm going to do another with a more modern kit soon.
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It'll pass with a kick. Somehow I just like prototypes!
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Revell Nieuport 17 as one of Charles Nungesser's aircraft.
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Compare the thin fuselage and tail shpe of the Nieuport 17 with the one in the next picture.
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I used a Revell N17 to build this RFC Nieuport 27. Rounded the fuselage with thin balsa and scratch built the tail surfaces as well with thin wood.
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I took the Lewis gun from another kit and mounted it on stretched sprue! The fuselage stringers are stretched sprue also.
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I managed to get the tail colours reversed. The blue was in front on British planes during WW1 but I had no decals, so I hand painted the stripes.
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Another Revell kit, their Nieuport 28 in US colours. I hand painted the cowling design. The tail decals came with the kit.
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This one was rigged with sewing thread, and most of it survived!
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A Revekk Nakajima Oscar with aftermarket decals, and a bent pitot tube.
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The cowling comes off of this one to reveal the engine.
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I really liked the pilot with his arm extended, and the engine detail was so much better than the early Airfix kits!
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The rigging is plain old thread. But it's still there!
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Yorumlar

13 April 2017, 23:12

Alec K
Great collection Norm! You are lucky to have these, and all with wheels and appendages attached 😄 I have nothing left from my early years, when I was 10-15. I would give, well... something valuable... to have those back.

13 April 2017, 23:42

Norm Sheppard
I have about 50 more in less than perfect shape. When I get a chance I'll take some pictures of them too.

14 April 2017, 00:24

Alec K
Holy smoke! That's what I call OUTPUT 👍

14 April 2017, 00:53

Łukasz Gliński
Nice, looking forward to seeing more pics. They look really nice as for a teenager builds

14 April 2017, 06:00

Spanjaard
50? wow! that is a lot. those in the pictures look quite well, and specially in incredible shape after all those years!

14 April 2017, 10:30

Norm Sheppard
Originally, I had saved more than 100 models, but now I have about 80 left, the ones in the pictures here are not broken, the 50 others suffered a bit more damage! Ill get the camera out today.

14 April 2017, 11:01

John Thomas
Very cool

15 April 2017, 11:53

Gordon Sørensen
Great looking collection Norm. I have a couple of the kits I built as kid, found them in my parents basement a couple years ago.

16 April 2017, 13:20

Spanjaard
post the pictures Gordon 😉

16 April 2017, 14:14

Choppa Nutta
cool! 🙂

16 April 2017, 17:37

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These are some of the models I built between 1964 and 1973. I saved them in a large cardboard box and recently opened it after a long time in storage.

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