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#641 Duntov

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Posted 22 February 2013 - 07:24 PM

OH Shoot.... now I have to go off on a 20 year quest to find a couple of these!!!!!    Just what I need ....more kits!!!!!!!!



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Posted 02 March 2013 - 08:18 PM

I remember one in this series called Che Riviera.

 

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 08:21 PM

  :wub:  Here's one for the Beetle lovers:

 

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Posted 03 March 2013 - 04:34 AM

That Firebug is nifty.  How is the kit?



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Posted 03 March 2013 - 05:31 AM

Ya, that Fire Bug looks pretty cool.



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Posted 03 March 2013 - 06:46 PM

That bug is sweet, we need a preveiw of the kit



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Posted 22 March 2013 - 10:11 AM

Addar didn't last too long from what I've read, and I've seen the Planet of the Apes kits they made, but I've never seen this one:

 

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Posted 23 March 2013 - 11:01 AM

How about a car that's out of this world???

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Posted 23 March 2013 - 01:32 PM

Actually the Moon Scope was readily available in the 60's-70's. Ira Dahm did a series in Car Model Mag entitled "Variations on a Moon Scope"  Here are thee.

 

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Posted 23 March 2013 - 01:37 PM

I remember those from the model magazine a long time ago.  Nice to see them again.



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Posted 23 March 2013 - 02:07 PM

I've had my George Barris version since I was a kid. I think I got it back in the early 70s...

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Posted 23 March 2013 - 02:16 PM

OK, try this one...

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Posted 23 March 2013 - 02:19 PM

never saw it in stores, but have seen it listed on that evil place every so often.

Goes very High too!!!!



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Posted 23 March 2013 - 02:24 PM

This Rampside is a resin repop of the obscure "Premier" model from the early 60s.

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Posted 23 March 2013 - 02:25 PM

Pic didn't come through



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Posted 23 March 2013 - 02:28 PM

You Fellas having fun with this? Let's try another.

 

Ideal Toy Company, circa 1962. The cars are really small, maybe 1/87 scale????

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Posted 23 March 2013 - 02:39 PM

I have seen a few of those. Once at an auction, butt hey were combined in a box lot

4 or 5 of them. Went more than I wanted to pay



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Posted 23 March 2013 - 02:39 PM

1/32 Scale '49 Ford by "Life Like"

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Posted 23 March 2013 - 02:40 PM

I have several of that. It is still the Pyro kit!!!



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Posted 23 March 2013 - 04:28 PM

One more for today.

 

how about a turbine engine powering a Corvette?

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