stash your cash for adding for adding even more kits to an already overly stuffed closet bulging at the seams with more than any human can possibly build In three lifetimes.
I painted one of my radical Custom Merc coupes that color back in the 1960's for the MPC contest series. I sprayed candy red over black with great results.
Loads of styrene have finally been off loaded from trans oceanic ships long-awaited from months untold adrift in oceans far afield and will soon be destined for hobby shop shelves that have laid barren and dust covered since time longer than human memories combined can fathom.
Based on what I read you are probably in your 70's. Those vast collections are going to have to go somewhere else at some point. In you case that's a bunch of stuff. Just saying.
My question is of course are they open on the back side? I'd hate to paint them all out of worse yet try to open them up by hand. Heaven forbid they would look like a longer shaped lump on my model.
From what I have read they were a cottage industry thing, hand cast and assembled to order rather than mass produced and distributed nation wide. I have seen a video of one running and it had a rather high pitched whine to it.
The coming and certainly shocking price increases in the price of our public utilities. My wife is a village council member here.At their regular meeting last evening she found out that the cost of our electricity is going to Double in the next couple of months and the natural gas price will Triple !! There is nothing we can do about it either. We personally will be OK but this is going to be very difficult for a lot of our residents this coming winter:-(