Childhood models that you replaced in adulthood.

[Bob Ellis]

Except for my 1964 Impala convertible bought in August 1964, all my early models are long gone.  I have replaced a bunch. Some are easier to find now than 4 decades ago. My friend had a 63 impala kit which I always wanted. No dice on that until 1987.

[MrObsessive]

This is a very good question and one that's a little tough for me to answer since I didn't start building till I was 17. As I look around my collection I think I've got pretty much all that I had (and certainly wanted) as a 'kid'. There weren't very many and if I would like to try and build something that I royally butchered in my early 20's, I can think of two.

AMT's Sunbeam Tiger
MPC's '84 Pontiac Fiero.

I've got both of those now sitting in my stash and now this thread brings to mind I should try and build those again sometime. It's been 35 years or so since I last tackled a Fiero, so it might be interesting to see what I can do with it now.  

[Jantrix]

Hmm. I was pretty big on Monogram kits as a kid. These were some favorites that I built as an adult and still enjoyed. I'm also gathering up (slowly) some Johans that I liked a lot. Not built yet though.

 

[peekay]

On 16.1.2019 at 3:12 PM, styromaniac said:

How many ? Just about all of them...and then some.

That is such a great nostalgic collection!

[peekay]

These are the ones I just HAD to have again. I haven't built any of them yet, I like them just as much as they are:

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Edited January 17, 2019 by peekay

[peekay]

Come to think of it I did build the 53 Ford:

[styromaniac]

2 hours ago, peekay said:

That is such a great nostalgic collection!

Peter - A decade  ( or two ) ago I used to pick up an old kit here and there at club meetings and model shows...but then I discovered EBay...and that was when I started running out of space ( the kits you see in those shelves are 2 or 3 deep ! ) I've since backed off...the old original kits are scarcer and scarcer and the prices are skyrocketing. I've decided to quit acquiring and actually try to build a kit or two.   Nice looking truck by the way.                                                       P.S. Those Monogram big box '30, '34 and '36 Ford kits you show were easy to get the boxes for but hard to find intact kits of...guess they were quite popular for collectors.

Edited January 17, 2019 by styromaniac

[styromaniac]

[styromaniac]

[ChrisBcritter]

On 1/16/2019 at 10:32 AM, MrObsessive said:

I've got both of those now sitting in my stash and now this thread brings to mind I should try and build those again sometime. It's been 35 years or so since I last tackled a Fiero, so it might be interesting to see what I can do with it now.  

Having seen your models, I'm sure it will be built better than a real Fiero. 

[gtx6970]

 A few of the top of my head. Just to name a few I can think of right now

Soapy Sales Challenger  and the Barry Setzer Vega funny cars

The Badman and Monkee Mobile

The Monogram

[slusher]

On January 16, 2019 at 10:32 AM, MrObsessive said:

This is a very good question and one that's a little tough for me to answer since I didn't start building till I was 17. As I look around my collection I think I've got pretty much all that I had (and certainly wanted) as a 'kid'. There weren't very many and if I would like to try and build something that I royally butchered in my early 20's, I can think of two.

AMT's Sunbeam Tiger
MPC's '84 Pontiac Fiero.

I've got both of those now sitting in my stash and now this thread brings to mind I should try and build those again sometime. It's been 35 years or so since I last tackled a Fiero, so it might be interesting to see what I can do with it now.  

How good of a kit is the MPC Fiero? A kit I have not owned...

[MrObsessive]

6 minutes ago, slusher said:

How good of a kit is the MPC Fiero? A kit I have not owned...

Actually pretty darn nice! Now considering my building skills in the early '80's, I made a mess of it with glue spots and smears and not so well fitting wheels/tires IIRC. That was more of an issue on my part as I was not one to test fit things back in those days.

I did build the GT fastback years later, but that's long gone now to who knows where. I do have both kits again now and I'd like to build another one when the mood strikes. Of course, considerably better than what I did back in 1983-84.

[Dave Ambrose]

Funny you should ask. I just scored something that definitely falls into that category; an Everything is Go kit from Revell. These have been going for somewhat absurd prices on eBay. This one was reasonable. 

The other thing wanted, but mostly didn't have, was a cat. I now have one of those. 

There is a nice cat bed on the other end of the table. 

[MrObsessive]

Nahhhh! You know how cats are Dave! Cats have to be wherever YOUR stuff is and lay on it!

I have three of them and only my nine year old Manx is allowed in the model room. I know she'll stay put in one spot and sleep, where the other two want to get into everything! The room is OFF LIMITS to them!

[jeffdeoranut]

for myself it was discovering hobby heaven that opened the door on finding kits i built in the 70's and of course later ebay.  finding kits that i wanted but never got has been big as well.

some that ive (re)acquired are:

superstang-first kit i built in circa 1971

gremlin funny

dodge 4 x 4 long bed truck

vandal

troublemaker

clearbodied mustang gasser-was the holy grail for me

1/16 clearbodied petty charher

revell 57 chevy with the opening doors/trunk, etc

flying dutchman funny

blue bountyhunter funny

little red wagon

little red express

55 nomad

quicksilver

several wrecker kits

ivo's showboat

charger III

petty superbird

daytona charger

shelby cobra coupe

lindberg motorized 34 ford truck

revell offroad van/minibike

rehrer/morrison camaro pro stock

83 trans am

meisterbrau puller

orange blossom puller

double whammy stude

farrah's corvette

johan amx

billy carter's truck

hurst hairy olds

 

a few ive not gotten yet include:

grumpy's vega and camaros

funnyhugger camaro

donohue's javelin

mono high roller truck

 

 

[Kit Basher]

6 hours ago, Dave Ambrose said:

Funny you should ask. I just scored something that definitely falls into that category; an Everything is Go kit from Revell. These have been going for somewhat absurd prices on eBay. This one was reasonable. 

The other thing wanted, but mostly didn't have, was a cat. I now have one of those. 

There is a nice cat bed on the other end of the table. 

I have that kit for the same reason. I'm looking forward to building it, hopefully better than I did back in the '60s.

Your second photo shows an example of true catness. "Oh, you're using that? Let me lay on it/knock it on the floor."

[Deathgoblin]

All of my kits from when I was younger are gone.  When I moved out of our old home I wasn't able to take them with me, so they were trashed.  I've gotten a couple of them replaced that I haven't built yet:

Jo-Han 1963 Chrysler Turbine

Revellogram 1970 Chevelle SS 454

AMT 1984 Dodge Daytona

etc.

 

Wish I could have saved them.

[robertw]

The list is long . Some I've been able to replace some I haven't but I'm always on the look out. I build more then cars so right now I'm eagerly awaiting Atlantis's reissue of the old Revell Atlas rocket complex, a kit I built as a youth but it went missing decades and decades ago.

[64Comet404]

Most of the kits I built as a kid are long gone, having been played with to death. Of the kits that I had, the ones I really searched for were as follows:

Monogram Vega Mini-Van

Revell Buttera '26 T Sedan

Monogram original series muscle cars

Monogram Ferrari 250 GTO/Maserati 3500

Lindberg 1/32 street rods

Airfix 1/32 passenger cars

One day, I plan to actually get off my rear and get them on to the build table... oh wait, I need to get a spot for a build table!

[Tom Geiger]

I have collected all of the models I had as a kid, and more important, most of the models I wanted as a kid and never could afford or find.  The tough one was the Scat City Funny Car, which was the 1970 Coronet body over a funny car chassis, typical MPC of that era.  It's never been reissued and I've only seen one once!   But I do have a modern repop of the Coronet kit, repro Scat City decals and a more details Polar Lights funny car chassis all in one box!

Another hard fought one was the Tom Daniel Tijuana Taxi kit.  I found a partial kit at the Toledo show many years ago.  I managed to collect the entire kit, parts supplied by people I met online.  Of course later on Monogram reissued the kit!  

One of the kits I wanted but never had as a kid was the Tom Daniel  S'cool Bus.  I was happy to buy the reissue!  

Edited January 18, 2019 by Tom Geiger

[russosborne]

None of the models I built as a kid survived. Most ended up in a big paper grocery bag for parts. And even that got given away when we moved from Ohio to Phoenix when I was 10 in 1969.

None of the ones I built even 20 years ago survived. Got divorced, remarried, couple of moves, and gone.

Almost 90 percent of my stash is of kits I either had or wanted to have. But there are a ton more I want from back then (60's-early 70's). I am so grateful for Round 2 reproducing so many of them. Back in the 90's I was doing the Ebay thing, that got way too expensive. And then I ended up selling most of those to make house payments during a bad time.

As someone else mentioned, the Badman and the Monkee Mobile are two that I have that stand out. Any version of the Street Fighter (I have a few different ones). Little Red Wagon, Hemi Under Glass (Bob Riggle is a friend of my dad's from Mansfield), Ala Kart (the original, and I think I have the newer one as well). The weird dragsters like the Hippie Hemi, Stingaree, Digger Cuda. Infini T, there was a VW bug version I really want. I want the old everything opens Revell tri five Chevy kits, etc.

Heck, I'd even take Palmer kits, I know I built a bunch of those. For me it was never truly about the end result, but the actual building experience. I built all scales and proudly displayed them  together. Until I played with them and into the parts bag they went. Maybe I was just addicted to tube glue Back then if it was made of plastic and needed glue I would build it. Planes, ships, cars, motorcycles, helicopters. Didn't matter. Everyone knew to get me 2 things for gifts. Model kits and Hardy Boys books.

Russ

[Tom Geiger]

Russ, mine are gone too! With my father being military and living in other countries, I didn’t have many to begin with. Those I finished got broken down for the next great idea. 

We finally settled down in NJ and when I moved out of my parents house, I left a lot of stuff there. My models, unbuilt kits and parts boxes were in my closet. There was a termite swarm, they got into it all, eating boxes and instruction sheets, and leaving dirty trails everywhere. Without my knowledge, my father assumed it was a total loss and I was grown past it, so he chucked everything. The few kits that survived include a Revell Porsche 914, a bunch of Airfix 1/32 cars and an Aurora 1/32 Hemi Under Glass!

[chepp]

On 1/15/2019 at 11:01 AM, ranma said:

Some of us have lost,destroyed ect Model cars / trucks in our youth. Of those what ones have you  bought a "new" copy of?

Well, one -- sort of. Buick sent a then-new '66 Riviera promo to my father (he owned a '64) and he gave it to me since I was an avid 13-year-old model car builder. I hacked it up in an attempt to make it into a funny car but didn't get very far. That Cycolac (trademark for ABS) plastic was too difficult for me to work with. Currently I'm building a '66 Riv radical custom made from the really nice AMT kit -- look for it at the GSL in May.

[ChrisBcritter]

On the other hand, I can think of some childhood builds that go for a pretty penny now - and my feelings are "been there, done that". The '65 AWB Malibu, "Unreal" Edsel, and even the MPC '67 Bonneville (Detailing Paint and Brush Included!) just don't excite me like when I was a kid.

I would be very happy to get another black Craftsman '59 Continental, however