I have a few of the 21st century planes on shelves but I also do the revell one s you assemble and paint and its fun to me for some reason, but few ever turn out halfway decent . But I did a p-40 once and I'm pretty happy with its look . But I just finished a 1/48th scale b-17g and I'm realy happy with it too,its my most favorite plane of ever basically so its cool for it to be in my roo . so I guess I'll try to post some pics tommorow and see how you guys think I did Isn't this cool? this is the first post for a long time that I'm not all p-oed about the release of 46

I used to. I remember have about 30+ hanging up in my room, all ww2. I used to put them in dogfights. My fav was a B29 I had, it was huge, far to big to hang up. Also had a lovely J52 that I did hang but it fell the same night!

Some time ago I dropped 1:72 Su-34, it entered a flat spin, crashed on the floor, loosing all fragile parts from it's bottom (landing gear, missiles, bombs, tailboom...). I just fixed it as much as I could last days.

Otherwise some 30 scale models (1:72 and 1:48) serve as dust collectors on my shelves. Next one to do, Su-15TM 1:48 (trumpeter) .

Not for a long time. That was one of my main hobbies for years, but I guess it got beat out by music and computer games.

I had examples of the more popular planes throughout the years, P-51D, P-40, F-14, MiG-21, AH-64A, U-2, SR-71.....and so on.

As a side note, a few years ago my wife, who had never built a model before, was trying to figure out what kind of present to get my dad. I mentioned that she should get a model for him. So, she picked up a P-47D model, and put the thing together herself! She painted the thing up by the book, and I swear it came out looking like the picture on the box. And she hasn't built one since.

My Ki-61...........well also my Betty, and Zero etc.. It's a flexible design model...

This is a very good site giving reviews of model aircraft:

http://www.kitreview.com/reviews.htm

My suggestion? Stay away from Revell unless no other company makes the plane you are after.

Try a Tamiya kit just once and you'll never go back to Revell.

Revell bought up some of the old Monogram moulds and they are very good. I recommend anything made by Hasegewa or Fujimi, Academy or Tamiya, Trumpeter looks good too. I have loads of kits, but no time or energy to make them - just collecting them really, will have a happy ritirement !

I'm the proud owner of this Revell Monogram beauty:

http://hsfeatures.com/catalinarl_1.htm

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Originally posted by Skunk241981:
My suggestion? Stay away from Revell unless no other company makes the plane you are after.

Try a Tamiya kit just once and you'll never go back to Revell.

Bugger, I have ordered a 1:72 Revell B-17F on Sunday. I already have two 1:72 Lancaster bombers which look great (IMHO) but I wanted an American heavy in my collection.
Do Italeri do any soviet aircraft in 1:72? The only company that I could find that did them was Zvezda (Not sure of the spelling), I have an IL-2 and La-5fn by them which look ok.

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Originally posted by Warrington_Wolf:

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Originally posted by Skunk241981:
My suggestion? Stay away from Revell unless no other company makes the plane you are after.

Try a Tamiya kit just once and you'll never go back to Revell.

Bugger, I have ordered a 1:72 Revell B-17F on Sunday. I already have two 1:72 Lancaster bombers which look great (IMHO) but I wanted an American heavy in my collection.
Do Italeri do any soviet aircraft in 1:72? The only company that I could find that did them was Zvezda (Not sure of the spelling), I have an IL-2 and La-5fn by them which look ok.

I have a feeling that the B17 might be an old Monogram kit of high quality (though I might be thinking of the 1/48 scale kit) , so don't despair - yet .

Revell of Germany makes great models - probably almost as good as Tamiya and Hasegawa, maybe better for specific planes. The Spitfire below is a Revell and I'm pretty proud of it:



While older Revell kits are pretty scary, you can score them on EBay for cheap, then you can have fun with paint jobs:

Its true, I had forgotten about Revell Germany.

I guess what I meant to say was stay away from the old Wal-Mart cheapo Revel Monogram kits made way back in the 60's.

Some of my buddies build models - I smashed mine up years ago. I've been constructing planes in gmax - at least no glue or paint is required.

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Originally posted by major_setback:
This is a very good site giving reviews of model aircraft:

Italeri bought some of the moulds from Accurate miniatures (A US company) when it went bankrupt a fdew years back. The Il-2 is one of them, among the TBD3 and B-25C/D IIRC. I would highly reccomend any of these kits since Accurate miniatures has a nice (but unusual) way to engineer their kits. But the Italeri kits are less expensive here in Holland Otherwise, I wouldn't reccomend Italeri.

Revell has made a really good descision with producing the old monogram (also US company?) kits again. I am still waiting if they ever get the 1:48 B-25J solid nose again. I have a dozen kits being built now (not speaking about the dozens that I allready threw away ) and a dozen or so more, waiting to get build, so I am buzy for the next five or ten years if I am ever going to get all of them build. I exclusivly build 1:48 Dutch military kits. And I still want the B-25J solid nose and the B-24(J) wich I can convert into a Liberator MkIV I hope.

I am currently buzy with a 1:48 Eduard Bristol F2b WWI fighter. A few of them came down on Dutch territory in the great war and at least one of them flew for the army aviation department back then. IIRC, I read they where all given back after the war. We got lots of Fokker D.VII's wich where smuggled out of Germany after WWI anyways But the rigging on the Bristol is going to be a real challenge because I've never done something like that.