It has been a blast from the past looking at this thread. Unfortunately I have no surviving kit's whatsoever from my childhood. I remember everything I had built over several years being given to a younger kid across the road when we moved. For all the work, effort and pocket money they probably provided one afternoons entertainment going the way Macsporran described in his post (although I do remember setting fire to a Fokker Wolfe and throwing it out the bedroom window once). The only pictures I have are of me sitting with my nan, and an almost identical one with granddad holding a finished kit of an aircraft carrier. I was eight years old then. It s a bit faded, the other picture is much better but I can't find it.
Alan.