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Offline Des

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Do you remember this kit?
« on: March 21, 2015, 02:05:11 PM »
How many of you remember this kit from 1967, better still, how many of you still have this kit.

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Offline jknaus

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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2015, 04:05:47 PM »
I don't know if I had that kit or not when I was growing up. One that sticks in my mind though was a kit with 3 pre war aircraft. One was a Bleriot. They were plastic and had tissue paper covering. I think Frog maybe? One reason I remember is because I built it on vacation in the motel until Mom made me go and play with the other kids in the pool.
Everything else was WWII tanks and planes although I have a strong recollection of a SE 5a, but I dont remember scale or company.
If it wasnt so small I would love to make a Bleriot again.
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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2015, 05:39:55 PM »
Hi Des,
 I remember seeing one of these in the secondhand section of Hannants London. It didn't last long in said secondhand section  :o

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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2015, 06:04:44 PM »
Yes! Don't have it any more, but it was a treasured birthday present back in the day.
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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2015, 06:41:42 PM »
Not that special packing of them three all together, but built the Fokker Dreidecker when I was about 12 (my mother loved it!). Have all three of them in my treasure-stash - they were the first kits I bought out of pure sentimentalism...
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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2015, 07:17:16 PM »
I do not have this triple kit, but I have the very same box style of each one, with the Fokker molded in light blue...
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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2015, 09:09:24 PM »
I was born in December 1967, so it's bit too early for me.

It looks pretty cool even now, back in the day it must have been amazing.
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Offline John Marco

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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2015, 09:41:29 PM »
Yes sure do remember that kit!
Had a few of them in my time the first was in 1967 that I got at Zayre discount department store for 5.50 USD.

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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2015, 10:49:42 PM »
Quote from: jknaus on March 21, 2015, 04:05:47 PM
I don't know if I had that kit or not when I was growing up. One that sticks in my mind though was a kit with 3 pre war aircraft. One was a Bleriot. They were plastic and had tissue paper covering. I think Frog maybe? One reason I remember is because I built it on vacation in the motel until Mom made me go and play with the other kids in the pool.
Everything else was WWII tanks and planes although I have a strong recollection of a SE 5a, but I dont remember scale or company.
If it wasnt so small I would love to make a Bleriot again.
James

I never had that boxing (always wanted it), but did manage to get all three kits seperately. FWIW, I still have the SPAD kit somewhere in the stash. It was a Christmas present, and for some reason went unbuilt.

James, I have the pre-war set somewhere in my stash too. I ran across it somewhere and snatched it up.

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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2015, 10:57:17 PM »
I was 14 in 1967 so I was certainly building models. That being said I do not recall having seen this boxing. I would have loved it back then! ( Or Now)  8)
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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2015, 10:57:50 PM »
Quote from: ermeio on March 21, 2015, 07:17:16 PM
I do not have this triple kit, but I have the very same box style of each one, with the Fokker molded in light blue...

If these are the old 1/28 scale kits, I used to have the individual boxings that featured the markings of Werner Voss (the triplane), William Barker (the Camel) and Frank Luke (the Spad).  Not any more.
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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2015, 11:06:50 PM »

Yes it was the 1/28 scale kits together in one box. The Triplane was molded in red, the Camel in green, and the SPAD in tan iirc. The SPAD was a huge problem for 8 year old me because I did not have any brown paint for the camo, only green and red which I mixed together on the advice of my parents and which predictably looked awful.

I built them all, can't remember their eventual fate but I'm guessing it involved copious amounts of lighter fluid and firecrackers.
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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2015, 12:14:20 AM »
I don't remember the 3 kit version but I did have each individual kit back then.  I was living in Silver Spring, MD and stationed at Ft. Meade back then.  There was a great hobby shop near my place and I still have the collection of Profile Pubs I bought there.
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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2015, 01:51:33 AM »
   I recall the Triple kit but never did have it. I did have all three in individual boxes, built them for my Boy's Bedroom in 1970-71 and they hung from their ceiling like a mobile for years. I also had the SPAD and Camel again in later years, great little Kits for their time!
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Re: Do you remember this kit?
« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2015, 02:24:35 AM »
That kid can build! Okay fess up. Which one of you guys is the boy in the photo?
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