I recall building a model kit of one of those when I was a kid:
Too bad it probably ended up being blown part with firecrackers or lit on fire and melted while simulating a crash.
I recall building a model kit of one of those when I was a kid:
Too bad it probably ended up being blown part with firecrackers or lit on fire and melted while simulating a crash.
I know what you mean. My Revell models suffered a 100% destruction rate shortly after going into action.
Our air craft met similar fates.
The best models were the plastic Revell battleships. Particualarly the Iowa class, as they had the single-piece hulls. The Arizonas were too hard to make the two-piece hulls watertight. This was important, as after a rain got some good water flowing through the drainage ditch, we would light some deck fires with model glue, and then send it down the ditch where we waited for it with BB guns. The idea was to shoot up the turrets and superstructure first. You didn’t want to shoot holes below the water line too quickly, as it would sink to fast and where was the fun in that?
One day my older brother spent the better part of the afternoon filing the powder off about five boxes of sparklers and filled the hull of one of those battleships. He left a hole for a fuse when the glued the deck on. That thing went up like the USS Arizona.
It was cool.