Ah Spring! The time when a young man's fancy turns to...

Weird Sprue!!

Well, of course it does, what else did you expect from me? 😊

This year's HeritageCon was its usual great show, and the Vendors' room had plenty going on. I got a very interesting mix of kits; it was heavy on classic anime kit subjects but also had some newer stuff, some airplanes and a whack of brass cars!

In short something for everyone, and everything for me!

Check it out below, and let me know what your favourite is!

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/heritage-con-2024-haul/

Hi,
Looks interesting
 

THe anime fighters don't really attract me - but that huge Spitfire Mk.22/24 is something....

It's a horrendous kit to build.  I know several people who are scarred for life by it.  I was put off the scale for life by their 32nd Venom.

I built the Matchbox Mk24 donkeys yrs ago and much later the Revell Mk24 ...terrible is a word that doesn't come close to describing the Revell kit .

That Techno Boyger kit looks inspired by Ro-Busters from 2000AD (originally StarLord) comic as well as Thunderbirds. Ro-Busters was a piss-take on Thunderbirds that imagined the rescue organisation as a ruthless, strictly for-profit outfit that used sentient robots as staff because they had no legal rights and could be sent into any dangerous situation with no consequences. Unlike Thunderbirds, Ro-Busters had a four-part craft called The Praying Mantis that flew together then spilt into separate funtional parts. The Techno Boyger craft is different in detail (that split shuttle is wild) but definitely seems inspired by the concept.






Another craft it might be inspired by is the Starcruiser 1, which was designed for a Gerry Anderson show that never got made, but the Airfix/MPC kit came out anyway.

Uh, I have built the VF-17S kit(s) many moons ago. Quite primitive, toylike things (with stickers instead of decals), but they go together well.


1:144 Macross Seven VF-17S+D by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr 

Ooh, blasts from my past.

I too built that big Matchbox Spit.  T'was donkeys years ago and all I can remember is I painted it Silver.  The engine spent some time in a 1/25 General Lee (brush painted with metallic blue and metallic green Humbrol enamel and with 1/20 Tamiya Williams F1 wheels and tyres).
I also had the Airfix Starcruiser.  I remember it being fairly crude but fun to play with.

Quote from: The Wooksta! on April 09, 2024, 12:02:16 AMIt's a horrendous kit to build.  I know several people who are scarred for life by it.  I was put off the scale for life by their 32nd Venom.

What?  I didn't find it so.  Built it years (about 20+) ago - still have it, hanging from my ceiling.

Quote from: zenrat on April 09, 2024, 04:20:07 AMOoh, blasts from my past.

I too built that big Matchbox Spit.  T'was donkeys years ago and all I can remember is I painted it Silver.  The engine spent some time in a 1/25 General Lee (brush painted with metallic blue and metallic green Humbrol enamel and with 1/20 Tamiya Williams F1 wheels and tyres).
I also had the Airfix Starcruiser.  I remember it being fairly crude but fun to play with.

They also did a big scale kit of the "fighter" off the top of the Starcruiser: something like 1/24th-ish scale I think (the "real" thing's really small). I had that too.


There was another composite spacecraft kit that Airfix released about the same time that I had, but I can't recall the name of:

Bottom layer: ship with a boat-like front end with lots of glass dome on top of it and two octagonal tubes behind that leading back to the engines.

Middle layer: shuttle-like craft with a pointed nose and wings, obviously inspired by the 2001 shuttle but more angular.

Top layer: a small fighter-like craft that vaguely resembled a cobra's head and sat on the back of the shuttle behind it's "hump".

I wanted to make it to Heritagecon, but life intervened, And, after doing it far too many times, the prospect of driving through Toronto, twice, just gets me somewhere near a white-hot rage. My fault for living in romantic Pickering. Whereabouts are you, Faust?