Sometimes kits have pleasant surprises

[Daryl J.]

This evening I popped the shrink wrap off a couple of WW-1 kits and found extra engines, propellors, and wings.

Well, the engine fits length and width wise in Tamiya's V-1, the wing should fit parasol-style above the fuselage.   The nose cone is about the right size for a spinner and Tom's Model Works PE seats look great.   Methinks the mis-shapen Buzz Bomb might actually get built!      

Does this sort of thing ever happen to you?   Extra parts coupled with something you've become disenchanted with winding up as some theoretically viable assembly?


Maybe it's just the Ruby Port getting to my head tonight.      
Daryl J.

[Gervasius]

I remember one Gazelle 1/72 (Airfix? Matchbox? I don't remember THAT well), I got there two clear sprues, two decal sheets, two instruction sheets, and three fuselage halves - so I built 1 and half a Gazelle.

Marko

[Damian2]

the Hasegawa A-4s are pretty cool with all the added bits n peices. I don't know how many vents, flare launcher etc I've gotten out of my Skyhawk boxes...

[Leigh]

The Airfix 1/48 Mk IX/XVI Spitfire comes with enough spare parts to make almost two planes all you really need is another foselage. And alot of the matchbox kits would come with spare engines.

[Runway ? ...]

Bought a Novo Gannet of EB which turns up in a box marked Spitfire and V1 and sure enough sitting on top of the Spitfire and v1 was a Gannet  
Not sure what went on there but I can live with it.

[SPINNERS]

As a kid (about 30 years ago) I remember building a two-seat Hunter and using the single-seat front fuselage to create a stub-winged rocket powered fighter using spare stabilisors from the Matchbox Phantom. I can't remember what I used for the fuselage though.

[Rory]

All the spair parts from a Matchbox Stuka build into a nice little aircraft.

[Rafael]

I remember rescueing the nose cone of a misshappen very old matchbox f-14 and attaching it seamlessly to an AV-8B whose nose didn't look good to me.

Or the crashed Revell Germany Draken that donated its canopy to an HE-162 Salamander in very bad need of it (took a little sanding of both the salamander an the canopy to fit).

Of course, extra ACES-II (?) seats for another old F-14 coming out of the boneyard

[Sisko]

I bought a tamiya 1/35th scale King Tiger with the porsche turret and when I opened the box what should I find inside but a Cavalier zimmerit set. which was eassily half the price again that I paid for the kit

Woo Hoo!!!

This is how it turned out.

King Tiger

[Jschmus]

I bought a kit, the MPM 1/72 Grumman F5F Skyrocket, from the gift shop at the Carolinas Aviation Museum.  The kit had been donated by one of the Museum's benefactors.  The box contained two complete kits, along with two sets of Eduard photoetch, and a kit review from a magazine.  It was $5.  I got the Hasegawa 1/72 J7W1 Shinden the same way, complete with photoetch, also $5.

[Nick]

The Italeri F-16 kits (NATO and Night Falcon) give you options for single or double seaters and different marks.

What does that mean? It means you get an extra canopy and tail and other little add-ons!

Nick  B)  

[gooberliberation]

I've noticed that many F-18 kits have canopies for both single and two-seaters. Theyre pretty good for generic-jet canopies.