From scrapheap to display

[tigercat2]

I have been building 1/72 scale models, mainly What Ifs, for over 40 years.  In the early 70s, I consigned a bunch of models to the "scrapheap", but kept them around all these years for spare parts.   Recently I gave most of the scrapheap models to a fellow modeler at work, who is a genius at re-building old kits.  He is MCollazo, who has posted on this site in the recent past.

He took my old Aurora AH-56A Cheyenne, and totally restored it; now it is displayed along with other What Ifs.  I never thought I would see the Cheyenne again, and now they are extremely hard to get (and very expensive).  Like a fool many years ago, I scrapped another Cheyenne, but this one is too far gone to restore.


Wes W.

[Joe C-P]

If you don't want the second scrapped Cheyenne I'll take it off your hands.

Restoring an old model can be fun, especially one I built as a kid. It can be fun rebuilding it with modern parts to see how time has changed the art.

[mcollazo]

Glad to help.

[B777LR]

I've done quite a few restorations of my old models, and it's hard to get it nice Currently working on an old 1/48 A-10 that will become a QA-10 (aka the unmanned replacement for the A-10), to supplement my almost completed RW 1/48 A-10

[Brian da Basher]

Your work is always an inspiration, Mr Collazzo, and that Cheyenne is especially impressive.

Brian da Basher

[Sauragnmon]

Most of my scrapheap birds are the ones that have lost parts, so they wind up getting used for parts - I've got a handful of Fulcrums that have been consigned to the boneyard, along with others, like the Mi-24V that got used for my Super A.

As to consigning the second one - well, hey, it happens.  Hindsight's always 20/20.