The Best Boxart

[raafif]

I still have that Revell scissors-bridge tank half-built !
      the bridge is actually quite good but to say that the M-48 tank part is absolute crap is giving it too much praise

[NARSES2]

I still have that Revell scissors-bridge tank half-built !
     the bridge is actually quite good but to say that the M-48 tank part is absolute crap is giving it too much praise

Had it as a kid. Was great fun playing with it and bridging the gap between 2 piles of books so my Dinky Centurion could attack the enemy forces from the rear  Casually lives door open for Dork and Radish to follow up with some amusing "panto style" quips  

[Rheged]

I'd forgotten all about  Eagle kits.  Seeing the box art  reminds me that I once built  a 1/1200 scale Graf Spee  from Eagle  I was about 7 at the time and not as accurate with the poly cement as I am now...............but it was still great fun.   

[Dork the kit slayer]

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MY Dinky Centurion could attack the enemy forces from the rear  Casually lives door open for Dork and Radish to follow up with some amusing "panto style" quips 
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oooooh Maaytron !!!!                    as if I would

[Dork the kit slayer]

Ooooh the Sealand! I'd LOVE one of those now, I think that's the only time it's ever been kitted, hasn't it?
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Im pretty sure your right about that. I remember getting it with pocket money (paper round wages) the week after Frog released a really nice "fit the box scale" Dh. Beaver. ( dont have that box top do you??)

[NARSES2]

I'd forgotten all about  Eagle kits.  Seeing the box art  reminds me that I once built  a 1/1200 scale Graf Spee  from Eagle  I was about 7 at the time and not as accurate with the poly cement as I am now...............but it was still great fun.   

Built quite a few of those 1/1200 ships back in the days when ? Booger can't remember when what !!

[Dork the kit slayer]

I'd forgotten all about  Eagle kits.  Seeing the box art  reminds me that I once built  a 1/1200 scale Graf Spee  from Eagle  I was about 7 at the time and not as accurate with the poly cement as I am now...............but it was still great fun.   

Built quite a few of those 1/1200 ships back in the days when ? Booger can't remember when what !!

I think they (Eagle) did the whole "Battle of the River Plate" set. Didnt the film come out about the same time??

[philp]

[PR19_Kit]

I think they (Eagle) did the whole "Battle of the River Plate" set. Didnt the film come out about the same time??

Correct on both points IIRC. (And I was about at the time............  )

[Aircav]

Shame the Elvira kit looks nothing like the box art.....

[kitnut617]

Ooooh the Sealand! I'd LOVE one of those now, I think that's the only time it's ever been kitted, hasn't it?

The last two issues of Air-Britain's Aviation World (not the news stand magazine) has run a two part article on the Sealand.  There's even two aircraft still existing, one in an Yugoslavian museum and the other in Indian museum. It's a very handsome aircraft ---

[PR19_Kit]

The last two issues of Air-Britain's Aviation World (not the news stand magazine) has run a two part article on the Sealand.  There's even two aircraft still existing, one in an Yugoslavian museum and the other in Indian museum. It's a very handsome aircraft ---

I'd agree with that too, nothing like it was ever built in the UK again, but Grumman had cornered that market pretty well. I saw a Sealand fly at Farnborough once, it seemed rather like an amphbian dH Dove!

[dumaniac]

Sorry - I gotta vote for the Airfix B17 - just magic and evocative

[NARSES2]

I think they (Eagle) did the whole "Battle of the River Plate" set. Didnt the film come out about the same time??

Yup they did. I was to young when they first came out but picked them up as "pocket money" models from a local newsagents when I was a litle older. The film is still a reasonable way to pass a wet Sunday afternoon

[Rheged]

I think they (Eagle) did the whole "Battle of the River Plate" set. Didnt the film come out about the same time??

Yup they did. I was to young when they first came out but picked them up as "pocket money" models from a local newsagents when I was a litle older. The film is still a reasonable way to pass a wet Sunday afternoon

I'm told that  there are JMNs who  complain that  "the warships  Graf Spee,  Cumberland and Achilles weren't  very good models!"       Agreed about Graf Spee,  but Cumberland  actually  played Cumberland  and Achilles was INS Delhi (formerly Achilles)