Drifterdon
Recruit
The old Aurora F-90 would be my uniocorn kit. Had one as a kid and destroyed it.
Is there a unicorn kit? (1 Viewer)
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I would love to build one and paint it in authentic Blackhawk markings.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
That's a very special ship.
PlasticHero
Senior Airman
One of my first "serious" models was a MPC 1970 Dodge Charger. It was probably $4.99 at local shop. Did a reasonable job building and painting it and in the 80's, I threw it and a bunch of my high school car builds out. No space, starting to come apart, not interested in keeping them. Years later and even now it would be worth $100+ There are now better 70 Charger kits but that issue was never re-released. Turns out many of the molds of cars from 60's - 70's were recut to make customs or race versions and couldn't ever be returned to stock form.
T Bolt
Colonel
Is this the kit? I built it back in grade school. $180 on ebay. Holy cr@p!
PlasticHero
Senior Airman
It was the stock version with the loop bumper; the car I wanted to drive to high school.
Lucky13
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This one?
Seeing the prices on some MPC's originals....
VTG MPC 1968 Dodge Charger Scat Pack R/T - 1/25 Scale Kit - NO DECALS - AS IS | eBay
MPC 1968 DODGE CHARGER R/T ANNUAL #768-200 1/25 AMT NOS SEALED PLASTIC MODEL KIT | eBay
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Lucky13
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My two unicorns or Holy Grails....
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Snautzer01
Marshal
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- Mar 26, 2007
This one. 72002 1/72 Sukhoi I-14bis
That's the one; I did manage to get the Polikarpov I-3 and that too was an awesome thing.
Zippythehog
Staff Sergeant
- 984
- Jan 7, 2017
Vanishing pointThis one?
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Seeing the prices on some MPC's originals....
VTG MPC 1968 Dodge Charger Scat Pack R/T - 1/25 Scale Kit - NO DECALS - AS IS | eBay
MPC 1968 DODGE CHARGER R/T ANNUAL #768-200 1/25 AMT NOS SEALED PLASTIC MODEL KIT | eBay
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As of this moment, it's this one:
fe resin models 1/72 tachikawa "ss-1" experimental 72013
fe resin models 1/72 tachikawa "ss-1" experimental 72013
Grasshopper"Baby Baby"
Airman
- 12
- Apr 15, 2025
I got lucky and found this rare beauty from the 90's I believe, only a few where made and mine was unopened
wrathofatlantis
Airman
- 70
- Oct 2, 2023
The Bandai 1/48th M12 Self propelled howitzer. It was never re-popped by Fuman and is still rare. The Bandai Austin K5 truck is not far behind, but the wheels need Belcher Bits replacements.
What is interesting about the M12 is that, aside replacing the tracks with Tamiya tracks (and maybe even the bogies?), the whole kit is superbly accurate and fully up to today's standards (As is the companion M30 ammo carrier). None of the other 1/48 Bandais military vehicles are quite like this. It combines the feats of being the rarest and the best model of that range... This is further compounded by being a subject that no other maker has touched in 1/48th scale, or is likely to touch.
I can't think of another old injection kit that combines all these qualities in that scale. There may be a few limited run aircraft kits, but they are likely to be less than state of the art.
I did hear of a Japanese company called Create 301 that supposedly released a G4M2 Betty conversion for the Tamiya 1/48 kit, but this was probably just an announcement that failed to materialise. The conversion would require a colossal number of changes, and I have never seen it built or even attempted from scratch. And yet I have seen an excellent scratch-built H8K Emily by Stephan Giachimo on a seaplane model site (now gone, so my images only exist as black and White printed pages stapled together)!!!
That H8K is the most stunningly detailed and accurate model I have ever seen. And please note most scratch-builds I find inaccurate and full of errors... I wish the few pictures I have of it were in colour... If I remember correctly, the structure was entirely represented in plastic, and skinned in water-resistant paper...
What is interesting about the M12 is that, aside replacing the tracks with Tamiya tracks (and maybe even the bogies?), the whole kit is superbly accurate and fully up to today's standards (As is the companion M30 ammo carrier). None of the other 1/48 Bandais military vehicles are quite like this. It combines the feats of being the rarest and the best model of that range... This is further compounded by being a subject that no other maker has touched in 1/48th scale, or is likely to touch.
I can't think of another old injection kit that combines all these qualities in that scale. There may be a few limited run aircraft kits, but they are likely to be less than state of the art.
I did hear of a Japanese company called Create 301 that supposedly released a G4M2 Betty conversion for the Tamiya 1/48 kit, but this was probably just an announcement that failed to materialise. The conversion would require a colossal number of changes, and I have never seen it built or even attempted from scratch. And yet I have seen an excellent scratch-built H8K Emily by Stephan Giachimo on a seaplane model site (now gone, so my images only exist as black and White printed pages stapled together)!!!
That H8K is the most stunningly detailed and accurate model I have ever seen. And please note most scratch-builds I find inaccurate and full of errors... I wish the few pictures I have of it were in colour... If I remember correctly, the structure was entirely represented in plastic, and skinned in water-resistant paper...
