What's the oldest kit in your stash?

Barry Bromley · May 23, 2020

Whenever I open an old kit box, the smell of the old plastics is intoxicating. It's a unique smell, peculiar to kits from the 60's and earlier. The other noticible thing is the quality of the molding and detail, absent from all but the best kits of today. Early Monograms, Auroras and Revells are beautifully made. Too good to build!

Ol 45 · May 26, 2020

Since I've been modelling for 60+ years I've managed to accumulate a few old kits.
Some I admit I bought when they were fairly new in the 50's so I thought I'd try
to post a few shots of some of my oldest. The Brifault kit is circa 1954 and the
Olin kits about 1950 or so.

Ol 45 · May 26, 2020

I am so sorry that I have repeatedly posted this item. I tried to edit it to delete the second post and it just
popped up again. I'm learning..... I hope.

fubar57 · May 26, 2020

Wojtek will fix you up

Wurger · May 26, 2020

Done.

NevadaK · May 28, 2020

I wish that I had photos to share, but my stepfather has about a dozen 1960's era USSR made unbuilt helicopter kits. The cream of the crop is a 1/72-ish Mil-6. The bodies are all cast out of white plastic with remainder being cast in black plastic.

thom regit · May 28, 2020

Numerous bagged Airfix from the 60's.
Older than many of you.

rwhiting · May 29, 2020

Hi. This is my 1st post as I've just been lurking up till now. I have these 2. The Helldiver says '1966' and the Hawk is probably from about the same time. I just tossed the Revell F-111 I built in about '66 and the Aurora P-51 with the removeable engine covers was from '64-65. I still have the Monogram P-47 I started in '72 (at 17, I'm currently 64), but I haven't finished yet so I think I probably would win if this was "Who's has longest unfinished build"

Spielmann · Jun 18, 2021

Hello !
I think my oldest kit in my stash is this one (Issued in 1947-1948) :

special ed · Jun 18, 2021

The oldest unbuilt would be from the early 60s but I still have Hawk P-51D and several Aurora completed and several assorted Lindberg and Hawk which have been re-kitted during moves.

SaparotRob · Jun 18, 2021

I have an unbuilt Academy B-17B for about 20 years. I have Airfix P-51D, Spitfire MK IX, BF-109F and a Hasegawa B-239 that I started about 16 years ago. I was going to paint the Buffalo some kind of blue and slap some star roundels on it. No one I know would know it's wrong.

SaparotRob · Jun 18, 2021

That was then.

at6 · Jun 18, 2021

I have an Aurora SNJ kit from the 60s.

ARTESH · Oct 20, 2021

WOW! Some really really old stuff here! Quite nostalgic.

Maxrobot1 · Dec 15, 2021

This is how old I am.

Maxrobot1 · Dec 15, 2021

Pactra was pretty good stuff.

Maxrobot1 · Dec 15, 2021

nuuumannn · Dec 15, 2021

I have an old Kader Hendley (not a typo) Page Victor kit still in its box that I bought in Buenos Aires (of all places) for a paltry 20 pesetas. Here's one, saving me from posting a pic:

Kader (Lincoln) Handley Page Victor - The Unofficial Airfix Modellers' Forum

uamf.org.uk

I've got some first edition Matchbox aircraft kits, too, dating from the early 1970s.

Barry Bromley · Dec 27, 2021

I have close to 900 "collector" kits in the cupboard. These are a few. One which stands out is the Russian "Spitfire"(green thing) which as far as I can make out is the old Frog 72nd mould, reboxed with that wonderful boxart. The Helldiver from Hawk is a solid carved job and also has a paper from a Warhawk model of the same era. This was when aircraft recognition models were being "re-purposed" as recreational model kits. The Gaedke box art is always a favourite. Somehow he captured the magic of aviation. Before you ask, the Space Missiles has now been sold.

SaparotRob · Dec 27, 2021

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