I was looking at some of my old kits today and wondered if anyone had any old kits themselfs. So i thought maybe we could share them with each other like..box art, year, brief discription, something along them lines. This is to include all kits, scales and years even from the 80's. So if anyone's intrested dig out those dusty kits and show them off.

Cool, I have a couple I'll post pics of. Both are from the 40's, and I have an original issue of the Wright Flyer. Good start Joe. "Q"

I've got several ancient model kits. One of the oldest is the old ITC kit of the T-92 US airborne tank. I also have several of the old Aurora MBT70 tank kits.

The T-92 was designed to replace the M41 Walker Bulldog as the light tank for the airborne and recon units. The introduction of the amphibious PT-76 by the Soviets made the US Army go back to the drawing board to develop an airborne amphibious tank of their own.

The M551 A/ARV Sheridan was the result.

I don't have any of these kits but I was flipping through some old back issues of Military Modeling and saw the Testors M7 Priest and Sherman M4A1 (today we know them as Italeri kits) going for $7.95US. There is a huge ad on the back cover introducing the new Tamiya M4A3 (I think it's the old MM-222 kit or something like that) with duckbills!! No such thing as Dragon/DML.

Fun! I have two Nitto Kits, the Porsche Tiger II and the Schutzpanzer Stuka Fuss Ausf B. and an M20 armored car from Monogram. And a tamyia / MRC issue 8 rad armored car and Sdkfz 7 from the early 70's.

Wow, Rob. I think the Aurora MBT70 tank is the first tank model I ever built...

Completely forgot about it until you mentioned it.

Shaun

It was either my first or one of the first tank kits I ever built. I still have my original one I built (badly) as a kid. I rescued it from my mom's house. It had always been my favorite and survived the Great BB Gun Wars.

I bought a cheapo builder's kit on eBay (during the early years when the prices were reasonable). I used that kit to rebuild my original kit to an almost OOB condition.

I found a third one at an antique shop I went to with the wife. They had an old Aurora M109 kit in a white cardboard mailer box for $5. When I bought the kit, inside was a complete, mint MBT70 along with the M109.

The fourth one I bought from a guy online. I got it for $20 delivered. It was the newer version still MIB with the added texture on the upper surfaces of the hull and turret. They also added some suspension detail to the hull and some coiled cables to the back deck.

I remember each of these kits from back in " the old days" when I was into the the hobby the first time, in the early 70s. That was when you could get Tamiya, Airfix, Testors, Revell, and Aurora. No aftermarket, no PE, etc. You could have any paint you wanted, as long as it was either Testors, in the little square bottles, or Humbrol, assuming you could find it.

I really wish I had kept those kits I had back then. I probably tossed them, or donated them to Good Will.

I've been trying to remember prices. The best I can recall is I think I got the Tamiya 88 when it first came out, for about $20. That's about what it goes for now. Of course you could get a gallon of gas back then for .50 cents, or a pair jeans and a shirt for $20.

Now days I've got a lot of the kits I had back then, from Tamiya, since they keep reissuing the same stuff over and over. I'd really like to find some of the old Airfix and Aurora stuff though.

The only Aurora tank I owned was the Chi Ha which survives today as a few wheels. I suspect I may soemwhere some unbuilt models I bought in the 70s (definitely got ones from the 80s and 90s)

Found this article on Aurora tanks on a French website, you might find it interesting

http://modelbox.free.fr/dossiers/Aurora48AFV_P/index.html

I remember when I was a kid, I always wanted to pick up the tank model, but the other kids, kept grabbing my arm away, telling me them kits needed a lot more to finish them, then what they had in the box, that I wouldn't like them. So I ended up with a car or pickup every week.

None of the stores carried flat paints back then either, shoot, it is hard to find one now, even the hobby store here in town, I had to beg them to get in some flat paints, they didn't even have OD on hand at first.

Back in the early 60's I remember they weren't much more then the car models, just a few dollars, and what little I knew, they kept saying new model, but it looked like the same Sherman and Tiger to me, I had no idea, how many variations there were.

When they said new, I'd say, boy this is the same thing the other company come out with, with me not knowing back then.

Now I had wished, I had never listened to the others, and picked them up anyway, cause just think of the collectors I would have, if I saved them.
Kerry

My oldest kits are the Monogram 1/32 Sherman
Colliape, 1/24 Bandi King Tiger, and old 1/72
XB-70!!
Have fun~
Ron
Oh a MPC Halifax??

Well sounds like some of you do have some old kits. I don't have anything special, but i do like to collect old huey kits. Here are the few i do own

Revell 1/32 #H-259, 1970 - Revell 1/32 #4421, 1982 - Monogram 1/24 #6086, 1988 '' Nam Tour of Duty " - Monogram 1/48 #5201, 1977 - Revell's OH-6A 1/32 # H-146, 1970 - Some old Testors Plane kits - ESCI 1/2 #A601 F-16 cockpit

MPC dragracing kit's, early Monogram stock cars and a old Jo-Han "Sox-Martin" boss cuda.

As for my first model that i built..well i don't remember the name of the company just that it was the big fat cars of the 40's. I remember buying them from a store for 49 cents.

OMG I totally forgot While digging throught my fathers attic this summer I came across a Bandi 1/15 Stug! Man talk about a bad kit! The box was totally trashed ! But the sprues were aok as well as the instructions!!!!

Hmm, I have an old Huey you don't mention. It is the old 1/48 scale Aurora Huey UH-1B Cobra (had cobra nose art, not to be confused with an AH-1G). Real old and still mint. I've also got several of the old Aurora 1/48 scale AH-1G Cobras. All in all, neat helicopter kits.

Hey Sabot, Nice kits..yeah it's hard to find them old Aurora kits, even on e-bay. Wanna part with any :-) By the way what year are those kits from.

Best guess, the UH-1B Huey is a late 60s kit and the AH-1G is an early 70s kits.

I do have an extra AH-1G I could part with, I'll have to locate it from my recent move. I'll look to see if I can find the UH-1B, I could probably be persuaded to part with it as well (trying to stick to 1/72 scale armor myself).

Well this thread sure makes me feel old.

Most of the kits in my stash are from the '70s. How about the 1/32 Matchbox series Me-109, Spitfire,and Lysander and the Revell Razorback and Bubbletop P-47's. (price sticker on the boxes $3.00)

Actually built a 1/25 B-25 years ago, just for the fun of it. Think it was Aurora ? Big Puppy!!!

Oh, for you SciFi guys how about an MPC Diorama set "Battle on the Ice Planet Hoth" bought as a project for my son but never got around to it, He,He.

Here's what I have that I readily remember. The oldest are the two Hudson Miniatures kits circa 1949. The T-92 is labeled as Tamiya Mokei on the bottom of the model as is the Japanese fighter (George maybe?) I dont read Japanese. The Wright Flyer is an original release (1966) And finally the 1/9 ESCI Motorcycle mit sidecar. None of these are for building, just trips down memory lane. "Q" Edit- I completely forgot about my Renwal M-42 Duster! That has the goofiest looking figures in it!!

Yeah thats what i'm talking about, you have some nice old kits Red. There's something about old time box art you know. The Jap plane model box still look good.Thanks for sharing.

You've got the other T-92 model. It is in 1/48 scale I think, made by Tamiya/Mokei and released by Hawk in the US. Mine is the ITC one that is in 1/24 scale and is a relatively large kit, bigger than a 1/35 scale M60 kit. Cool looking tank though. If your T-92 ever needs a home, let me know!

I think I'll hold onto it. Even the rubber band tracks in it are mint. Not dry rotted or even any signs of it. All parts are still on their sprues too. The ESCI bike and sidecar, probably my best score of the lot. $7 at a yard sale. Complete and still in the interior bags. "Q"