My Model Kit Inventory

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I decided to check out my storage bin, as I did not remember exactly what was in there; well, here are the new PBY kits along with the old inventory:



I looked inside one of the kits, which I haven't looked at for decades, and found an old and drying-out tube of Testor's plastic model cement!



This sub kit I think may go back to the 1970's, I just don't remember exactly when.

The civil-war kit I bought a few years ago at an IPMS do; The "WWII European Farm Wagon" (Russian made) I bought just a few years back, when working on my Passion Cannon and Wagon, but decided then that it was too small for me to finish. The Russian Rocket Plane, lower right, was acquired, IIRC, with the kits on the left, from a benefit for the Jeremiah O'Brien Liberty Ship in San Francisco; the kits came from the inventory of a defunct hobby shop, and many kits dated back to the 1940's and 1950's.

The Guillows PBY is the only kit in the picture that I am planning to build; the others will likely just get handed down to my surviving family (the Minicraft kit I've almost completed, see separate post under Airplanes).

Regards, John

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Whats the Civil War kit, John? I cant quite make it out.

Keith

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I've just pulled it out of the plastic tub; from the box cover:

IMEX Model Company, Inc.

1:72 figure sets

25mm figure sets

IMEX American Civil War

Battlefield Redoubt

with

Union Artillery

Set No. 72101

Set includes: 25 Union Figures, 1 Limber Wagon, 4 Horses, 3 Cannons, and 1 Redoubt. Figures made in England, Reboubt made in China, Designed in U.S.A.

The list of Figure Sets on the back of the box includes both 1:72 - 25mm and 1:32 - 54mm sets related to the American Civil War. This kit is several years old, how old I don't know.

European Agent: Pocketbond Limited

P.O. Box 80

Welwyn AL6 OND Herts, England

www.imex-model.com

Regards, John

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Thanks John. I've always struggled to get into the Civil War and have only recently succeeded. A most terrible and horrible conflict but certainly very interesting. That item though is most definitely multinational!

Keith

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I've got a little history on that conflict, being raised on the East coast in Virginia. I learned about the goods flow between the Mother country and the Confederacy. I also learned about the standard British military saddle (my memory is having some troubles now, can't seem to recall the official designation), and how a late model cavalry saddle, interestingly built on the early Hungarian Hussar saddle principal and looking as though it would fit Napoleonic era, was supplied (as surplus, perhaps) by England to the Confederacy.

I used some excellent views of a British collector's saddle of that type as the pattern for my driver's saddles on the big Passion Cannon.

Back in the late 1950's, we had a TV show called Major Mosby, or about him; he was a guerilla fighter in Virginia during the conflict.

Definitely an interesting period, with lots of surviving photos taken by Mathew Brady, using the early wet-plate process, one of the first war photographers.

Glad I could help,

Regards, John