discussion the kit you aspire to most!

[Miko]

Not sure if there's a similar thread here in this forum but here goes!

I mean the kit you need to build before you die! The one kit you've always wanted but never managed to find or it was too expensive, you didn't have the room it's too complex to build or beyond your skill set. . .

Mine for long enough was the Airfix 1/12 Bentley! Such a masterful and aesthetically beautiful machine resplendent in 'British Racing Green'!

I imagine having it proudly displayed on an English oak plinth on my window sill for the whole neighborhood to enjoy! Ha!

Such an icon of Britishness, even more so if modeled as the car owned my 'Steed' from The Avengers!

What's yours? and maybe more interestingly, why?

Miko (Hasegawa Shinmeiwa PS-1 comes a pretty close second)

 

[davecov]

I have four kits that I have always coveted.

The Airfix Bentley was one that I had wanted ever since it came out in the Seventies. My school friend had one and I helped him to make it. Then in 2005 when I made some models for Airfix to show at the London Toy Fair, I mentioned the Bentley to the Marketing Manager of the time and he gave me one:

I wasn't totally happy with this build as it was OOB so I have a second one in the stash to build "properly". I also have another that I am intending to build as a Steampunk car.

I have also coveted the Matchbox 1/72 Flower Class Corvette since the Seventies and my fellow Admins and Mods on The Airfix Tribute Forum bought me the Revell boxing as the ATF celebrated it's first anniversary in 2007. I had planned to spend ten years making it once I had started it but it may take a bit longer than that:

The third model that I have always coveted was one that I first saw when my cousin bought one in the Sixties. This was the Airfix 1/24 'James Bond' Aston Martin DB5:

My father made a lot of Airfix cars around that time and when he passed away in 2019, I bought this car (and every other Airfix 1/32 car) with some of the money I inherited from him. I have started to build this one for the ATF's 18th Anniversary Group Build. It is hard to believe this is 17 years after the Corvette was bought!

Once I had these three kits, I didn't have a real yearning for any more models in particular until I saw a HobbyBoss 1/72 'Dora' Railway Gun at Telford in 2019. My partner, Aileen, bought it as a Christmas present so I couldn't really NOT build it! That build is proceeding slowly but at least it hasn't stalled - yet:

There are no other models for which I have such attachments in my stash and there are no models that I still covet.

Dave

 

[Geoffers]

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Why? I love Mosquitoes :smiling4:

Unfortunately I don’t have either the room or spare cash but one day maybe :thinking:

Geoff.

 

[Ian M]

I have the Corvette hidden in a box 90% completed one I would like to finish very much. I might have a look in the box one day and see how much the mice have left me.

I quite fancy the 1/12 classic cars from Italeri and the Airfix Bentley...
I am part way through the Bismarck, I have the Yamamoto in the que and fancy the Mighty Mo. thus having the big four. HooD, Bismarck, Yamo and Mo the four largest battleships built. (as far I know).

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Too big,and a price I can't justify spending on a kit really,BUT I've always fancied one of these.....

I tackled the 1/72 one a few years back, but it just didn't do it for me,but THIS one....... !!:tongue-out2:

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Sadly the model I would like to build hasn't been manufactrured yet and probably wont be.. Still waiting for a plastic kit 1/32 Lunar lander to go with my Revell 1/32 Apollo Command Module. That would make a great display.

 

[Miko]

Sadly the model I would like to build hasn't been manufactrured yet and probably wont be.. Still waiting for a plastic kit 1/32 Lunar lander to go with my Revell 1/32 Apollo Command Module. That would make a great display.

That 'is' surprising, such a world changing iconic thing isn't modeled in larger scales

Miko

 

[boatman]

Sadly the model I would like to build hasn't been manufactrured yet and probably wont be.. Still waiting for a plastic kit 1/32 Lunar lander to go with my Revell 1/32 Apollo Command Module. That would make a great display.

HI Steve why dont you amaze us all an scratch build it an then you will have it ?

 

[Waspie]

For me, I have just managed to acquire it. OK the scale isn't my first choice but with no current alternative - I have no choice!!
The Westland Wasp. (Hence the user name).
Brings back some remarkable memories and in itself is quite a remarkable little helicopter. Primarily a weapon carrier it was very versatile. From the WE177 (Nuclear depth bomb), to torpedoes, air to surface missiles to flares for target illumination. Plus a few minor pyros.
So - I have my aspirational kit ready to build.

 

[boatman]

AN ME well my model to die for would be a 1/96 scale R/C USS MUSSRIEY BATTLE SHIP an to make all the big gun turrets turn an have a gun fire sound unit in but im now too old an the cost is way out of my league now an time is my enamy

 

[Guest]

For me, it would be the Accurate Armour LCT (4), either in 1:76 or preferably 1:35:

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(This is the 1:76 version, the 1:35 has been out of production for a long time — I guess because nobody was buying it?)

And, of course, filled with a full complement of vehicles per Operation Infatuate II.

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

HI Steve why dont you amaze us all an scratch build it an then you will have it ?

I would amaze myself if I could do that.

 

[davecov]

Why? I love Mosquitoes :smiling4:

Unfortunately I don’t have either the room or spare cash but one day maybe :thinking:

Geoff.

I had almost finished my Airfix 1/24 Mosquito when disaster struck. I had replaced the kit undercarriage legs with white metal ones and sadly, the epoxy failed one day and a pair of legs fell apart. It has been skulking around my living room for years collecting dust as I was really disheartened by the incident. Almost everything has been painted with only the rockets to fit and I am not sure whether to sell it as is or finish it. The trouble is, fixing the damage is not easy and I would have to dismantle a lot. Here it is in happier days after I had painted the markings:

If I eventually finish it, I have to sell it as I do not have the space to store it, let alone display it - even on a wall. That is what happens when the heart rules the head and I really shouldn't have bought it.

Dave

 

[Bri62]

From the WE177 (Nuclear depth bomb

I was always told that's a suicide mission couldn't get the height needed to escape but hey what do I know lol

I would like to do a wooden HMS Victory very expensive though

 

[Waspie]

I was always told that's a suicide mission couldn't get the height needed to escape but hey what do I know lol

I would like to do a wooden HMS Victory very expensive though

I’ll message you re the 177! There’s a lot of misinformation re that particular weapon.

 

[Dave Ward]

I don't aspire to any particular kit - but I do aspire to certain subjects - no matter who they are made by!
Dave

 

[Ian M]

(This is the 1:76 version, the 1:35 has been out of production for a long time — I guess because nobody was buying it?)

And, of course, filled with a full complement of vehicles per Operation Infatuate II.

And a stunning piece it would be in 1/35. I might be wrong but I think they make them to order. Its a big chuck of resin to just have sitting on the shelves for a kit that might sell two a year, if that. mail them, you never know. It could also be quicker and easier to build one from scratch.... maybe even a bit cheaper as well......lol

 

[Guest]

I have drawings that would do for scratchbuilding one, but one of my practical problems with this is that I would probably never finish the kit in 1:35, let alone a scratchbuilt model plus five tanks, an SBG bridge, an armoured bulldozer and a few tens of figures 1:76 it would really have to be if I were to stand a chance of completing it.

 

[dave]

There are a lot of kits out there I would love to build, but for nostalgia sake top of the list has to be the 1/48 MPC Eagle Transporter.
but I am not convinced my skills are not sufficient to do it justice.

 

[Guest]

I do not have the space to store it, let alone display it - even on a wall.

What about the ceiling, though? A drawing pin and a piece of thread was good enough when we were younger …