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[ivanmoe]

 

[villagehorse]

A great action shot. Robin.

 

[ivanmoe]

A great action shot. Robin.

Thank you, Robin.

To the best of my recollection, my first exposure to the '190 came in the form of the box art from a Monogram kit:

As is suggested by my picture, the image above really stuck with me.

Might have been eight at the time.

-Moe

 

[lancer]

Thank you, Robin.

To the best of my recollection, my first exposure to the '190 came in the form of the box art from a Monogram kit:

As is suggested by my picture, the image above really stuck with me.

Might have been eight at the time.

-Moe

Moe, had that same kit as a kid. Also have the same KC 190. Great minds, eh? Monogram kits were the best, at a great price and with great detail for the day. I remember the F6F and F4U with their folding wings and their complicated folding landing gear. They were great. -- Al

 

[ivanmoe]

Moe, had that same kit as a kid. Also have the same KC 190. Great minds, eh? Monogram kits were the best, at a great price and with great detail for the day. I remember the F6F and F4U with their folding wings and their complicated folding landing gear. They were great. -- Al

Hiya Al,

The Monogram 1/48 kits were definitely my favorites, but did you ever build the 1/32 F3F-3 kit?

Wasn't a great scale model, but it had the most marvelous "Rube Goldberg" landing gear imaginable.

If you got all the gears and struts lined up just right, you could raise and lower the main landing-gear by turning the prop.

Great fun, but I learned quickly that all those working parts just had so many rotations on them.

To much exercise, and they'd either loosen and lose tension, leaving a once erect assembly flaccid, or break altogether.

Lot's of fun to assemble and paint, nonetheless!

-Moe

 

[lancer]

Hiya Al,

The Monogram 1/48 kits were definitely my favorites, but did you ever build the 1/32 F3F-3 kit?

Wasn't a great scale model, but it had the most marvelous "Rube Goldberg" landing gear imaginable.

If you got all the gears and struts lined up just right, you could raise and lower the main landing-gear by turning the prop.

Great fun, but I learned quickly that all those working parts just had so many rotations on them.

To much exercise, and they'd either loosen and lose tension, leaving a once erect assembly flaccid, or break altogether.

Lot's of fun to assemble and paint, nonetheless!

-Moe

Moe, never built the F3F-3 kit. At the age that I was building kits, I was strictly into Aurora WW1 kits, Monogram WW2 kits, with a lot of Revell kits from both wars thrown in. I did have a couple of Hawk Curtiss biplane kits, but the mentioned kits were my mainstays. On the subject of repeated uses wearing out the landing gear and such, most of my models never made it to old age anyway. Too many 'accidents', as it were. :wink2: -- Al

 

[Guy]

great shot, almost real , great visual effect
Guy