Anyone know of really high quality model car kits- boats or airplanes?

[fujiyama]

I'm sitting here at my desk and am looking at the really beautiful die cast model of a truck (they sold them at a small gift shop at the last job I was at). It's really impressive looking and it's not a toy as it even says. Really nice 1:53 scale model.

It got me thinking. Anyone actually use any good kits? I'm not talking about the cheap plastic ones I glued together as kids, but something much higher quality? Maybe with some classic cars or something. It might be cool.

[rateyes]

1. Go to a hobby store.

They have all kinds of models from "easy" to "damned near impossible."

[Twillig]

2. Yeah, the hobby store.

Probably something by Tamiya.

I've never partaken, but some of those F1 cars made me want to start sniffing glue! (again!)
There's a 1/12 scale Lotus 78 on ebay....

[old mark]

3. fuji: Try here (link)

www.zealot.com/forum/index.php mainly card models

and www.scale-models.co.uk/forumindex.php various model types


Hobby forums, info on kits, etc, from all over the world.
There are a lot of European kits that are incredible.

I used to build balsa and tissue planes, haven't done so for near 20 years, but every so often I take a look just to see what's going on...


Enjoy!!!

:hi:

mark

[AllenVanAllen]

4. Hobby Link Japan

is a place to get a lot of hight quality model kits of many varieties. They have a currency converter as well.

http://www.hlj.com/

[Bossy Monkey]

5. You might also consider PMing The Magistrate

That gentleman really knows airplane models, though as he mentions in the linked thread, he usually builds from scratch: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5739344

[EndersDame]

6. I would love a high quality model kit of Deep Space Nine or the Enterprise E

[Frank Cannon]

7. Don't knock the cheap plastic ones we built as kids

The challenge was to make them look good, which involved a lot of sanding, filing, puttying, and skillful painting with tiny brushes.

Does anyone else here remember Tom Daniel of "Red Baron" and "Beer Wagon" fame?

[MicaelS]

8. Yankee Model Works

Formerly Blue Water Navy. They make resin ship models. http://www.yankeemodelworks.com/

USS Enterprise CV-6 aircraft carrier $750. http://www.yankeemodelworks.com/35054_enterprise.htm

They offer one of the few kits of the never built USS Montana BB67 "super" battleship. http://www.yankeemodelworks.com/35059_montana.htm

Four triple 16" gun turrets as opposed to three triple 16" gun turrets of the Iowa class. Would have been too big to fit through the Panama Canal.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/67.htm