ClareWentzel Posted March 28, 2013 Report Posted March 28, 2013 Here is a long OOP kit. Around 1972, a gentleman named Ken Rymal came out with a series of vacu-form kits of a number of experimental subjects. Here is my model of the XP-88. The kit was a single sheet of a male-form vacu-form. The directions were contained in a blue-line diazo print. The vacuform sheet contained basic wing and fuselage parts and "suggestions" on how to obtain or make the rest of the parts. No decals were included although a vacuformed canopy was included.
RGronovius Posted March 30, 2013 Report Posted March 30, 2013 I've always been impressed with the modelers who did the old school vacu-formed kits. It looks great.
ClareWentzel Posted March 31, 2013 Author Report Posted March 31, 2013 Thanks Robin. At the time, I really wanted a model of the XF-88. I liked McD products and had finished a Rareplane vac of the XP-67. This particular product was pretty crude and I don't think that I would try it again knowing what a PITA it was. I would still jump at a Rareplane kit however and in fact I am slowly working on another XP-67.
ghodges Posted March 31, 2013 Report Posted March 31, 2013 That's some excellent old-school modeling! Those vacs were the most basic of kits, and the result you got is due to your skills, and not what came with the model! Congrats! GIL
RGronovius Posted March 31, 2013 Report Posted March 31, 2013 I agree with Gil, the results are more indicative as to your skill than the quality of the vacu-formed parts. Someday, I hope to finish a 1/76 scale vacu-formed Hetzer I began.
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