EDLEE Posted February 28, 2009 Report Posted February 28, 2009 I have a model kit of a B-707 with Pan American decals but am unsure of the manufacturer. The kit is 1/144 scale, in a red cardboard box with crude box art of a generic aircraft with no markings. The kit is apparently made in Russia with a kit #349 (?). Is this an old Frog/Novo kit? Any help would be appreciated. I did look in the KCC book but could not find this kit. Thanks.
ewahl Posted February 28, 2009 Report Posted February 28, 2009 I have the same kit buried in my collection. I believe the source was Squadron Mail Order many years ago. It very clearly states on the end of the box and on a tab on the trees of parts that they were "Made in USSR." The instruction sheet is entirely in Russian. The kit represents a Boeing 707-321 in Pan Am livery, but the engines appear to be more like the British Rolls Royce Conways than the Pratts used on Pan Am aircraft. The decals are low quality and fuzzy (the opposite of "crisp"?). When comparison checking the source of the molds, look at the engineering of the main landing gear struts. They are unlike Airfix, Minicraft, Revell, etc., perhaps making this a uniquely Russian kit. I posted a picture of this box on Dick Montgomery's Box Art Archive. Ed
ewahl Posted March 1, 2009 Report Posted March 1, 2009 That's my box. Thanks for fishing it out of the archive, Dick. Ed
Dick Montgomery Posted March 1, 2009 Report Posted March 1, 2009 Yep, that one and about 2,400 others are yours!!
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