After a look at Mr Lucas' movie franchise
kits yesterday, we move to the general model-kits Revell have been offering-up
for the longest time, (well, since 1951 at
least!)
To be honest, most of the models on display
WERE the Star Wars stuff, but there are
a few drawn from elsewhere in the wider kit-range, and I've added some other
bits and bobs from the catalogue.
You can't go far wrong with a Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane
going round-and-round on a mirrored disc! Available now (but not when I saw
it!) I think it depicts the RAF Memorial flight? But I'm not sure.
More interesting is the MTB in the background . . .
. .
. which is the same Elco-type
'PT-Boat' modeled by various makers back in the 1960/70's(Revell listed more than ten versions, Lindburg a similar amount and Tamiya
at least five, but in an odd scale; 1:126th), PT-109, which was the one
captained by a future President - JFK, but this is an entirely new tooling with
the levels of detail missing on some of those old kits, or at least I assume it
has!
There are several versions of PT109
and some of them have only two [open-rack] torpedoes and no anti-tank gun lashed to the
bow-deck? Again, this is just me presenting what was displayed at the show, and
I'm sure the marine-modelling experts will know what's what - and why!
My Known Listing - Revell 'figure scale' High-Speed
Motor Boats
? - Hemi Hydro - Civilian water-skiing
tow- boat/racer - 1:25
? - PT-73 (see H-323?)
? - PT-109 / 167
Torpedo Boat - Torpedo Boat, 2 torpedoes, open-racks not tubes, two variants
buildable? - 1:72
? - PT Boat 211 /
212 - Twin kit/two variants? Motorized, 1975 - 1:97
? - Vosper M.T.B.
- Motor Torpedo Boat, 2 tubes - 1:72
H-302 - Chris Craft Flying Bridge Cruiser - Civilian
pleasure craft, reissued as H-387, 1953? - 1:56
H-304 - PT-212 Torpedo Boat - American WWII
Higgins-type PT boat, moulds brought/bought-in from (?) in the late 1950’s,
some sources state issued 1953? Later supplied to/copied by AHM as PT-207 - 1:98
H-306 - Mosquito
Boat PT-207 - Issued 1965, same hull as Tamiya
kits? Re-issue of H-304 (PT-212)?
1966 - Some sources give1:126, some sources state 1:98
H-310 - Historic
PT-109 (JFK markings) - WWII American Elco-type
PT boat, 2 torpedoes, racks not tubes, 'Jack of Diamonds'; Kennedy’s vessel
- 1:72
H-312 - PT-190 - WWII American Elco-type PT boat, 2 torpedoes, racks
not tubes - 1:72
H-323 - McHale’s
PT Boat - From TV series 'McHale’s Navy' PT-73, actually a
Vosper MTB - 1:72
H-342 - PT-167 - WWII American Elco-type PT boat, 2 torpedoes, racks not tubes - 1:72
H-387 - Sport
Fishing Boat - Reissue of Chris Craft pleasure cruiser (H-302) - 1:56
H-464 - PT-211 -
American WWII Higgins-type PT boat, moulds brought/bought-in from (?) in the
late 1950’s, re-issue of H-304 (PT-212), 1975 - 1:98
5104 - Swift
Patrol Boat - PCF -1:48
5105 - UDT Boat -
With Frogmen - 1:32
05048 - PT-117 - WWII American ELCO-type PT boat, 2
torpedoes, racks not tubes, re-issue of H-342,
1990's - 1:72
05051 - S-100 - WWII German Schnellboot
MTB/Channel raider, 2002 - 1:72
05084 - Vosper MBT - reissue of old kit - 1:72
05147 - Patrol
Torpedo Boat PT-109 - 4 tubes, 37mm A/T gun lashed to the deck, Kennedy's
vessel, new tool - 1:72
While on the subject of 1:72nd scale
vessels, the ex-Matchbox Flower Class
Corvette is announced as a 'New' model, but you'll know it's a re-issue,
back as HMCS Snowberry
Oh Lord! From the catalogue comes this
piece of idiocy . . . still I suppose it will complement the equally idiotic
figure sets from Evo/HYTTY/Kervella/LW/Odemars
or whoever ended up with their moniker on the packets. So long as you treat it
as a bit of fun, it's probably fun, but if you think the Nazis had a secret
'Dr. No' base in the Arctic (or Antarctic) you're an idiot, who spends too much
time reading the wrong websites, find the porn and get real!
If you want Sci-fi (instead of porn) this
is more like it, and three of them are compatible with 54mm/1:32nd scale
figures; Bargain! Technically two of them are 50mm/1/;35th but who's
rivet-counting - not me! Although, how? How the f**k do you get three scales in
a line of four kits! Mind-boggling really - they didn't even get the two UNSC
AFV's the same size!
And - proving there's nothing new under the
sun; the UNSC Pelican is clearly the
bastard child of a Hind D which has
been raped by a clone-army Republican
Gunship!
Another Build
& Play (the future of kits?), but I was rather taken with it, highly
detailed for a 'no glue needed' model, and sadly not a Massey 135, but similar!
Porsche Diesel with a steel bucket-seat - you made your own cushion from a
seed-potato sack (big sandbag!) half filled with straw, but your arse still
hurt by lunchtime, especially if you were harrowing!
I also shot these two simply because it was
a nice juxtapostion to see the two sizes built-up and side by side. The smaller
one is another of the Build & Play
clip-together range, but the larger one is a proper kit.
Not much on the figure front, we may well
return to these depending on what images turn-up elsewhere, but in the meantime;
in 1:72nd scale the 30 7-Years War figures have turned-up in double sets.
Originally a poor seller they were quickly withdrawn (back in the 1990's) only
for Peter Bergner at PB Toys to
commission a re-issue, then they re-appeared a few years ago briefly - I think
- only for these doubles to be announced. . . a while ago?
While in the 1:16th range (same as the old Airfix personalities) there's a
SWAT-team 'heavy' and a US Marine Sergeant (in formal Dress Blues) joining the four
existing ceremonials in a line which is shaping-up to be quite interesting.
I wonder if anyone's built the British
Guardsmen from both companies and placed them side-by-side yet? 60-years and only
the rifle's changed - They keep a supply of bulled ammunition-boots (hob-nail
studded 'cobbly-wobblies' or 'cobble-wobblers') for ceremonial duties.
