"Revell 1/100 Aircraft Kits" Topic

Since I'm still working on honing my model-building skills, before I take on my lovely metal and resin mail-order sci fi figs and vehicles, I picked up a few various Revell 1/100 Aircraft Kits. They're Snap-Tite, so they're not a huge model-building challenge, and they're molded in color, so painting isn't a big deal either.

I'm going to have my Insurgents steal a bunch of these "obsolete" weapons from a museum, and re-paint them all eventually, so I found an excuse to use them in my campaign.

I though the planes looked huge next to my Zvezda tanks, but a quick google shows that an F-4 Phantom really is 3 (almost 4) times as long as a BT-5 Light Tank.

Anyway, just thought I'd mention that they're out there for the model-builder trying to up his skill level or find something cheap and easy to game with. They've have them at both Wal-Mart and at Michael's.

There isn't a lot of cheap modern 1/100 scale stuff to be found at B&M retail so far. So far it was complete strike-out at the hobby shop, two tanks at the game store, and some Revell planes at the discount store or the craft store. Of course, both the game store and the hobby shop had Flames of War stuff, but it's mostly WW2, not modern, and it looks a bit pricier and slighty more demanding skill-wise.

These should be fun to hang on string over the work area.

I picked up an A-10 Thunderbolt, a Harrier, an F-4 Phantom, an F-22 raptor and an Apache helicopter. These should make a nice "Smithsonian" type display, for my Night at the Museum scenario. And they should be fun to repaint later, with Insurgent color schemes.

Snap-Tite, forty years later. Still a safe bet for cheap and easy. 8)

I found my practice on the Apache to be useful when painting my tanks, it's a smart move, especially with experimenting with various masks and spray can painting.

Matchbox vehicles were even better btw.

There's also a few Tamiya 1/100 birds. A6 and A7, Vietnam vintage. There's also an F4EJ. The A7 has a big load of bombs, too.

Sadly, it looks like the Aoshima "Battle Rotor" kits are OOP.

McWong73 said:

I found my practice on the Apache to be useful when painting my tanks, it's a smart move, especially with experimenting with various masks and spray can painting.

Matchbox vehicles were even better btw.

Matchbox vehicles have me intrigued. I need to paint up some 15mm figures to have an idea of the right scale. I've been looking for the matchbox military, utility, mission and adventure stuff, and also for 1/100 Johnny Lightning tanks.

Lion in the Stars wrote:

There's also a few Tamiya 1/100 birds. A6 and A7, Vietnam vintage. There's also an F4EJ. The A7 has a big load of bombs, too.

Sadly, it looks like the Aoshima "Battle Rotor" kits are OOP.

I'll look for those. I have 5 Snap-Tite planes and a helicopter now.

I took your advice and checked into Tamiya. I found some screaming deals, so I got a couple 1/100 models of Russian planes for four bucks a piece. I couldn't pass up either the Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle or the MiG-19 at that price, and by the time I build the eight or ten Snap-Tite models I bought, I might be ready to tackle these Tamiya kits.

While I was looking for some more Russian stuff to bolster the assets of the Museum of Universal Concord, and while I was looking to see just how many planes were available in 1/100 scale, from all branches of Revell, I ran across the Kamov Hokum on Hobblinc, from Revell of Germany. The Ka-50 "Black Shark" Scout Attack Helicopter is a bit pricey at around fifteen bucks, but it's also a Snap-Tite Easy Kit, molded in color (no painting!). And it's also the perfect item to be either an asset or an objective for the Novaboreans. They need a ground support aircraft for their burgeoning forces. Looks like a pretty badass little model, and should be good fun on the game table, driving out the invaders.

The airfield of "I didn't have to paint or even glue them" vintage planes grows by leaps and bounds. I'm really cheating, by also grabbing a couple inexpensive (on sale) diecast planes whenever I find one in my narrow "theme" band of "Cold War air power". I need to paint up my sci fi forces now, so they can battle there! It's tanks vs mechs vs borg-bots, in amidst the flaming planes! Add Hot Wheels and Matchbox to taste.