Vintage Out Of Box

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Group Build Title: Vintage Out Of Box

Group Build Leader(s): @SSGToms

Group Build Description: From time to time we all yearn for a “palette cleanser”, a simple build. So, here it is. The kit must be at least 25 years old, so we eliminate included PE, resin, 3D or metal barrels. Just a styrene kit. No aftermarket, no scratchbuilding. This is supposed to be fun.

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Completion Award: I will ask Doug @Damraska to come up with a nifty badge for it.

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Definitions of OOB seem to vary. Can you specify how you want this one to be?

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Kit decals, unless they shatter. Then replacements can be used. Stretched sprue is good. If you want to make seatbelts out of the instruction sheet, go for it.

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Stretching the sprues and cutting up the instructions make sense, but how about using the box itself? :rofl:

Sounds like a fun (but frustrating!) campaign - I’m in.

PS: Being over 25 years old doesn’t really help me narrow things down in my enormous stash!

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Or maybe just define/re-title it as Last Century OOB builds…noting for the mathematically challenged that the year 2000 was the last year of the previous century.

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Sounds right up my street. Got quite a few that would qualify.

But just to clarify, do reissues qualify? Eg, the recent Airfix ‘Vintage Classics’ or Revell’s repops of Matchbox?

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Yes, reissues qualify. As long as the molds are 25 years old, it’s in.

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Cool. Thanks.

I’m good myself, plenty of old original issues in the stash, but I had a feeling that the question would come up.

A good excuse to finally build that Matchbox Strikemaster. Every time I see it I mean to.

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This is something I might actually complete.I have a Matchbox Comet tank , a Airfix Stug, several ME 262’s and ( I think) its a Monogram Douglas Invader some (hopefully ‘pigs ears into a silk purse’ Smer 1/48 WW1 fighter planes for a start, plus a shed load of 25% finished 1/35 armour…I’m in, Thanks.

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I want to confirm this one is fine. The original sprues are from 1988, but extra parts were added to the version I have from 2002 (the extra part is simply the tarp covering the box).

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Yeah, I’ll say yes to that.

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Yay! Thanks Matt

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How about something like this?

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This is the only way to work. I’ve become where the joy of just finishing something. Between the wifes disorder and my depressed state it is sometimes it is just a challenge to work. Hell I have four inprogress.

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What about pre-2001 kits with PE/Barrels included?

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I have seven kits in some degree of progress LMFAO.

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I must beg to differ, good sir, 1999 was the last year of the previous century. I present as evidence Prince’s hit 1999. :wink: :innocent:

This looks like a fun campaign. I have an old Frog kit…

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The spiders are a nice touch.

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Easy: leave the canopy loose so you can add it after the GB is over. Or when the GB is complete and it doesn’t have to remain OOB convert it to a mini-Technical with some oversize weaponry in the back for navigating the back streets of Japanese cities hunting marauding kaiju…
:t_rex:
Cheers,

M

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I am absolutely sure I have something old enough for this… :thinking:

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