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| I had never seen one of these kits
in the 1950's. While at Oshkosh, 1990, I was in an antique store
near Milwaukee and saw five Hobby-Time XB-51 kits in a corner. They were marked $5 each. I left the store with all five for $15.00. Since that time I have seen them at toy and antique shows for $20 each. At one show they were asking $25 ea. At the end of the show I was able to fill out my collection at $6 ea. I don't see them as a great collector's item; they are very, very basic kits. However, at the last kit collector's show I attended in Buena Park I saw some marked $40 each. They come with plans, templates, vacumm formed canopy, plastic stand, die cut balsa wood wings, stabs, rudder, and blocks of balsa wood. The fuselage is partially shaped, but the nacelles on the XB-51 are rectangular blocks of balsa wood. Wheels are hard rubber. I checked the wingspan scale of the Venom and it came out at approximately 1/63. I have added (8-12-03) a Hobby-Time kit I did not know existed. It's a vacuumed formed flying model of a F3H Demon. On 09-01-04 I added images of an injected plastic A-26 kit by Hobby-Time. On 09-25-04 I added an injected plastic Hobby-Time Bell XV-3 Convertiplane kit. |
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| The three kits below are made from thin vacumed
formed plastic and could be built as flying models that were launched with a rubber band or as a display model with a vac formed stand included. The Demon kit is owned by Tory Mucaro and he built it as a display model. He made his own stand and used aftermarket decals. I own all three kits in this series and they are large; between 1/32 and 1/24 scale. |
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| Douglas F4D-1
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| The XV-3 kit is a little larger than 1/72 scale I believe. |
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