SPA Modeler

Without having to clog up my first Nostalgic thread, I decided to post all the kits, I've done in my youth, teens right up to my very early twenties. I will start with all the Monogram kits I've done.

Snap kits
Gremlin Funny Car
Whiplash Camaro Funny Car
Troublemaker El Camino Funny Car
Earthquake Vega Funny Car
Fiend Charger Funny Car
Fake Out Mustang Funny Car

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BADMAN '55 Chevy
'56 Chevy
'55 Chevy Street Machine – have another one now
GMC “Jimmy”
High Roller '69 Camaro 4x4 – remember that one?
'69 Street Camaro - orange kit
'69 Camaro Z/28 - white kit
Heavy Chevy '70 Chevelle
'57 Street Vette
Corvette Pace Car
El Camino Camper '79?
'70 Malibu
'66 Malibu SS – black kit with flames
'86 Monte Carlo SS
'57 Chevy Nomad – yellow kit. I still have this one in my starge chest
Chevy 4x4 Stepside Vampire Chevy Van
Off-Road Van
Chevy Street Van – black kit
Vega Mini Van
'70 Challenger T/A
Dodge Ram Charger Van
7-Up Car in a Bottle – remember that one?
The Classic Series '34 Duesenberg SJ Roadster – my sister and I agreed we should tackle one of early – mid 30s classic luxury automobiles of its time. I think she did the Rolls Royce.

Mustang Cobra (1979 edition)
'55 Ford panel Truck
GMC Sport Pickup
Jeep CJ-7 – blue kit
'71 Hemi Cuda
Cop Out Duster Funny Car
'77 Trans Am with the Gold Chrome sprues
'85 Trans Am
Porche 911 Carrera – orange kit
Red Baron
'31 Rolls Royce Phantom
L'il Coffin
Cherry Bomb
Bad Medicine
Ice “T”
Paddy Wagon
Rommel's Rod – the original release
T'Rantula
Tijuana Taxi
Vandal and Vanbulance
Chevy Bison snap kit (Semi truck kit)
Chevy Sport Pickup – black kit
Quicksilver (silver kit) and Bad Actor (white kit) Chevy panel truck
Chevy LUV Stepside
Mojave Mule
2 ½ Ton Truck – WW2 truck
Fast Buck – now who doesn't remember that one?? An actual piggy bank model kit LOL!!
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Aircrafts and Armor

P-39 Airacobra
B-17G Flying Fortress 1/48 scale
Boeing F4B-4 1/72 scale
B-36 Peacemaker 1/48 scale
Goshawk F11C-2 1/72 scale
P-40B Tiger Shark or Warhawk – can't remember which.
Hawk P-6E 1/72 scale
Helldiver SB2C
Dornier Arrow Do 335
Douglas A-1E Skyraider “Flying Dumptruck”
B-26 Invader
SBD Dauntless
TBD Devastator Yellow Wings
FW 190
F4F Wildcat
F6F-5 Hellcat
F7F-3 Tigercat
Hawker Typhoon
P-38 Lightning
B-26 Marauder – The same kit Carlos did that I really want from him
Bf-109
Mitsubishi Zero A6M5
B-25J Mitchell 1/68 scale
Twin Mustang – I've done 2.
P-51B Mustang Ding Hao
P-61 Black Widow 1/48 scale – I may find one and have Carlos build it for me.
Piper Tri Pacer
P-47D Razorback
F4U-4 Corsair
Kingfisher Float plane
B-52 Stratofortress 1/48 scale
B-58 Hustler
A-4E Skyhawk
Fairchild A-10 1/72 scale – this was the very first A-10 kit that came out.
F-16 fighting Falcon'87 kit and '76 kit that was in prototypeish scheme of red, white and blue
F-16 Thunderbirds Team
F-14A Tomcat – one of the early kits
F-104 Starfighter
F-15 Eagle '79 kit
F-4 Phantom
F-100 Super Sabre
F-86 Sabre jet
F-5E Tiger II
F-105 Thunderchief
F-84F Thunderstreak
A-7 Corsair
Huey Hog Gunship Helicopter
Huey Cobra
Patton Tank
Sherman “Screamin' Mimi” Rocket Launcher kit

That's quite an impressive list of completions. Wow!

Yeah. Recently, I realized there are more kits I didn’t mention on the lists. I know I’ve done a 65 and 66 or 67 GTO. There’s probably at least another dozen kits I had forgotten about.

My guess estimate, I probably done at least 250 - 300 kits during my youth and teen years

Wow. That's insane.

No USS Arizona? I think my mom gave me that kit 3 times....lol

No. I did the USS New Jersey though. Wished I had done the Arizona though. Other ships on top of my head are:

The Mayflower
USS Constitution
USS Fletcher
USS North Carolina
Graf Spree (I think)
Ark Royal
That large PT-109 with battery operated propellers.. I used to put it in the pool to play with. LOL!!
USS Hornet
USS Oriskany
USS Wasp
USS Intrepid
USS Forrestal

How about the Dodge 440 6-pack

Yeah... I may have done one similar to that. Like I said I'm sure there are quite a few I've forgotten about.

How I was able to do that many kits then is saving up my allowances and grandparents buying me a kit if I ask. And kits were cheap... around $5 - $10 depending on the kit. Most car kits ran about $5-$6 range. We had the small square Testors bottles. Model Master hasn't came out in the 70s yet.

I want to say that Model Master came out in the late 70s. Around the time that Testors started releasing kits under their label in the end opening boxes with the Yellow border. Brookhurst Hobbies was the first shop by me that I remember carrying the line.

Quite the list!

I have no idea how many kits I built as a flea, but they were almost all airplanes. Lost in the mists of time.