Now I had never built a Phantom in 1/72 before. 1/330 yes. 1/285 yes. 1/32 (!) yes. But never 1/72.
Even without such experience, however, I soon spotted that a fairly significant part was missing. For the moment I'll let you guess what that is...
Tuesday 6 January 2015
FROG Phantom fun - part 1
Now I had never built a Phantom in 1/72 before. 1/330 yes. 1/285 yes. 1/32 (!) yes. But never 1/72.
Even without such experience, however, I soon spotted that a fairly significant part was missing. For the moment I'll let you guess what that is...
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Oh that's a bit spooky Tim, I was just looking up FROG kits last night for nostalgia sake. What I didn't know is a lot of FROG's original kits were taken over by other companies after they ceased trading. Apparently FROG aficionados call these kits 'frog spawn'!
I remember - as a kid - there being a pecking order for buying kits. You bought AIrfix first, if you couldn't buy Airfix you bought Revell, and if you couldn't but Revell you resorted to FROG (Matchbox came later to provide more variety).
I was surprised to read that FROG kits were sometimes not as bad as reputation paints them. (Hence Revell taking over some of the moulds.)
The one FROG kit I can clearly remember making was their Vultee Vengance...
Sorry, trip down memory lane there!
I'm not a builder of planes myself but I always enjoy to see what the others make of it. Looking forward to the progress of this model!
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Peter
I'm looking forward to finding out what the missing part is. It wouldn't be the tail fin by any chance?
Stephen Beat
Interesting. I remember Frog as being generally pretty good kits, and at least as good as Airfix. After Frog folded some of the kits turned up in the UK under the Novo brand - made in the USSR! The characteristics of those early (c.1977) Novo kits included poor parts fit and decals which rather unhelpfully dissolved in water!
Peter
As my work on this blog demonstrates, I'm not much of a kit builder myself!
Martin Rapier
That might have been less inconvenient!
Bullpups?
I did not realize you Brits used them until I looked it up.
The fit seems okay. What is the plastic like?
Paul Foster
The plastic is just fine - not unlike Matchbox or recent Airfix.
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