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This kit was issued in the mid 1950s so no problem with meeting the timeline requirement. I do however have some reservations accepting Lindberg as a "Lesser Known Manufacturer". At that time I was just entering my teenage years and had cut my teeth in aeromodelling by carving up bits of balsa. I saw my first plastic models in my first year of high school, walking up the main street from the train station to Penrith High. There in the newsagent's window were some of these new fangled plastic model kits. The names I remember were Aurora, Lindberg and Hawk. I saved up my allowance, (skipping lunch helped), and bought a Lindberg P-47 - I think it may have been an N. Putting it together was a breeze after building balsa models. Paint was purloined from Dad's supply in the shed. I do remember that I used a lot of red. I progressed on from there and even built my first biplane, an Aurora D.H.4. There were also other temptations like XF-88, F-90, P-38, not to mention Aurora's biplanes, all in 1/48, (or thereabouts). A bit later some upstart from England named Airfix, also introduced a range of kits but, these were more like toys in little plastic bags, in some minute scale, not real man's models in 1/48! In later years I did go to the dark side and build some 1/72 models but I soon reformed and went back to 1/48, the only true scale. So, for a trip down memory lane I will be building Lindberg's VOO DOO. That's what it is called on the box and the instructions, although these days we are more familiar with the designation McDonnell XF-88. To describe the kit as basic would be an understatement but, it does have a number of 'features'. These include engines in the fuselage which can be seen by opening a panel on the fuselage top, and moveable ailerons and rudder. It even came with a stand. The raised detail and rivets are also excruciatingly bad. Needless to say these will not be retained as features on my model. Cockpit, wheel wells, gun barrel fairings etc will all have to be added. Peter M
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