Paul821 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 inspired by a few off topic replies here This seems the best area to put this question in. What models of any genre look little like the real thing to become a what if? I could not find a more suitable area to place this thread. Key mention to date is the Aurora Mig 19 Ihttps://boxartden.com/collections/gallery/index.php/Model-Kit-Repository/Aurora/Aurora-Mig19-960 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinK Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Anything by Starfix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinK Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 There was an "F-19 Stealth Fighter" by Testors in the mid '80's. It was a mythical aircraft which looked more like the offspring of an SR-71/D-21 drone than the real F-117, but it appeared before the F-117 shape was known publicly. A good "what-if". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Those snap fix type kits that The Works were selling. 'Mustang', 'Spitfire' etc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul821 Posted July 11, 2021 Author Share Posted July 11, 2021 Everytime I go to Duxford I am puzzled by these IWM branded kits (not Injection moulded) https://shop.iwm.org.uk/p/26859/Supermarine-Spitfire-Construction-Set 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malpaso Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I have a 1/144 Mig 23 that isn’t! It’s a reasonable match for one of the Ye152 types that were published in the West as Mig23 years before Mig had the idea! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeronut Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Airfix's first attempt (1956) at a bf 109 was so rotund in the fuselage it looked as if someone had attached wings to Herman Goring. 1 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWFK10 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 The Testors F-119 was later re-released by Italeri, who also produced an equally fictitious Russian stealth aircraft: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-819-f-19-stealth--154706 https://www.italeri.com/en/product/2595 Another kit that went wrong because it was a guess at what a secret project actually looked like was the Revell USS Nautilus: http://www.modelerjoe.net/shipmodellist.html#RevellNautilus For the same reason the first issue of the Revell USS George Washington missile submarine had only 8 missile tubes. It was later retooled to have 16, like the actual sub. No such excuse for the Lindberg King George V class battleship, which has 10 instead of the correct 8 twin 5.25" turrets, plus another pair on top of B and Y 14" turrets instead of the octuple 2 pdrs that should be there. And two rudders and three screws, when the real ships had one and four respectively. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Ian- Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 14 minutes ago, AWFK10 said: The Testors F-119 was later re-released by Italeri, who also produced an equally fictitious Russian stealth aircraft: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-819-f-19-stealth--154706 https://www.italeri.com/en/product/2595 I have the Ferret in my stash, mainly bought for nostalgia value as I built one when I was a kid in the 80s, reminded me a little of Firefox at the time. When I eventually build it I'll go for a more interesting WHIF scheme than either of the 2 in the box though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 8 hours ago, Paul821 said: I am puzzled by these IWM branded kits The kids bought me a Haynes branded version a few years ago. I built it for the mancave, but it is pretty dreadful. (The instructions were awful too, BTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 On 7/11/2021 at 10:01 AM, Paul821 said: Everytime I go to Duxford I am puzzled by these IWM branded kits (not Injection moulded) https://shop.iwm.org.uk/p/26859/Supermarine-Spitfire-Construction-Set Hmm odd looking but think of the training ....young kid who can turn a spanner(the right way) priceless👍 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhutchi Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 On 7/11/2021 at 10:01 AM, Paul821 said: Everytime I go to Duxford I am puzzled by these IWM branded kits (not Injection moulded) https://shop.iwm.org.uk/p/26859/Supermarine-Spitfire-Construction-Set I saw this in WH Smiths yesterday and was quite shocked 😭 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 On 7/11/2021 at 9:22 AM, KevinK said: There was an "F-19 Stealth Fighter" by Testors in the mid '80's. It was a mythical aircraft which looked more like the offspring of an SR-71/D-21 drone than the real F-117, but it appeared before the F-117 shape was known publicly. A good "what-if". The design is used in Red Storm Rising which offers a really good excuse. I read a piece somewhere along the lines of; company heard snippets about several black projects Have Blue, Tacit Blue, and a couple of others and they got amalgamated into a kit. The best bit is idiots in the US Congress and Senate really thought Testors had got the details of real projects. If you want to get into vacforms then most of the Sanger range would sadly qualify, but my favourite offering would be most of Trumpy/HB British 1/48 aircraft. Oh and any Hobbycraft 1/48 Vampire. For armour again in 1/48 Academy are the latest to release a line of 1/48 motorised kits that are utterly awful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Hasegawa's first 1/72nd F-117A kit was based on the deliberately misleading first DoD photograph: https://www.scalemates.com/nl/kits/hasegawa-51516-us-air-force-stealth-fighter--183856 Cheers, Andre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Lindbergs 'Russian Jet Fighter' (MiG 19 ) https://www.scalemates.com/kits/lindberg-561-98-russian-jet-fighter--1172284 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 For me, it's got to be the old Revell 1/72 P-51D. Awful! I think it looks more like a model of a half scale homebuild version of a P-51 built in some guy's shed and fitted with a lawn mower engine. 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Revell was the first to produce a model of the B-2 Spirit but very little was known about it at the time. It’s cool looking, but wrong. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-4577-stealth-b-2-advanced-technology-bomber--158443 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 I’m surprised nobody has mentioned any Starfix kits yet: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 31 minutes ago, VMA131Marine said: I’m surprised nobody has mentioned any Starfix kits yet: Never thought it would be something I would ever say, but the Starfix Mustang looks more accurate than the Revell kit! 🤣 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 On 10/03/2022 at 02:59, fightersweep said: Never thought it would be something I would ever say, but the Starfix Mustang looks more accurate than the Revell kit! 🤣 Starfix looks a bit like P-51 H, Revell looks like nothing on earth ! Wulfman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 18 minutes ago, Wulfman said: Revell looks like nothing on earth ! With the exception of this perhaps? 🤣 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyB Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 The original Italeri Mil 28 comes to mind. BlllyB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamS Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Airfix/Heller/Revel 1/72 Concorde …….🤔🤢🤮💩 Graham 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upnorth Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 On 3/10/2022 at 2:30 AM, fightersweep said: For me, it's got to be the old Revell 1/72 P-51D. Awful! I think it looks more like a model of a half scale homebuild version of a P-51 built in some guy's shed and fitted with a lawn mower engine. The utter inaccuracy of that kit is trumped only by Revell's inexcusable level of cheek to see fit to reissue a 1963 vintage kit in the 2010s! What were they thinking (or maybe smoking)?! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 New rule for this thread, we need pics or it didn't happen 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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