Odd ball kits....

As a kid years ago I had some cool but odd or strange kits back then was wondering what was made and out there too that fit in this category of kits made now or once....

I had these once years ago...

Bionic Man repair..and..Man and Shark cage with shark.
Aurora large scale race seines series kits.
James Bond spy car
Aurora Moon Bus
Monogram large scale funny car Mean Maverick
Aurora prehistoric seines sets of cave and and animals
MPC Pontiac Grand Prix (Superfly) custom
AMT Terminate of Thrills car and jump ramp sets
AMT Joey Chitwoods stunt car and ramp sets
Aurora hanging prisoner in cage
AMT Used Cars movie kit..had a 70s Camaro in the kit but showed a beat up 67 Ford Galaxy on the box( love to have that box..!)

So what all do you all remember or have..????

I remember these thing being sold in newsagents in the late 70's early 80's.
Odd Bods they were called.

I remember having and building the Airfix James Bond car in 1:24. Painted it in Gold.



There is one on UK eBay right now for £149.95 plus £8.00 postage!!!!!!

Skid...

Yep that is the one I had many years ago too...nice kit...Id like to have enough Bond vehicles to make a diorama sometime. Other odd or different kits that were great I remember are....

AMT 70s Red Alert race team set...Chevy van and car trailer with the drag car
AMT Ford Early Modified race team set...loved that one.
AMT Penske race team set.
Johan Haulin-hearse.
Johan Roarin-Rambulance.
Frog..? large scale Ambulance.
Lindberg large scale custom show car Diamond Duster...very detailed kit.
Renwal Visible chassis and engine.
MPC early 70s Dodge drag van.
The AMT/MPC Zinger kits.
Pyro VW Beetle.
IMC drag VW Beetle.

So many odd ball kits out there, where to look first. Some of these kits come to mind when I think of odd ball kits.

Oh.... I like that Bleazy Rider kit...cool..!!! I need you guys to keep your fingers crossed for me on something...

I might have a line on an old IMC Touch Tone Terror kit missing a few parts...been wanting it for decades now...even just pieces of one or a box,etc. As you know i lost many of mine in the storms here a few years ago one was my childhood build up of one.

When I was a newspaper delivery boy in the early 60's I got into modelling cars.  At the time, Gowland & Gowland 1/32 scale kits were still available, but I was interested in the better quality 1/24 new releases.  Years later, I began to collect built and unbuilt examples of those unique gems.  Early quality suffered greatly in warpage and many plastic formulations were seen in their lifetime.  Some releases even featured a cartoon-like driver.  These are some of the later versions I built myself.











Revell, at some time, acquired the rights to produce them and even came out with action versions.  A cable driven plunger allowed the user to pull the toy around and actuate a plunger which raised the rear end up like it was going over a bump.






Historic kits that are fun to build (sometimes).

Those historic kits are beautifully done!!!!  They may lack great detail, but your work makes me wish I'd built some!  Thanx.
  As to oddball kits, I did do a couple "Weird-Ohs" back then.  I remember one that was a coffin and probably Davey on his motorcycle.  As my interest flagged in model-building, I did do some inexpensive 1/72 scale WWII planes.  They were all brush painted and I was proud of my work.  Good days, wish I could go back in time!

Continuing on this thread, here is another aspect of early modelling.  A Pennsylvania company named Hudson Miniatures put out automobile models around 1947.  They were mostly made of balsa wood with a few plastic parts and some pot metal castings.  Later, they switched the pot metal parts to plastic castings.  I've only started one of these so far, and they really do need modelling experience.  These are 1/16th scale with 1:1 instructions to simplify shaping of the balsa parts.  I've collected a few of the 18 kits so far.  They also made some all plastic kits in the 50's that were later picked up by Revell.  















This is as far as I've gotten with one of the kits.  The balsa was all broken up in the kit, so I decided to make the body pieces up using cut up aluminum cans.  It doesn't look too bad, but it will be rather delicate to handle during the painting phase due to the thinness of the aluminum.


This is one of Hudson's all-plastic kits.  It's scaled down to 1/32 and was later bought out by Revell and added to their Gowland & Gowland line acquisition.

I had one of the balsa "Hudson" kits too! The Aurora company had a bunch of pretty large scale "Monster kits" as well, one I did build. There was also a Scots girl and I recall a couple good size knights-in-armor kits. Many oddball models back when the hobby was in its prime!

Just thought of others for the list..some are got to haves....

Terminator skeleton figure kit
Monogram Going Buggy dune buggy
Show rods...Milk Truck...Pink Panther..OutHouse
Monogram Dessert Rat 4x4 Chevy van
Smokey and the Bandit Snowmans rig set
Monogram...Vandal...Vanbulance...Sand Shark..Goovy Grader...Flap Jack..Un-Real Roller..etc.