Ep. 9 - Thrift Store Find: OLD Plastic Models - Monogram, Airfix, Matchbox & MPC Kits 

The Cessna 180 is my favorite of the lot. I built it when i was a kid around the time my dad's friend took us all for a ride in his Cessna 170 and he was in the Civil Air Patrol.The Monogram B-25 is the first model i ever remember building. I brush painted it in Testors silver. It looked beautiful first few flights around the back yard and parked on the patio in the sunlight!

Good effort ...some are real dogs but that Halifax is gonna be a goodie

Great haul and seriously Jammy!!!

Great haul

Good video, and keep on scouting around for model kits. My first choice is the MPC Dornier in Condor Legion markings. Second choice is the Matchbox Jaguar, Cheerio.

That would be awesome find them at all, let along bring FACTORY SEALED and at $2 each basically. I say build one of the Monogram box scale series, and one of the matchbox planes. Maybe the Invader and the Brit Bomber. Nice score!!!

The Halifax was the last model I made before taking a 35 year break from it all. I remember the canopy was an awful fit but an impressive beast of a plane.

You nearly stole those kits! Great haul. I don’t mind the old kits either. I’m a modeler, not an assembler. We can always make our own resin parts now. Norseman gets my vote. I love the Connie too tho.

I built the Jaguar when I was 13ish. Got it as birthday gift.

i think someone has shrunk wrapped them more recent , airfix never shrink wrapped kits as far as i remember , for your dornier the tail wouldn't just be red it would have a white circle with black swastika on the red ,, superb haul though buddy

Some real gems there. I'm going to hang out at thrift stores now...

What a great haul! You have inspired me to search through the local thrift stores, garage & estate sales. Mu first vote is for the Airfix Super Mystere and yes, I agree that painting it in Israeli AF colors is the way to go. My second vote is for the Monogram B-25, I built both that kit and the B-26. I grew up and lived on the NW side of Chicago. Monogram was located in the nearby suburb of Morton Grove. And thanks for the tribute to the memory of Shep Paine. He was and is the #1 modeling hero from my childhood. He and Francois Verlinden will always be the best! Enjoy the builds Tom!

Nice haul, gonna have to vote for the Halifax followed by the mig.

Hey Tom, Indiana Jones would be chuffed with your bodacious bounty of thrift store bought model kits. I'm green with envy!!!! You have Lady Luck in your hip pocket when it comes to finding great model kit acquisitions. My vote for your next model build would be the Cessna 180 and the F-86D Sabre "with ground crew figures". Oh. and great job on the video. You have a real knack for on camera narration. Happy modeling my friend. Bill

what a score...

Great find!

Cool!!!!!!!!!!!

What a terrific haul! You've been very fortunate in your model hunting this summer. Those MPC profile series kits were great. My brothers and I built many of them. I think my first was the F4U-4 Corsair. I would personally build the Norseman in WW2 markings as an homage to the great Glenn Miller. (Any chance those decals are for s/n 44-70285? That's the Norseman in which Miller perished.) My second choice would be the Connie. Why? Take one look at those beautiful lines and the question is answered.

What a steal on these vintage kits. Have fun building them.

First choice; The Constellation, second the Halifax. The Constellation one of my absolute favorite planes she is just a gorgeous aircraft.

First Choice: Halifax Second Choice: Super Mystere :)

Like the MPC Profile Series, Revell had the 1/72 scale Collectors Choice Series in the mid-senties. Eight WW II fighters and eight WW I fighters. The MPC series was vastly more expansive, including jets, multi-engine bombers, fighters, and helicopters.

you did really well on the matchbox price , almost for free

I got the 1/72 MPC C-130 in Coast Guard markings with the crew figures and "bonus decals"-- but the decals were for an A-1 Skyraider, a B-25 and I think an F-86! The Profile Series were great and could be bought anywhere - especially the "drug stores." Having a choice of decals was something back then. Still have a Skyservant half built and the Revell-Germany rebox of the Norseman. Maybe a bit basic, but they are great subjects.

I would say the Connie, but honestly I’d hold onto it as a collection kit. My vote is the Mystere followed by the Dornier.

Stig Svanberg: I also built that Halifax bomber. Think it was in the early sixties. But in those younger days there was a lack of patience.

i think your first model was the b-25 H. i built that one in the 1960s, along with the b-26 invader.

I have thrift stores all over the place, and have NEVER found any model kits in any of them.

B-24 and Avrolancaster dambuster 1/72

My wife bought a bunch of armor kits for me at a sale. Various scales and manufacturers, it was roughly 25 kits and she paid $25 for the lot. Decals were crap, but all were complete except for the Tamiya M3 Stuart. Had to scratch build the lower hull tub for that, but still came out ahead. Still building on that haul.

I love that 1/41 Cessna 180.

Great video, always appreciate a good haul. I have around 200 space marines and a couple of vehicles from 1998 to pick up next time I see my dad, he found them in a charity shop for a grand total of £8 (about 12 bucks) currently. I don't even play WH40K but at that price I would be mad not to pick them up, was amused when my dad texted and asked if that was a good price, I told him , you're basically robbing them.

No such luck in the uk, only place is ebay if we get lucky, shame because I love building the old models from childhood....58 yrs of age now.

pretty good on saying dassault super mystere , for an american ! , great haul

Though your garage sale score IS hard to beat; this find has to be in second place! Not only did you find these vintage kits factory sealed, you even paid "period-correct prices" for them! To answer your question, if I were you, I would build the Monogram Cessna 180 first, as you seem especially stoked about that one. My second choice - if I were you - would be the Airfix Super Mystere B.2 in Israeli markings. (If you're feeling especially adventurous, you may want to consider making a later version with the extended tailpipe as shown in the photo you have at 7:01. This was done by the IAF in an attempt to protect the aircraft from heat-seeking missiles that homed-in on the exhaust.) But whatever you choose, Happy Modeling, and build them all in good health!

Buenas noches. Que buena cacería. Has cobrado unas hermosas piezas! El precio, insuperable. Escribo desde Colombia. El mercado de ese tipo de cosas (ventas de garaje o tiendas de segunda mano de juguetes no existe). Disfrútalo, que buen pasatiempo. Personalmente iniciaría con el modelo Cessna 180. Para este es mi voto. Muchas gracias por compartir tus experiencias. (Sorry, i don’t speak english. But i use google translate).

SCORE!!!!!

The constellation is the reason why all modern aircraft have rounded windows!

i had lots and lots of profile books and remember the Do-17 model. i built mine from monogram. it was a 1/72 scale Do-17 Z. xxjane.

Awesome score. 1st- jaguar ss/100 2nd-cessna 180....

Build the float plane, or gerrman bomber D-117, looking forward to the finished results

Dude! You keep finding these kits! Hard to pick which to build first 🤔

You should buy kits to build them! A box sitting on the shelf is a kit wasted! So First Choice is All and Second choice is All

I scored a sealed Jo ham kit for £25 !! Last year. 😁😁😁

Desde Colombia. Segunda opción: Matchbox Jaguar SS/100. Hermoso.

Choice #1: Norseman, Choice #2: Cessna

The wife votes 1st - Jaugar SS/100 and 2nd - MiG-15... She likes Red! ;)

Norseman&2nd Meg

I'm jealous......

When I was young we flew the constellation from Germany back to America

Avoid ebay as some like to charge vintage prices for reissues brought back by take 2.