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Guess what I found

Post by B17Fortress » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:05 am

I was clearing out the shed, when I found a great big box in the back covered in dust. My wife says she has never seen it before, so I opened it up and guess what I found: a junkyard of 1:18 bits. There were heads from figures, broken airplane wings, canopys, landing gear, and ripped boxes, but absolutely nothing of real use. I have only had one 1:18 plane, and Me 262 that I bought and sold in the same day, so I don't see how this box could be mine. Maybe the previous house owners left it in the shed when they moved out?
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Re: Guess what I found

Post by Razor17019 » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:23 am

Can you tell what type of plane the parts come from?
You might have some takers on here.
I would be interested in the heads...
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Re: Guess what I found

Post by flyboy_fx » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:17 am

I need a complete me 262 nightfighter canopy.
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Re: Guess what I found

Post by Jay » Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:08 pm

I need parts for a 1/18 Fw190. Complete canopy, landing gear, rear stabs!
"you get in a steep dive in this thing and you've got almost no maneuvarabilty at all. You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with the broad side of another barn"

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Re: Guess what I found

Post by Jay » Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:10 pm

I seem to remember someone on here was also asking about a Spitfire Canopy? (See what you've started B17!)
"you get in a steep dive in this thing and you've got almost no maneuvarabilty at all. You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with the broad side of another barn"

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Re: Guess what I found

Post by Jnewboy » Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:46 pm

I need a 1/18 Do 335, if thats in the box ill pay for shipping.

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Re: Guess what I found

Post by B-29 » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:45 pm

I need the tailwheel doors for a P-51 and any helicopter parts if they are in there.
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Re: Guess what I found

Post by mikeg » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:28 pm

I need a canopy for a 21st yellow 7 262, a 2x4 fell on it while I was making more display room- the landing gear were fine for some reason. All 5 or 6 pieces were glued back together, but something about it just ain't quite right...

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Re: Guess what I found

Post by B17Fortress » Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:21 pm

I gues I wasn't clear. This is a mess of a junkyard! These were at the bottom of the box scattered beneath old furniture. The heads are all re-painted or scratched up horribly, the airplane parts look like something from a nuclear explosion (there actually are some burnmarks on the pieces). I did research on my own, and I can not identify anything to any particular model. Looking at the mess on my computer-side table, I am now wondering how much of this actually is 1:18; it could be a smorgasborg of different scales.

Something else I forgot to mention: My wife and I moved into this house in 2004, so any 1:18 would have been pre-2004 era.

Sorry to those that were hoping for a little something, but there is nothing really worthwhile to use unless you are interested in a plane that was vapourized by an Alien anti-matter beam and there is almost nothing left.
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Re: Guess what I found

Post by B17Fortress » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:36 am

Here is the final blow: I got up today, and the pile on my computer table is gone, and I don't see any of the pieces in the garbage can, so I have no idea what happened to them (but as long as their out of my hand, I'm happy!)
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Re: Guess what I found

Post by Razor17019 » Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:28 am

B17Fortress wrote:Here is the final blow: I got up today, and the pile on my computer table is gone, and I don't see any of the pieces in the garbage can, so I have no idea what happened to them (but as long as their out of my hand, I'm happy!)
A 1/18 scale bermuda triangle is over B17Fortress' house!
Beware!!! :o
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Post by B17Fortress » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:21 pm

:shock: :shock: :shock:
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Re: Guess what I found

Post by flyboy_fx » Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:10 pm

B17, you should have told me earlier that there was nothing good in that box. >_<
That was a waste of a trip to your house. :lol: Jk Jk
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Re: Guess what I found

Post by B17Fortress » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:21 pm

Time to hide the wife!

Yeah, it would have been nice if there had actually been something nice in there, but my wife was able to make a lamp that was also in the box look really good (at least that's what shes telling me to make the box discovery seem like not just a waste of a find) Imagine what you could have hidden in your sheds!
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