[WWI] Lindberg Jenny

[Dave Calhoun]

>Terry asks:  "How does the building of the old collectable kits i.e.
>(Aurora,Renwal and others) resonate with the group! Are they too 
>inaccurate? Too valuable?"

I for one built quite a few of the Aurora / KB kits in the early 1990's, including the Albatros C.III, Nieuport 28, Sopwith triplane, Pfalz D.III and Gotha G.V, as well as a Monogram Fokker D.VII, Testors Nieuport 17 and Smer Ansaldo SVA 5 and DH2.  I detailed all of them quite a bit, using white metal parts from Aeroclub for guns, wheels and engines, Fotocut photoetched details, and strip styrene to scratchbuild the interior fuselage framework.  Took quite a bit of work to get them to look decent, and probably are eclipsed by the out of the box details in the new Eduard & Roden kits, but I still have most of them on my display shelf and they look god parked next to the newer kits.  An excellent paint job and some nicely added details can make even these old ones look pretty decent.  So to answer the question to build these classics or not... your decision to make, but I have decided that whenever a newer highly detailed kit comes out of something that I want to build, i will sell the collectible older ones and buy a new more detailed one to replace it in my unbuilt kit store.  I have done this with quite a few of the Blue Max kits, replaced the Nieuport 28, Sopwith Camel, SE5a and DH2 with new Eduard and Roden kits.  I would rather spend my limited hobby time assembling a nicely detailed kit that fits good out of the box with rigging added instead of correcting fit problems, scratchbuilding or adding missing or incorrect details.  I can probably build 2 Eduard kits in the same time it takes to complete one Blue Max kit.  But the other side of the question is, if it's the only one available and you want it,  why not build a DH-10, Gotha G.V or Vickers Gunbus?
Dave