I have been building 1/72 scale models, mainly What Ifs, for over 40 years. In the early 70s, I consigned a bunch of models to the "scrapheap", but kept them around all these years for spare parts. Recently I gave most of the scrapheap models to a fellow modeler at work, who is a genius at re-building old kits. He is MCollazo, who has posted on this site in the recent past.
He took my old Aurora AH-56A Cheyenne, and totally restored it; now it is displayed along with other What Ifs. I never thought I would see the Cheyenne again, and now they are extremely hard to get (and very expensive). Like a fool many years ago, I scrapped another Cheyenne, but this one is too far gone to restore.
Wes W.
If you don't want the second scrapped Cheyenne I'll take it off your hands.
Restoring an old model can be fun, especially one I built as a kid. It can be fun rebuilding it with modern parts to see how time has changed the art.
Glad to help.
I've done quite a few restorations of my old models, and it's hard to get it nice :banghead: Currently working on an old 1/48 A-10 that will become a QA-10 (aka the unmanned replacement for the A-10), to supplement my almost completed RW 1/48 A-10 :wacko:
Your work is always an inspiration, Mr Collazzo, and that Cheyenne is especially impressive.
:bow: :bow:
Brian da Basher
Most of my scrapheap birds are the ones that have lost parts, so they wind up getting used for parts - I've got a handful of Fulcrums that have been consigned to the boneyard, along with others, like the Mi-24V that got used for my Super A.
As to consigning the second one - well, hey, it happens. Hindsight's always 20/20.