An Aviation Enthusiast´s Kit Collection Home How it All Began Plastic Kits 50´s & 60´s Plastic Kits 1970 up Various Topics Books 50´s & 60´s Contact         back to How it all Began back to Revell Revell Odd Scale Kits I Remember These are the Revell kits I remember to have had in my second phase of modelling. They are odd scale ( box-scale)  kits as opposed to the WW1 and WW2 fighters of constant 1/72 scale of my third phase of modelling. When in 2003 I started collecting kits I remember to have built in my youth the XSL-01 Space Ship, the helicopter Sikorsky HO4S, the Bell X-5, the Cobra II racer, the aircraft carrier Essex, and the historical ship Bounty came to my mind immediately. A small uncertainity arises as the names of the aircraft carriers Essex and  Bonne Homme Richard both sound very familiar to me. Nontheless I maintain to have built the Essex aircraft carrier and may have got aquiainted with the then rather unfanmiliar but conspicious name Bonne Homme Richard from a later catalogue. Another uncertainity about the issue, but not with the type, arises with the Bounty. The first thought is that I had the 1960's issue with furled sails, but there is a small probability that I had the 1950's issue without sails. Comparing the boxarts I tend to the 1960' issue, too Opposite to all kits listed above the Skywarrior only came to my mind sometime in mid 2014. Browsing the 1961 Observer's Book of Aircraft I came accross the Douglas Skywarrior depicted with a wonderful inflight photo similar to that . Suddenly it came to my mind, that I had the Skywarrior as a Revell kit, too, in gey plastic. I remembered clearly the ball mounting of the remotedly controlled gun turret in the tail and the appearance of the engine inlets.  I do not know if I had the original 1957 issue or the 1961 re-issue. So I will show both variants as with the ships. Remark: Dates of issue accordig to Graham [1 ] if not otherwise stated. H-1800 XSL Manned Spaceship. "Type S" boxart. Issued 1958-1959 © cjk dd H-172 Sikosky HO4S-1 (issued 1961-1970). Famous aircraft Series I may have had the Famous Artist Series with he same boxart. Reissue of H--214. © cjk H-187 Bell X-5. Issued 1960-1963. © cjk H-144 Bell Cobra II .Issued 1962-1966. Reissue of H-222 (1955) with mould changes. © cjk < larger resolution >  <  yellow parts > H-308:89  Guided Missile Subnarine Nautilus. Pre "Type S" boxart. Issued 1955-1961. H-353 U.S.S Essex.Isued 1958 -1970. This picture is from a SSP re-issue and not from an original "Type S"  box. © cjk < larger resolution >   H-384  U.S.S. Bonne Homme Richard. Issued 1961-1970 . Reissue of H-353 pitcured left. © cjk < larger resolution > H-326 HMS Bounty with furled sails. Issued 1961-1970. Reissue of H-327 Bounty without sails.© cjk  < parts >                                               H-327 HMS Bounty without sails (issued 1956-1961, [1] ).  To the courtesy of Alan Bussie© http://www.oldmodelkits.com H-241  Douglas A3D Skywarrior  first "S" type issued 1957-1960.© cjk < larger resolution > H-177 Douglas  A3D Skywarrior reissue of H-241 (picture left ) in Famous Artist Series, isued 1961-1963. To the courtesy of mue © ___________________________ Sources [ 1 ] Graham, Thomas: Remembering Revell Model Kits. Atglen: Schiffer, 2002. ISBN: 0-7643-1696-6             back to How it all Began back to Revell Home How it All Began Plastic Kits 50´s & 60´s Plastic Kits 1970 up Various Topics Books 50´s & 60´s Contact Started: 10.09.2014 Revised last: Author: cjk  © cjk