Seen and photographed in the Hiller Aerospace Museum were a number of 1940’s and 1950’s vintage wood aircraft model kits, ranging from about $12 to about $30. Made by the likes of “Guillow,” “Hobby-Time,” “Maircraft,” “Eagle Solid,” “Strombecker,” “Ray” and “Comet,” I’ve never seen these outside of history books. Apparently someone bought a stash of them back in the day and never did anything with ’em, and they got donated to the museum. I would’ve thought they’d be worth more than the prices that are on ’em. But not being in a position to buy ’em myself…. if one of y’all goes in, buys them and then makes a mint on eBay… I really don’t want to hear about it. Unless you cut me in for 10% as a finders fee…
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Many moons ago my father helpe me build a Guillows rubber band model
Balsa stringers and tissue paper fun stuff. Then he told me that back in the forties when he built them that none of the parts were die stamped out of the sheet. You had to trace out and then cut out each indvivdual part…
Keep those models in the museum. LOL
These days let the Chinese build it then sell me an ARF
I bought a Guillows rubber band, stringer, and tissue paper P-40 way back in the day. My model building skills sucked back then. Needless to say, so did the end result 🙂
I had the Strombecker wooden Douglas Skyrocket as a kid; lot of sanding on those wings.
There’s a webpage devoted to these old aircraft models here: http://www.philsaeronauticalstuff.com/oldmodels/oldmodels.html
Pat