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WW2 weird kits

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Larry Renger:
My mom bought a bunch of kits from a store going out of business during the war. They had, as I recall, cardboard formers and hardwood stringers. We built them and used oil based house paint. You can guess how they flew...

I bet those kits would go for a fortune today!

Mike Keville:
Sounds like "Otto-Former" kits .... and yes, in pristine condition they'd go for a fortune today!

MarcusCordeiro:
Ty

I really like to read your stories...

Marcus

Don Hutchinson AMA5402:
I was able to find balsa kits all through WWII. Macalester College in St Paul Minn. had a book store that had a bunch of model stuff and few buyers so I found some real nice kits there. They also sold color dope in corked vials about the size of your middle finger from the middle joint to the tip, 1 cent apiece.

wwwarbird:

 I've got a perfect, original, Joe Ott "Ott-O-Former" 40" span P-51B kit. If someone wants to offer me a fortune for it, I'd take it. ;D

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