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Introduction
ln the early 1960´s I had my the second phase of collecting and building plastic kits. That was the time of "working" kits from LINDBERG , MONOGRAM , REVELL., AURORA . These kits were more impressive for me, than the earlier kits from Airfix in 1:72 scale and Faller in 1:100 scale from as to their bigger scale and functonality.
I remember to have built 5 large scale AURORA kits:.
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Albatros D-3
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| Boeing F4-B |
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| Consolidated Catalina |
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| D.H. 10 |
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| Hiller X-18 |
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| Sopwith Triplane |
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Being made of thicker plastic as usual, these kits always were classified as as "heavy" by me. Generally this brand had a sort of mystic for me.
I also had the early series of twin-engined executive aircraft from AURORA: I´m not sure, if they belong here or to the third phase of modelling in the mid sixties when I was building 1.72 scale Airfix and Revell kits.
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Cessna 310
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| Beech D 18 |
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Piper Apache
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The other aircraft depicted here are a choice of other Aurora kits I aquired since 2003
References:
[1 ] Graham (2004) Aurora Model Kits
[2 ] PAK-20
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| Douglas Skyray F4D A great boxart. © cjk |
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| Yak-25 .The ugliest boxart I have seen so far |
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