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Just got this yesterday. Guy who had it bought a bunch of tools from another guy.
This was thrown in the deal because it was thought " nobody would want it".

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OMG that dates back to what, 1962? Are those piston rings?!
 
Wow that is really cool! The 60s and 70s had the coolest toys lol
 
Lord Sparky said:
Do kids still build models?
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I don't think so. Not many anyway. They are actually really hard to find now a days Noone around here even carrys them you have to get them online. When I was a teenager you could buy them at Walmart target big lots etc. We even had a hobby / rc toy shop in town that had tons of them even had accessories kits you could buy for like aftermarket rims and such. I haven't seen a store like that in close to 20 years.
 
dartfreak75 said:
I don't think so. Not many anyway. They are actually really hard to find now a days Noone around here even carrys them you have to get them online. When I was a teenager you could buy them at Walmart target big lots etc. We even had a hobby / rc toy shop in town that had tons of them even had accessories kits you could buy for like aftermarket rims and such. I haven't seen a store like that in close to 20 years.
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Hobby Lobby is the only brick & mortar store that I know of the still sells plastic model kits.
 
Lord Sparky said:
Do kids still build models?
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Yes they are.

The hobby saw a pretty significant resurgence over the last year with so many people stuck at home. Retailers have been reporting this since last June or so. A significant factor is Gundam/Sci-Fi and war gamers. Kids are eating this stuff up.
 
it was pretty difficult to find a duster model. I think I will build it over summer. I could only cut out all the rust holes.

*so yes and no. I will build a model if i have extra money lying around that has not yet been eaten by the real duster.
 
Swap meets and hobby lobby I'm 30 and i still buy and build model kits im definitely not Into.detail and going above and beyond but I love being reminded of my childhood and building them old school with my kids
 
Josh owen said:
Swap meets and hobby lobby I'm 30 and i still buy and build model kits im definitely not Into.detail and going above and beyond but I love being reminded of my childhood and building them old school with my kids
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Focus in downtown Fond du Lac was still open and selling kits in Dec. '20. And there's a hobby shop on the west end of Madison in a strip mall-the name escapes me now but I found it in a google search. Beyond Hobby Town USA in Oshkosh I don't know if there are still any shops open in the valley. There was a great one in Green Bay many years ago but I only made it there a couple times before they closed and I never had enough money to get everything they had that I wanted.
 
Visible V8 and Visible rotary (Wankel) also available.
 
shittyslant6 said:
it was pretty difficult to find a duster model. I think I will build it over summer. I could only cut out all the rust holes.

*so yes and no. I will build a model if i have extra money lying around that has not yet been eaten by the real duster.
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The reason the stock 1:25 MPC Plymouth Duster model is hard to find is because it morphed into a Dart Sport. MPC made a 1:25 plastic Plymouth Duster model until the 1975 model year. In 1976, the model was modified into a 1976 Dart Sport. The reason was because MPC came out with a 1976 Plymouth Volare model, so the 1975 Plymouth became a 1976 Dodge. Polar Lights sells a re-pop of the 1976 Dart Sport under the MPC brand.
 
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