this is a great photo, the green and yellow label make it.
undead grosbeak. I love it.
I find it hard to believe that those paints will adhere to the plastic. I hope we're going to get some more process shots.
Awesome! My sister had this exact kit when we were kids- i remember thinking "Huh. Models for girls. What next?" and going back to building hot rods, war planes, and rocket ships.
Oh, hers was a cardinal, not a grossbeak.
i had two of those models as a kid - Cardinal, and American Goldfinch. Yes, the paints suck.
Yum. More chocolate animals.
My cardinal was one of those red rubber molds that you filled up with plaster of Paris.
I covet that grossbeak kit something fierce.
i covet the red rubber mold a little more, honestly
Just how much do you covet it? I still have mine.
This must be what they call enthusiasm spam.
I'm still laughing over: "Huh. Models for girls. What next?"
It was a gift from R.M. in exchange for not killing his animals while he was out of town for a few days. I'll probably snap it together but I don't want to paint it, I'd hate to ruin the perfect little colour palette.
I have three (remnants from my childhood): a red-headed woodpecker, bluebird and a robin embellished with my mothers' oil paints. I also had a budgie model - my grandfather (ignoring the instructions) painted with polka dots and stripes. I also had a Big Daddy Ed Roth designed model 'The Mad Dentist' - my absolute fave.
I covet it muchly M. Jean. Perhaps to the tune of some monetary equivalent. It beats the Bluenose model ship building kit I had as a child. I never put it together as the first step was to finish carving the hull.
Just found a site with a bunch of finished Bachmann birds.
 
the stand makes it...
For me it's really the box cover...
for me its the multiple heads, beaks and empty eyes.
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- L.M. 3-25-2008 6:16 am
this is a great photo, the green and yellow label make it.
- anthony (guest) 3-25-2008 8:51 am
undead grosbeak. I love it.
- sally mckay 3-25-2008 12:13 pm
I find it hard to believe that those paints will adhere to the plastic. I hope we're going to get some more process shots.
- M.Jean 3-25-2008 12:55 pm
Awesome! My sister had this exact kit when we were kids- i remember thinking "Huh. Models for girls. What next?" and going back to building hot rods, war planes, and rocket ships.
- rob (guest) 3-25-2008 1:36 pm
Oh, hers was a cardinal, not a grossbeak.
- rob (guest) 3-25-2008 1:37 pm
i had two of those models as a kid - Cardinal, and American Goldfinch. Yes, the paints suck.
- kat cruickshank (guest) 3-25-2008 1:48 pm
Yum. More chocolate animals.
- thom (guest) 3-25-2008 1:54 pm
My cardinal was one of those red rubber molds that you filled up with plaster of Paris.
- M.Jean 3-25-2008 1:55 pm
I covet that grossbeak kit something fierce.
- C.R. (guest) 3-25-2008 2:57 pm
i covet the red rubber mold a little more, honestly
- anthony (guest) 3-25-2008 3:52 pm
Just how much do you covet it? I still have mine.
- M.Jean 3-25-2008 3:56 pm
This must be what they call enthusiasm spam.
I'm still laughing over: "Huh. Models for girls. What next?"
It was a gift from R.M. in exchange for not killing his animals while he was out of town for a few days. I'll probably snap it together but I don't want to paint it, I'd hate to ruin the perfect little colour palette.
- L.M. 3-25-2008 4:05 pm
I have three (remnants from my childhood): a red-headed woodpecker, bluebird and a robin embellished with my mothers' oil paints. I also had a budgie model - my grandfather (ignoring the instructions) painted with polka dots and stripes. I also had a Big Daddy Ed Roth designed model 'The Mad Dentist' - my absolute fave.
- KW (guest) 3-25-2008 4:23 pm
I covet it muchly M. Jean. Perhaps to the tune of some monetary equivalent. It beats the Bluenose model ship building kit I had as a child. I never put it together as the first step was to finish carving the hull.
- C.R. (guest) 3-25-2008 5:46 pm
Just found a site with a bunch of finished Bachmann birds.
- L.M. 3-25-2008 6:47 pm
- L.M. 3-25-2008 6:53 pm
- L.M. 3-25-2008 6:57 pm
the stand makes it...
- anthony (guest) 3-25-2008 7:28 pm
For me it's really the box cover...
- C.R. (guest) 3-26-2008 3:11 pm
for me its the multiple heads, beaks and empty eyes.
- sally mckay 3-26-2008 5:34 pm