Has anyone built either of these kits. I am looking for the more detailed one. I was also looking at one that was a snap-together kit. I don’t want one of those. I want one that has to be glued. I enclosed 2 links for 2 Big Boy kits.
Michael
Both of the links go to the same identical item.
I’ve completed the Revell Hudson and I’m in the middle of the Revell Big Boy right now. What do you need to know?
If you have a Hobby Lobby close, watch their weekly coupons and you may be able to get one cheaper there.
Yes, I did build one of these in my younger days. They are very nicely detailed kits although they are not a beginner level kit by any means. Someone, I can’t remember who, even sold a motorizing kit for them. The price plus shipping is a little excessive though. You should be able to get one for $25 or less.
I worked in a local back in 1981-82 and we always carried a few of them in inventory; a few went out the door during my period of employment. These advertised items are not appreciably more expensive than I remember them being twenty-five years ago.
A lot of them were purchased because this kit - or the NYC Hudson - was the cheapest way to get a ‘centipede’ tender to run behind Bowser’s Big Boy. Unless Revell has recently rereleased them I thought they were long since out of production; if they are, indeed, out of production than the price being ask and the shipping costs are reasonable, I guess. I have seen completed models of both the Big Boy and the Hudson and, if care is taken in assembly, they make impressive bookcase or desktop displays.
Although I have not built one as of yet, I did see one in Hobby Lobby last week for $19.95. I started to get it but decided not to, but now that I think about it I will get one next time I am in Lawton.
I would say that the E Bay price is a little high when yoe can get the same thing cheaper with a discount cupon and not have to pay shipping. Mike
They are still in production and readily available (Monogram). I just say a whole group of them at Hobby Lobby last month.
Dumb Question. I have a Riverossi Big Boy circa 1960. Would this kit provide a better superstructure than the Riverossi version?
There is just too much cast on piping, etc. to afford doing a good job of superdetailing it.
Hobby Lobby currently has a printable 40% off one item coupon on their web site right now. The retail price they show on their web site for the big boy kit is $19.99, so that comes out to about $12, with tax.
Coupon → http://www.hobbylobby.com/site3/weekly/weekly.cfm
(I’d make that link active, but it’s not letting me. Sigh)
I found the coupon a little bit ago and will be going to Hobby Lobby tomarrow and see if they still have one, if not I bet I can find something I can’t live without. Mike
They also make a few German steamers and the Hudson model.
SORRY I FIXED THE LINKS