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My Kit Collection

Throughout the years, I have collected a number of vintage and recent RC kits, Control Line kits and Rubber Power kits. These are mostly kits of which I could only dream when I was young and when I didn't have the money to acquire them...

The great names of aeromodelling were Svenson, Goldberg, Sig, Top Flite and Graupner along with Pica and many others.

The kits in my possession and shown below are all unassembled unless mentioned otherwise. My kits are normally not for sale, but if you're interested in a particular one, we can always talk about it...

Furthermore, I have a nice collection vintage RC engines, an extensive collection of old transmitters and finally, a large collection of plastic kits for static display.

If you own a vintage kit you'd like to sell, I may be interested. I'm most interested in Svenson RC kits.

 
 
Svenson

This is a tribute to the Belgian made Svenson kits. Svenson had a good reputation and was our national pride. They had some very nice designs, see below...

 

Svenson Fly-Boy (early kit)

Svenson Sundancer

Link to CAD redesigned and built model

   

Svenson Pinto (original Svenson kit packed in a neutral carton, see this photo)

Svenson Westerly

   

Svenson Wayfarer HO-BO

Svenson N°1

 

Svenson Eyeball by Art Schroeder

Svenson Super Prima

   

Svenson Sly-Cat

   Svenson Seychelle glider by Sean Bannister  

   

  Svenson Blue Pants first edition (control line)

Svenson Blue Pants (control line)  (incomplete)

   

Svenson Bristol Scout

Svenson Vicomte 1915

 

Svenson Azizo (predecessor of the Sunny)

 
 
 
Goldberg

Carl Goldberg made some beautiful designs. How can one not like the graceful lines of the Falcon, Skylark and Skylane series? Sadly, their later Sky Tiger and Eaglet series were not as nice anymore.

   

Goldberg Sr. Falcon  (wing kit only)

Goldberg Falcon 56 Mark II

   

Goldberg Jr. Skylark

Goldberg Skylark 56 Mark II

No longer in my possession

   

Goldberg 1/2A Skylane 42

Goldberg Skylane 62  being built in 2022

   

Goldberg Super Chipmunk

Goldberg Sky Tiger

 
 
 
Sig

Sig's 1/6th scale version of the J-3 Cub must be one of the most popular scale kits ever. Along the Cub, they also had the beautiful Zlin and some nice sports models.

   

Sig Astro-Hog

Sig 1/6th scale Clipped Wing Cub

   

Sig 1/5th scale J-3 Cub

Complete with matching NIB Saito FA-90TS twin four stroke engine, Robart landing gear, Dubro Cub wheels, Coverite Cub Yellow  covering material, fuel tank,  pilot figure,  3 ea. 14 x 6 propellers,  prop nut etc.

   

Sig Zlin Akrobat Z526AS

   

Sig Super Chipmunk Control Line

Sig Zlin Akrobat Control Line

   
 
 
Top Flite

Top Flite was the company who manufactured one of the most beautiful RC models ever, the Taurus by Ed Kazmirski

   

      Top Flite P-51D Mustang (control line)         (incomplete)

Top Flite Taurus wing kit only

   

Top Flite Hellcat  (control line kit)   BUILT in 2019

The model was built and finished as a birthday present for a friend. It was very nostalgic for him as he had built the model some 45 years before. Below some photographs of the build progress, the finished model and as presented in the gift box.

finished Hellcat in the gift box with the kit box presented as well

 
 
 
Graupner

Graupner really had the nicest kits around. German quality at it's best.

   

Graupner Kwik Fly Mark III

I sold this original kit but I do have a Jeff Petroski replica, a replica kit from Aumann RC and the latest excellent new edition from Stefan Graupner (SG--Modellbau)

Graupner Cessna 150 G (rubber) 

 

   

Graupner Amigo III glider

Graupner Amigo V glider

   

Middle Stick replica kit from Aumann RC  

 

Kwik Fly MK3 replica kit from Aumann RC 

 

Topsy  replica kit from Aumann RC 

   

Taxi replica kit from Ratzo Modellbau

Maxi replica kit from Ratzo Modellbau

 
      

Excellent Kwik Fly MK3 reissue from Stefan Graupner (SG-Modellbau)  Built & flown (in flight picture here)

 
 
 
Pica
Dave Platt will remain a monument in the scale model aeroplane world. Pica manufactured some of his designs like the ones below.
   

Pica T-28B 1/6th scale

 

Pica T-28B 1/5th scale

 

Pica Duellist 240 Built & flown in 2022 (in flight picture here)

 
 
 
Jeff Petroski kits (Classic RC hobby)
Jeff has successfully reproduced some of the classic RC pattern kits with modern manufacturing techniques (CAD, laser cutting etc.). I own(ed) all of his excellent kits...
   

Jeff Petroski King Altair  Built & flown in 2021

Link to more photographs of  built model

Jeff Petroski Qwic-Fly (Kwik Fly) 

   
   
   
   
Kits from other manufacturers
 

Veron Deacon

Hegi Elektra

 

Robbe Puma II with parts for twin engined version

Baron Models Baron 1914  (similar to Svenson Vicomte 1915)

   

Curare 40 replica kit from Ratzo Modellbau

Blue Angel 60 replica kit from Ratzo Modellbau

 

Bauer Modelle Kessy

Great Planes Learjet

 

Modellbau Weibel Senior Falcon

EasyCNC Galaxy

 

Great Plane Lil Poke

Aviomodelli Radar (kit has been started and has some flaws)

 

Aeronaut Komet (control line)

Aeronaut Meteor (control line)

 

Aeronaut Matador (control line)

Aeronaut SkyMAXX

 

Great Planes PT-60

Great Planes Easy Sport 40

 

Hegi (Revell) Snoopey

Eggenweiler Amazone retro glider

 

Lazer Works Senior Skylark (photo of model built by Dave Platt) 

Midwest A4D-1 Skyhawk

   

Mercury Monitor (control line)

   Schneider Modellbau Nemere 1/4 scale kit with all CNC cut wood parts, plans, canopy etc. (photo by Michel Leroyer)

   

Balsa Products Playboy Senior 80" span

Midwest Pitts Special

   

Proctor Enterprises Antic Bipe

Guillow's Piper Super Cub 95 (rubber)

   

Sterling Piper Cub J-3 (rubber)

Comet Sparky (rubber)

   

   COX PT-19 Flight Trainer (control line)   

No longer in my possession, donated to my cousin Guy       

COX P-51 Mustang  (control line)

 

  COX E-Z Flyer (control line P-39, originally in a fantasy scheme, but repainted in 2021 in a more attractive but genuine military scheme as sold by COX at an earlier stage) 

 

Scientific Sky-Master (rubber)

Veron Velox (glow power free flight)

   

   Herr Engineering Gee Bee R2 (rubber)             

Guillows Aeronca Champion (rubber) 

   

Robbe Charter

Great Planes Super Aeromaster

   

Lanzo Stick (rubber)

Robbe Rasant (reissue 2022)

 
 
 
and yes, I do own a few ARF's...
 

Kyosho Oxalys 50 ARF

Robbe Maexi (built and flown, see photo here

   

Graupner Amigo IV glider ARF

Graupner Taxi Sport II

 

Schweighofer Curare 60

 
   
   
   
RC Transmitter collection
 

Part of my transmitter collection. The complete collection can be found here

 
 
 
RC engine collection
 

Below are some photos of  my engine collection, consisting of mostly of vintage 70's and 80's engines of 44 different brands. The collecton consists of 250+ engines. Most of these are two strokes, but I do own a small number of  four strokes as well and two Wankels!

A dedicated webpage on my engine collection can be found here

 

Saito FA-90TS twin and Merco 120 flat twin

 

Wankel, special editions and four strokes

 

Left half of my display cabinet

 

Right half of my display cabinet

 

   

More engines in another cabinet

 

Axiflo 049 ducted fan unit with COX TD049 engine

JPX T-240 vintage turbine

 

   
   
   
Plastic modelling
   

From time to time, I build a static display model from plastic or resin kits. My preferred scale is 1/72 for military aircraft and 1/144 for airliners. Unfortunately, like so many other modellers, I tend to buy more kits than I can build, so now I have a collection of 800+ kits... I'm a member of the scalemates community, so you can find me there.

Meanwhile, I let you enjoy some of the 150+ models in my display cabinet with the photographs shown below.

   

1/72 models of USAF military aircraft

1/144 models of SABENA airliners

   

1/72 models of US NAVY and Russian military aircraft (together with a scale model of my own design, the Interceptor...)

1/144 models of airliners

   

1/72 models of BAF military aircraft I flew during my Belgian Air Force career

1/144 models of airliners

   

1/72 models of BAF military aircraft

pair of 1/200 Boeing SST models, one in landing configuration and the other in supersonic flight configuration

   

a small part of my stash...

and another  small part of my stash...

   
   
   
Fouga Magister plastic kits
I was involved in the development of several Fouga Magister plastic kits. Read more...

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Philip Avonds Scale Jets

Doornhofstraat 6
B-8670 Koksijde
Belgium
Phone: +32-58-514451
e-mail: info@avonds.com