Plasticart a quick overview

A quick look at the East German kit model company Plasticart.
BTW, the cat is fine.
Music by A Spoonful or Deutschland
Credits:
Text and Concept: Barry McKeon, Matti Geyer, Summer Banks
Music: Dave Abbott
Camera: Alex Upatov, Summer Banks
Edit: Ian Buckley
Copyright (Lyrics and Video): Barry McKeon, Matti Geyer, Summer Banks (A Spoonful of Deutschland), all rights reserved.

[@MrEliyohu]

Damn! I remember those kits when I was a child in Poland in the 1970s and 80s. The boxes were so thick and solid, you could break one's head with them. Lovely stuff, each new release was a celebration.

[@hikokibert]

Around about 1984 I came across some of these kits in the hobby shop. They were incredibly cheap so I got the Tu 114 and the Be 6 and I think I got some gliders too. The tube of glue was empty. The plastic was really thick so they were very solid when finished. They were some of the first models I airbrushed, and they spent may years hanging from by bedroom ceiling. I still have the Be 6 somewhere.

[@douglasw.7864]

My first experience with KVZ-Plasticart was receiving their An-12 kit from the now defunct Archer’s Hobby World in 1980. My brother and I were curious about what was in the little metal tube. We pierced it with a nail and out oozed the most vile smelling cement known to man. We both instantly got bad headaches. We tossed that evil tube and it’s satanic contents outside in the trash. Two years later, I made friends with a pen pal in Czechoslovakia. Over the next decade I received many of the Plasticart kits in trades.

[@vibeforge]

6:00 Still have this airbrush with same case and using it in favor of H&S Ultra more than 18 years with zero issues. Made in Belarus Republic back in late 80's are real good and precise. Can't do 1/72 mottling though, otherwise perfect for all needs.

[@fanatichighdesertrailroader]

As a person that put together model kits that you have shown , it is interesting to know what other countries produced kits.

[@maxsmodels]

Thanks go to but Sergey deserves the credit for the content...the end music is mine 😜

[@Wild-Dad]

Oh wow!!!! Now I know the model manufacture of three of my kits!!! The Jak-24P and the Mi-1. The Jak-24P was the one that I had referred to several videos in the past - the one with the rotor blades that would melt at the sight of glue. You could see them melt just by putting an unopened glue bottle on the desk near the model. My kit boxes are the ones with the solid blue side panels like your first photo of that guy’s stash. Now that I’ve seen those models, I’d like to get the Energia/Buran, the TU-144, and the Mi-6P. I will have to check out that Reifra site as I don’t know of anyone who brings them over here now. A few hobby stores in the Toronto area used to carry Plasticart kits but I’ve not seen those old boxes or in the “new” black boxes around here now. Unfortunately, those stores are now long gone for about 8 years. I will have to check out a store in Hamilton that is run by a couple of Russians. They might know and now that we can go back into stores with street front entrances, following social distancing/isolation rules of course, I can go in and ask. If I find out anything I’ll send off the info. Thanks again for this video especially, since like I said, I now know the manufacture name of those models.

[@Plengwing]

I've been waiting for this one. Their Tu-2 was the first model I ever built, though seven years old me treated it more like a toy you had to assemble yourself than a scale model. Consequently it didn't survive for too long, lol. Next was the An-14 which back then I just found to be a weird looking cross between helicopter and airplane. I remember vividly the first time I held the finished Mi-6 in my hands, it just felt so gigantic, it must have been the largest set I've built until then. That is until I got my hands on a Tu-144... I never painted these models except with the metal paint that was sometimes supplied and the glue that came with the sets wasn't very good. I remember how the rotor blades of one of the helicopter sets constantly fell off... Thanks for the trip down memory lane Max and Sergey.

[@crazybrit-nasafan]

Just remembered something I did as a kid, I took four of those rolls of plastercine put them together and added a red and a blue wire to the middle of them then left it standing on a shelf in my room. It caused quite a few wide eyed stares. Unfortunately Mum wouldn't let me take it to school. I never used it in my models. I scrounge wheel ballance weights from a local garage and used those as nose weights, little did I know I would end up working there in my late teens.

[@buzzawuzza3743]

The spaceship kit at 12:20 or so looks really cool and Buck Rogers! Great video, Max!

[@balikolaci1]

Very amusing this time Max! My first kit from them was a Mercure, and I have mixed the 2 tin tubes, and glued together the kit with the silver paint... but it worked! Both agents were same agressive and stinky! Their Su-7 was simply fun, and no other available till the arrival of (even today) superb KP kit. I remember jigsawing their TU-2 like hell, to scratchbuild some interior... finally it looked well!...and yes, GDR was a place... where german precision meets insane ideology...

[@garfieldsmith332]

A very good history story. I never heard of these companies or the kits. There are several I would like to have judging by the artwork. Please forward a thank you to Sergei/Sergey for sharing this information with us. I really enjoyed this.

[@maxsmodels]

wilco

[@karacslevente6606]

I'm from Hungary. And I am 16 years old and I have Zeuke and Bttb modells and I really like them. So thanks for making this video.

[@decam5329]

Your dukebox is astounding. Another classic.

[@maxsmodels]

thanks but Sergey deserves the credit for the content...the end music is mine 😜

[@Crediblesport]

Max I look forward to you videos every day thanks so much this one made me laugh a bit. I built a tube 114 used lots of blue stuff a an 2, su 7, be 6 and tu 2. Hey they were the only kits of these type available at the time. They were great the shape was correct and one could always sand off the rivets and lines. The an 2 had a piece of clear cellophane for the cabin windows. I enjoyed building them. Thanks for the memories. I never realized how many of their kits I built until I saw you video. Keep up the good work.

[@maxsmodels]

Thanks go to but Sergey, he deserves the credit for the content...the end music is mine 😜

[@laszloharsanyi8320]

Thank you very much, this was the real trip down the memory lane. At 4:46 the middle (yellow-blue boxed) Il-18 was the very first kit I have ever built. I was around 8 or 9 years old. It was horrible, very brittle white plastic, warped so much that there were a good 2-3 mm gap between the two fuselage halves in the middle after gluing together. The plasticine to the nose (not to be a tailsitter) but it was very oily and as a kid a didn't know that from that point nothing will stick together. The glue was also in the box, in a simalar aluminium container like Academy provided. It was very weak for the brittle plastic but at least flowed everywhere if you were not careful enough cutting it open. Yet it glued me to this hobby for more than half a century... (BTW, the VERO railway buildings I also had, together with the Piko railway. In quality and details those were well above the modell kits, I loved them.)

[@maxsmodels]

wonderful

[@mongolike513]

Oh I overlooked thanking you for another great history lesson. What an interesting brotherhood and sisterhood.

[@crazybrit-nasafan]

Nice coverage. I had a Tu114 but did a stupid and swapped it. I have a few unbuilt in the loft. The Tu154, Trident, 727, IL62, BE6, Tu20(TU95) and Mil6. And probably a few others too. That song at the end, great choice. Reminds me of a bit of graffiti I saw on the Berlin Wall on a documentary, it said "Hop over the wall and join the party"

[@michaelt7852]

great video as usual mister max I gotta admit I am hooked on these I binge watched them all

[@maxsmodels]

thanks

[@modelermark172]

I remember building the Plasticart SU-7 in high school. At the time, it was the only game in town. But it went together alright, and was no worse than early Airfix kits. (In those days, we expected to scratch build the cockpits and wheel wells as a matter of course, regardless of the manufacturer.) It might be fun to see if I can locate one online and have another crack at it. Thanks for posting this!

[@mongolike513]

Man that Tu 114 it carried more passengers and had almost the same speed as the 707 but greater range! Those pesky reds. THE Bear ??? I want one in 1/24 or a real one. Now. Now! NOW!

[@maxsmodels]

@mjncad same mission

[@mikebanks4935]

If nothing else, I learned that JAL partnered with Aeroflot, flying the TU-114. I suppose that equipment was reserved for flights to and from the old Soviet Union. (A.N. Tupolev appears to be thinking, "Not bad. Not bad at all.") I like the idea of molding kit parts in color. I never was a steady hand with a paintbrush. "Spoonful of Deutschland." Das ist gut!

[@maxsmodels]

JA!!

[@WAL_DC-6B]

I have two VEB Plasticart TU-114s in my "stash." The original issue box and the last. It's really a crude kit with simple engine nacelles and moveable wing and tail surfaces. I attempted to build one years ago, but after using "tons" of plastic filler, I gave up and either tossed it or blew it up with a firecracker. Yeah, I bet it's only a matter of time before someone produces a decent TU-114 in 1/144 scale (Amodel makes a 1/72 scale TU-114). Great history presentation, Max, on this E. German kit manufacturer. I hardly knew anything about it before your video. Thanks for sharing!

[@AreeyaKKC]

Amodel has a 1/72 Tu-114A in injection. They are around on ebay and amazon

[@claeswikberg8958]

that TU 114 and the Aero 45 looks so cool, really hope someone makes a new mold for them...

[@claeswikberg8958]

well would you look at that... there is apparently a russian firm that has one that got good reviews by a finnish builder www.scalemates.com/kits/rusair-144ra-18-tupolev-tu-114--980049

[@telescopereplicator]

I think this brand is now best known as "Flugzeug Modellbaukasten". They are NOT as bad as some people might think. Actually, I try to find and build as many as I can afford !! The fit is quite good, the plastic is smooth and shiny. Usually, a very low parts count, which I like, b.t.w. And you always end up with a great looking model. I love these kits. And apparently, so do many other modelers, since these kits sell for rediculous prices. That is ... IF ... you can find one, new in the box.... A kit does not have to be of Tamiya quality to be a nice kit. The clear parts are thick and have distortion, but they DO fit properly. FMK is a lesser known brand, but those who have built their kits, will appreciate them, for sure. The name of that city is pronounced TShow-Pow (Show with a T in front, Pow as in 'power')....(Tshopow).

[@maxsmodels]

thanks

[@telescopereplicator]

@@maxsmodels Welcome back, Max !! Hope you are doing well !!

[@cassandrafoxx4171]

I would predict that, if anyone might make a Tu-114 kit, it would be Trumpeter and in 1/72nd. After all, they have 3 different Tu-95 models in 1/72nd, and they could use the wings and engines from one of them with a new fuselage and other sprue to do the Tu-114. I'd buy one... or more.

[@nickbutler7935]

Great vid, thanks for sharing and jogging some happy memories. I have built several of the kits and even have a few stashed away in my loft. I may not leave much of a legacy to my kids, but a few of the rare kits will go some way to raising some shekels for them.

[@russellbenton2987]

Fascinating stuff Max. I never knew the brand but being into airliners there’s a lot of interest there. I have seen a Trident 1/100 at a swap meet , now I know the pedigree , I wish I’d bought it!

[@poldet148]

Bravo ! Very informative

[@luislealsantos]

Another great video. Divulging the brands , model, history of models with we grew up with . tks Max's.

[@user-du6yr1qx5d]

Модели самолетов этой фирмы в Советском Союзе дети ,сметали, с полок магазинов мнгновенно!!!Телефонов небыло...дети устно узнавали друг от друга новость о моделях в магазине...Магазин был один на весь город...бежали наперегонки ...за несколько кварталов...а кто жили далеко...кусали локти!!По сравнению с моделями фирмы ,frog, без клея и декалей...в целофановом мешочке...модели фирмы ,plasticart, поражали клеем,алюминиевой краской ...и декалями,а еще очень красивой коробочкой!!!Это было что - то!!!!

[@FastSports-ScaleCarGarage]

Love the new intro! great video! Keep 'em coming!

[@maxsmodels]

thanks

[@yoda5565]

Well done. The genius of the VEB. Give'm all a medal, and they did, and that's about it. See you at the next FDJ meeting and model show. Seriously, a very well presented and accurate video.

[@WgCdrLuddite]

In the UK (which used to dominate Western European plastic kit manufacture) 1:87 has never been a scale. British model railways are primarily OO (1:76) which explains why Airfix and Matchbox picked this scale for their vehicles. Airfix's OO/HO branding was an attempt to sell to the US and continental European markets where the model railway scale was HO. but the models were actually 1:76. Aircraft models were already established in 1:72 so there was never any imperative to produce them in 1:87.

[@johnreep5798]

I built a few of those airliners. I never used the glue or paint, but I remember their distinctive aroma.

[@P61guy61]

Another masterpiece. Thank you for posting.

[@maxsmodels]

thanks for watching

[@crag15]

Max - another great video. I have the AN-14 in my collection. It’s yours if you want it, just a small token as gratitude for the hours you spend making these videos

[@maxsmodels]

thanks, that is very nice [e-mail]

[@joek600]

Now I want to learn about soviet airbrushes! Do it Max! lol btw the packaging with a nice illustration without any logos and the color coding of the scale, were really cool ideas.

[@ianpattison841]

As a kid in the 70s the SU-7 was a must, I built a couple and converted one to the variable wing SU-17, also built the Mi-6 and Be-6. They were simplistic by comparison to western kits, but with a dive in to the spares box I loved them.

[@JamesSavik]

TU-114 looks suspiciously like a snoopy bastard we used to call Badger. Tu-144 reminds me a lot of TU-22M Backfire.

[@mbryson2899]

I am gobsmacked by the subjects you bring us, Mr. Max. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@maxsmodels]

Thank Sergey for this one

[@mbryson2899]

Thank you, Sergey! :)

[@user-tx2gk5qs2h]

@@mbryson2899 You're welcome )

[@blitzpixgarage3319]

Great Video...as always :-) Made me think about the stash...I think I've got 4-5 of them...

[@canamwing6999]

Thanks for that! Growing I would visit Hungary every year to see family. I remember always hoping to get one of these kits. My favourite was the Tu-154 and then the TU-134. Btw, you didn't mention the Tu-134 kit in this presentation. I am surprised because I found it to be most detailed and accurate of them all.

[@Donleecartoons]

Pretty ambitious detailing on Plasticart's one ship kit!

[@JMChladek]

If you're passing Urine then European... ;) Seriously though, I don't recall the Buran ever coming out in a VEB Plastikart box. I obtained one in 1988 from a vendor who was able to get a couple cases from East Germany and they were in the brightly colored Master Modell boxes from day one. I built the Buran and honestly, it was a very well designed kit. The orbiter had wheels that could be extended, the boosters could be taken off the core Energia stage and even the Energia booster could be reconfigured thanks to sliding parts to accomodate the Polyus Payload (a test module for the Soviet Union's answer to Reagan's SDI). It may not have had the finesse of a kit from the west, but it was done with excellent precision and it was superior to the Start offering from Russia IMHO.

[@sth242]

Oh, wie schön.... What a great video! A bunch of fond memories (and some funny mispronouncings)... :) Keep going!

[@maxsmodels]

I do my best and just live with the results :)

[@DickieDelouise]

Another great video👌what an interesting history. I also want the An-14 lol

[@user-tx2gk5qs2h]

It's interesting that the An-14 lengthened version - An-28 is the only Soviet aircraft officially adopted by USAF. Manufactured in Poland as M-28 it currently serves with USAF under C-145 Skytruck designation.

[@maxsmodels]

@@user-tx2gk5qs2h A good plane is a good plane. BTW, Cessna just test flew its new light turbine twin cargo plane which has the same basic layout. Classic designs never die. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_408_SkyCourier

[@kennyswonger5227]

Hi max.some more history lessons.your our best neriator about models & planes.I watch u- tube late at night.until 1:30 am because it's hard for me to sleep at night.another good talking about more models.thanks again max.

[@maxsmodels]

thanks

[@tatocorvette]

Love it! I have many of those kits!

[@wartburgjeff6150]

Thanks for the informative video! Probably outside your purview, but the name Plasticart was also used on assembled plastic cars, trucks and buses in various scales, as well as pressed tin cars and slush cast military vehicles.

[@Oliver-OBM]

Thanks for this video!

[@Zloy_Pups]

Вчера только получил посылку из Москвы с декалями для ретро моделей Plasticart, с удовольствием отреставрирую их, единственная фирма которая производит такие декали REVARO

[@mrains100]

Thank you!

[@balikolaci1]

And I absulutely agree on Mastermodell GmbH 'boxart' description, laughing loud! However their latest photo of kit boxes were not much better... these photo type of box covers are a hard to get issue... I think only Airfix/Heller/Humbrol succeeded to solve it in a tasteful way in the '80s....

[@maxsmodels]

The sad part is that they had so many talented artists. Somebody got cheap.

[@user-tx2gk5qs2h]

Thanks Max! It just came to me that there’s another model manufacturer whose name was derived from words ‘plastc’ and ‘art’, but in reverse way. That’s Artiplast. Their 1/50 scale kits repackaged by Czech company Smer were known in Eastern Europe. Scalemates tell me that some Artiplast kits came from another manufacturer called Merit.It would be nice to hear that story.

[@crazybrit-nasafan]

Merit had some beautiful model biplanes. I have a few SMER produced versions in my kit stash. The first kit I ever saw was a Merit kit of the DH2 being built by an uncle, that is what got me into modelling. I have one of those DH2 kits to build too.

[@user-tx2gk5qs2h]

@@crazybrit-nasafan Yes, I fully agree. I've built only one their biplane (Ansaldo S.V.A.5), it was really great. Unfortunately scalemates do not provide the country of oigin, but judging on their subject choise I understand Merit is British company?

[@crazybrit-nasafan]

Yes. It is British I believe. It is good that these great old kits can still be got. I prefer to build the models I had as a child and I now have most of the ones I want. I also have most of the ones I wanted as a child but never got. I had that SVA5 kit but gave it to an old gentleman I knew. It looked a good kit of a beautiful aircraft.

[@johnreep263]

I built some VEB Plastikart airliners, the IL-62, Tu-114, and the 727. Sub-optimal quality and accuracy but, as you said, who cares, where else ya gonna find an IL-62 or Tu-114?

[@JeffreyOrnstein]

Very good, thanks.

[@richardwillett]

Train maker Walthers did produce A DC-3/C-47 and a P-51D Mustang in 1/87th! I was bumbed because I'm an O gauge guy!

[@andy26111]

keep up the good work my man!

[@gilo7171]

I'v been waiting for this video....

[@Crediblesport]

Btw love the new logo.

[@maxsmodels]

thanks, Ari will be thrilled. :)

[@lancerevell5979]

I had never heard of any of these companies, and never had their kits.

[@maxsmodels]

they are different

[@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835]

Fascinating. Problem with calling it Plasticart was that it got confused with Plasticard...ooops.

[@P61guy61]

Danke

[@maxsmodels]

bitte

[@user-jh2gm6hq9p]

Danke.

[@chrisscalemodels5373]

Hey Max, as usual a very nice clip abut the history of plastic sclae models Comming from poland i would love to see a history video abut zts plastyk/ruch ZTS is still in operatin and from what i know the CEO is in the company since the 80's so he will know a good part of the history ;-)

[@user-tx2gk5qs2h]

It would be interesting for many of us, especially those who live in this part of the world. I remember ZTS kits - IL-2 and RWD-6 in particular. Could you provide Max with any connection to people who were involved? That might be yet another great story on this channel.

[@chrisscalemodels5373]

@@user-tx2gk5qs2h where you from Mate?

[@maxsmodels]

@@user-tx2gk5qs2h please do

[@maxsmodels]

You send me the info and I will put it together. Pictures help a lot too.

[@user-tx2gk5qs2h]

@@chrisscalemodels5373 Moscow

[@johnorlitta]

There's a huge metal Ampelman at the entrance to the city of Peiriera, Colombia.

[@rickzinck9326]

" very interesting" as said by the voice of Arte Johnson. Thanks Max.

[@maxsmodels]

I am old enough to get the Laugh-in reference

[@rickzinck9326]

@@maxsmodels Sorry about that. LOL Just showing my age. LOL. Have a great weekend.

[@cropstar]

Amplemann is a god. His kept me from getting splattered many times late at night in Berlin. I may or may not of been very drunk and in following a tray of currywurst back to my hotel...

[@1QU1CK1]

Plasticart's metal tubes of glue were horrible- no spout. But I'm a spoiled Westerner.

[@maxsmodels]

but the stuff bonds well, I am using some and you had better not get it where you do not want it to stay! 😜

[@1QU1CK1]

@@maxsmodels Have you ever tried Faller Expert cement? Only stuff I've seen that actually glues thru paint!

[@jamesjustice4515]

My papa was adopted by a rich German family. He die last February 2020 of old age 96. He live on that 33 mile long island next to Washington state. He die a rich man. He took over his father business back in the 1960s. He was Scottish. He fought in wwll and kocian war between 1951 to 1955. Then took over his father's business

[@jamesjustice4515]

Like to have that il-14 for my collection. One to put together and the other to leave in the box

[@jamesjustice4515]

Nice ship

[@terencewong-lane4309]

Isn't the VEB HS121 Trident kit 1/87 scale?

[@user-tx2gk5qs2h]

Seems like it’s 1/100. The scale is printed on the instruction sheet and all the sources I have agree about that. German catalog: www.webcitation.org/66LoIPdih?url=www.arnes-modellbauseite.de/History/plast.htm Trident page on Plasticart fan site: www.veb-plasticart.com/trident Building report on karopka.ru: karopka.ru/community/user/6999/?p=1&MODEL=300502

[@michaelroach4219]

Very good.I never realized there were/are so many kit companies.Are there any kits of the Trabant?

[@user-tx2gk5qs2h]

Revell did both '601 and '601U main-cdn.goods.ru/big2/hlr-system/1515701/100023442717b1.jpg diamondelectric.ru/images/1195/1194848/avtomobil_revell_1.jpg

[@michaelroach4219]

@@user-tx2gk5qs2h Thank you.

[@Reindeer911]

Damn! I thought I had a bad singing voice! LOL!

[@Habu12]

"Ill-fourteen"? "Eye-elle" fourteen ;) The TU-114 will be molded by.....Trumpeter. I have a vacform it of it though.

[@maxsmodels]

YEAH!

[@lancerevell5979]

Yep, many designations should not be pronounced as words. A few exceptions are MiG and Yak. Tu, Su, Ju, He, etc are always spoken as designations. "Tee You", etc. The rise of KZbin and other social media is ruining the English language. Sorry, just an old coot ranting to the wind. 😉

[@Habu12]

Lance Revell agreed!

[@dalecomer5951]

@Lance Revell: I had a neighbor who served in the Luftwaffe during WWII both as Ju-88 ground crew and flight crew. In English he called it the "yoo eighty-eight." I've heard the Ju-52 referred to numerous times as "yoo fifty-two" and "auntie yoo."

[@johngalt6929]

That music. . .

[@cammobunker]

Yeah, Ostalgie is a real thing...I've no idea why. Apparently those who look back on the DDR with fondness have seemingly forgotten that whole Stasi police state, not to mention all the other "features" of a totalitarian communist state.

[@borderlands6606]

If you've been fed the line the west are decadent quasi-fascists with weapons planning your immanent destruction, to discovery it had all been a terrible mistake, would lead to nostalgia for old certainties. Even when those ideas were inimical to everyday existence and freedom of thought.

[@kl0wnkiller912]

Do Collect-Aire.

[@user-bi6bp1mh6h]

Больше спасибо. А сейчас эти фильмы существуют и что они производят??? Была очень хоршая фирма Roskopf 1/87 HO, кто её замещает и что выпускают??? 😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@user-bi6bp1mh6h]

Ошибка не фильмы, а ФИРМЫ.

[@dynaflow666]

Den Modellbau in seinem Lauf halten weder Ochs` noch Esel auf!

[@randyherbrechtsmeier4796]

Never heard of them

[@jamesjustice4515]

Like to have that Russian space shuttle

[@Paladin1873]

Only the Soviets could make helicopters look uglier than they need to be. I thought you were going to play "Danke Schoen" by Wayne Newton at the end. I like the new logo - plasticated Max.

[@maxsmodels]

Arianna will be thrilled. Wayne Newton was bit too cliche. BTW credit really goes to Sergey, t for the content...the end music is mine 😜

[@balikolaci1]

Ugly helicopters? Maybe Bristol Belvedere and H-21 Shawnee are also in the game...

[@Paladin1873]

@@balikolaci1 No, I find them attractive in a bug-like sort of way. Think of all those classic B&W sci-fi movies that featured them. One of my high school Army ROTC instructors served on H-21s in the late 50s and early 60s as a crew chief. He loved to scare the occasional passenger by announcing in flight that he was going to inspect the engine. He'd then jump out the door. After they got over their initial shock they realized he was wearing a harness that was secured to a brace inside the helicopter. TSGT Gibson, remember him, Moose?

[@jamesjustice4515]

Papa last name was kunkel. That my mom name

[@burningb2439]

Ah've got a Russian kit of the TU20..its eh questionable..

[@michaelnaven213]

Nein!

[@muskokamike127]

The TU-144 was produced, you mean the stolen/copied concorde? lol.....I mean they didn't even bother to try and hide it. Kind of like the Mig-29, an exact replica of the F-15 lol....."look what mother russia developed on their own"!!! hahahah

[@maxsmodels]

They did beat Concord into the air by a month. You have to give the guys at Tupolev props for that even if it had too many flaws to be viable in the long term. In those days it was all about first. The politics may have sucked, but the engineers did the seemingly impossible.

[@muskokamike127]

@@maxsmodels First into the air, and first into the ground lol.....like that old saying: you can have it done quickly, or you can have it done right, which do you want?

[@joek600]

@@muskokamike127 the story of TU-144 is a very interesting one and lets face it the f-15 was the result of the fear of what the americans thought the Mig 25 was.

[@HO-bndk]

Fascinatingly interesting video, as all of these kit company history videos are, but please stop trying to pronounce German words. That was downright painful. :o)

[@muskokamike127]

Those symbols would never fly today with 3rd wave feminism....they'd flip that only a MAN figure is used in the lights lol Just like the one in the UK who flipped out and berated a road crew over their "men working" signs.....they shut her down when they replied "do you see any WOMEN on this crew"? lolol

[@numberstation]

What the f*** are you on about? This is a video about plastic kits, calm down.

[@muskokamike127]

@@numberstation I was making a joke comment you brainless POS. What you need is a clue, I hear walmart has them on sale this week in aisle 23, with the other feminine hygiene products.

[@numberstation]

Muskoka Mike Nah, you’ve just had too much to drink.

[@muskokamike127]

@@numberstation naw, you just don't have a clue.

[@numberstation]

Muskoka Mike Keep calm, macho man.