# 1970's Plastic Model **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 11, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-plastic-model/244641 "2004-05-11T16:32:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-plastic-model/244641/1 "2004-05-11T16:32:05Z")
I remember building it back when I was a kid in the 70’s. It was based a real military fighter, but distorted in a way that we would now call super-deformed: fuselage made shorter and cuter, wings made stubby, engines and cockpit bigger than they should be in reality. As I recall it was part of a whole series of similarly distorted military plane models. It was similar in spirit to the “Big Daddy” Roth car models you could get at the time, but I don’t think it was part of the same line. Can anyone provide me with a name for this model series, or, even better, a pointer to a website that has a picture of one of these models? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-plastic-model/244641/2 "2004-05-11T17:56:32Z")
Sorry, dude. I did WW2 era warships back in the 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-plastic-model/244641/3 "2004-05-11T18:22:41Z")
I remember it, it was named something like “War Hog” (though that isn’t the right name.) The fuselage was fattened and arched under, like a dolphin jumping out of the water (if dolphins were fat like angelfish.) Come to think of it, I had one. It was motorized; the prop turned, the wings flapped and the machine guns in front of the cockpit went in and out. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-plastic-model/244641/4 "2004-05-11T18:50:10Z")
Yeah, cornflakes, that sounds right. Unfortunately, googling “war hog model” just returns a lot of links to people who don’t know how to spell “warthog” … . At least I know I was hallucinating from sniffing too much Testors … . ---
**Author:** ![ElectricZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58f4c7/32.png) [@ElectricZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElectricZ)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-plastic-model/244641/5 "2004-05-11T19:40:52Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > Come to think of it, I had one. It was motorized; the prop turned, the wings flapped and the machine guns in front of the cockpit went in and out. I had that one, too! It was called the “Flap Jack” – the stencils on the side read “US Air Farce”. The funny thing was, it looked a LOT like the real life [XF-85 “Goblin”](http://www.netaxs.com/people/ebailey/xf85.html) jet fighter! I think if a pilot went up against either in a dogfight, he’d get shot down just because of the WTF factor. 🙂 EZ ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-plastic-model/244641/6 "2004-05-11T20:27:05Z")
[Here it is!](http://www.tomdaniel.com/85_kits/85_kits_pages/flap_jack.html) …And for what it’s worth, [Here it isn’t](http://www.unrealaircraft.com/wings/images/flapjack1.jpeg), but it came up in a search and looked pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-plastic-model/244641/7 "2004-05-11T21:26:37Z")
Yay, thanks guys! I realized that I’d been conflating the Flap Jack with these models: [http://modelbox.free.fr/dossiers/Eggs\_P/Eggs\_Revell.html](http://modelbox.free.fr/dossiers/Eggs_P/Eggs_Revell.html)