Miniature Savage 99

[Pete44ru]

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I was surfing Savage 99's, and spotted this old miniature/model kit, and thought it may be of interest here.

It's too bad that it's been sold - I wasn't aware of these (doh)

http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=24386




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[Hawkeye2]

From the mid '50s. There were 3 kits; the 99, a Winchester 94 and a Mannlicher-Schoenauer. Aurora got the molds and reran them circa '59. They aren't too difficult to find on eBay or some of the old kit sellers. I never had one but a friend built one and my memory was that the parts didn't fit together well. They claimed they were 1/3rd. size but I seem to remember them being about 7" or 8" long though I haven't seen one in almost 60 years.

[gamekeeper]

I have never seen those kits but as a kid in the 50s I had a toy cap firing Savage 99, It was quite a realistic model with a pistol grip and a Schnabel fore end, it also had a fixed dummy scope on it which even then I disliked
I remember in the 60s making a couple of plastic, Japanese kits of revolvers, which I haven't seen in model shops for years.