Three decades ago, I bought an MPC kit of the Banshee in 1/72. I don't know, but this kit might have originally been Airfix. At the time I lived near a Florida playground that featured a very retired F2H-2P (the photo nose version), parked on its belly in the sandbox. Canopy gone, cockpit just a hole, and the intakes plugged with cement. I didn't trust the kit to be accurate, so I went out to the sandbox one day with a tape measure and took some measurements off the hulk. The MPC kit checked out quite reasonably in dimensional accuracy. Otherwise, pretty basic, even for 1980.
Epilog: in the mid-90s, I visited the Naval Aviation museum in Pensacola. There in the exhibit hall I beheld a spiffy blue F2H-2P. As I pondered the fact that the two Banshees I'd seen were both photo-nose models, a docent walked up with a tour group in tow. He gestured at the Banshee: "We found this bird down in Vero Beach, stuck in a playground, and you have no idea how much work we had to put in to get it in condition to put on display..." Well, I did, anyway.
