The Revell Classic trilogy

[MikeMaben]

'73 Mike , '67 was the first year Revell started the 1/32 revolution.

 

Actually Monogram's 1/32 Mustang was '61.

[LSP_Mike]

Thanks Mike. Revellution was what they called it, right? Between the Revell Master Modelers Club and Shep Paine, I remember my modeling universe expanding rapidly. 

The shape of the Monogram Mustang is pretty accurate, no? 

[MikeMaben]

They say the Monogram was pretty close . I got the Phantom Mustang for Christmas '61

and one of my sisters broke it to pieces so It's loooong gone . I bot the 109F first as it

was the only model of a round wing 109 except for the Airfix 1/72 kit at the time ... '67 

 

 

[thierry laurent]

Out of my memory the main problem of the Monogram kit was the moving parts that resulted in too thick areas (essentially the wings) but very frankly I never looked at that very closely as I only got one many years ago to cross-kit some of the parts with an Hasegawa kit. 

[LSP_Mike]

My stash has an original Lindberg He 111, original Tamiya Pz III M/N, and Revell 109G.

I also have an original Charles W Morgan and a sealed 22" USS Constitution.

Remember the iron on transfers from Revell?

[MikeMaben]

I have a Matchbox 1/72 Curtiss SBC4 with a groovy Airborne patch (sew on)

I built the He111 when I was 10, same pea green color as the Ju88 , Stuka and 262.

We're goin' way back here Mike  

[LSP_Mike]

Yes we are Mike. I wonder how many Monogram 1/32 tanks I built. Funny how many kits we prolly built are getting good money on the collectors market.

[LSP_K2]

I don't recall the specific kit, possibly Revell, many, many years ago, that had a great art print inside of B-17's dropping bombs. That print stayed on my wall for years and years until I moved just a few years back. Where it is now I have no clue.

[CATCplSlade]

The only old goodies I still have are a bunch of the diorama shots from the Bandai 1/48 armor and the Paine diorama sheets from the big bombers. However, it seems many of my Hobby Boss kits come with prints.

[LSP_K2]

15 minutes ago, CATCplSlade said:

The only old goodies I still have are a bunch of the diorama shots from the Bandai 1/48 armor and the Paine diorama sheets from the big bombers. However, it seems many of my Hobby Boss kits come with prints.

 

Almost all of the Otaki 1:48 scale aircraft came with prints too. I owned quite a few of the kits at one time, and they all seemed to have them.

[chrish]

The only print I still have left from the ‘70’s is from the Queen album Fat Bottom Girls (a 33 Rpm record) with a poster of hundreds of naked young ladies on bycicles.

 

[CATCplSlade]

1 hour ago, chrish said:

The only print I still have left from the ‘70’s is from the Queen album Fat Bottom Girls (a 33 Rpm record) with a poster of hundreds of naked young ladies on bycicles.

 

 

Well, if you're going to toss album inserts into the mix, I still have pretty much all of mine from my punk albums. The only things I lost were those from the Beatle's Sgt Pepper and White albums, unfortunately.

[LSP_Mike]

Seperate thread please lads.

Kev, the boxart was maybe Lindberg?

The Bandai 1/48 armor was very cool . Their 1/24th armor was as well.

[LSP_K2]

9 minutes ago, LSP_Mike said:

Kev, the boxart was maybe Lindberg?

 

Found it. It was Aurora

[CATCplSlade]

Speaking of Aurora, other than the T. Rex, do any of the other Prehistoric Scenes kits still exist as molds or did something happen to them? I was also a fan of all the giant B-movie insects (MPC, I think?).