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I saved my Aurora catalog from 1967!
The paintings of sports cars are so cool!
I remember many that I owned:
F-14 Starfighter
B-52
Aston martin
Spiderman, Hulk etc.
willie Mays
you can get the catalog on Ebay for a decent price last time I looked
bruce
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During the Apollo program I built the incredibly detailed and accurate Monogram kits. The Saturn V, the Command-Service Module, and the Lunar Module with "Tranquility Base" diorama.
I built all the STAR TREK kits that AMT came out with: the Enterprise, the Klingon ship, the Romulan ship, the Bridge diorama, Space Station K-7, the Spock-and-Serpent diorama, and the Phaser-Tricorder-Communicator kit, and much later the 1701-A Enterprise.
From Revell, I mostly built fighter jets. The F-102 Delta Dagger, the J-35 Draken (so gorgeous), the F-4 Phantom (my paint job was a green and tan camouflage scheme, and it came out fantastic).
My WW II planes included the F4F Wildcat, the F6F Hellcat, and the Douglas C-47.
I remember doing the USS Decatur (DD-936) as a kid. I also built a Revell version of the Titanic that I liked a lot.
Such good times.
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I was an Aurora man all the way. But also an "anybody" man when it came to spaceships.
I still have the T-Rex tucked away upstairs (in fragments, probably--LOL). The original unpainted red plastic was nauseating, wasn't it?
The Polar Lights Jupiter 2 has been sitting on a shelf for years now. I still don't have the nerve to tackle it.
Geez! Were we separated at birth?
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I was a huge Alien fan growing up (still am I guess - at least the first three films anyway), which means that in the early to late nineties I was big into the Alien kits put out by Halcyon models of the U.K. There were some truly impressive kits in that line up, including enormous, 1/1 scale vinyl kits of the various facehuggers and chestbursters from the films. I'm pretty sure that some of those hugger/burster kits came from the same molds that were used to create the ones seen on film. I even had the Nostromo kit, which even at the time of release was a bit on the pricey side. Guess I was a bit spoiled.
Apart from that I also had some of the old MPC Star Wars kits (Millenium Falcon, X-Wing, Y-Wing, A-Wing, Speeder Biker etc).
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I saved my Aurora catalog from 1967!
The paintings of sports cars are so cool!
bruce
Slightly off topic...
I finally.completed.my Cobra trilogy.
Just ordered scale model of 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500
this now.joins the GT40 and Cobra on.my shelf - positioned in front.of my AURORA 67 catalog-
Photo on request.
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Models? You saddo marshall.
Ha ha.
Airfix ww2 all the way for me. 00/HO
Never did monsters or cars.
Some revell tanks and soldiers.
The japanese kits were the best. But expensive. Tamiya for sure, their 1/35 stuff was very detailed and realistic.
Humbrol paints too, had boxes of them little pots.
I could set up a wargame from almost any field of op from ww2.
Also made whole towns from balsa wood and painted it.
Its all still in the loft. Hasnt seen daylight for 40 years!
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Jul 31, 2019 - 9:13 PM
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Solium
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I remember some airplane model kits in the 70's that had optional "battle damage" panels.
Heh. I provided that myself!
One time I spent hours making a big, beautiful Sikorsky chopper, and within minutes of playing with it I scored it with model glue and set it on fire.
"We're goin' down! We're goin' down!"
KABOOOOM!
Mom smelled it pretty quick and stomped into my room and, while she did NOT beat me within an inch of my life, I did get a lecture that very nearly had the same effect.
I went crazy inflicting battle damage on my model kits in my youth. My bedroom ceiling was festooned with planes, like the Battle of Britain, and I riddled all the baddies' planes – hot pin, hacksaw, matte black paint for scorch marks, gloss black or brown for oil leaks, cotton wool for smoke. My favorite was to put a line of bullet holes going over the Nazi insignia. I got a bit gory with it, too, Airfix G1 gloss red for blood.
I certainly "smoked" a few ATM Enterprise models, especially after watching the Doomsday Machine.
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