I had two of the whip flyers - the Airacobra and the F9F. One day I was "whipping" the F9F when the string broke and it headed straight for the picture window in the living room of the house. Fortunately, it hit the glass in the lower left corner and the window didn't break. Needless to say, the plane was a "total write-off", as they say in the aviation business.
Some of these models have fortunately being recovered by Atlantis Models. I hope they have several other moulds from that golden age of plastic kits. The people from Atlantis are really doing an excellent job restoring and once again offering old plastic models. Not as accurate as more recent offerings but who cares? They are cheap and reasonably precise without having to spend fortunes and years of work. Simple painting and assembly will give you very attractive and nice models.
Hi Max enjoyed the video, it reminded me of the 1950s catalogs I bought a few years ago. Yes I decided to have a go at meccano, so as always endevered to gather as much info that I could. Now I'm in a decluttering faze at home and the meccano is going, but not the catalogs.
Wonderful video! That said, I'm reminded of an old saying: "Nostalgia is remembering yesterday's prices while forgetting yesterday's allowance." I'd love to see all of these kits reissued; especially that Space Station and the Moon Ship, (and while they're at it, the entire XSL-01 "stack" that the Moon Ship sat atop.) Thanks for sharing this!
I still have all the little pocket catalogs MONOGRAM put in their kits. Oh the prices have changed. Had the Sikorsky S-55 helicopter. Aug. 6th 2020. Another good episode
Grazie per aver mostrato un catalogo di un'altra epoca! Gli albori del modellismo che in Italia in quegli anni pochi praticavano per ragioni di scarsa disponibilità economica. Negli anni 70 è iniziata ed io da ragazzo ho amato le case americane di modellismo come Revell e Monogram….ed ancora oggi acquisto i kit navali Revell per la loro unicità! Ciao e grazie
Enjoyed watching flip through the pages of the old catalogue. That WW2 jeep and trailer was a tres neat model as was the V2 rocket and launcher. Believe the V2 was basically the Atlas used by the Air Force and NASA. Revell had really good selection of kits with decent quality. Really enjoy your presentations and also your selection of background music. Keep it up!
Wow.. great job! Now I’m feeling really old. As a kid I spent many happy hours eyeballing all the styrene kits that filled the shelves at our local hobby shop. I built kits, as most young men did during that golden age of modeling. Thanks for sharing. Terry&ThePirates
I STILL HAVE THEM ALL, and their boxes, with the plans, rest of the decal sheet, and all the sprues that hold the parts, inside the respective boxes.!!! (I'm 75 years young)!!! I mean, from this catalog, I do have ALL the airplanes, (some double), and some armor and ships.!!
Mid to late 60's I built many of those. The USS Forrestal, 105 Howitzer, USS George Washington, the Skyraider, the H-54 helicopter, the SPAD in 1/28 and more.
I remember most of these well. Yes, the animals with some kind of fuzzy stuff you'd sprinkle on/ I also remember Revell (??) making model guns. Colt .45 pistol, a Blunderbus ånd I think but not sure, a Kentucky long rifle or something.
Back then,Revell was the best.I built hundreds of these,some several rtimes.I seem to remember the George Washington submarine was controversial,and they might have discontimued it because it gave away classified things.But i lived for model building in my youth.
My first airline flight was on an Electra when I was about 8 or 9, going from Tampa to Tallahassee. I was disappointed because it was a turboprop rather than a recip.
I think they re-released the Allison prop-jet engine. I saw that a hobby chain store with an old friend who was a ground crewman for C-133 Cargomasters and he was impressed but not interested. Something about they had Pratt&Whitney's anyway!
Had a few of those over the years. Finally got the re-popped Alison turbo-prop last week. Only been wanting one since 1961. It's the Atlantis issue, not an original Renwall/Revell I hasten to add...
I always assumed that these 'cute' animal kits, and things like the Famous Women of History series by Airfix, were an attempt by model companies to get girls interested in plastic modelling. Remember the infamous train models by Lionel in 'girly' pastel colours.
Half Dollar piece for me. And I had to bust my a.. for it. 2 weeks would buy 1 model plus the 1 or 2 cents tax. I also remember there were other el-cheapo kits for .49 cents. My first airplane ride was with my dad (civil engineer) on a DC-7.
My allowance- I probably started getting one around 1961-62 - was 50 cents a week. Had to keep room clean, take out garbage, sweep carport & back steps to get it.
@@701CPD Sounds right. I had to dry dishes in the evening, (rotated with my brother/ sister and parents had no dishwasher until after I went to Nam), mow the lawn with a old Sears push mower, wash THE car. And other "chores" as they saw fit. Oh yeah, shovel snow in the winter. Driveway was long and crushed rocks instead of asphalt, so you would spend the first spring mowing picking up stones and putting them back in the driveway.
Surprised as to how many of those I had when I was a kid (though it was in the later 60s). That 1/40 Skyraider was a pretty advanced kit for the time. How about a history of Renwall? Had their Atomic Cannon.
orangelion03 : gave my mechanical engineer son the 1/40 Skyraider kit...he liked the challenge of all the Rube Goldberg moving parts. I also have an original1958 Renwal Atomic Cannon as well as the Revell reissue. Afraid to build the massive kit, don’t know where to put it when done. I also hope a Max does Renwal.
To my knowledge the Revell 1/40 Skyraider was by far the most advanced and precise plastic aircraft kit in 1960. It predated the quality of Tamiya and Hasegawa kits that came more than a decade later. It is one of the most cherished items of my collection. I was unable to find the Revell Atomic Cannon (that was also issued by Adams), but I have the larger Renwal one.
You want to have a laugh? Put your fully assembled 1/40 Revell Sherman next to your 1/48 Aurora Sherman and compare! The Revell doesn't scale with the other contemporary Revell (Adams) offerings. I don't think it's in scale with the 'deuce and a half' 😄ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I had two of the whip flyers - the Airacobra and the F9F. One day I was "whipping" the F9F when the string broke and it headed straight for the picture window in the living room of the house. Fortunately, it hit the glass in the lower left corner and the window didn't break. Needless to say, the plane was a "total write-off", as they say in the aviation business.
Really appreciate in those creative toys ,they were a part of study at my childhood time,even now.
Some of these models have fortunately being recovered by Atlantis Models. I hope they have several other moulds from that golden age of plastic kits. The people from Atlantis are really doing an excellent job restoring and once again offering old plastic models. Not as accurate as more recent offerings but who cares? They are cheap and reasonably precise without having to spend fortunes and years of work. Simple painting and assembly will give you very attractive and nice models.
Hi Max enjoyed the video, it reminded me of the 1950s catalogs I bought a few years ago. Yes I decided to have a go at meccano, so as always endevered to gather as much info that I could. Now I'm in a decluttering faze at home and the meccano is going, but not the catalogs.
Wonderful video! That said, I'm reminded of an old saying: "Nostalgia is remembering yesterday's prices while forgetting yesterday's allowance." I'd love to see all of these kits reissued; especially that Space Station and the Moon Ship, (and while they're at it, the entire XSL-01 "stack" that the Moon Ship sat atop.)
Thanks for sharing this!
I still have all the little pocket catalogs MONOGRAM put in their kits. Oh the prices have changed. Had the Sikorsky S-55 helicopter. Aug. 6th 2020. Another good episode
I couldn’t help but count the number of those models that I built when I was a kid. Really liked the V2 rocket and launcher,
I have all these catalogs still. Also the Lindberg and Aurora various years.
Grazie per aver mostrato un catalogo di un'altra epoca! Gli albori del modellismo che in Italia in quegli anni pochi praticavano per ragioni di scarsa disponibilità economica. Negli anni 70 è iniziata ed io da ragazzo ho amato le case americane di modellismo come Revell e Monogram….ed ancora oggi acquisto i kit navali Revell per la loro unicità! Ciao e grazie
Great , enjoyed that , thanks
Thank you for the memories!
Enjoyed watching flip through the pages of the old catalogue. That WW2 jeep and trailer was a tres neat model as was the V2 rocket and launcher. Believe the V2 was basically the Atlas used by the Air Force and NASA. Revell had really good selection of kits with decent quality. Really enjoy your presentations and also your selection of background music. Keep it up!
Wow.. great job! Now I’m feeling really old. As a kid I spent many happy hours eyeballing all the styrene kits that filled the shelves at our local hobby shop. I built kits, as most young men did during that golden age of modeling. Thanks for sharing. Terry&ThePirates
I STILL HAVE THEM ALL, and their boxes, with the plans, rest of the decal sheet, and all the sprues that hold the parts, inside the respective boxes.!!!
(I'm 75 years young)!!!
I mean, from this catalog, I do have ALL the airplanes, (some double), and some armor and ships.!!
I had that catalog when I was a kid. I flipped those pages dreaming, until the catalog dissolved.
Mid to late 60's I built many of those. The USS Forrestal, 105 Howitzer, USS George Washington, the Skyraider, the H-54 helicopter, the SPAD in 1/28 and more.
I remember most of these well. Yes, the animals with some kind of fuzzy stuff you'd sprinkle on/ I also remember Revell (??) making model guns. Colt .45 pistol, a Blunderbus ånd I think but not sure, a Kentucky long rifle or something.
Back then,Revell was the best.I built hundreds of these,some several rtimes.I seem to remember the George Washington submarine was controversial,and they might have discontimued it because it gave away classified things.But i lived for model building in my youth.
What a marvel do you have there, didn't you ?
Times when you only dream on
i got a german katalog from that time ore the 70s and couple from esci
Nice video compilation and excellent narration of the interesting Revell range of kits during the early sixties era!
My first airline flight was on an Electra when I was about 8 or 9, going from Tampa to Tallahassee. I was disappointed because it was a turboprop rather than a recip.
I think they re-released the Allison prop-jet engine. I saw that a hobby chain store with an old friend who was a ground crewman for C-133 Cargomasters and he was impressed but not interested. Something about they had Pratt&Whitney's anyway!
Had a few of those over the years. Finally got the re-popped Alison turbo-prop last week. Only been wanting one since 1961. It's the Atlantis issue, not an original Renwall/Revell I hasten to add...
Wow cuz this is really good work! Congrats and keep it up.
I always assumed that these 'cute' animal kits, and things like the Famous Women of History series by Airfix, were an attempt by model companies to get girls interested in plastic modelling. Remember the infamous train models by Lionel in 'girly' pastel colours.
My allowance in 1961 was 25 cents a week, so those models were expensive to me.
Half Dollar piece for me. And I had to bust my a.. for it. 2 weeks would buy 1 model plus the 1 or 2 cents tax. I also remember there were other el-cheapo kits for .49 cents. My first airplane ride was with my dad (civil engineer) on a DC-7.
My allowance- I probably started getting one around 1961-62 - was 50 cents a week. Had to keep room clean, take out garbage, sweep carport & back steps to get it.
@@701CPD Sounds right. I had to dry dishes in the evening, (rotated with my brother/ sister and parents had no dishwasher until after I went to Nam), mow the lawn with a old Sears push mower, wash THE car. And other "chores" as they saw fit. Oh yeah, shovel snow in the winter. Driveway was long and crushed rocks instead of asphalt, so you would spend the first spring mowing picking up stones and putting them back in the driveway.
Surprised as to how many of those I had when I was a kid (though it was in the later 60s). That 1/40 Skyraider was a pretty advanced kit for the time. How about a history of Renwall? Had their Atomic Cannon.
orangelion03 : gave my mechanical engineer son the 1/40 Skyraider kit...he liked the challenge of all the Rube Goldberg moving parts. I also have an original1958 Renwal Atomic Cannon as well as the Revell reissue. Afraid to build the massive kit, don’t know where to put it when done. I also hope a Max does Renwal.
@@hertzair1186 Model building and my dad inspired me to become a mechanical engineer.
renwal is up
To my knowledge the Revell 1/40 Skyraider was by far the most advanced and precise plastic aircraft kit in 1960. It predated the quality of Tamiya and Hasegawa kits that came more than a decade later. It is one of the most cherished items of my collection.
I was unable to find the Revell Atomic Cannon (that was also issued by Adams), but I have the larger Renwal one.
You want to have a laugh?
Put your fully assembled 1/40 Revell Sherman next to your 1/48
Aurora Sherman and compare!
The Revell doesn't scale with the
other contemporary Revell (Adams) offerings. I don't think it's
in scale with the 'deuce and a half'
😄ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
They just made them to fill the box!