Glad you liked them CREEPYSFAN ...I sure enjoy coloring them every chance I get!Far out pics weldonmc.
Far out pics weldonmc.
Awesome pic of Super Fuzz build up model Hep.
What are the sources for this story?
Here is my completed Super Fuzz, fun kit to build.
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Some interesting and useful information regarding the scarcity of the original Monogram Fred Flypogger kits can be gleaned from this book published in 1996 by noted board game enthusiast and collector Rick Polizzi:
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The book contains the following estimate of prices for boxed Monogram Fred Flypogger kits:
Speed Shift! $280
Super Fuzz! $280
Flip Out! $125
Now we can argue from now until the cows come home about a current price list let alone one from 1996, but the fact is that Polizzi's estimates provide a very decent ranking of the relative scarcities of these kits. Quite simply, I'm in general agreement with Polizzi's assessment and I've been collecting these and other select model kits since 1982-83.
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Monogram did reissue Super Fuzz and perhaps the others just a few years ago in the exact same boxes. Here's a build-up somebody did of Super Fuzz:
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Oh man! That translucent blue pearl paint you used was fabulous.
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...I really like the smell of cardboard and styrophene when you first open a kit.
Plus modelling cement and enamel paint of course!
The Revell model kits based on "Big Daddy" Roth's show cars were selling so well in the early 1960's that other model kit companies began scouting the show car circuit for custom rods on which they could base competing kits of their own. One of the very earliest of these was Monogram's Li'l Coffin.
The Li'l Coffin had been built by Dave Stuckey of Wichita, Kansas. The body was based on a 1932 Ford two door sedan and it was powered by a 1954 331 cubic inch De Soto hemi with six carbonators. In 1963 the Li'l Coffin won the Top Custom Car award at the Oakland Roadster Show, the premier rod show in the nation.
So impressed were Monogram executives by the Li'l Coffin that they bought the car and exhibited it at the 1964 New York World's Fair! The Li'l Coffin kit that Monogram put out in 1964 remains an all-time classic.
The bigger kids down the street, Fred and Mike, had one when I was a kid so I bought one too. I had real problems trying to assemble the thing though because some of the parts didn't fit together very well. Here's a closeup shot of the unbuilt one I have today:
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Wow! Now there's a kit that would require hours of careful work to assemble.
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The Revell model kits based on "Big Daddy" Roth's show cars were selling so well in the early 1960's that other model kit companies began scouting the show car circuit for custom rods on which they could base competing kits of their own.
Ah, the model car craze of the 1960s. Car Model Magazine was our internet.
my builds of the flypogger series.
Ah, the model car craze of the 1960s. Car Model Magazine was our internet. Those were exciting times....