Here are a few of mine...
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Love the Old Aurora kits
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But this is the only place where people will care about a monster model and get it. My wife kept looking at me like I had three heads when I was painting my Drac and Frank, but the UMA was Kool and the Gang about it.
Ask her whether she'd rather you grow up, i.e. grow old.
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Cool! Three questions:[/color]
1. What are those plastic boxes in which you have the kits stored? Are they intended for model kits?
Yes, they were made especially for the Aurora Long Boxes by a guy at the Clubhouse Forums named Dr. Syn,I bought over 40 of them! and they protect the kits from all kinds of damage!
2. Why do you have all those Guillotine kits? Are they all different variants in some way?
Yes again,2 of them are the Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors issue, Aurora was told by them to stop using their name and so these were very limited and as such rarer than the second( third from the left) and subsequent issues. Thr Kit second from the left is #0 (of I believe 100) signed by Tom Lowe from Polar Lights...I love collecting Varients of model kits!
3. When it comes to the original iisues, Godzilla's Go-Kart may be the toughest kit of them all to find. That's the only build-up I see though. Hopefully you built a re-issue.
3 Questions and 3 Yes answers...That build up is indeed a Polar Lights reissue...I couldn't bring myself to build an Original Godzilla's Go Cart....well... if I found another, I think I just might ...it would be cool to say tou did!
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I also have a couple of Addams Family Haunted Houses MIB and a ton of Polar Light ones as well I Plan on building onr of the Originals soon
Cheers
Mcdee
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Cool! I like the way they're all in a jumble together by the "Famous Monsters of Filmland" LP. Did you build the kits yourself?
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I went for a "'60's kid did this" paint job.
Here's an Original that I restored for Ebay a while back; I went for a "'60's kid did this" paint job.
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I am glad to see someone started a thread on the model company that started it all for us.
Hep, is that reissue art Swan's? This was the one I had in the early '70's:
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My wife has a youthful soul...she says is "25" forever. She always says I'm the old one with my old school music and I'm three years older than her, which she always reminds me about.Were all young, otherwise we wouldnt be doing this.Music & models-still makes me feel like I did 30 + years ago.
Were all young, otherwise we wouldnt be doing this.Music & models-still makes me feel like I did 30 + years ago.Agreed :)
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I usually have several projects going, aside from my other businesses, so I never go from start to finish on any one piece. I jump around to prevent the burn out factor, but still meet clients deadlines.
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I used to paint the individual parts of my Aurora kits prior to glueing them together when I was a kid. Do any of you pro fellows still do it that way?
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I've always loved the Aurora Superman kit. To me it captures the spirit of the Curt Swan Superman perfectly. Does anyone know who did the box art for the original release?Possibly Murphy Anderson--he did some of the Aurora comic book ads (like for the batman model and I think their race cars)
I've always loved the Aurora Superman kit. To me it captures the spirit of the Curt Swan Superman perfectly. Does anyone know who did the box art for the original release?
Possibly Murphy Anderson--he did some of the Aurora comic book ads (like for the batman model and I think their race cars)
Good question. To me it looks like it was done by James Bama as opposed to any DC artist.
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This always struck me as going more for George Reeves than the comic so Bama would make sense.
But, I think MDG is right that it was Anderson. Would love to see it again to make sure.
Finally finished Kong. Except Godzilla this marks the completion of the original 9.
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Thanks MarsAttacks666!!!!!
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And a good paint job on Vampirella!!! The sculpt on that kit could have been better....
I suspect that a major reason behind the poor sculpt was that snap-together model kits by nature had to be cruder in order to snap together more easily.My only reason to not totally buy into that is that the Victim sculpt is better than Vampi. (As was the cave girl from the Prehistoric Scenes line.) I wonder if the idea was to play down what was essentially a pretty erotic character/costume for the day, given the intended audience for the models.
I remember that first holiday season Aurora's Prehistoric Scenes were out; I had a bunch of those models on my Christmas list, resulting in a lot of "Jurassic Plastic" from my parents and grandparents that year! (Missed out on a few that never got reissued by other companies over the years, such as the Tar Pit. In fact, I think one of the cave people, saber-tooth tiger and woolly mammoth were the only mammal kits I got out of the lot.)
Cool! Which was your first effort and which the follow-up?thanks! I actually had paid to have both painted.
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It is a learning process for me.
I am pretty happpy with the progress I've made with my first five kits. They arent as good as many on this site, but they are good enough for my needs.
I gave him a little buddy from the customizing kit.
This is like being a kid again at Christmas, drooling over all the photos in the Sears catalog.
Yeah!! I loved the lingerie section too!!Spent a lot of time in the bathroom with the Sears catalog.
Spent a lot of time in the bathroom with the Sears catalog.Yeah, let's start a National Geographic appreciation thread!.......not. :P
I like the Parlor of Horror name of your blog.
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Great stuff on your blog, Cerebus!
Only a dollar! Amazing! Wish I bought 3 of everything back then and just kept them stored. Hindsight is 20-20, lol :)Better than the stock market or pension plans, that's for sure.
Better than the stock market or pension plans, that's for sure.
Oh, yea. Now I see the little Castle logo there at the bottom, just like on those cards...Good old William Castle....striking the pose in his director's chair. ;D
I took a pic of the Aurora reissues my son and I have worked on for the last several years. The monsters wanted to get out in the nice, brisk fall air. We completed the Wolfman just a few weeks ago.
I'm no master modeler, and I don't fill in the cracks, sand, etc., but we have a good time with these. The Creature is up next!
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Chris
I'm no master modeler, and I don't fill in the cracks, sand, etc., but we have a good time with these. The Creature is up next!
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Being a master modeler is great, but doin' it monsterkid style is the heart and soul of what we love.
Here's a built up copy of the kit.......
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I really like the sculpt of the Aurora Monsters of the Movies Creature. It's even better than the original one which is saying a lot.Yes, and a great pose too.
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The kit is mint and all this came in with it....
Hi Hepcat, you might know something about this, as it seems to be a Canadian exclusive... was hoping you could shed some light on it.
I grew up in Ottawa Ontario.... We used to buy all our kits from a Smoke Shop and the Store owner knew us by name (back then)....
He sponsored a monthly Monster Model contest but later expanded it to all figure models like Batman, Superman and of course the Weird-oh kits as well....
That Shiny Silver Dollar bought your next cool Kit !
The Principal of my School would even announce the Winner over the School intercom....
I bought my JFK model NIB a couple of years ago. I always buy model to build and not just to leave in the box. I know they are worth more unopened, but it's just not as fun for me that way. Mine did not come with the post either.
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Too cool, I remember having these models they were and still are great.
I always buy model to build and not just to leave in the box. I know they are worth more unopened, but it's just not as fun for me that way.
I love my Monster Hot Rods. I commissioned Jay Holopeter to do a new Creatures Crate I plan to kit at some point.
I just finished this batch of Auroras and Aurora re-issues. It was a total of 2 weeks from assembly to final paint. What do you think?
I just finished this batch of Auroras and Aurora re-issues. It was a total of 2 weeks from assembly to final paint. What do you think?
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OK, Hepcat egged me on, so I'm posting this on one more thread.
I just found this a few days ago when going through my dear departed Mom's cache of old photographs...that's me being a Happy Monster Kid in 1964. :)
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I don't know what's scarier, the kid or the dog.
At any rate, she offered to let him have them on the condition he wasn't just going to turn around and sell them on eBay. (Which wasn't what was going through his mind at all at the sight of all that plastic treasure.)
Here's my "wrapped" Mummy build...
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Like I've said before I'm new at this and my Classic Horror collection consists of one issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland, pretty sad eh.Hey, that's a lot better than having no issues of Famous Monsters of Filmland.
Mark, with that kind of talent, it would be a crime to keep them in the box.
That's one of the two reasons I keep mine in the box. I don't have Mark's kind of talent.Same here, Hep.
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The display surround Gigantic Frankenstein is truly awesome. Also like the Bride's nameplate. Good stuff!I was thinking the same thing. That Gigantic Frankenstein display looks like it required a lot of time & skill.
My Monster Hot Rods!
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Guys,
I understand the collecting mania perfectly well, and more power to ya if you want to maintain a stack of virgin plastic-wrapped kit boxes than finished models. But for me, I don't care a rat's patootie about whether a model is MIB or not. Once I get my epoxy putty-encrusted, hobby knife-scarred mitts on a kit, I want to build it.
Here are some photos of my Aurora monster models. You'll find many more on my web site: [url]http://www.mcgovernsmodels.com/[/url] ([url]http://www.mcgovernsmodels.com/[/url]). And my compliments to the work of all you other builders who posted photos in this thread!
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While it may not be gallant to discuss a lady's enhancements, I really like the tweaking to that BRIDE kit.BB8,
This ad, or one like it, was seen on the back cover of nearly every DC comic for many years...
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This ad for the model ran on the back cover of countless comic books...
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After Frankie's car got its own model, his bride demanded equal time. She soon got her wish....
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I only start back in early 2015 so that should explain the uh, quality of these
Huh?! They look just right to my eyes as a monster kid.heh, thanks
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The Vampire $175What? But I thought The Vampire (along with The Frog) was one of the most rare Aurora model kits just in general.
What? But I thought The Vampire (along with The Frog) was one of the most rare Aurora model kits just in general.
They are usually rare because they weren't that popular or good sellers when they were introduced. Thus they didn't stay in the catalogs long and had low production runs.
The Castle Vampire and Frog kits still don't have much appeal except for die-hard collectors.
Aurora had a lot of misses (Captain Action comes to mind)....
There's only so much money and storage room.
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>the Captain Action line of Ideal action figures had such a tremendous impact on a generation of youngsters<
Cap lived, and lives, large in our legends, Hep - but he never SOLD all that terrifically. In ANY of his incarnations.
Moreover I just wasn't a big TV watcher as a kid anyway. I doubt that I even watched six hours of TV a week, and most of that was cartoons when I came home for lunch and right after school. Watching baseball games bored me and Hockey Night in Canada was telecast only on Saturday evenings and initially only the last part of the games was televised between 9:00 and 10:30. I'd typically fall asleep before the end of the game anyway. Regular CFL telecasts on CFPL didn't start until a couple of years later. I remember listening to radio broadcasts of CFL games on CKSL radio in 1961 and 1962 instead.
From the start, Aurora marketing strategy was simple and effective. Revell and Monogram prided themselves on making kits that were highly accurate and had the maximum number of operating features. Aurora simply wanted to sell low- priced kits of fascinating new subjects to the younger audience. The accuracy of early Aurora kits suffered accordingly, but the young model market did not care. Injection molded kits were completely pre-shaped and went together quickly with out carving or sanding.... and introduced an entire generation of boys to model building. At Aurora, Shikes and Giammarino kept overhead low and operated with a minimal staff. Many ‘Lean’ Manufacturing practices (Toyota Production System) were put into place long before they were practiced in Japan. The mold presses ran 24 hours a day and some popular kits had runs of over 1,000,000 copies. Aurora had no trouble turning a profit. It was the right strategy for the 1950s/early 1960s, but not for the future.
By the mid 1950s, plastic kits were selling very well. In a survey, approximately 80% of all young boys said that modeling was their primary hobby. This is more significant when you realize that ‘model building’ never even made it to the list of boy’s hobbies before this time. Aurora’s gamble had paid off, and the future belonged to plastic.
The 1960s were a happy and busy time for modelers, and Aurora and its competitors released dozens of new kits. In 1963, Aurora purchased Comet and many of their kits were released with new box artwork.... Around this time Jo Kotula, the famous aviation illustrator, was hired to do the Aurora box art to provide a new look.
In the 1960s the famous Monster, Movie and Television figures began production. These kits fueled the “Monster” craze that swept the nation, as popularized with the TV shows ‘The Addams Family’ and ‘The Munsters’. The Aurora figure kits sold so well that other companies found themselves playing ‘catch-up’ to Aurora’s find.
The Phantom of the Opera...that was the very first Aurora monster model I ever had.
Here are a few of the Aurora monster models repositioned and repurposed by our own master modeller Jim Bertges:
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Very nice! Too bad it has that dumb "Bellringer" name.You can thank Disney for that. Have I ever mentioned how much I loathe Disney and anything associated with it?
Have I ever mentioned how much I loathe Disney and anything associated with it?
You can thank Disney for that.
Too bad it has that dumb "Bellringer" name.
Here's an incredible custom build that Jim Bertges based on the Aurora Creature kit:
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Jim got the girl and new arms to enable the Creature to hold the girl from a Jimmy Flintstone resin add-on kit. He also used a replacement head for the Creature that Hilber Graf created.
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Thanks for posting pics of my models, Hepcat. It's a joy to know that others enjoy them. I'll be happy to answer any questions, including "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
That's part of the joy of modeling, taking an existing kit and turning it into something that no one else has.
In 1973 Aurora issued a series of cheap snap-together Prehistoric Scenes kits:Sweet!
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Included was this Tar Pit Scene kit:
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Alchemy Works released a Tar Pit Diorama in 2004(?) based on these Prehistoric Scenes kits. Here's the excellent build Mark McGovern did for Mark Blanchard owner of The Core ([url]https://www.thecoreonline.com/[/url]) comic shop in Cedar Falls, Iowa:
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I've seen that Scarecrow on Cult's website and in the article. That is one one of the coolest conversions I have ever seen and absolutely excellent building. That show was my favorite Disney episode/s and still is a huge favorite of mine. I did a resin kit of the Scarecrow myself which is larger but not dynamic or as cool as Tom's is.
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Here are individual photos of the Aurora re-popped DC super hero kits.
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Here are some photos from my collection. I started with the reissues of 1999, in order to create a collection as defined in the IPMS competition rules. For the most part, I built the models nearly out of the box, and followed the painting suggestions of the original instructions. But down the road I got more creative and now it's hard for me to build anything straight from the box.
I grew up in Ottawa Ontario.... We used to buy all our kits from a Smoke Shop and the Store owner knew us by name (back then)
....Just wanted to add that the owner of The Smoke Shop of Notre Dame name was Guy and he was a cool cat...He sponsored a monthly Monster Model contest but later expanded it to all figure models like Batman, Superman and of course the Weird-oh kits as well...Every month someone would walk away with a Grand Prize of a Shiny Silver dollar and anything you wanted off of (what we called) the 10¢ rack....Oh Man...Good times!
Yep...You nailed it! Actually all the kits entered were in a display case for the full Month and the Winner got his kit moved to the Store front Window for the next Month ...a Real Honour complete with Bragging Rights!... The Kits that didn't win could be re entered (of course) and more times than not, when you Won... That Shiny Silver Dollar bought your next cool Kit ! The Principal of my School would even announce the Winner over the School intercom....Times were waaaay different then....Building Models was a cool thing to do and over the endless years it seems that everyone would eventually win a Month of Glory.
Guy was a very smart man as this Model Contest became very well known. I remember The Gatineau Review(local Newspaper) even did an article on the Smoke Shop Contest... calling it The Smoke Shop of Notre Dame. I think I spent every allowance and monetary Birthday gift there....we all did :D. It was a Great Hang out... Where's my Time Machine...I want to go back there now!
Love the Big Frankie and the prehistoric kits are great, too!Thanks!I do have another Big Frankie Original just before restore him all need is the Chain and then like to give a shot at painting him in B/W.
. . . and then like to give a shot at painting him in B/W.
Here in the foreground is an Aurora Vampire build-up by Freddie Poe:
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Together with the Frog, the Vampire was one of the two Castle Creation kits Aurora released in 1966. Neither sold well and they've never been re-issued. Here's the box for the Vampire:
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Sometimes I have to laugh when I see a boxed Big Frankie being listed as the "holy grail" of Aurora figure kits, when in reality, quite a few of them survived over the years. The real Holy Grails of Aurora figures are Godzilla's gocart and King Kongs thronester!!
Lost Aurora Monsters of the Movies Metaluna Mutant.
I'd love to have one of those!He sells them on ebay.I just wish he would do the Aurora Monsters of the Movies Godzilla in styrene being he has the Original Acetate sculpture 8).
He sells them on ebay.
Lost Aurora Monsters of the Movies Metaluna Mutant.This is the Styrene kit that the owner of the original Aurora Muntant acetate sculpt had made later into Styrene kit.
Wow, styrene! When did the owner have this done? What is the name of the company producing the kit?All your answers can be found here! http://www.bucwheat.com/metaluna/metaluna.htm (http://www.bucwheat.com/metaluna/metaluna.htm)
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I'm among the legion of Aurora monster model fans who have always wondered why the Metaluna Mutant was not included in the original series of long box kits that Aurora released between 1961 and 1965. I would have been all over a Metaluna Mutant kit. Much preferable in my opinion to the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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1978 Monogram Godzilla reissue of the Aurora kit that came with Glow pieces.I know as a kid the Boxart of Monograms Godzilla always caught my attention.So decided let me see if can paint it up just like it.Hope you all like?
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I know as a kid the Boxart of Monograms Godzilla always caught my attention.