Post your Monarch Models buildups here!

[rkoenn]

And here are my Monarch kit builds:

[Hepcat]

Here's some old Wonderfest photos and one has him sitting in the background.

That Fly box art is fabulous!

Are those Dr. McKillop's own builds?

 

[Hepcat]

Mine are spread out. I couldn't even get to the Gorgo kits or the regular Ghost kits.  I think I have around 35.

Have you built any yet?

 

And speaking of Gorgo, we also need more pictures of Gorgo builds in this thread! Just the single nice one above by rkoenn isn't enough.

 

[Hepcat]

Can anyone venture a guess as to why Dr. McKillop may have opted for black plastic for the Gorgo kit though?



Black is a terrible colour for a kit. Details don't pop out as readily and it requires thicker coats of paint. Kits should be white, cream or light grey. In Gorgo's case perhaps green, but certainly not black.

 

[Tom_Hering]

Can anyone venture a guess as to why Dr. McKillop may have opted for black plastic for the Gorgo kit though?



Black is a terrible colour for a kit. Details don't pop out as readily and it requires thicker coats of paint. Kits should be white, cream or light grey. In Gorgo's case perhaps green, but certainly not black.

 

Mine is yellow-green. I remember reading somewhere that McKillop really likes colored plastic, and builds models (including his own company's kits) in their molded colors, without painting them. Definitely a different approach to making models, but I can see how an all-black Gorgo would look pretty sharp.

[Hepcat]

Here's a Ghost of Castel-Maré built by Freddie Poe:



 

[Tom_Hering]

If any kit ought to have been released in transparent neon glow colors, like the Monogram Luminators, it was The Ghost of Castel-Maré.

[Hepcat]

Here's a really nice Monarch Sinbad model built by Freddie Poe:



 

[NightCrawler]

Monarch making models again would be awesome! I remember them specifically mentioning The Thing from Another World , War of the Worlds and Time Machine being possible licenses they would like to produce. Throw in The Blob and THEM! and I would be a very happy modeler!