what was your 1st monster model kit you built..........aurora ???

[Illoman]

My first model kit was the MPC Barnabas Collins. (1969)

You know, I'm glad you posted this, because I could have sworn I had a Barnabus model kit but wondered if I had just dreamed it up!

The only thing that survived all these years re: Dark Shadows are some of the paperback books I collected back then.

Mike

[LundyAfterMidnight]

The square box "glow" Wolfman.

I may be splitting hairs, but the Prehistoric Scenes sabre-tooth tiger came along first.

[artistguy]

The Wolfman 70's glow kit.. and that nifty orange smelling glue....

[OldTimey]

You know, I'm glad you posted this, because I could have sworn I had a Barnabus model kit but wondered if I had just dreamed it up!

The only thing that survived all these years re: Dark Shadows are some of the paperback books I collected back then.

Mike

I was barely five years old when I saw that kit on the shelf at Gaylords, I just had to have it. Dark shadows was the first show that ever scared me, it introduced me to the horror genre. It was from that show that I learned that being scared could be fun. Barnabas was the first vampire I ever knew about. My love of monsters began with Dark Shadows.

There's a beautiful factory sealed kit on Ebay right now. This is my holy grail. I hope I can pick one up some day.

Ebay Item number: 400049320197   

Here's a comic book ad for the Barnabas & Werewolf kits.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/jcmetalcoven/barnabas.jpg?t=1244152838

[ChattyLMS]

You mean this:

http://www.vintagetoys.com/toy/forsale/classified/107?imgdisplay=1

That's the one!

[Vlad Tsepesh]

Long box Aurora Frankenstein. . . Not only my first monster model, but my first model kit!

It was less than a buck, and my scrounging for bottles in the neighborhood quickly assumed a new level of intensity and purpose. I soon had Dracula, the Wolf Man, and--if memory serves--the Mummy. . .

Good times. . .

[depressedlarrytalbot]

Long box Dracula.

[NekroDave]

As I'm sure I've mentioned in the past, models were not a part of my childhood so my first ever kit was actually the El Baron resin kit from Ultratumba, done just last year. (Ah... what memories...lol)



I decided to add a little glow to it. That always helps...



I just got the new Revell re-issues of Frankenstein and Dracula so I'll be trying my first plastic kits soon too... Then, glow Big Frankie after that.

[CreepysFan]

 My first model was the Aurora 'Forgotten Prisoner', a week later I bought 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' and a life sized 'Human Skull'.  Not sure what order I got the other models.  My brother and his friend blew up all my TV spaceship models with firecrackers.  Thankfully all the monsters were left untouched.

[raycastile]

My first model was definitely an Aurora, probably the Creature.

[Mcdee]

First Aurora Monster Model was Frankenstein and I was hooked...I eventually got them all as they were being released for the first time in the 60s' ...My all time  Favorite that I still have today is the Addams Family Haunted House...I still have an Original one MIB...
Mcdee

[ramsey37]

My first model was very likely the Allosaurus from the Prehistoric Scenes line. You can see the box in this pic:

The only two monster models I ever had were the Glow versions of the Wolf Man and the Forgotten Prisoner of Castlemare. I ended up getting almost all of the Prehistoric models.
George

[Unknown Primate]

The original Aurora Frankenstein was definitely my first.  When I look at my 90's repro, it still makes me very nostalgic for the monsters of my childhood.

[Toy Ranch]

I built several around the same time, not sure which came first.

Blackbeard
Capt Kidd
Wolf Man
Frankenstein
The Phantom (Revell - The Ghost Who Walks, not Opera)
Flash Gordon (Revell)

[azgillman]

1 Glow Wolfman 2 Glow Hunchback 3 Glow Creature 4 Glow Prisoner

I can remember getting a color add for the Monster Scenes in a few kits and getting all turned on by the Vampirella and Victim illustrations-lol.