What are the best garage kit companies?

[drthomasholmes]

FYI- Monsters In Motion may just keep your $, and Frontier may as well, a lot of what they sell is junk.


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[hammerfan]

Ive never had a problem with either one and both have been around for a long time.

[empty13]

MiM can take a while to deliver garage kits. But i have been happy with them.

[Universal Steve]

I got a lot of mine from MIM. I have had good luck with them. Since the C D's pickins have been kinda slim. I miss the Aurora box art models. I have all exceor Jekyll and Hyde. I would have liked to see the rest of them made.

[houseofdracula]

I miss the Aurora box art models. I have all exceor Jekyll and Hyde. I would have liked to see the rest of them made.

You and Me Both.

[Wolfman66]

I bought from MIM before mainly on ebay and no problemos .But would like to see them continue the Aurora boxart kits and make a Godzilla one next

[Universal Steve]

When I talked to them, Frankenstein was supposed to be next. The face of the monster on the box art was not any of the actors that played the part. I was hoping he would still do it but Universal would probably say they own the name just like Disney did to Polar Lights with the Hunchback henceforth the Bellringer of Notre Dame.

[Todd P.]

It's not a question of Universal owning the name "Frankenstein" because it doesn't. Doing an original take on the monster is perfectly acceptable because the novel is in the public domain.

However, Universal does own the flat-headed, neck-bolted look it created for the first Karloff film and carried through various movies, plus Herman Munster. That is unquestionably the look on the Aurora box art. In fact, of all the box art paintings, Frankenstein's Monster may be the one that is most unquestionably the Universal creation.

[houseofdracula]

I bought from MIM before mainly on ebay and no problemos .But would like to see them continue the Aurora boxart kits and make a Godzilla one next

These are my Favorite kits, Ever!

[Wolfman66]

These are my Favorite kits, Ever!

your buildups that you did of the boxart series is my Favs as have yet too see anyone else capture the bama look the way you did on them .

[Mitchellmania]

Phantom's my favorite, then Dracula!

[BaronLatos35]

These are my Favorite kits, Ever!

That is a great Dracula kit. I would love to have one of those. It captures what i was saying earlier about the stone steps/wall base that the original Aurora one was missing IMO.

[houseofdracula]

your buildups that you did of the boxart series is my Favs as have yet too see anyone else capture the bama look the way you did on them .

Thanks Wolfie, for those (more than) Kind words.
I'm re-doing my entire website and just posted brand new photos of the Box Art kits.

[deadman]

Nice work on the Dracula House of D. I collect King Kong Models. You guys see any that really stood out? I have a Geometric that is cool and a Kong on the wall by Jim Davidson.

[mjbare]

Deadman, before I got to the end of your last post, I was jumping up and down as I was going to say, hey, you gotta get Jim Davidson's Kong kits. You have one, the King of New York as it's called. One of his other ones is where Kong's just about to pick up a young blond actress for the first time called, The Sacrifice. Then he has another he first called the Tribute to Marcel Delgado but now it's called King vs Tyrant (aka T-Rex).

His url is: http://www.fantamationstudio.com/index.html

Michael