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RGronovius

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  1. I had quite a few of those, the rubberband powered action. I had mainly the skeleton ones, but I do remember having a peg legged pirate with his peg up on a treasure chest called Jolly Roger.
  2. Yes, what's worse than any armor, aircraft or car modeler are when sci-fi modelers argue in the forums. Epic battles with internet chases from modeling site to modeling site. All over the correct color of a fictional vehicle seen on TV or in the movies.
  3. There can be no humor in scale modeling. I've been a member of various model forums and even the old rec.models.scale since the 90s. This is serious stuff. Haven't you seen the flame wars? Men will hound one another for decades in order to ridicule each other over these wars. There's an old RMS feud that still pops up every now and again. That one's been in play since the mid to late 90s. No humor, not allowed.
  4. Our local Kay bee toy & hobby shops carried those MPC reboxes of Airfix armor and a series of their aircraft that said USAirfix. As a kid, those were all I could afford and that were available.
  5. I remember those now, but for the life of me, I never would have associated those with Disney. I remember the ads in comic books.
  6. Dave, I assumed this because I first ran across the old Matchbox armor kits in Revell of Germany boxes about a decade ago. I've seen and picked up a few of the now-Revell kits of the subjects I was rather fond of and some of the ones I didn't get a chance to build when I was younger. As to the colors, armor kits were of reasonable color schemes, but I agree that many of the airplane kits were in some wild colors. My favorite kit was an A-20 Havoc that had a bumblebee nose art.
  7. During my youth, I probably built more of those multi-colored Matchbox airplanes and armor kits than those of any other single manufacturer. I know some still hold up well but many of them are more nostalgic than serious kits; but do any of you still like to build the old Matchbox kits?
  8. Is this the same company? If so, I'd hesitate to order from there online. http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/26615971/index.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/28/hobbit_director_credit_card_scam/
  9. I was a kid when this movie came out, about 14, maybe 15 yrs old. After having seen Star Wars as a 13 yr old, this movie was quite a let down. I liked the model kits. I built Max (still have him) and the Cygnus. That was an impressive kit, unfortunately, all that remains is some of the clear parts that formed the globe like bridge.
  10. You are quite right about that, but it looks just like the one from that kids' TV show. They basically do a half hour show (or was it an hour?), with 12-13 yr old actors, and they recreate various epics in a manageable show aimed at 5 yr olds. I saw the "Disney" one by Comet Miniatures on eBay a few days ago. That will always be the classic Nautilus.
  11. The only Disney models (traditional assembled kits) I can remember were the MPC Pirates of the Caribbean ones from the 70s, the MPC The Black Hole kits and those old Glencoe reissues of the World of Tomorrow TV series. The only mainstream model I recall of the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Nautilus was the version from the Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea made by Revell-Monogram. My kids liked watching that TV show and I remember building the kit for them, it was pretty good even though it was a snap-tite model. http://cgi.ebay.com/Nautilus-Submarine-1-100-Revell-monogram-/150531908499?pt=UK_ToysGames_ModelKits_ModelKits_JN&hash=item230c66a393
  12. I'd never heard of them, never visited their website and received that unsolicited newsletter this weekend.
  13. I loved those MPC kits in the 80s. I built just about every one they sold at the Kay Bee toy store. I remember cutting and collecting the Golden wings/Wheels/Stripes and sending away for some really good kits. The giant 1/24 scale Harrier comes to mind. I scored a whole lot of the tokens when the local discount department store sold all the MPC Return of the Jedi kits on huge clearance.
  14. I lost track of the shows when I changed duty stations. That happened a lot throughout my life. You move from one region to the next and the local stations did not carry some of the shows that the previous one did. I know I "lost" Firefly that way in 2002. I was stationed at Ft. Lee for school for 6 months and when I returned home it had vanished. It was a real good show that I later found out was canceled about the time I would have been missing it.
  15. I disliked District 9 immensely, so did the wife. A terrible movie.
  16. Do any of you remember a TV series created by Roddenberry called Earth: Final Conflict? I remember watching it during the 1990s, but then it vanished and I never knew what became of the series. I found the season 1 DVD set yesterday at Walmart for a whopping $10. With any luck, I can run across some of the subsequent seasons.
  17. Someone needs to inform the Academy Awards about that. Apparently, they still distinguish between "actors" and "actresses". I don't follow Emmy and Tony awards, but I imagine they too distinguish between actors and actresses in their various categories. http://www.oscars.org/ I've always thought the Academy was the leading organization regarding screen actors and actresses. They still make the distinction.
  18. Mark Hamil moved into voice work. He did quite a few of the animated Batman cartoons as the Joker. In the cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, he played the main bad guy, the Fire Lord. He also was the star of the video game series Wing Commander and was the main character in the cutscenes.
  19. I've found it a lot easier to temporarily fix the parts together with just a dot of white Elmer's glue. In case of a mistake or such, it can eaisly be pried apart. Once I am satisfied with the postion, I'll use the extra fine super glue to set the parts together.
  20. The other topic is very open ended, but what about a bad movie that actually had some mainstream injection molded plastic kits made for? I'm not talking garage resin, but old school MPC, AMT, Entex, Airfix, Aurora, etc. For example, Entex's Galaxy Runner from Message from Space or MPC's Cygnus from The Black Hole.
  21. Excluding the junk made specifially for SyFy, a couple of real movie movies that I saw in the theaters as a teenager that stunk are: Battle Beyond the Stars, starring John-boy Walton (I had to look these titles up) and a young Molly Ringwald in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. Both movies were awful and tried to capitalize on the Star Wars craze.
  22. What kind of box tops? New kits, common stuff from the stash or extremely rare or vintage kits?
  23. And a nice review with photos is helpful: http://www.panzer-modell.de/berichte/tiger_interior/tiger_interior_eng.htm
  24. It was a great kit back in the day when it came out. I imagine it has been surpassed by the umpteen bazillion minute variations of the Tiger that Dragon has released in the past decade, but I do not stay abreast of all things Tiger. Here's an article done on it years ago. http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/german/jptiger/jptiger.htm
  25. I've built about 10 of those different Revell Star Wars snap kits. Awesome little pieces of work. I usually buy two; one to slam together for my son and one to build, paint and detail for myself. I've been armor light this past year, mainly building kits for my son, like the Star Wars kits, a few of the Batman kits, and a Speed Racer Mach 5. I did build a few armor kits for some of my departing NCOs. Among them was an Academy Bradley, Dragon M1A2 (old one), and an Italeri M1025 HMMWV. For myself, I built a few of the old 1/76 Airfix armor kits, the Type 97 and Churchill jump to mind, but I know I did a few others as well.
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