A Trip down Memory Lane…The Aurora, Revell, Monogram Models Story
Something I stumbled upon from a fellow modeller. A brief History of some of the giants in models.
Enjoy.
The Aurora Channel at iModeler
Aurora model kits
Boeing F4B-4 dive-bomber
Built from 1928-1935, with tube steel fuselage, wood wings with fabric covering, ailerons of corrugated aluminum. The US Navy began heavily investigating the tactic of dive bombing in the 1920s and 1930s. Of aircraft in current service at the ti[...]
Atlantis Turbo prop!
I am so happy Atlantis has started re-popping these old Revell, Monogram an Aurora kits. If you could have found one of these the price would have been prohibitive. For me my wife got me this for Christmas! It is very much like the engines I [...]
P-38 Lightning Review Part 2,Hasegawa 1/48th
Ever since Tamiya announced the that they were going to do a P-38 earlier this year, it was like wow and ever since that we have been impatiently waiting for it to hit the shelves. With one numb nut know it all swearing they will not do an earl[...]
I-19 Japanese submarine,Monogram
This is Monograms issue of Aurora's I-19, It's considered one of the better detailed of the Aurora submarines, it went together well. the scale is supposed to be 1/275. I added Das Boot 505,another Mon/Aurora box scale, an older build. The I-19[...]
Aurora 1/8 “Fraankensteen”…monogram illuminators re-pop-
More than a hundred years ago, in a mountain village in Switzerland, lived a man who's strange experiments with the dead have since become legend.,the legend is still told the world over, the legend of Fraankensteen
ahhgh,pig snort, gasp...why[...]
Aurora 1/8 “BATMAN”
actually the Revell knock-off as the original Aurora had Batman written on the tree
Holy Smokes Batman
as a young man he served as "batboy" for the Gotham city Yankees
zoinks
kapow
I thought the searchlight was the bomb but i always wondere[...]
M8E2 Munitions Carrier, US Army, 1/48 Aurora, Blast from the past.
I found this on ebay, along Aurora's MBT 70,[which I have already built]. The M8 was based on the M41 Walker bulldog chassis, It was developed in the 1950s. Don't no much more about its operational use.Now I have something to resupply the M109 P[...]
MBT 70, a cold war mistake, Aurora, 1/48
Having recently arrived with their new tanks, the crews were confident yet apprehensive about their ability to confront the new tanks from the East. They hadn't even been on maneuvers yet when the alert was sounded, they made it to their positio[...]
Aurora Creature “From the Black Lagoon”
actually the Monogram knock off
