Modeling magazine from '60s and '70s?

stoutfella

Sprue-ce: We had lots of Model Car Science, too. It was in the same vein as Car Model, of course. I don't recall the subtle distinctions between the publications, though

I certainly remember the hideous Dream Car on the cover. Ugh!

What were designers thinking?

Sprue-ce: We had lots of Model Car Science, too. It was in the same vein as Car Model, of course. I don't recall the subtle distinctions between the publications, though

I certainly remember the hideous Dream Car on the cover. Ugh!

mitsdude

I have fond memories of Scale Modeller from the 60's.

I remember the magazine as having almost exclusively military related models. Mainly airplanes.

I didn't actually own very many issues as what limited funds I had was spent on models and comics.

I would go with my mom to the grocery store and read it in the magazine section  while she shopped.

These are all over an auction site at reasonable prices if you just be patient. They aren't really collectable as some publications are.

I bought several of the issues I remembered having and put them in picture frames to hang in my hobby room.

That's pretty much how I remember Scale Modeler as well. I might have to take a look and pick up a couple issue for old times sake.

Wonderful memory jog stoutfella. I actually still have a small stack of my original "Scale Modelers". Every once and while when I'm cleaning or rearranging I'll stop and glance through them. Still plenty of helpful hints in those. That magazine along with my Squadron Supplements were my staples when modeling as a kid in the 70's.

Greetings,

Car Model magazine was a staple for my brother and I when we were building car models, which I did for several years before moving on to aircraft. I could never pull off the chopping and channeling and flaring and filling required for the custom jobs they showed. I did manage to take second place in a model car show at the local dime store once, mainly thanks to a nice paint job. Anyone remember Funny Fur?

I'll go ya one better on the cover, though. November-December 1963:

I've got several more of these in the basement, along with a couple of others, including an issue of "Model Kars" featuring George Barris.

I have fond memories of Scale Modeller from the 60's.

I remember the magazine as having almost exclusively military related models. Mainly airplanes.

I didn't actually own very many issues as what limited funds I had was spent on models and comics.

I would go with my mom to the grocery store and read it in the magazine section  while she shopped.

These are all over an auction site at reasonable prices if you just be patient. They aren't really collectable as some publications are.

I bought several of the issues I remembered having and put them in picture frames to hang in my hobby room.

Texgunner

Do any of you, uh, more seasoned members remember this magazine?  I still have this issue around here somewhere.

I recall the Car Modeler name and font style.

Unfortunately, I was more into aircraft models at the time.

My current interests now include re-issues of show car models produced during that era.

These folks would no doubt recall that publication:

http://www.showrods.com/home_page_links/home.html

Thanks for posting; looks like it was a very interesting publication.

Scratch building articles are always a big attraction for me.

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Speaking of 1960s era publications, this is one I definitely do not recall::

Do any of you, uh, more seasoned members remember this magazine?  I still have this issue around here somewhere.

stoutfella

...."Scale Modeler?" I subscribed to it back then in my grade school days, but those issue are long gone, of course. What I recall was that the articles tended to be a little more in-depth than some of today's FSM fare. I especially remember how-to articles on doing roundels with Frisket film and building a desert camo B-25, both fairly lengthy, step-by-step pieces. I never tried the roundels and I bogged down building the B-25, but I still remember the articles.

I used to buy Scale Modeler at Stanton Hobbies in Chicago and, later, Squadron Shop in Elmhurst, Illinois.

From what I recall, mid to late 1960s era articles ranged from slot cars to table top photography.

Articles of the 1970s thru the mid 1980s provided kit build reviews as well as some very good scratch building "how to" articles.

Sometime during the late 1980s the publishers abandoned the in-depth articles in favor of showcasing completed models.

When FSM provided the in-depth articles I wanted, I ceased buying Scale Modeler.

Scale Modeler was cancelled a few years later; perhaps the early 1990s.

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."Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 

George Santayana

thanks, I couldn't think of his name to save my life

47 isn't too late,,,heh, I have to say that, I am not at his level yet, at 56

"Model Railroader" kept this country kid sane until I left the farm to enlist, the ads were the "big deal" when it came to getting real model supplies by mail

John Allen had two railroads the other was Devils gulch and Hell and gone. When I grow up I want to build  models just like him. ( I'm 47 do you think it's to late. )

these old mag titles remind me of how Kalmbach used to get modeling info to us before FSM

they had model building books,,,,,,,,,and a magazine that had me nearly believing that "Gorre & Defetid" was a real Railroad (points to anyone that remembers that railroad and the Kalmback book with the Revell F-16 on the cover,,,,,,,,,without looking them up)

It was published by Challenge Publications along with a quarterly modeling  mag "Scale Aircraft Modeler', which I think they stopped doing in the '80s.

Thanks, Tim!

Hi Stoutfella,

You're right, the other magazine was "Scale Modeler." The consensus in the office is that it ceased publication in the 1990s. Sometimes FSM is confused with it, but we were always a separate entity.

So, don't worry. Your memory is in great condition!

Tim