Revell Master Modelers Club

did it happen before 1990? If so, then no.

Tankmaster7 wrote:

did it happen before 1990? If so, then no.

LOL.... yeah. It pre-dates Van Halen, Star Wars (when it was just called Star Wars) and VCRs.

I was a member in the early/mid 70's, probably somewhere between '74 and '77.... I can't recall exactly. The ravages of age.......

I do recall having my mom sew the patch on my denim jacket and my friends thought it was cool.

Yes I do remember that. At some point they included the patch in a special issue model I think? My mom or one of my sisters sewed mine on right next to my United Airlines "kid gets wings for flying by himself Wings" .....Oh!....LOL.........

I was a "Grand Master Modeller" in that club. You had to build 75 models as a qualification.  At the time, I could list them all and their scales and manufacturer, one after the other - it all seemed so important!  I remember the patch, and the magazine, which was called, "Get it Together" or "Put it Together."

The recent Remembering Revell book has a section on the Master Modeler's Club and why it became defunct.

Rob Gronovius wrote:

The recent Remembering Revell book has a section on the Master Modeler's Club and why it became defunct.

Thanks Rob. I'll have to pick that book up. Saw one out on Monogram, too.

Antinice wrote:

I was a "Grand Master Modeller" in that club. You had to build 75 models as a qualification.  At the time, I could list them all and their scales and manufacturer, one after the other - it all seemed so important!  I remember the patch, and the magazine, which was called, "Get it Together" or "Put it Together."

I'd forgotten about that! I drove my dad crazy by constantly asking for models. I'd build them in a day- paint all running together, fingerprints everywhere, decals looking awful.

Course, that's why they did it. Get the kids to pester mom and dad to spend money.

By the time I'd quit building models as a teen, I'd built over 300. Of course, about 250 were between the ages of 7 and 10... I had squadrons of F-4s and A-4s in 1/72 scale that we picked up in little baggies at the Air Force Base Exchange.... $.50 a pop. Grandma would give me 10 bucks and I'd have darn near an air wing.

Jon,   

   Yes, I do remember the model master club.  Still got the patch somewhere. (way somewhere,but somewhere anyway)  I built several carriers and a few battleships and aircraft as fast as I could. One night/no paint.  I wanted to see the finished products. Of course there were fingerprints and gobs of glue everywhere, but it was still cool to see it finished.  Now, after a 35+ yr hiatas I'm back to attempt to actually finish a model (hopefully many) with a smiggen of respectiblity and all of the trimmings(paint/decals).  Thanks for the memories!

grapeape 

There was some sort of Revell sponsored club in the early 60's. IIRC, it worked sort of like book of the month where they sent out a model and you paid for it or sent it back.

jwb wrote:

Rob Gronovius wrote: The recent Remembering Revell book has a section on the Master Modeler's Club and why it became defunct. Thanks Rob. I'll have to pick that book up. Saw one out on Monogram, too.

I've got the Revell, Monogram and Aurora books. Great memories of the former kings of American model makers.

Ha Ha,

Ya, I remember the patch! I got one too. I never had it sewn on though. I had a special place for it on my display shelves. I once built this 1/72 cesna wow the testors finger prints, you couldn't even see inside because of them. It was white because I did'nt paint them back then. On the back of the box was an official pilot's license that I  proudly displayed right next to my Master Modeler's Club patch. Wow I was ssssooooooo cool. aaaaahhhh those were the days.

Thanks

Zip

I remember that!I liked the magazine(I think it was called Get It Together)I remember the cheesy red plastic tools they sent you when you joined.One article that I remember was on how to take the endangered species ape and make a King Kong diorama with the 1/72 scale WWl Revell fighter kits a pencil, and a tennis ball for the top!Brings back memories for sure!

Still have all my issues of "Get It Together" , the patch,the 1974 catalog and maybe some of the tools.

One of  my favorite photos in the magazine was Red Buttons holding a model of the Titantic upside down for a kid. I think it was about the time his film "Poseiden Adventure" came out.

I love collecting modeling nostalgia from when I was a kid.

Ha, I remember the ape->king kong diorama.  They recommended using a pencil as the radio tower for the ape to hold on to.  I believe a 1/72 scale biplane completed the scene, but I don't recall.

I do remember the cheesy red tools, lol. Even then they were useless!  I didn't paint my models much, especially in the early days.  But I was always good not to get glue everywhere.  My dad would get mad at me for not painting them.  Back then, paints just sucked. Stinky enamel, the green was too thick, the metallics never dried.  Blah :-D

I was a a member back in the late 70's.  I used the get the mailings, but that stuff is long gone.  I remember there being a tips section, and the section where the builds became real.

I too was a member back in the 70's.   Still have a box or two left from those days. 

I myself was a member of the Revell Master Modeler's Club for a few years in the 70's. I remember it all even after all these years (with a little help from that book about Revell models): the patch, the free catalogs, the utterly useless "tools," and Get it Together, the magazine. The name of the main character in the stories was Delmo Kitsalp (an anagram of "plastik model"--the K was used to avoid mispronunciation), and I even remember one story was titled "Phantom of the Be-Bop Opera." I always loved that title!

That was good stuff back in the day.  I still have all of my issues of Get it Together! I often wonder how many of the kids that were featured in the magazine still build kits in their 40's and 50's.

 

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Jim Barton wrote:

The name of the main character in the stories was Delmo Kitsalp (an anagram of "plastik model"--the K was used to avoid mispronunciation)

I remember that now! Wow- I always thought "what an odd name"...... LOL

Remember the pen-pal club they had going on as part of the MMC?

George Gorman from Texas, whereever you are now, I apologize for stopping our correspondence.
After 30 years or so I still remember his name.  It was all very special then.

I still keep in touch with a pen pal I met from the letters page in the first model magazine I ever bought in 1987. He was a teen aged modeler looking for a soldier stationed in Germany. Hard to believe it was 19 years ago.

     I recently came across my certificate from Revell for being a Grand Mater Modeler. But I was unable to find the copy of Get it together with my name on the GMM listing. At this point I have no idea what Vol.; of the magazine my name was in. It would be great If someone has it and lets me know. I was listed as Robert Siefkes.  Thanks

Yeah, I remember being a member.  Totally forgot about it until this thread.  I remember getting the patch...was during the period when I built 1/24 funny cars.  I was also into Estes and Cox rockets at the time.

i was a member of revelle master modelers club. from 1968 to about 1978-79. i think if i remember you had to build 60+ models to get that status. i was good at it. very good. back in the day many years ago my local church in massachusettes would sponser a model contest 4 times a year and it was the rave. kids from at least 10-15 towns around would enter there various models they had several classes. aircraft and tanks, ships, autos hotrod class and auto custom class. i had a model of the red baron made by ertl. i won a few trophies with that and a 1963 corvette both in 1/16 scale. i still have photos of my self standing in front of my trophys with the revell master modeler certificate hanging on the wall at a much younger age. those were the days. i recently sent some photos of myself and my models to my son in afganistan and he thought i was nuts. well what can one expect from a nineteen yr old. i haven't seen any modle contest in quite some time but if they were one to be held i'll guarantee you that i haven't lost the touch. i dont have the patch that came with the club but i still have all my trophys.

I was a member as well. I still have a Get It Together issue or two, along with an old catalog and many old instruction sheets in a box in my garage. Me and a neighbor friend were both members. I seem to recall a rival of Delmo in the stories being one "Monty Graham", who was a horrid model builder. On an old sealed kit I bought off Ebay a year or so ago. Inside it still had the flyer for the club along with another for the old Apollo 11 Lunar and Command Module kits...

dang, I'm old

I didn't belong to the Model of the Month club by Revell,,,,,,,,but, I did enroll and pay for my son to be a member, lol

I did used to collect the "gold points?" on MPC boxings of Airfix models, redeemable for models from a tiny catalog before that time, though

my kid kept at it for a couple years or three,,,,,,,and liked it well enough,,,,,but, quit it at about 14

he's 31 now, and still mentions the A-26 with raised markings molded in,,,,,he didn't use decals, he hand painted inside the lines

Rex

I remember the club.  There was that and I think something called the young modelers club.  I remember that about every 4 weeks or so, I would get some little 1/48 kit in the mail from them along with a newsletter and small magazine with tips etc.  And of course, lot's of Ads for their products. lol  This was in the mid to late 70 and I think I was getting them until about 1980 or so.

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jwb

Anyone remember the Revell Master Modeler's Club?

I was searching eBay for something, and ran into the sew-on patch from that club. I'd forgotten all about it. If I recall, it had a little publication that came out every now and then, some little bits and parts to help you build a kit, and various patches and stickers.

Seems like they had a serial story in the publication about some kids who would build models, then make them life size and fly them or something.

Anyone else recall that?

Hello everybody,

I am new to this forum but was interested to see that people remember the Master Modellers Club. I was a member as a kid. I lived on a ranch in Idaho my whole adolescent life and moved sprinkler pipes to get the money I needed to buy my models. I would buy probably eight or nine models a week, all Revell of course. I would stockpile them for the winter when I didn't have to work as hard. By the time I graduated HS, I had built a little over a thousand models. I know that might sound like a bunch to all of you, but I didn't really have anything else to do living 30 miles from town. I raced MX, worked and built models. I wish I still had them but things have a way of disappearing when you leave home. Now I am into R/C helo's and nitro 1/8 scale buggies. Bought a couple of Devilbiss air-brushes for painting my lexan bodies and am glad I learned attention to detail years ago. Well, gotta go but it was a blast from the past when I saw this post.

Slurm

 

 

     You know, I was a member of that club and have changed from miniature projects to large.  Often I think of when I worked with electronics but lifting weights changed all that.  I built the Datsun 510 and used thread to make spark plug wires.  Tools to improve the models used to come in the box and someone put one of my models inside a showcase in a Business Place in Downtown Salt Lake City.  I built a Semi-Truck and a huge Porche that had an electric engine inside the plastic.  It had really soft tires that were about an inch wide.

     I had a patch that said I was a Grand Master Modeler because I built about a hundred models.  I paint cars, motorcycles and houses now.  The Modeler's Club was on in the 60's and 70's and during the Viet-Nam War.  A doctor gave me a Ritalin pill to keep in 1984 which enabled me to draw lifesize murals of people on cement.  He said people would get jealous and steal it - they did.  

     Those models were really cool and I heard the Jethro Tull Band called them a plastic crucifix.  I devote quite a bit of time to shining motorcycle parts, know auto body and how to weld now - besides play music on bass and guitar.  I used to read the Master Modeling magazine you're referring to.  I drove a taxi for a couple of years and saw the wildest miniature airplanes flying on the beach.  And, in the late Seventies the toy cars for sale at Keith Warsaw and Company in Salt Lake City were driveable from a remote box.  My vision isn't what it used to be and it's hard for me to see the detail today's modelers must be using.  Some of the most impressive modeling techniques I've seen demonstated are by architects that model buildings.