Revell Master Modelers Club

Yeah, I know this is a zombie thread... but I did take a photo of this just in case awhile back...

Ya Know Stik !

   This may be a " Zombie " Post but for some of us it is now appropriate . I just recently got , at a yard sale a sealed Revell Model Master Club Model .It was after Revell swallowed Aurora ! It's a Jag . I still have some stuff but no patch .The Navy called my Name so I went .

 By the time my Navy and Marine time came to an end it was gone . I had three daughters and a son (The Son now passed ) and had to think about Colleges and stuff . Modeled a little on weekends .

 But ! I fondly Remember that and the Parents Magazine  Model Builders Club and  such .Got great models that way from Granny .( she did it for me .) Oh My , Those WERE the days !  T.B.

I didn't think plastic was invented yet...

I do not remember this club.

I appreciate that you resurrected it, too.  I was a member of the second incarnation of the club, the one with the "Get it Together" magazine (it was the Seventies, man!).  I still have a couple of my membership cards, signed by Royle Glaser Lasky herself .  I don't have the iron-on decal-that T-shirt wore out decades ago.  I don't have the patch, either.  Mom sewed that onto a knit cap for me, and that, too, is lost somewhere in SE PA.  I do still have the file that came with the little tool kit, the putty spatula, and I think I still have the tweezers.

I wish I had the newsletters, though.  They might be in the attic at my dad's house, but I haven't seen them since I went off to college in '82.  I remember some of the build articles, though.  And the running series of stories about hero Delmo Kitsalp, and his machine to turn models into 1:1 working objects.  His nemesis was Monty Graham, who was always thwarted in the end.

I remember when I had hair like that.  

scottrc

I remember when I had hair like that.

I remember when I had hair, ........period.

I was a member from 74 to 77.

The "Tool's " came on a part's tree, and you needed a tool ... to get the tool's !

The set of 4 Spring clamp's lasted for ONE build, then they snapped and became truly usless.

Dont know what happened to my patch, But I wore the T-Shirt out !

littletimmy

...The set of 4 Spring clamp's lasted for ONE build, then they snapped and became truly usless...

I vaguely recall clamps, but I don't think I ever used them.  I recall them as being shaped like a capital A, with the clamp's jaws at the top of the A, and you'd squeeze the legs to open them.  The clamps had no spring at all, so they really couldn't hold anything in place.   The tools were made of a soft plastic, like the plastic Airfix uses for its figure sets.  The tweezers were passable, though, as was the putty spatula.

The file was good, though, and I still use it routinely, though I've since added a lot of other files to my tool kit.

I remember this club as well. Was in it in the early 70s.

i was in that club too as i got an iron on design from them that i put on my jacket til i lost that jacket when the canoe i was in capsized while on a grade 10 canoe trip over 40yrs ago.

From the magazine, I remember two build articles in particular, both with 1/72 airplane kits.  One was the B-24D, finished as a Ploesti raider, and the other was the PBY, finished as a Black Cat.

And I remember an article with tips on building sailing ship models.  I remember instructions and an illustration showing how to make a rigging tool, out of a piece of brass rod and brass tubing.

I should see if I can find those old magazines...

I would love to see the issue on the rigging tool baron .

I remember being in some kind of club when I was a kid, but I don't think it was this Revell club.  I think it was called "Young Model Builders of America" or something like that, and this would have been late 70's/early 80's.  They sent me a kit every month, and some kits I remember building are an F-16 in the red, white, and blue prototype colors, a Douglas A-26 Invader, and a UH-1 Huey.

Revell Master Modelers Club deals w/ raised panel lines “LOL””

Silver

Revell Master Modelers Club deals w/ raised panel lines “LOL””

 

When this club was around, it was the same for Tamiya and Hasegawa. Aside from a few 60s vintage 1/32 Revell kits, and some more (then) recent Nichimo and Otaki kits, nobody was doing recessed panel lines. 

I just bought this awesome Revell model for a project I'm working on. It was hard to find but I found it! When I opened the box it had this in there. Pristine condition. This is way before my time. Do you think they'll still send me the kit if I send them a dollar? LOL. 

Sorry MB , the pic didn't come through

 Wow, this thread is almost as old as the club!  I was a member, and rememer it fondly, I think I still have the member ship card.

steve5

I would love to see the issue on the rigging tool baron .

I'd love to see any of 'em again!  I think mine are at my parents' house, in the attic.  I know I never threw them out.

As for that tool, the author tapped a piece of brass rod flat at one end, then cut a small, V-shaped notch into it.  Then he glue the rod into a piece of brass tube, as the handle.

I think you could take a larger sewing needle, too, and cut off the top of the loop, and make a very similar tool.