Renewal Model Company

Hi;

 I have to add to this old Thread. Renwal offered a neat idea. Hidden gluing surfaces! This way you could use that old thready Testors or the much better Revell tube glue and build to your hearts delight and have a reasonable looking model when done. Many of their kits were built to be playable I do believe.

bondoman

 

In the same era as Hawk, Pyro, Strombecker and ummmhhh, me.

 

Renwal kits were also designed to be played with. Movable hatches, thick, sturdy pieces, green army men, rolling tracks, etc.

As a kid, all I could afford were the much cheaper Aurora tank kits. Although I do remember building the Aurora MBT70 and wondered why it came with both the "good guy" white stars and "bad guys" German crosses. I think I put those on a WW2 German or Japanese tank.

I remember building only a few Renwal kits, and all of them with my dads help. They were a little more advanced than I was ready for at that age. Of course I’m pretty sure that he selected them too... The M47, Hawk Missile, and one of the Nike missiles, can’t recall if it was the Nike Ajax or Nike Hercules. I’d like to find the Nike kit to build again one day.

Jay Jay

Thanks for that JohnnyK

 

Nuke cannons...I remember seeing the tractors for the atomic cannon going down the highway not far from my house every so often.  I'm sure we had a few of them stored on the other side of town at Picatinny Arsenal.  A lot of things were done there.

I started with the old Strombecker woood kits way back when I was five.  The only one I rfeally remember was a B-24 with decal windows and a weight that had to be sealed into the fuselage so it would sit on its nose gear. 

My first plastic kit was the Revell Seamaster followed by Boat models from Pyro and various aircraft kits from Aurora.  Most of the fighters had solid wings and thedecal placement was marked by raised areas on the wings and fuselage.  Lindberg  had the XF-90 and XF-91 that I would like to find.  

From Renwal I remember the Skysweeper and the M-42 Duster along with the Ontos, one of my favorite tanks.

I think there was another company called adams that did some obscure models including a collection of small missiles like the dart.

JohnnyK

 

 

Jay Jay

Thanks for that JohnnyK

 

 

 

 

I thought that that short film was rather insane. Can you imagine a battlefield with nuke cannons 

 

 

Yes. We trained for it in the 80’s. IIRC, we had battlefield nuclear shells for our 8 inch guns, if not the 155’s as well. Had it gone to Tac nukes, it would have gotten real messy real quick.

<sigh> Besides that honking big self propelled howitzer, the Renwal kits I loved most were the Attack Transport and Attack Cargo ship, Sarasota and Seminole.  The Sarasota was the same ship as the Revell Randall/Montrose, but a smaller scale and much sharper detail.  The Seminole was completely unique, as was the Compass Island survey ship.  Later I gathered up several of each for wonderful, wonderful projects for the future.

Now I have settled with the realization that I am building on 1/700 ships and these just don't belong.  So I have been selling them off at shows and ebay, and the dreams are floating out the window.

<sigh>

Rick

I think you should save at least one of each, you know that someday you will want to do them.

1/500 Shangri La. Still have it in the stash. The usual attitude was that it was a better kit than the Revell Essexes. It wasn't.

The big SPG was a good one.

Mostly though the Visible V8, Visible Allison Turbo Prop and Visible man/ woman were the bomb.

Bill

Renwal had a pretty extensive series of 1/500 ship kits, if I recall.

Don't forget their educational kits, to, the Visible kits, for anatomy or mechanics.

The two that surfaceline mentioned are hard to find, but nice models.

Bill