Revell Master Modelers Club

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)

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.

E

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 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

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.

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 

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.

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.

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.