Hello all, if this is not the proper place to post this, feel free to remove it. I recently finished a Revell 1/72 P-38 lightning, my dad bought it at a garage sale. It had some neat contest info to win a “custom van” and a Harley Davidson Enduro Motorcycle… I didn’t even know Harley made off-road bikes… (other than during the war) I know those were some sad days when Car Craft Magazine was relegated to covering Vans and even some Dune buggies… My dad had some groovy vans around this time, he graduated in 1974. Cool to find stuff like this in the Kits. I’m sure you find all sorts of much cooler stuff in even older kits! Look at all the stuff you got for $1.00 when joining the “master modelers club”! Tools, Membership Card, Certificate, Catalog, and a Year subscription to their newsletter!!! Rudy 
Yeah, I remember those contest flyers in kits. And being a member of the Revell Master Modelers Club… once upon a time…I still have an old catalog of theirs and a issue of the club magazine around here somewhere…
Too bad those clubs aren’t around anymore…
How about how MPC used to have its ‘Golden Opportunity’ promotion? Even the smallest kit came with at least 2 tokens, and 10 tokens would get you a small free kit, and on up to one of the bigger items at 100 tokens. To my knowledge, Airfix is the only one still doing anything similar. But you have to pay to be a club member to participate in the first place [:S]
Well modeling was targeted more for kids back then as opposed to adults nowadays.
Yeah, that’s true. Not many kids can afford the prices of kits nowadays. Even Monogram kits. The cheapest I’ve seen of those kits is right at $17, which is cheap for us with jobs, but not so for kids. I wonder if that’s intentional on the part of the manufactures (aim more towards the adults with the pricing), or is it a result of rising oil prices and licensing costs?
The H-D dirtbikes (as well as small two stroke street bikes) were built by Amerrichi of Italy.
Yes I remember belonging to the club and the Get It Together quarterly magazine.I remember making the California Van model withe cool spiral graphics.
Earlier, in the mid-fifties, Monogram had a big contest for their Speedi-bilt kits. Local hobby shops could participate. My model-building friend and I entered our built models at a big hobby shop in Ferndale, MI (a suburb of Detroit). We were thrilled with the results- My friend won 1st place with his Spad, I got second with a P-40.
There was no national winner, just those local contests, but the local trophies were very nice.
Hi Don, it is odd you should mention Ferndale. I am sitting at my desk at work a couple miles from there in Detroit… 7 mile and Schaefer. (which I’m sure you know is Coolidge Hwy north of 8 mile) So you live in Minnesota now?
Good Memories, before Detroit was Detroilet.
Rudy
“Detroilet!” I love it![:D][:D[
I remember the old “Master Modelers’ Club!” The magazine, the “tools” (which came on a red sprue and were pretty much useless, especially the clamps) and so forth.
I was flying F-100s when all that was going on.Land of the raised panel lines and aurora kits.