An old Squadron catalogue shows some Monogram 1/72 kits, an F11C, a F4B and a P6E. I haven’t seen these kits in years. Does anyone know what happened to the molds? Who else might have them?
Check out eBay if you want the older, original kits. A quick search just now turned up three F4B’s. Go here:
Neither of the others showed up, but keep watching, they probably will eventually.
stinger
Ah, the good old days. They also had a decent (for the day) A1-E Skyraider and an Me 110 in 1/72., There were others as well, including the P-51B, which still stands up well. I don’t know what happened to the molds. Hopefully some manufacturer holds them and plans to rerelease them at some future date. I’d buy a few/
Thank you Stinger. I was just wondering with all the other re releases what happened to these.
well I have the original 68 molding and the 73 molding of the Goshawk (68 -silver plastic 73-orange plastic) and the original molding is somewhat rarer to find and the 1973 molding more common.
I have the P6E, F11C, F8F, F4B, F-82E/G, P-40N, P36A, A1E, F7F, B52, B36 and Do 17Z. They’re all fine for their time. Definitely comparable with the contemporary competition (and the only game in town for some). The painting guidelines are a bit vague, though.
The original Monogram Co. was sold & resold a few times. It’s currently owned by Revell. What happened to all of those old molds is anyones guess.
Regards, Rick
I believe the Me-110 was re-released under the Monogram Classics label in the last 10 years. I’m not sure about the rest.
Bill
The kits you mentioned were originally Aurora molds. Monogram also has the Fokker D-VII, the SE-5, and a few other WWI and “Golden Era” of aviation aircraft. The molds are very old and may not be worth the cost of cleaning up.
Some show up every few years either from Revell-Monogram(may be in original box) or Revell-Germany. Most likely the molds are sitting in their warehouse and they are very tight-lipped about what they have.
Most of the Monogram kits mentioned are actually Monogram original molds. They predated the purchase of Aurora’s molds in 1978.
The 1/48 WW I aircraft all came from Aurora.
Bill
Bill,
Your right, those were 1/48th kits that came from Aurora. The 1/72nd scale molds mentioned were Monogram’s. There was also a P-36 in that buch of kits issued about the same time as well as a Bearcat, and a P-51-B, IIR correctly, this time. I think there were a few other kits in that series as well, maybe it will come to me! They are nice little kits, but lacked details. Again, IIR correctly, the P-82, DO 117, and the ME110, were later releases in that same series
The 1/72 kits from Monogram are still around, R-M just has them in storage until they see a need to re-release them again as something to get a higher responce from like their Classic’s run awhile back, their A-10, B-36, B-52, F7F, F8F, F-4, F-82, F-105, P-36, P-51, Do17, BF110, HU-16, and the Snap-Tite B-25 & B-26 where all great kits, but Revell/Monogram is now into more of the 1/48 scale aircraft but their biggest sellers are the 1/24 & 1/25 scale autos
I was just having a look at my Bf 110E, and although it’s devoid of cockpit wall detail, it doesn’t look too bad at all. If anyone knows of a review which might point out the areas that it’s deficien in, I would appreciate it.
