I picked up an unbuilt Revell blimp kit at a local flea market.When I got it home I discovered the parts needed for the message drum were missing!Luckily a guy on the Airship modeler website was able to help and now it is together.I intend to take it apart for painting I just put it together to make sure it worked. 
I didn’t think there were any of those kits left alive. I remember when it came out sometime after 1975. What message are you going to have it show?
I am able to make custom messages !I may mention Finescale modeler in a favorable light!
I haven’t seen one of those in a very long time. I built several when I was a kid, it was fun making the custom messages.
It is really neat to see one of those again, I wonder if Revell will ever bring them back.
Wow,
Thanks for yankin’ me back to the 70’s. I had a blast building that kit and making all kinds of messages for it. What fun !
Chris
Wow!, I had one of those way back when. Nice trip down memory road.
That is cool! I’ve never seen that one before![tup]
Yes I had one in the mid-70’s and really liked it!I lucked out by finding it!
What a fun kit that is! Good find!
I built (and still have) the original 1975 issue, bought at a Goodyear tire shop no less.
I also picked up an unbuilt and complete kit in like-new shape recently at a modeller’s flea market for ¥2,500 (about 25 bucks USD). I’m looking forward to reliving the magic!
Be sure to post yours up when you get 'er done!
How cool is that. Ive never ever seen that before. Well cool.
…Guy
I built that kit way back when. It was cool. Wish I knew what happened to it … probably sacrificed to some villainous plot I cooked up …
I found a copy of that kit recently and gave it to my friend in Hawaii.
I painted the body and the fins.Next up Future and then the large Goodyear decals. 
I bought a lot of these kits when a local department store with an excellent hobby area went out of business. I sold most of them but still have a couple in my stash. This brings back a lot of memories.
They are prettty cool!The mechanism works quite well and the ability to create your own custom messages is a real nice feature!It would be cool if Miller Engineering could come up with a compterized version!
Added the decals.Despite the fact that the decals are over 30 years old.they were in good condition and released from the backing paper with a little persuasion.Next I have to allow them to dry and then overcoat them with Future.I shall then re-assemble it and post some other messages! 
I have two of those in the stash! Why? Well back at the dawn of Finescale time there was an article. The article was about making the kit into a detailed replica. the author used a second kit to cut out a filler piece to plug the sign hole in the kit. When I got mine I thought it was missing decals cause it only had stickers. I sent Revell a letter asking for decals and shortly thereafter I received an envelope with the same Goodyear stickers! I guess there were no decals for this gas bag. On a side note my wife and I honeymooned in Ft Lauderdale. I accidentally found a Blimp base in the area and the ship was moored. I somehow got invited onto the flightline and was talking to the groundskeeper about it. He let me shoot several rolls of film with my trusty Kodak 110 Instamatic! LOL!!! I still plan on doing that model using all my old Instamatic reference photo’s. It only has been 23 years![:)]
Cheers,
Max Bryant
Cool story!My version has a 1975 copyright and include the rather good waterslide decals!I don’t think stickers would be quite as good as they tend to degrade with time!I wonder if you could post the pics that you took(although them being non-digital could be a problem)!
OMG[:O]!!! I had one of these when I was about 10!!! What a trip down memory lane!!! I remember seeing one of the blimps in that color scheme flying over Sacramento, CA in the '70s! later that night it flew over really low and slow with the sign working it’s magic and i was just awe struck!!! Was a great time!!! Thanks for these posts and hope your retro project goes smoothly!!!
Yep I was 10 in '75 when I first got mine!Now I have it again!Now I just have to re-assemble it and she will be good to go!