Anyone remember the Revell Master Modeler’s Club?
I was searching eBay for something, and ran into the sew-on patch from that club. I’d forgotten all about it. If I recall, it had a little publication that came out every now and then, some little bits and parts to help you build a kit, and various patches and stickers.
Seems like they had a serial story in the publication about some kids who would build models, then make them life size and fly them or something.
Anyone else recall that?
did it happen before 1990? If so, then no. [:D][;)]
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.
Yes I do remember that. At some point they included the patch in a special issue model I think? My mom or one of my sisters sewed mine on right next to my United Airlines “kid gets wings for flying by himself Wings” …Oh!..LOL…[8D]
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.”
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.
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.
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
There was some sort of Revell sponsored club in the early 60’s. IIRC, it worked sort of like book of the month where they sent out a model and you paid for it or sent it back.
I’ve got the Revell, Monogram and Aurora books. Great memories of the former kings of American model makers.
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
| I remember that!I liked the magazine(I think it was called Get It Together)I remember the cheesy red plastic tools they sent you when you joined.One article that I remember was on how to take the endangered species ape and make a King Kong diorama with the 1/72 scale WWl Revell fighter kits a pencil, and a tennis ball for the top!Brings back memories for sure! |
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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, I remember the ape->king kong diorama. They recommended using a pencil as the radio tower for the ape to hold on to. I believe a 1/72 scale biplane completed the scene, but I don’t recall.
I do remember the cheesy red tools, lol. Even then they were useless! I didn’t paint my models much, especially in the early days. But I was always good not to get glue everywhere. My dad would get mad at me for not painting them. Back then, paints just sucked. Stinky enamel, the green was too thick, the metallics never dried. Blah 
I was a a member back in the late 70’s. I used the get the mailings, but that stuff is long gone. I remember there being a tips section, and the section where the builds became real.
I too was a member back in the 70’s. Still have a box or two left from those days.
I myself was a member of the Revell Master Modeler’s Club for a few years in the 70’s. I remember it all even after all these years (with a little help from that book about Revell models): the patch, the free catalogs, the utterly useless “tools,” and Get it Together, the magazine. The name of the main character in the stories was Delmo Kitsalp (an anagram of “plastik model”–the K was used to avoid mispronunciation), and I even remember one story was titled “Phantom of the Be-Bop Opera.” I always loved that title!
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
I remember that now! Wow- I always thought “what an odd name”… LOL