Remember the pen-pal club they had going on as part of the MMC?
George Gorman from Texas, whereever you are now, I apologize for stopping our correspondence.
After 30 years or so I still remember his name. It was all very special then.
I still keep in touch with a pen pal I met from the letters page in the first model magazine I ever bought in 1987. He was a teen aged modeler looking for a soldier stationed in Germany. Hard to believe it was 19 years ago.
I recently came across my certificate from Revell for being a Grand Mater Modeler. But I was unable to find the copy of Get it together with my name on the GMM listing. At this point I have no idea what Vol.; of the magazine my name was in. It would be great If someone has it and lets me know. I was listed as Robert Siefkes. Thanks
Yeah, I remember being a member. Totally forgot about it until this thread. I remember getting the patch…was during the period when I built 1/24 funny cars. I was also into Estes and Cox rockets at the time.
i was a member of revelle master modelers club. from 1968 to about 1978-79. i think if i remember you had to build 60+ models to get that status. i was good at it. very good. back in the day many years ago my local church in massachusettes would sponser a model contest 4 times a year and it was the rave. kids from at least 10-15 towns around would enter there various models they had several classes. aircraft and tanks, ships, autos hotrod class and auto custom class. i had a model of the red baron made by ertl. i won a few trophies with that and a 1963 corvette both in 1/16 scale. i still have photos of my self standing in front of my trophys with the revell master modeler certificate hanging on the wall at a much younger age. those were the days. i recently sent some photos of myself and my models to my son in afganistan and he thought i was nuts. well what can one expect from a nineteen yr old. i haven’t seen any modle contest in quite some time but if they were one to be held i’ll guarantee you that i haven’t lost the touch. i dont have the patch that came with the club but i still have all my trophys.
I was a member as well. I still have a Get It Together issue or two, along with an old catalog and many old instruction sheets in a box in my garage. Me and a neighbor friend were both members. I seem to recall a rival of Delmo in the stories being one “Monty Graham”, who was a horrid model builder. On an old sealed kit I bought off Ebay a year or so ago. Inside it still had the flyer for the club along with another for the old Apollo 11 Lunar and Command Module kits…[;)]
dang, I’m old
I didn’t belong to the Model of the Month club by Revell,but, I did enroll and pay for my son to be a member, lol
I did used to collect the “gold points?” on MPC boxings of Airfix models, redeemable for models from a tiny catalog before that time, though
my kid kept at it for a couple years or three,and liked it well enough,but, quit it at about 14
he’s 31 now, and still mentions the A-26 with raised markings molded in,he didn’t use decals, he hand painted inside the lines
Rex
I remember the club. There was that and I think something called the young modelers club. I remember that about every 4 weeks or so, I would get some little 1/48 kit in the mail from them along with a newsletter and small magazine with tips etc. And of course, lot’s of Ads for their products. lol This was in the mid to late 70 and I think I was getting them until about 1980 or so.
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Hello everybody,
I am new to this forum but was interested to see that people remember the Master Modellers Club. I was a member as a kid. I lived on a ranch in Idaho my whole adolescent life and moved sprinkler pipes to get the money I needed to buy my models. I would buy probably eight or nine models a week, all Revell of course. I would stockpile them for the winter when I didn’t have to work as hard. By the time I graduated HS, I had built a little over a thousand models. I know that might sound like a bunch to all of you, but I didn’t really have anything else to do living 30 miles from town. I raced MX, worked and built models. I wish I still had them but things have a way of disappearing when you leave home. Now I am into R/C helo’s and nitro 1/8 scale buggies. Bought a couple of Devilbiss air-brushes for painting my lexan bodies and am glad I learned attention to detail years ago. Well, gotta go but it was a blast from the past when I saw this post. [H]
Slurm
You know, I was a member of that club and have changed from miniature projects to large. Often I think of when I worked with electronics but lifting weights changed all that. I built the Datsun 510 and used thread to make spark plug wires. Tools to improve the models used to come in the box and someone put one of my models inside a showcase in a Business Place in Downtown Salt Lake City. I built a Semi-Truck and a huge Porche that had an electric engine inside the plastic. It had really soft tires that were about an inch wide.
I had a patch that said I was a Grand Master Modeler because I built about a hundred models. I paint cars, motorcycles and houses now. The Modeler’s Club was on in the 60’s and 70’s and during the Viet-Nam War. A doctor gave me a Ritalin pill to keep in 1984 which enabled me to draw lifesize murals of people on cement. He said people would get jealous and steal it - they did.
Those models were really cool and I heard the Jethro Tull Band called them a plastic crucifix. I devote quite a bit of time to shining motorcycle parts, know auto body and how to weld now - besides play music on bass and guitar. I used to read the Master Modeling magazine you’re referring to. I drove a taxi for a couple of years and saw the wildest miniature airplanes flying on the beach. And, in the late Seventies the toy cars for sale at Keith Warsaw and Company in Salt Lake City were driveable from a remote box. My vision isn’t what it used to be and it’s hard for me to see the detail today’s modelers must be using. Some of the most impressive modeling techniques I’ve seen demonstated are by architects that model buildings.
Yeah, I know this is a zombie thread… but I did take a photo of this just in case awhile back…
Ya Know Stik !
This may be a " Zombie " Post but for some of us it is now appropriate . I just recently got , at a yard sale a sealed Revell Model Master Club Model .It was after Revell swallowed Aurora ! It’s a Jag . I still have some stuff but no patch .The Navy called my Name so I went .
By the time my Navy and Marine time came to an end it was gone . I had three daughters and a son (The Son now passed ) and had to think about Colleges and stuff . Modeled a little on weekends .
But ! I fondly Remember that and the Parents Magazine Model Builders Club and such .Got great models that way from Granny .( she did it for me .) Oh My , Those WERE the days ! T.B.
I didn’t think plastic was invented yet…
I do not remember this club.
I appreciate that you resurrected it, too. I was a member of the second incarnation of the club, the one with the “Get it Together” magazine (it was the Seventies, man!). I still have a couple of my membership cards, signed by Royle Glaser Lasky herself [;)]. I don’t have the iron-on decal-that T-shirt wore out decades ago. I don’t have the patch, either. Mom sewed that onto a knit cap for me, and that, too, is lost somewhere in SE PA. I do still have the file that came with the little tool kit, the putty spatula, and I think I still have the tweezers.
I wish I had the newsletters, though. They might be in the attic at my dad’s house, but I haven’t seen them since I went off to college in '82. I remember some of the build articles, though. And the running series of stories about hero Delmo Kitsalp, and his machine to turn models into 1:1 working objects. His nemesis was Monty Graham, who was always thwarted in the end.
I remember when I had hair like that.
I remember when I had hair, …period.
I was a member from 74 to 77.
The "Tool’s " came on a part’s tree, and you needed a tool … to get the tool’s !
The set of 4 Spring clamp’s lasted for ONE build, then they snapped and became truly usless.
Dont know what happened to my patch, But I wore the T-Shirt out !
I vaguely recall clamps, but I don’t think I ever used them. I recall them as being shaped like a capital A, with the clamp’s jaws at the top of the A, and you’d squeeze the legs to open them. The clamps had no spring at all, so they really couldn’t hold anything in place. The tools were made of a soft plastic, like the plastic Airfix uses for its figure sets. The tweezers were passable, though, as was the putty spatula.
The file was good, though, and I still use it routinely, though I’ve since added a lot of other files to my tool kit.
I remember this club as well. Was in it in the early 70s.
i was in that club too as i got an iron on design from them that i put on my jacket til i lost that jacket when the canoe i was in capsized while on a grade 10 canoe trip over 40yrs ago.