COLLECTING VINTAGE PLASTIC MODELS - Airplane Kits at Your Hobby Shop in the Golden Age of Modeling

[dicktrickal]

65 years old and I still like to put models together. When I can find them.

[joeschenk]

Again WOW...all those memory cells revived 60+ years on! I think the first aircraft model I had was the Monogram B 66 with the dropping bomb but I have to admit, built by my father. As someone else says...MODEL ON!

[HughJengine]

It was always the beautiful artwork on the boxes that captured my imagination. Thanks for posting this.

[richardklug]

Do I remember my first model build?...sure do! It was the Aurora C-119 Flying Boxcar, followed soon after by Revell's USS Forrestal. Got both as presents for my 10th birthday. Been building kits ever since.

[pauladams]

Looking at those great boxes, I want to build every single one of these kits.

[utubejdaniel]

Ah, my ill-spent youth. Thanks Mike for the guilty pleasure.

[arodrigues]

I still have ALL those kits, AND respective boxes today.!!!
The only one I don't have, from this list, is the Ryan X-13 Vertijet. ( I'm not sure.!!)

[johnmoran]

The Aurora SNJ was my first kit. A dad and son bonding, we sat at the kitchen table, dad was reading the instructions and I glued it all together before he finished. He was a little sad at the time.
That was 53 years ago, I remind him that he instilled a great way to relieve stress and have fun!
As the oldest of 7, he's got lots of stuff to decorate his office at home, the replica of his cousins F5-E is at the front. I'm currently doing Monogram's SNJ, as a vignette in honor of him giving me a life long hobby and sparking my love of history.
Thanks for the vid!

[johnplaninac]

Another great video, but what I find interesting is the color on the box tops back in the day were so vivid and colorful. Today’s box tops seem to me not as interesting.

[stephenmiller]

This was my second viewing of this video. I watch every piece you present as soon as it pops up on YouTube. Throughout the year your previous videos are provided as an encore performance. The second time around, your Celebration of Aviation series videos are even more enjoyable! I love the way you took your childhood passion for aviation into a glorious career. You managed to actually live out a great many of the aerial fantasies that young American males of our generation grew up with. The vintage model kit box art brings so many great memories! Thank you Mike!

[kitsune]

Models were my babysitter in the 60s and 70s and the box art and the catalogs bring back so many good memories of sitting alone at the kitchen table fiddling with cowlings and props and landing gear. Thanks.

[sugarhillsrr]

Oh yes the sixty's when modeling took a back seat to girls and cars or maybe cars and girls, wasn't until the late 70's until I got back into modeling, still build models today, a great hobby.

[daviddooley]

First model I ever had was a Junkers JU88 from Revell.

[fhwolthuis]

Great video, especially with Jimmy Stewart😊👍

[richardhall]

Airfix walrus sea plane back in the 1960s

[DrivermanO]

Being British, mine were mainly Airfix. My first one was a Spitfire (what a surprise!) in late 1950's. Over the years, built many more, until I went off to University. Lancaster, Sunderland, Halifax - list goes on. And I've still got the box pictures! But I did do the Boeing Bomarc missile by Revell

[CRUISOMATIC]

That's some great stuff! I'd love to see a well documented build process of one of these old kits. But then, most current collectors would probably prefer to preserve these rare items boxed and unbuilt ...

[midnightmodeling]

I really love that old box art. Thank you for sharing.

[chuck]

Really takes me back. Thanks for resurrecting those memories.

I remember well the Carrier models. Hardest parts was painting the tiny airplanes.

We had a Ben Franklin five and dime in town with a small selection of kits and a "discount" store called Auction Outlet also with a small selection. Most of my kits were from Korvettes (a discount department store) or "Shoppers Paradise" a northern Jersey fore runner for K-Mart/Wall Mart. They sold food and liquor along with just about anything else. Both had way more kits, particularly AMT car kits.

[celebratingaviationwithmik]

With apologies from Mike, the merch mentioned in this video is no longer being sold.