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Post by Retired Soldier on Feb 11, 2018 18:07:27 GMT -5
"AMT models only"
www.facebook.com/groups/527296104299027/about/
Description
This group is dedicated to only AMT and MPC model cars.
To many of us modelers who have been in the hobby since the 1960's, AMT was the front runner, and many are still being reissued today.
If you are one of us that goes into a hobby shop, and see an old friend on the shelf, one which you have fond memories of building back in the day, and can't leave it on the shelf, even though you have a dozen in your collection.
This group is only for AMT and MPC model kits, and kits that was once wore the AMT name like the 1934 Ford Pickup.
So share you pictures of AMT/MPC builds (builds can have parts from other manufacturers, as long as the base car is AMT/MPC) questions or comments, selling and trading AMT/MPC models, requesting AMT/MPC parts is acceptable, between members.
No cussing please, respect each other, remember not all members are not at the same building levels.
Inappropriate post will be removed, and poster may be banished from the board.
Check us out.
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Post by dogfish7 on Feb 13, 2018 8:29:41 GMT -5
I joined up. Thanks.
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Post by Mr.409 on Feb 13, 2018 10:45:17 GMT -5
I like those old AMT kits a lot too and I'm so glad to see them being reissued with all of the original extra parts. That group sounds like fun, just too bad that it's in facebook...
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Post by patw on Feb 22, 2021 17:29:06 GMT -5
We don't do FB here in the UK.
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Post by lo51merc on Feb 22, 2021 19:00:18 GMT -5
Yep, I don't do Facebook either and I was building AMT models from 58 at least. Hope your new group does well.
Gary
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Post by jbwelda on Feb 22, 2021 21:43:46 GMT -5
It was three years ago. Probably gone by now. Maybe not though.
jb
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Post by fordrodnkustom on Feb 22, 2021 22:11:34 GMT -5
It was three years ago. Probably gone by now. Maybe not though. jb Still there and somewhat active. I check in there once in a while. |
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Post by deuce on Feb 23, 2021 8:49:48 GMT -5
I never really paid attention to the manufacturer if I liked a car. I do remember Revell seemed like they were more difficult to build than the others for my puny little modelling skills of the day. By the way, they're still around. I just registered.
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Post by fordrodnkustom on Mar 9, 2021 0:26:33 GMT -5
I never really paid attention to the manufacturer if I liked a car. I do remember Revell seemed like they were more difficult to build than the others for my puny little modelling skills of the day. By the way, they're still around. I just registered. Cool. Yeah those old Revell kits were somewhat fiddly I.E the '55,'56 and '57 Bel Airs, as wheel as the infamous '57 Nomad, just about impossible to build. There is quite a following for AMT kits. Especially the vintage stuff...I know I'm hooked! |
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Post by Bernard Kron on Mar 9, 2021 18:12:14 GMT -5
Of the three classic Golden Age American car model brands my opinion has always been that the Monogram did the best job of representing the late 50's, early 60's rod & custom aesthetic with such classics as The Big and Little T's, their take on the '36 Ford and, despite the lack of a separate chassis, their full-fendered Deuce roadster, as well as their full custom '58 T-Bird. But it was indeed AMT that pioneered the 3-in-1 and, while their kits were not as sophisticated as Monogram and Revell, they invariably captured the soul of turn-of-the-60's rodding. The very simplicity of their kits liberated so many of us to try our hand at scale rodding and customizing because they got the basic DNA so right that the kits almost seemed to build themselves. Of course Revell was at the very epicenter of California hot rodding and they were the ones who got the really big licensing deals with Roth, Tony Nancy, Mickey Thompson et al. And from a technical perspective, as fiddly as Revell kits could be, and in too many cases obverstepping their bounds, as we improved our technical chops all that detail and accuracy became great fodder for us deadly serious kit bashers.
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Post by fordrodnkustom on Mar 9, 2021 23:25:29 GMT -5
Indeed. What I liked about the early Monogram kits was that they were molded in colors and looked good built out of the box without having to paint them. When I was like 10 years old that was important. Witness these original survivors:  (I know, there's a little paint there but you get the idea) |
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Post by 41chevy on Mar 10, 2021 12:39:03 GMT -5
I still have many late 50's AMT and SMP kits. I often thought that SMP was a division of AMT. Paul
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Post by fordrodnkustom on Mar 10, 2021 14:31:26 GMT -5
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Post by 41chevy on Mar 11, 2021 12:07:52 GMT -5
Confirmed many of my thoughts, now what about the AMT-Revell kits of the mid 50's? 56 Merc. 56 Buick, 56 Chrysler, 56 El Dorado and others
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