
Moebius just posted this image of the upcoming Deluxe Bela Lugosi Broadway Dracula. Great looking kit! Still not sure exactly when it will be available. You can preorder this in the CultTVman Hobbyshop

My Dad had a set of Aurora monsters sitting on the shelf when I was a kid. When I saw the re-issues I had to have a set of my own. I haven’t put a model together since I was twelve so I hit the web to find some pointers, which is how I found [more]

The Dracula Bat is a Horizon kit. I really like the detail of this kit. It was neat to see washes and dry brushing help to bring out so much detail on it. Living in an apartment at the time, I didn’t have an area set up for airbrushing (which would have helped with the [more]

Here’s some more models that I have built thru the years. These are some of my Aurora and reissued Monogram and Polar Lights kits that I built. They were all painted with acrylic paints and the seams puttied and sanded out. The Frankenstein kit is an original that my mother bought me back in the [more]

From the collection of John Medeiros comes this Phantom of the Opera. The model has been beautifully painted by his friend, Scott Beckmann. John obtains many kits from Ebay, and then Scott strips away that charming “kids from the 60s paintjob”, then rebuilds and repaints them. John appreciates that these classic models have been restored [more]

For the Polar Lights reissue of the Aurora classic Forgotten Prisoner. I aimed to recreate the fun aspect of the kit I enjoyed as a kid, with enough detailing and texture to satisfy the grown up me. I decided to assemble in stages as there are parts that would be visible but difficult to paint [more]

“Aurora Presents the Universal Monsters” collection: The International Plastic Modelers Society defines a collection for competition purposes as “five or more closely related items”. When Revell-Monogram/Polar Lights reissued the Aurora monster model kits, I thought it would be fun to build them all and compete with them in a collection. Contest judges, I reasoned, would [more]

When I was a small kid, about 8-10 years old, almost every time I had to go with my mom to her afternoon-work, I got a plastic model. At the most, I had over 500 different plastic models, ranging from small war-planes to almost all of the Aurora-models. But as i suppose many kids did, [more]