Having another look at You Tube, I found this brief history of Glencoe Models from Maxsmodels. The company mainly re-issued older kits from the 1950s and 1960s by some of the smaller US companies.
Often of subjects that no one else did, although the scales could vary. Maxsmodels does several of these company histories, all worth a look. This one includes spacecraft, missiles, dinosaur skeletons, and X-plane models.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quiNTQ17zqM&pbjreload=101
Yours Sincerely,
Paul Adams from New Zealand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quiNTQ17zqM&pbjreload=101
Yours Sincerely,
Paul Adams from New Zealand
The XV-1 Convertiplane has a touch of Dan Dare/Ministry of Space.- MJ
ReplyDeleteI had this kit back in the 50's, I think it may have been by Kleeware as it was a British manufacturer, the parts were warped!
DeleteI have the Glencoe reissue in my stash of kits.
It does look like something that would have appeared in the Dan Dare strip and I was particularly pleased in the late 90's when we visited the Smithsonian Museums reserve collection of aircraft as the prototype was on display! I was surprised how small it seemed as up until then I only had my childhood memory of the completed model that used to sit next to an Airfix Fairey Rotordyne.
Seeing the real McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane must have been amazing. I am not surprised the Convertiplane seemed bigger than it really is, since your kits were to different scales. This information is from the site Scalemates, which is simply wonderful, and gives all sorts of information on kits of all types. The Airfix Fairey Rotodyne is 1/72nd scale, and came out in 1959. The ITC kit of the Convertiplane is 1/32nd scale, and also came out in 1959. It was reissued in Britain by Kleeware, and much later by Glencoe Models.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul. I knew at the time the scales were different but in memory they were side by side and more or less the same size. Thanks for confirming the reissue in the UK was Kleeware. Many a finger was scorched by boiling water trying to straighten parts in their kits. The plastic was harder and thicker than other makes.
ReplyDeleteIve got the Glencoe reissue of the Strombecker (?) Passenger Rocket. Not a bad kit, but lots of flash on the sprues
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