More Old Aircraft Kits

Hi all,

               Here is another item from You Tube, on old US model aircraft kits from the 1950s and 1960s. It includes some information on the factory-assembled display models that were sent out to retailers to help promote the kits. 

At 7:42 there is a shot of a cardboard shop sign, featuring actor and USAF officer James Stewart, with the Revell kit of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber. It mentions Stewart being in the film Strategic Air Command (1955), which would date this item to about the same period. 

Plenty of box art views. The mention of S kits and pre-S kits is slightly out. S kits were made of Styrene, more correctly Polystyrene, and used Type S cement. 

The earlier kits were made of Acetate, and required a different glue that could not be used on Polystyrene kits.

REVELL MODEL BUILD-UPS - The Story of Hobby Shop Window Displays - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand