Hi,
Atlantis is an American kit company that specialises in re-issuing vintage kits (mainly from the 1950s and 1960s), by the likes of Aurora, Monogram, Revell, Lindberg, and Pyro. Some of these kits have not been seen in decades, so these re-issues give us the chance to build many classic kits that we might have missed out on before.
There are aircraft, ships, cars, military vehicles, full-size replica guns, and figures. There are also spacecraft, and several missile kits.
There is a useful table showing what the prefix letters to Atlantis kits mean. These indicate the original maker of the kit – A – Aurora; D – Dencomm; H – Revell Hobby kit; L – Lindberg; M – Monogram; P – Pyro; R – Renwal; no letter – Atlantis original model.
The 2026 releases start out with several car kits, then we get to the interesting items.
Lindberg once did a line of small scale harbour craft: a couple of tugs, a fire boat, and a fishing boat. These are ideally sized for N Gauge model railways.
Several ex-Revell aircraft – among them the Lockheed WV-2 Warning Star radar plane and Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne attack helicopter, which were announced last year.
The ex-Aurora 1/8th scale Gold Knight of Nice on horseback – the horse is the classic Black Fury kit.
Ex-Revell Helios Nuclear Powered Lunar Landing Craft, from 1959.
Life-size Human Skull, listed as an ex-Lindberg kit.
A couple of ex-Revell Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth kits; and several ex-Monogram Tom Daniel custom cars.
The last page is very interesting indeed – under the Dencomm Products name is a whole page of ex-Aurora kits. Firstly, eight kits from the famous – or infamous – Monster Scenes series, which are listed as 55th Anniversary Limited Editions.
Dr. Deadly; Frankenstein; Gruesome Goodies; Pain Parlor; The Victim; The Pendulum; Hanging Cage; and Vampirella.
Then the three human figures from the Aurora Prehistoric Scenes series. Again these are described as 55th Anniversary Limited Editions.
Neanderthal Man; Cro-Magnon Man; and Cro-Magnon Woman. These have not been seen since the 1970s.
Paul Adams from New Zealand
Amazing Paul! Black Fury is back along with Prehistoric Scenes! Wow!
ReplyDeleteAtlantis Models is a real treasure to some of us model buffs, as they are single-handedly bringing back so many of the classic plastic model kits of the past. I will be waited with bated breath for that Revell Helios Spacecraft, I can tell you that! SFZ
ReplyDeleteI have the Lindberg skull. Of all the plastic model kit skulls, it's the best size. The Revell skull is more detailed, but a bit too small for a convincing normal skull.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was working on the Mission:Impossible TV series 1989, we had to provide special props for a Nazi gold hoard, including soldier's skulls. We had some of the Revell skulls, but they took too long to assemble and were too small. The Queensland Museum came to our rescue, with a couple of old plaster skulls that were much more convincing.
As I was prepping one very tatty specimen, I scraped back the plaster surface and beneath was real bone...
Spooky!
Happy to say, my Cave People are pre- ordered. Cant wait! I also heard rumor that The Cave and Tarpit are coming next. Even better!
ReplyDeleteAw, how cool Brian. And the tarpit, cor! it's the stuff of Aurora dreams!
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