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Probably my favorite item in my Famous Monsters collection

On 4/24/2024 at 2:02 PM, Aman619 said:

Vinnie looks pretty good for an oldish young man... better than the Action 1!

Dudes been cleaned and pressed more times than I can count.

On 4/23/2024 at 8:40 AM, Captain ShipWreck said:

Roger with it 

Thanks for posting, piece looks amazing !

I am going to post this because I know it won't end up in my collection but this piece really hits me.

The time was 1972 my 9yr old brother and an 8yr old me went to see this movie in Petersburg, IN.  The local theater was one block from my grandma's house.  We walk to see it.  The guy selling tickets gave us a real hard time about seeing it but let us in.  I was traumatized by the movie.  The Santa Claus story was the most disturbing.  I had nightmares for several days afterwards. Good times, good times. 

On 4/22/2024 at 6:57 AM, tth2 said:

If you little people had handled as many copies of Action 1 as Vinnie has, you'd be casual about it too! 

I don’t even treat my Strawberry Shortcakes that way !

On 4/21/2024 at 2:58 PM, RareHighGrade said:

Is it just me or did he seem way too rough in the way he opened that paper envelope?

Not just you, I had to turn away

When I started doing the monster kits you didn't see the long boxes very often.  I built the 1970s square box kits.  First kit I got was the Forgotten Prisoner.  My oldest brother helped me build it.  Back then if I had 2 different colors of tester paint I was doing good and my painting only lasted one day because I didn't have turpentine to clean the brush.

On 4/19/2024 at 2:54 PM, Et-Es-Go said:

Are you aware of the original set of Freakies that were green and orange rubber like material.  They were a premium that you needed to have proof of purchase seals from the cereal box and if I recall, 35 cents.  

I have seen them from time to time on eBay and they go for crazy money.  As a kid I had all the t-shirts that you had to order.

Whats the over/under at $150k

On 4/16/2024 at 10:43 AM, KirbyCollector said:

Funny how times change. In 1990 if you wanted to buy a piece of art for $250,000, you got into a suit and tie and traveled to an auction being held in a mansion located in NY, London or Paris where you were served champagne and treated with class. Now you bid online dressed in a t-shirt and shorts while toggling back and forth between cat videos and PornHub while drinking a Mountain Dew you bought at the Shop Rite. We've lost something as a society, I think.

You spying on me?

On 4/13/2024 at 9:34 PM, Hepcat said:

The first model kit I built was one I received in 1961 or 1962 at the John Labatt Limited employees' kids Xmas party at the old London Arena (whose main use by then was for roller skating, roller derbies and NWA wrestling):

While we waited for Santa to make his appearance, we got cake, cookies and ice cream and were entertained by a wonderful magician. Every child's name was then called and we each received a wrapped present such as a model kit together with a boodle bag full of candy treats including a box of Cracker Jack and package of Mackintosh Toffee from Santa. It couldn't get any better than that for a kid at the time.

The kit I received was definitely an AMT 3-in-1 car model but I'm not sure exactly which. It may have been this Chevy Nova:

Or this Chevy II:

I got glue marks/stains over the body and it only looked good from a distance. A few months later I purchased a tiny Revell model kit of a warship for $0.29-$0.39 from my local Les' Variety store. The box graphics to a certain extent resembled those of this much bigger Revell battleship below:

But the model I bought came in a box that was only about six inches long and I think it was one of the British ships that fought in the Battle of the River Plate because I have a vague memory of reading about this battle on a model instruction sheet. I had bought it for the birthday party of Dave H. down the street but ended up building it myself when his party was cancelled. It was such a simple kit that I did a good job on it.

So emboldened was I by my success that I then stepped up to a model kit of an Aurora P-38 Lightning. Here's the one from my present day collection:

Mine may have been molded in a white, grey or cream coloured plastic though. Nonetheless I built it nicely but then painted the whole thing other than the canopy with blue Testors glossy enamel paint to better mimic the picture on the box. I did a wretched job on the paint though with very obvious brush marks all over the plane. One of my buddies, Paul S., even commented that it looked lousy which had me concluding that since I couldn't paint very well, I wouldn't paint any more kits. This was perhaps a premature assessment since I was only eleven or so years of age at the time.

Great story.  Definitely can see where your model kit passion comes from.

On 2/24/2020 at 4:00 PM, killerkomics said:

I only have one but I'm always looking to upgrade one day. Hopefully sooner than later.

 

 

I don't know, that one is pretty good.

On 4/14/2024 at 8:40 AM, cstojano said:

Also industry specific is the offset in salary. If I was making 2M doing management, well, I would be doing it too. But unfortunately top end is roughly 400k and top end "in the trenches" is roughly half that - soooo not worth it for all the problems you take on. 

Very true

On 4/4/2024 at 7:55 PM, Badger said:

This came in today. Now I've finished my USA 6-17 run. 

 

On 4/13/2024 at 7:03 PM, KirbyCollector said:

Unfortunately in my old line of work, once you moved to management you stopped doing any real work. The absence of the ability to create at that level was a deal breaker for me.

I think how it works really depends on the company and industry.  Other people at the same levels me have only a marginal idea what their people do.

On 4/13/2024 at 6:01 PM, KirbyCollector said:

This is why I declined a management path. I just couldn't envision being at the peak of my skills, tools and knowledge and then parking it all to sit behind a desk and sign operational orders and run career boards.

I manage over 100 people but still do design work.  It is more challenging because of all the interruptions but I do it so I understand peoples challenges and issues better.

On 4/13/2024 at 5:00 PM, Captain ShipWreck said:

I know the card and am familiar with both versions. A lot of the roughs looked different from the finished versions. Here's a better scan of what I posted before. It could be something different but it is marked as card 11 and aliens are killing humans with guns.

I was just posting it so people knew what the card 11 image looked like.

On 4/13/2024 at 5:01 PM, cstojano said:

100x. That's like 20k to 2 million! I find that the further advanced I get and the more I make the less I actually do. 

yep