Aurora molds of 2001 spacecraft

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falsedawn2@hotmail.com - 20 Oct 2005 00:43 GMT

What happened to the old Aurora molds of the 2001 spacecraft (Space
Shuttle, Moon Bus) ?

John

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Old Timer - 20 Oct 2005 13:06 GMT

Didn't they go to Monogram as a result of Aurora's bankruptcy?
I'd assume (and we know what THAT means) that Revell has them and
they're probably sitting in the same warehouse as those of the Space
Station, the XSL-01 and all the old Willy Ley releases.

-- John (aka the Old Timer)

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Wildcat - 20 Oct 2005 14:01 GMT

I think I saw one at my local hobby shop that was done by Polar Lights.

> What happened to the old Aurora molds of the 2001 spacecraft (Space
> Shuttle, Moon Bus) ?
>
> John

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eyeball - 20 Oct 2005 17:50 GMT

I haven't seen a PL release,but the airfix version was going cheap a
few years ago.I picked it up for about $4.I'd still like to see more of
the old aurora kits make it back on the shelves.

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Old Timer - 20 Oct 2005 18:52 GMT

> I haven't seen a PL release,but the airfix version was going cheap a
> few years ago.I picked it up for about $4.I'd still like to see more of
> the old aurora kits make it back on the shelves.

It's my understanding that the Aurora and Airfix releases were the
result of separate moldings. What releases did PL do?

-- John (aka the Old Timer)

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chris - 20 Oct 2005 22:18 GMT

I dont think PL ever did. There was talk, I believe it might have been the
moonbus they were discussing. But once R/C took control, well that ended
that and PL..

chris

>> I haven't seen a PL release,but the airfix version was going cheap a
>> few years ago.I picked it up for about $4.I'd still like to see more of
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> -- John (aka the Old Timer)

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Mad-Modeller - 21 Oct 2005 03:51 GMT

> I haven't seen a PL release,but the airfix version was going cheap a
> few years ago.I picked it up for about $4.I'd still like to see more of
> the old aurora kits make it back on the shelves.

An awful lot of the old Aurora kits will never be seen again, thanks to
the Monogram people back in the '70s.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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teem - 21 Oct 2005 03:14 GMT

Oh to go back in time to the early 60s & cuff as many aurora & other
models.I was too young to know better.On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:51:42

>> I haven't seen a PL release,but the airfix version was going cheap a
>> few years ago.I picked it up for about $4.I'd still like to see more of
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>Bill Banaszak, MFE

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William H. Shuey - 21 Oct 2005 04:36 GMT

FWIW I was told by one who was associated with Monogram that after
they spent the $$ to improve the Aurora A-7, Camel, SE5 and Fokker D.7
they scrapped the rest because they found that the molds were made from
very hard steel and modifying them was just going to be too much trouble
and $$$.
It was really too bad because the later ones(Breguet 14, Sopwith
Tri-plane), were not bad.

Bill Shuey

> > I haven't seen a PL release,but the airfix version was going cheap a
> > few years ago.I picked it up for about $4.I'd still like to see more of
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>
> Bill Banaszak, MFE

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