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Model Forum / General / Models / August 2006Anyone with a Novo or Novoexport Sea Vixen here? Not Frog/Revell/Eastern Express/Modelcraft
I'm trying to find out whether the old Frog Sea Vixen was ever released as a Novo kit. I see quite a few references to it in the r.m.s. archives, but the big Lines/Hellström Frog-book says '0+' were issued by Novo Toys (the English company), meaning that possibly a few test shot were sold under the counter. However, they leave open the possibility that Novoexport (the Russian company) issued the kit in Novo boxes, that could have been among the 2.75 million Novo boxes that they bought when Novo went under with parent company DCM. Summarizing, has anyone seen the Sea Vixen in a Novo or Novoexport packaging? Rob My models: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/models.htm Me 163B site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163.htm AQM-34 site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/aqm34.htm >I'm trying to find out whether the old Frog Sea Vixen was ever released >as a Novo kit. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >Me 163B site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163.htm >AQM-34 site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/aqm34.htm 2.75 million kits in inventory? no wonder they folded. >>I'm trying to find out whether the old Frog Sea Vixen was ever released >>as a Novo kit. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >>Me 163B site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163.htm >>AQM-34 site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/aqm34.htm >2.75 million kits in inventory? no wonder they folded. OK, I should have writen "2.75 million empty Novo boxes".. Rob My models: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/models.htm Me 163B site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163.htm AQM-34 site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/aqm34.htm >>In article <44e31490$0$4515$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Rob de Bie >> [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >Me 163B site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163.htm >AQM-34 site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/aqm34.htm ok, that makes more sense. dying with inventory seems oxymoronic though there was studebaker. one detroit dealer had new cars for 5 years after they folded. not avantis. What year do you consider them folded? Production continued for about 2 years in Canada after South Bend closed up. Avantis had the last laugh. They stayed in production long after Studebaker left auto production through the efforts of many people. And I think, deservedly so. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. >What year do you consider them folded? Production continued for about 2 >years in Canada after South Bend closed up. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. there was one in my old neighborhood and it was a daily driver. it vanished for about 4 months and came back brand new. we marveled and drooled! > >What year do you consider them folded? Production continued for about 2 > >years in Canada after South Bend closed up. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > driver. it vanished for about 4 months and came back brand > new. we marveled and drooled! That was a quicky restoration job! Back in the '60s the chiropractor across the street had a blue-grey '50 Starliner coupe as his daily driver. IMHO, it was way better than the Isetta it replaced. I sure wish Ertl had had the brass to bring that proposed kit to market a few years back. I can't say anything nice about Racing Chumps. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. >> >What year do you consider them folded? Production continued for about 2 >> >years in Canada after South Bend closed up. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. isettas and messers, the german hiways of my youth. wish i had either. > What year do you consider them folded? Production continued for about 2 > years in Canada after South Bend closed up. > Avantis had the last laugh. They stayed in production long after > Studebaker left auto production through the efforts of many people. > And I think, deservedly so. I was told that the Excalibur was supposed to be a Studbaker louxury design as well. If true, there were a bunch of those in convertible and hardtop models floating around long after Studebaker folded. > > What year do you consider them folded? Production continued for about 2 > > years in Canada after South Bend closed up. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > design as well. If true, there were a bunch of those in convertible and > hardtop models floating around long after Studebaker folded. I can't say yea or nay to that but there are so many degrees of connection in the auto industry it wouldn't surprise me if somebody from Studebaker had some part in the Excalibur. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. > Summarizing, has anyone seen the Sea Vixen in a Novo or Novoexport > packaging? I handled a few of them in plain plastic bags in the early 1980s, but I never had one in a Novo box. This was before they started reappearing under the various subsequent labels, they were supplied by contacts in eastern European countries. As far as I was concerned at the time, these were Novo products. Cheers, Bill. >> Summarizing, has anyone seen the Sea Vixen in a Novo or Novoexport >> packaging? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >European countries. As far as I was concerned at the time, these were Novo >products. Thanks Bill! Your story fits the facts better than what I had come up with so far. Rob My models: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/models.htm Me 163B site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163.htm AQM-34 site: www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/aqm34.htm |
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