I used to get up early on Saturday mornings back in 1975 when I was 9 years old and ride my bike to a drugstore that had all the Monogram armor kits including this one. I remember I bought the Sturmgeschutz IV and Grant.This brings back some memories. Shepard Paine who did the diaromas for Monogram back in the 70's was amazing. My favorite of mine was the ditched B-17G.
Great vintage kit. My brother built the Monogram Grant US Army 1/35 scale but I’m having a hard time finding it for sale. Same line of armor kits Monogram sold during the 70s.
I have two of those. One is pretty beaten up, the other one as nice as yours! I have most the other 1/32 armor that were available at the the time, except the japanese ones. Too bad Tamiya came around with those lame 1:35 kits. These are more fun!
@@MrBelmosan Monogram had a great thing going with their 1:32 kits. Check out the rest of them. The Airfix Greif 250 is great too. Unfortunately that little 1:35 electric motor Panther from Tamiya became so popular it created a new standard and killed off the old 54mm / 1:32 standard. Even though Tamiya were really just doing random box scales! I think their M10 is actually 1:32. They were all over the place until they settled on the scale that the Panther just happened to be. Without Tamiya's scale tardiness you would have built plenty of 1:32 kits!
@@svensvensson2724 I might check other Monogram kits, because my experience with this one. You have to attach the side panels.. then the top. The sides are angled, and there's no way to test fit all three. So I very very deliberately glued the side panels on, and waited for them to dry. And prayed that the top piece would fit. Hahaha. When I put the top piece on, it fit perfectly. I was very impressed. All the chassis parts underneath fit very well as well.
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I used to get up early on Saturday mornings back in 1975 when I was 9 years old and ride my bike to a drugstore that had all the Monogram armor kits including this one. I remember I bought the Sturmgeschutz IV and Grant.This brings back some memories. Shepard Paine who did the diaromas for Monogram back in the 70's was amazing. My favorite of mine was the ditched B-17G.
I remember that kit when I was a kid🎉🎉 never got it but remember it. Man I couldn’t bring myself to open it 🎉🎉
That is a very nice kt , the Shepherd Paine diorama instructions were something I ALWAYS looked forward to getting hold of....
I still have his book. How to build dioramas.
That tips on dioramas is worth a lot of money
Looks pulled straight from Shepard Paines How To Model book
Interesting.. I didn't know that.
Most of those old Monogram kits scale out closer to 1/35 than 1/32, so a lot of 1/35 scale aftermarket parts work with them just fine.
@@kpiniak Cool, that reassuring.
Great vintage kit. My brother built the Monogram Grant US Army 1/35 scale but I’m having a hard time finding it for sale. Same line of armor kits Monogram sold during the 70s.
I'm always looking for kits at flea markets and garage sales. Sometimes it's our only hope.
Box opened 4:50
I have two of those. One is pretty beaten up, the other one as nice as yours!
I have most the other 1/32 armor that were available at the the time, except the japanese ones.
Too bad Tamiya came around with those lame 1:35 kits. These are more fun!
I think this is the only 1/32 kit I've ever built.
@@MrBelmosan Monogram had a great thing going with their 1:32 kits. Check out the rest of them. The Airfix Greif 250 is great too.
Unfortunately that little 1:35 electric motor Panther from Tamiya became so popular it created a new standard and killed off the old 54mm / 1:32 standard.
Even though Tamiya were really just doing random box scales!
I think their M10 is actually 1:32. They were all over the place until they settled on the scale that the Panther just happened to be.
Without Tamiya's scale tardiness you would have built plenty of 1:32 kits!
@@svensvensson2724 I might check other Monogram kits, because my experience with this one. You have to attach the side panels.. then the top. The sides are angled, and there's no way to test fit all three. So I very very deliberately glued the side panels on, and waited for them to dry. And prayed that the top piece would fit. Hahaha. When I put the top piece on, it fit perfectly. I was very impressed. All the chassis parts underneath fit very well as well.
@@MrBelmosan Yeah, this is an era when there was ace talent working at some projects.
Didn't last long, but it was great.