The Aurora King Kong Models
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- The history of Aurora Models classic monster kits, 60's Monster Kid fandom, and my builds of King Kong's Thronester and the glow-in-the-dark King Kong model.
#auroramodels #monsters #kingkong #thronester
I still have the original Aurora model of Kong that I bought for about $2.00 back in 1965 when I was 12 years old, I'm looking at him right now!
Very interesting video that I happened to stumble upon
Thank you! Glad you tripped on it!
I had Kong and The Witch when I was a kid in the 70's. I can't believe what the unmade originals cost now.
@@stevenedwards4470 cost about one pound fifty at the time
Loved these as a kid...Great memories
Thank you for the MEMORY KICK. I had forgotten about these older models. I had so many of them. I vaguely remember a Glow in the Dark Frankenstein, Wolfman, and Mummy models as well. The Creature from the Black Lagoon was my favorite monster out of all of them. I loved swimming and he was the water monster. I'm not 100% sure who made the Glow in the Dark model kits back then. I do remember putting them or assembling them together! They were a blast!
I had several of those models- King Kong, Hunchback, glowing Godzilla, Dr Jekyll (or was it Mr Hyde?), annnnnnd..... maaaaayyyyybe the Frankenstein monster?
Gone to dust, alas. Picked them up between 1975-1978 at the local mom & pop toy store, built them, and, well..... yanno.....
Thanks for a great video!!!
I'm circa 68 but I bought FM faithfully from 5 on. All the Black & white movies were re run on TV and I built many aurora models. I now make latex monster Masks and live in a 230 yr old gothic haunted house. I wish I still had the same friends as I did in those days and we still played monsters
I'll come over to your cool Gothic house and play monsters with you! 🤩
@@MonsterKidCory anywhere near Brantford Ontario?
@@barlowetube sadly no... Calgary 😆
@@MonsterKidCory if you know if a way to discretely exchange emails I will send you a mask.
@@barlowetube I have an email on my channel's "about" page 😃
FANTASTIC VIDEO!!!! Well spoken and extremely informative. Impressed with your mod skills, highly unique. Baby boomer myself with eight of the original Aurora monster model's from the 60s still on display. Thanks for sharing.!!
Thank you very much!
Any chance we could ever get your treatment of the Godzilla Aurora models? These Kong ones are excellent.
I have a Godzilla's Go-Cart in the store that hasn't sold for a while, so maybe ;)
This is a really cool video! Great history leading up to where we are with the models, and amazing creativity with how you customized them! :)
Thank you very much!
Great history and great models! Cheers!
Thank you, Mr. Gross for your great video.
Thank you!
I had Godzilla and Phantom.
nice job
Well-done show! Thx!
Thank you!
I had most of them, can you still get king kong
How did you do the black and white 1933's film paint job? I was thinking of doing something similar but didn't know how to nail it exactly.
Spray painted a base coat of black (Tamiya matte black to be precise), then just used various shades of grey artist acrylics. Do a pretty solid dry brushing of the darkest grey over the black, then build up with lighter and lighter shades of grey for successive waves of highlights. I did use a grey Tamiya spray paint for the grey on the palm trees though, because dry brushing wouldn't have worked for them.
@@MonsterKidCoryThanks for the info! Hope the kong collection keeps growing.
@@MonsterKidCory Hey so I'm working on my Kong diorama and I just wanted to say that the other tamiya dinosaurs do scale quite well with Kong. The T. Rex is just a tince smaller but he scales really well.
@@user-km3yu9dx9c good to hear!
4:07. when a couple of kids googled a trade show, orders came in,... WTF, where are you getting this from,? jeez
What I love about criticisms like this is that you think I'M the idiot even though you didn't understand what I actually said.
Always a Karen boy