I actually have a built up and painted figure of a Saucer Man in my living room, and it’s very nice. However, this kit is great. Hats off–and heads off–to any tribute… Read Article →

One year I went to WonderFest, a convention down in Kentucky for model builders. I went with a model building friend from the library I used to work at. It wasn’t entirely… Read Article →

Sweet! These are expensive kits (and limited editions, so they sell out all the time), and I would have to hire someone to paint the things, but man, that’s cool. By, admittedly,… Read Article →

Jamie B sent me this. The Monsters in Motion site is a wonder, an amazing collection of garage kits for obscure ’50s sci fi monster flicks. This one really captures the, uh,… Read Article →

Happy Friday! We’re out of Gigantics, but lots of you talked very affectionately about Aurora’s dinosaur kits, so here’s one of those. Certainly a rather better paint job than the sort of… Read Article →

Happy Friday Eve. This was my favorite one of these, maybe because of Black Scorpion? Anyway, it was a sweeeet kit.

Man, these were neat. I mean, anyone who grew up on ’50s big bug movies loved these. Of course, now we have all these incredible garage kits and statues for every obscure… Read Article →

Man, I don’t remember this one at all. I wonder if this was the last one and didn’t get distributed as much or something. I will say I think the other bugs… Read Article →

I think there was a gap after the Aurora kits came out, but then another company (I think it was Fun Dimensions) realized that there was no copyright or licensing issues on… Read Article →