Monogram Duster Funny Car
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 13 8:18 pm
Just thought I'd open up an old classic kit for everyones inspection.
This is the Monogram Plymouth Duster Funny Car #2206, 1977 issue & it provided the foundation for a few more boxings from the same tooling, notably the Mongoose Funny Car & the Cop Out Funny Car, back then Monogram hoped that by just changing the colour of the plastic & adding a fresh decal sheet, no one would notice that it was the same old kits doing the rounds
My example came in with a load of other kits in a job lot, sadly this example is quite poor, in so much the packaging is very tatty, so will most likely be overlooked by the serious kit collectors who make up most of my customer base, therefore if it kicks around for too much longer I may very well build it & sell as a completed example.
This is the most popular packaging format for Monogram kits.
Molded in light green & dark green with chrome detail parts, it's a familiar themed kit for the period.
Monogram were no fools & to save the considerable tooling costs of the day they recycled whole sprues into other kits, the 426 hemi parts for instance showed up on just about every drag car they did. As would the tyres.
It's often easy to overlook how good these kits were for the day, you only have to put them next to an Airfix kit of similar vintage to be reminded of this, the chrome parts were especially good & added a bit of flare to the finished article.
The decals were also very good for the time, not sure how these old timers will react to the saucer full of warm water, only one way to find out I guess
& the instructions, very clear with a painting guide, easy to see how these kits were such a big hit in their day.
This is the Monogram Plymouth Duster Funny Car #2206, 1977 issue & it provided the foundation for a few more boxings from the same tooling, notably the Mongoose Funny Car & the Cop Out Funny Car, back then Monogram hoped that by just changing the colour of the plastic & adding a fresh decal sheet, no one would notice that it was the same old kits doing the rounds
My example came in with a load of other kits in a job lot, sadly this example is quite poor, in so much the packaging is very tatty, so will most likely be overlooked by the serious kit collectors who make up most of my customer base, therefore if it kicks around for too much longer I may very well build it & sell as a completed example.
This is the most popular packaging format for Monogram kits.
Molded in light green & dark green with chrome detail parts, it's a familiar themed kit for the period.
Monogram were no fools & to save the considerable tooling costs of the day they recycled whole sprues into other kits, the 426 hemi parts for instance showed up on just about every drag car they did. As would the tyres.
It's often easy to overlook how good these kits were for the day, you only have to put them next to an Airfix kit of similar vintage to be reminded of this, the chrome parts were especially good & added a bit of flare to the finished article.
The decals were also very good for the time, not sure how these old timers will react to the saucer full of warm water, only one way to find out I guess
& the instructions, very clear with a painting guide, easy to see how these kits were such a big hit in their day.
I think 'Cop Out' is back on the market for about £18.