Ahoy, Mates!

Keeping in tune with our upcoming "Riverine Craft Campaign", Fred Rick Boucher (JPTRR) gives us his viewpoint of a classic Monogram Model kit, "Coastal Junk Off Shore Surveillance Boat"


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Thanks Fred!
~Gunny

Nice to see a review of a classic.
I too, would love to see this re-issued.

You know, that not a bad looking kit for it's age.

My sentiments, exactly, mate...

What a blast from the past. Did any American kid who grew up in the 60s, and had the slightest interest in building models NOT build a Monogram kit at some time? Those were the days, tube glue, which you didn't have to have an adult to buy for you, little square Testors paint bottles, when you painted them at all, and most of the time floaty kits wound up either in the bath tub, the drainage ditch, or blown up with 4th of July firecrackers, which were also legal.

Remember the orange scented glue?

They still make it--their 'non-toxic' type in the blue tube! I use it!

I miss the days of not knowing how dangerous MEK & liquid glues and enamels are--probably explains why now and then I just start staring in the middle of a conversation.

I remember the orange scented glue.
I used it one time, and about a week later the model fell apart.

I believe Micro Scale also made a non toxic cement, that was about as effective as spit.