Monsters, retro dinosaurs and Related model kits

[amargasaurus cazaui]

A thread for your monsters, almost dinosaurs, godzilla and king Kong and other related models. I might even post some of my more retro dinosaur kits here, so feel free.



Here are two models I have owned since I was about five years old. Both are original Aurora Glow_in the Dark models. I asked Martin Garratt to restore, rebuild and repaint the two. The creature model was sent in several pices, poorly built and slathered with style of paint work common to five year olds. The godzilla was in better shape but badly painted and some of the parts were not assembled well.

[Derek.McManus]

Classic models with nice paint jobs haven't seen any of those since I was a child.

[Doug Watson]

A thread for your monsters, almost dinosaurs, godzilla and king Kong and other related models. I might even post some of my more retro dinosaur kits here, so feel free.
Here are two models I have owned since I was about five years old. Both are original Aurora Glow_in the Dark models. I asked Martin Garratt to restore, rebuild and repaint the two. The creature model was sent in several pices, poorly built and slathered with style of paint work common to five year olds. The godzilla was in better shape but badly painted and some of the parts were not assembled well.

I love the CFTBL, Martin did a great job, congratulations. I hate to say it but I had all of these when they first started coming out in 1961 (under $2 a piece) but blew them all up when girls came along. Now I have reacquired them all on eBay at a greater cost and I have stripped them all down and they are ready for rebuilds if I could only get the time. If I wait too long and I get too old my paint jobs may not be any better than they were when I was 6. I have the creature, frankenstein, wolfman, dracula, the mummy, the hunchback, the phantom, King Kong and Mr Hyde. I never had Godzilla since I could never take the original man in a baggy rubber suit seriously.

[docronnie]

Just got this.  It is made by Kaiyodo.  Is it a kaiju?  Looks like a marine monster.



I also have the other variant color, sealed.

[ProSauropod]

This is a Yokai, a Japanese ghost/monster:  http://yokai.com/amikiri/   I would not say a kaiju, but pretty darn cool.

[Paleogene Pals]

That is one cool Yokai there!

[Tyto_Theropod]

Agreed. Yokai can be pretty awesome. (Although there are also some that are just downright weird...)

[docronnie]

This is a Yokai, a Japanese ghost/monster:  http://yokai.com/amikiri/   I would not say a kaiju, but pretty darn cool.

Wow! Thanks a lot Prosauropod!

[Arul]

Including "monster hunter" figures ?

[CityRaptor]

Well, they are monsters...and some of them are "almost dinosaurs". So I guess it fits.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Not sure I am familiar with them, but the idea for the thread is basically anything that is old, retro, dinosaur, monster or that type of thing related. If Cityraptor says they fit, thats good enough for me................

[CityRaptor]

Personally I also never played Monster Hunter, but some of the Monsters are clearly based on Dinosaurs.




But since this thread about monsters in general, they should fit anyways.

[JoeCamaro]

This is my retro Tyrannosaurus Rex made by Imperial back in 1985.

[docronnie]

I just saw and handled one yesterday, JoeCamaro.  It belonged to my friend.  We arranged his dinosaur collection for storage.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Had always meant to add this model to this thread and never gotten it done....Began as an idea I had using an old Airfix model I had Martin paint....I decided to see if we could create a Turok diorama, despite there being precious little for figures or models of Turok availible. I scouted out a few plastic indians and a plastic canoe and explained what I was going for to Martin..voila..the rest is all him. He took my idea and made it reality

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

That's pretty EPIC!