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[cgutzmer]

Got that right! I can help get stuff in there too being SIG leader I have a pretty good line into the higher up people in IPMS USA and they are very keen on including us

[cdavenport]

An addendum. To submit those photos and/or articles, you must follow Journal publication guidelines which you can find on the International Plastic Modeler's Society USA website.

[JohnO]

Thanks Charles & Chris,
I will send them some photos, maybe even do a short article.My first models were by Wallace Rigby in '45 during the War.I have a pretty good collection of unbuilt kits and have really only recently started new paper kits. The computer changes everything. I am an avid plastic car modeler and have won my share of awards and also prommised myself to build wooden ships when I retired so I have started those also.
John O

[cdavenport]

Originally Posted by JohnO

Thanks Charles & Chris,
I will send them some photos, maybe even do a short article.My first models were by Wallace Rigby in '45 during the War.I have a pretty good collection of unbuilt kits and have really only recently started new paper kits. The computer changes everything. I am an avid plastic car modeler and have won my share of awards and also prommised myself to build wooden ships when I retired so I have started those also.
John O

That sounds like a great article. I really believe that many of us older plastic modelers keenly remember the paper models on the backs of cereal cartons.

[JohnO]

Charles,
You know I don't remember the airplanes on boxes, maybe I ate a different cereal but years ago I saw some reprints that did not look very good. I do remember building a complete Lone Ranger Western Town that built in segments and sat on a large printed paper base with the idea you follow the action along with the radio show.
The Wallace Rigby kits were from books, die cut and full color.They were available as reprints (not die-cut) and quite simplified with very little internal structure. I have not been able to get him online recently but I did purchase a PDF copy of the original book.

John O

[rbeach84]

Mine is 9430 since 1976 (that was a good year to join!)

[cdavenport]

Originally Posted by JohnO

Charles,
You know I don't remember the airplanes on boxes, maybe I ate a different cereal but years ago I saw some reprints that did not look very good. I do remember building a complete Lone Ranger Western Town that built in segments and sat on a large printed paper base with the idea you follow the action along with the radio show.
The Wallace Rigby kits were from books, die cut and full color.They were available as reprints (not die-cut) and quite simplified with very little internal structure. I have not been able to get him online recently but I did purchase a PDF copy of the original book.

John O

I built that western town, too! So much fun to be a kid back then...pretty good being a "kid" at my age these days, too!

[ARMORMAN]

you mean this one?

Lone Ranger Frontier Town Boxbacks

[cdavenport]

WOW! I've copied all the images at their largest resolution and am starting to correct the minor flaws so that they can be reproduced exactly as kids saw them way back when. Perhaps, I'll be able to receive permission to post these in the downloads section.

Thanks, Armorman!

[ARMORMAN]

Anything to help you feel young again.