Revell's Master Modelers Club

[Manic Modeler]

Hello Friends,

I have been wanting to dig these out for some time. I have been surprised to have not heard anyone mention this on this forum. Back in the mid 70's Revell had what they called the Master Modeler's Club. I am guessing it was to encourage and promote the model building hobby. During the 70's I was a young teenager and actively building models with my neighbor and best friend. Although not as careful as I am now, at the least I was not building glue bombs.

Well, needless to say I joined up. You received an iron on transer for a t-shirt (scan below). Remember this is an iron on, that is why everything is reversed. I never used it so I still have it. The scan didn't quite catch the whole image.




You also received a membership certificate.



After joining you were encouraged to of course build more and more models. The first level was the Master Modeler Certificate (shown below) for building 25 models. All you had to do was send in a list of the models you had built. At this time I had surely built 25 models. I wish I had the list I sent in now.



Then came the Grand Master Modeler level. You had to build 75 kits for this certificate. I'm not gonna lie. There was no way I built that many kits. I made a list of every model I had built, my brothers, my neighbors, ones I had seen in magazines etc until I came up with a total of 75. Here is my proudly "earned" certificate.



As part of your membership in the Master Modeler's Club I think you got the magazine "Get It Together". I'll post some scans of those next.

Did anyone else join this club? I'd love to hear from you if you did.

mike

[stilljustharley]

I was a Grand Master Modeller too!

Sadly the patch, iron on and certificate are long gone but I have been steadily building up a collection of the Get It Together magazines. If anyone out there has any they want to sell, trade whatever please drop me a PM.

[70elcamino]

I joined that club as well, I do not have any of my original stuff, but I also have a small collection of the magazines.
Russell

[snakeplissken81]

I didn't join that club but I did belong to the model of the month club. I can't remember which company started it. I can't remember all the details but when you joined you recieved a model once a month of their choice...car, boat, plane all in small scale. Anyone else remember that club?

[donculley]

I was in the club too. I remember looking in every issue for my name, but it never got in for some reason. Here is my patch which survived my youth, but the rest is long gone. Its cool that you still have the certificates and iron on -Thanks for the memories !

[ShowRodFreak Don V.]

Yes I did. My t-shirt is long gone, but i do have my patch also.

[andrewk]

I belonged to the model of the month club like snake said you got whatever they sent. I signed up for it from a comic book ad. And I can remember the first shipment had paints, glue, and a brush. My grandmother sent in the form for me. For a moment it felt like 1974 again SWEET!!!!!!!

[donculley]

I was in the Model of the month club as well. I remember checking off the sheet saying that I preferred car models, but ended up getting all sorts of kits, From jet planes , Tug boats etc. I got the Deals' wheels Baron and Van , Mothers Cherry pie Model A , the Moon Mixer and Meter cheater from them and a whole lot of Aurora kits .They must have cleaned out their whole Aurora inventory on us club members , I got knights, astronauts, WW1 planes ,tanks ,ships and of course cars. I wish I still had some of those !!

[Manic Modeler]

Wow, I almost forgot about the patch. I have that too somewhere. I got a whole box of patches somewhere. I'll have to look for that.
mike

[flounder]

I joined that club. What a treat to see that iron on. I think I remember filling out the form to get another certficate, but I used LOTS of tube glue in my room then, so it may not be a real memory.

I do have a Zzzzz28 in one of the model of the month boxes though. Got it form a dealer listed in the back of SAE.

Flounder

[enforcer1960]

I was in The Model of the Month Club also ...
Wow... Does that bring back memories.

[gwangiboy]

Yep, that sure does bring back memories ... and I was part of the Model of the Month club as well! Got a lot of odd Aurora stuff that way (but also nice to build different subjects for a change).

That scan of the t-shirt decal ... with printer paper now for iron-on transfers, that would be cool to try it out with ... wear a shirt with that to a model club meeting and see what sort of response it gets!