This
is a cover to cover look at a 1980 MPC plastic model catalog.
Take a look back into history with these older model kits.
Just click on the various pages above to see the whole catalog.
Including car and truck kits, Star Wars, The Black Hole,
The General train, and many more.
To
start off, below is the original cover.
Most
of MPC kits have been reissued at one time or another by
other model companies who bought their molds, so they are
still reissued sometimes, even today.
But
the original box art and decals were true to MPC's style
of models. Extra parts and cool wild decals !
Scale
Automotive Model Detailing: Projects you can do Book -
Shows how to work with paints and finishes, adapt scale figures,
add weathering, and use detailing techniques to add realistic
details to cars, tanks, aircraft, ships, and diorama scale
models.
Stock
Car Model Kit Encyclopedia and Price Guide: Encyclopedia and
Price Guide - This 208 page new encyclopedia and price
guide covers every stock car kit model ever made from 1/43rd
to 1/24th and larger scales. Includes more than 700 models
with 400 great black and white and 40 full color photos.
A few of the major topics cover from: How Plastic Scale Model
Kits are Manufactured, Company Histories, Essentials of Building,
Tools and Supplies to After-Market, Building Outside the Box
and Building After-Market Kits. Instructions are well illustrated
and easy to understand and follow.
Toy
Car Collector's Guide: Identification and Values for Diecast,
White Metal, Other Automotive Toys & Models - Newly
updated and expanded, this second edition provides an alphabetical
listing by brand of nearly 1,000 brands of cast iron,
tinplate, diecast, slush mold, plastic, white metal, and other
toy cars from around the world and through automotive history.
An estimated 50,000 models are represented, including
brief company profiles of every brand. Over 1,300 color
photographs serve to greatly enhance the exhaustive text
of this all-inclusive book, undoubtedly the most comprehensive
on the market.
Ultimate
Mustang - by famed master modeler Pat Covert Book - Pat
Covert. Whether you have a pony car in your own stable
or have always wanted one, Ultimate Mustang is the only comprehensive
guide to this phenomenon of the American automotive industry.Beautiful
full-color photographs and comprehensive text illustrate the
Mustang's complete history, year by year, including interior
and exterior evolution, racing advances, and the people behind
the development and success of this American icon.
