Glencoe Models

Still limping along AFAIK. IIRC they recently reissued their Viscount.

I saw a few small salt flat racers in the local shops by Glencoe (I believe). They looked brand new. Rob Gronovius Visit my motor pool in the

Isn't Glencoe a injection molding company first and a model kit company second ? If memory serves me correctly they are a family run molding company. Nick Argento is an enthusiast that contacted Strombecker about some old molds they had languishing in oblivion. Right/Wrong ?

Cheers, Max B

the rolla, mo mom and pop had some. they had space stuff and i sbagged one.

I know they don't make the J-2F-4 (bi plane float a/c) "Duck" any more. I wanted to build another but they stopped making then back in the 90s. Mike IPMS

FWIW They reworked at least 4 of the old Aurora 1/48 scale W.W.I kits at one time, the Pfalz D.3, SPAD 13, Nieuport 28 and I forget what the fourth was (Hey, I'm 65, ya know). The kits were worth buying just for the decal sheets i they had in them. I junked the kits and kept the decal sheets to use with better kits.

Bill Shuey

Rob,

I think the "salt flats racers" kits you saw are the old Hawk kits, rerun by Testors (who owns the Hawk tooling).

Art Anderson

Still alive and kicking goto:

Neither that address or glencoemodels.com works-

That domain seems to be expired.

You could try asking on the space-modelers yahoo group, I think someone from Glencoe is on that list.

Nick Argento WAS, but I haven't been back there in about a year, ever since Yahoo sold my address to Spammers. I heard a rumor that he was injured in an auto accident, but don't know if its true or not.

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