I have one of those! I came across it in the 80's, but it was no longer marked Topps, but in a small box that would be marketed for cheap kid's birthday party favors. My kid was going through some party swag and nearly tossed it. It actually looks pretty good, and the styrene was in fair shape. It took longer to detail paint than to assemble. Now I know where it originated.
What kinda strange voodoo kits is this?!?! Blows my mind to even think about this existing!! I was a football card collector back in the day, that's my sport. Never heard of Topps models before but I'm extremely interested when you get yours!!!!!! Great find, Mark!!!!!
Thanks Chris!! I know right! I never knew about these either but it’s cool to know. Makes ya wonder who else may have made a kit we don’t know about? Look forward to checking it out! Have a great weekend dude!!
The only cards we collected were the 'Beatles' and the 'Munsters'....wish I had them today!!! Small simple models were popular in the 60's. I have a few from Cracker Jack that are cool. Some trains done in almost N scale were my fav!! thx
Thanks Dave!! Didn’t have any Munster cards but I do still have over a hundred Beatles cards. I agree, the 60s had a lot of simple and smaller kits. Thanks again bud!!
Pretty cool As a 70s kid, model cars could be found just about everywhere Example, we had in Illinois a pool and supplies related to pools store that sold model kits. More importantly, they were the Aurora Monster Scenes
Thanks Chris!! I agree! I remember drug stores, department stores, 5&10 cent shops and even a few grocery stores carrying model kits. lol Loved those Aurora kits! Thanks again!
Mark, it had been so long that I had forgotten about those. But I do remember them now that you brought them up. They had then by the register at the old drug store in Big Stone Gap.I haven't seen one in 50 years.
Thank you brother!! I was modeling a lot in 70 and missed these puppies all together. Never knew, but it really is a cool part of the hobbies history. Thanks again!!
Some of my favorites from what I called the little kits were a group of 1/144 scale ww2 fighter planes. They cost a dime and came in a plastic bag with as header card. The instructions were inside the card. There was only about 8 parts. I loved to build them and play at dog fights with them. Those were the days.
Thanks Mark that answers a question that I've had for years. I have one race car and one Concord Jet. Both appear to be white styrene. Wish I could send pictures (can't figure that part out).
Thats cool Mark. Besides baseball and football cards, Starting in the late 1950's, Topps also produced Non-sport cards for TV shows, movies and automotive subjects. In the 1970's Monogram Models included trading cards in some of their model kits depicting the box art of the model.
Thank you very much brother!! I remember the MLB and NFL cards but wasn’t aware of the TV/ movie cards! Wow, cool info! Seems like I remember the Monogram cards too. Thanks again buddy!!
@@MarkBatsonHobbydude007 They were not that common back in the day ether, the only place i could find them was at a liquor store on hollywood boulevard back in the late 1960s, early 70s. nobody else had them.
You're not going to find that topps model in anything model related. Look in the sports stuff for more info. I wouldn't open it. Quite a rare find! I have 2 but never opened them.
Oh yeah, my brother & I had one a piece. Believe it or not, it was a stocking stuffer one Christmas! My brother put his together a couple days after he got it. I never did put mine together, and it got lost over time. I mean I never even opened the thing, got to see my brother's and thought-"ah I'll just keep mine in the box?" Wish I would've kept it, just for the ahh factor... 👋
we had a store called the 5 and 10,,and the local ,5 and ten near my house always had boxes of these ,,i would go there and buy model kits or action figures and with my change i would buy some of these ,,at one point a had a whole big shoebox filled with them ,,i would take the top from one color and connect it to a bottom of of different color to make custom ones ,,they were always fun to play with but broke easily ,i think they were styrene
Hey Rick!! I’m really not sure buddy. As I understand it’s about 5 inches long?? but I’m not totally sure. There is no scale that I can find on the box. I didn’t know about it either. Lol thanks buddy!!
@@MarkBatsonHobbydude007 5" long? I would guess that would be about 1:43 scale. I'm thinking the package is about 5" long. Which is about the size of the trading card packages. I'm thinking that it might be 1:87 scale (HO). Which has me pondering if one of the model train manufacters may have produced it for Topps
