Atlantis kits in Hobby Lobby ?

[Greg Myers]

Has anyone seen any Atlantis Kits in Hobby Lobby yet ?

[Mark]

The stores here still have empty spaces from the items that were recently cleared out.  Summer isn't prime time for model building, so the summer restock is usually slow in coming.

[Greg Myers]

110+ degrees here in Phoenix, it sure is building time.

[Dave Van]

Atlantis is still ramping up.......only a handful of kits out yet. 

[Greg Myers]

They  have cranked out a few aircraft and armor kits along with some monster kits

[GMP440]

Yes.  Here they are.  Saw these a month ago.

[Greg Myers]

Talked to the guy stocking the shelves, " Yea, we stock what they send us"

[Dave Van]

33 minutes ago, Greg Myers said:

hobby Lobby Talked to the guy stocking the shelves, " Yea, we stock what they send us"

Which Atlantis kits each store gets is controlled by a buyer at the HL home office. Each store does not order kits. This from someone at Atlantis. 

[stavanzer]

I've seen the HUP-2, the B-25 and the B=-24. I've already Bought the B-25. Not a bad kit, at all.

[Mike999]

Our closest HL, in rural South Carolina, seems to get kits later than other places.  The first Atlantis kits showed up about a month ago.  The same 3 kits others have mentioned:  B-24, B-25 and HUP-2 helicopter. 

I had to have the HUP-2 kit just for its history. It was originally released in the early 1950s by the company "Helicopters For Industry." HFI didn't last very long, and Aurora got the molds.  I always liked the bonkers "Army Mule" markings, and the upgraded kit decals has those plus 3 other versions, including Navy and Marine rescue choppers. 

The retail HL price for that kit is $19.99, or with the 40% off coupon, $11.99.  The kit is very simplified. But as online reviews have noted, it can be improved with parts from the old Monogram UH-1B "Huey Hog," which is also cheap and easy to find.

[SfanGoch]

3 hours ago, Mike999 said:

But as online reviews have noted, it can be improved with parts from the old Monogram UH-1B "Huey Hog," which is also cheap and easy to find.

Who wrote that?!? Whoever made that comment obviously hasn't a clue about the subject. They're totally different helicopters and there is zero parts interchangeability between them. ?

[Mike999]

12 hours ago, SfanGoch said:

Who wrote that?!? Whoever made that comment obviously hasn't a clue about the subject. They're totally different helicopters and there is zero parts interchangeability between them. 

Mark Nickelson wrote that, in his Cybermodeler review of the kit. He's only suggesting the Huey kit as a source of missing interior parts, like the collective sticks:

"There are two yokes, an instrument panel, no collectives, no crew figures, no deckplate, no pedals. The seats are molded into the fuselage halves.  The wheels are crude. But this is a nostalgia trip, remember. This is how things were done, back at the actual dawn of plastic modeling. Most of what you could use but don’t get can be had cheaply by cannibalizing a Monogram Huey, itself a period piece."

https://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/atl/kit_atl_a502.shtml

 

[Snake45]

On 9/22/2019 at 2:35 PM, alexis said:

I've already Bought the B-25. Not a bad kit, at all.

The B-25 is in the oddball scale of 1/64. Other old (but still available) kits in 1/64 are the Lindberg B-17, He-111 and Ju-88, and B-58, so you could actually accumulate a nice little mini-collection of 1/64 bombers. 

[my80malibu]

On ‎7‎/‎31‎/‎2019 at 10:05 AM, Greg Myers said:

110+ degrees here in Phoenix, it sure is building time.

Its Either Stay inside and Build, or Go outside and Burst into Flames......

[stavanzer]

Snake, I also got the Lindberg B-17. Not as nice a kit, as the Atlantis kit. Nice decals, but very poor instructions. You can tell that both were tooled in the same time frame. The details are somewhat similar, Golf Ball Rivets and sloppy turrets with broomstick guns. The Seventeen DOES have a decent stand, a trait it shares with the Revell/Atlantis kit. I plan to show them both together.

[ChrisBcritter]

A friend of mine on the Warbird Information Exchange forum owns the remains of a couple HUPs, including these two in the foreground that were salvaged from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in the late '70s. Note how a large portion of the rear fuselage was fabric-covered:

[El Roberto]

My Hobby Lobby had a couple of Atlantis  Atlas with the launch pad kit.  I couldn't resist and bought one, to my sorrow.  Huge disappointment. I never saw so much flash on a kit (ever)  and I could mention many other problems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[stavanzer]

I hear you, Robert, but they are 60-65 year old tools. Sad that they are not better, but still better than to pay collector prices, and not even get new decals.

My B-25 is in pretty good shape considering.

[El Roberto]

On ‎9‎/‎30‎/‎2019 at 2:48 PM, alexis said:

I hear you, Robert, but they are 60-65 year old tools. Sad that they are not better, but still better than to pay collector prices, and not even get new decals.

My B-25 is in pretty good shape considering.

Well, at least, it was cheap with the 40 percent off . I think a lot of the parts will be useable for scratch builds. 

[Greg Myers]

I think one has to look at these older kit reissues from Atlantis and Lindberg more as Nostalgia releases and not new kits. They are what they are, old kits. So many look at them with an eye to their past. A connection to their beginnings in the hobby.

These kits do have potential and as seasoned builders one should have no problems making the proverbial purse out of the sows ear.

 

[El Roberto]

On ‎10‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 8:14 AM, Greg Myers said:

I think one has to look at these older kit reissues from Atlantis and Lindberg more as Nostalgia releases and not new kits. They are what they are, old kits. So many look at them with an eye to their past. A connection to their beginnings in the hobby.

These kits do have potential and as seasoned builders one should have no problems making the proverbial purse out of the sows ear.

 

True, but I don't think I'll be alive long enough to make this kit into a silk purse.  Might be easier to completely scratch build one.

[Dave Van]

On 9/29/2019 at 10:22 PM, El Roberto said:

My Hobby Lobby had a couple of Atlantis  Atlas with the launch pad kit.  I couldn't resist and bought one, to my sorrow.  Huge disappointment. I never saw so much flash on a kit (ever)  and I could mention many other problems.

 

Please tell us...I wanted one myself. What was the HL price??

[SfanGoch]

Dave, Ballzano's Hobby Warehouse has the kit for $24.75 plus shipping if you can't find it at HL.

[El Roberto]

17 hours ago, Dave Van said:

Please tell us...I wanted one myself. What was the HL price??

I think it was around $29 but I used a 40% off .

[Dave Van]

Hit my  HL today.......good stock of R2 & Revell kits.  I did pick up a Atlantis Mercury rocket with launch base. I had this kit in the 1960's and thought it was so cool. Mine is almost flash free, nice color box top and bottom and little history book included like 60's version....cool!