Welcome to part four of Model Industry History. This waltz down memory lane still passes through Monogram Models. This episode covers those famous Shep Paine diorama brochures Monogram included with many of their kits in the 1970s.

Remember models by Aurora Plastics Corporation? Recall they went away in the mid-1970s, and Monogram bought them? Ever wonder why many kits were not reissued, and if the legendary train wreck that destroyed tooling actually happened? This will set the...

In the 1980s, Monogram Models put together an industry presentation of the process of making a plastic model, from concept to the finished product. This is the first part of that project.