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September 2022

Glencoe Models now has its own Facebook page

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August 2022

THE CURTISS JENNY
IS NOW SHIPPING

If your hobby store does not carry the Glencoe Models Jenny, let us know and we will tell you who does.

More details in the new Press Release below
click image for the full Press Release as a pdf

and see NEW RELEASES

Some new additions have been made to THE GALLERY
Not only with a new builds at the top of the page, but some images added of real objects where GLENCOE MODELS has the kit

Although the world has got accustomed to the Corona/COVID 19 outbreak, it does still exist.

Click image for the special announcement that was made by Glencoe Model's CEO, Nick Argento, at the time

MUSIC TO MODEL TO

Do you listen to music while modeling?
We have already put some suggestions in with recent kits - such as the Covered Wagon and the Roman Chariot.
And here are a couple more from musician and fellow modeler, Dean Milano

click on image for Dean's own site

First - one that has unfortunately been very appropriate over the last couple of years... The Crazy Covid Blues

or how about... Life is Like a Plastic Model Kit ... to remind you of The Good Old Days

A NEW SERIES FROM
GLENCOE MODELS

WESTERN THEMED and
HORSE DRAWN VEHICLES

The first of these have been released -
Covered Wagon and Roman Chariot
- see NEW RELEASES

05402 COVERED WAGON

NOW AVAILABLE

05403 WESTERN FIGURES

In pre-production

click the image for a downloadable pdf

05404 MEDICINE WAGON

In pre-production
Planned for 4th Quarter 2024

05405 ROMAN CHARIOT

NOW AVAILABLE

All are scaled at 1:48

The Western kits match US 0 Gauge contemporary railroad scenes
- though we accept this might be a bit odd for the Chariot...

We try to celebrate the actual anniversary day of the launch of the world's first
'Man in Space' in 1961 - 12th April, though 2020 has been somewhat impractical
But in 2018 GLENCOE MODELS co-sponsors YURI'S NIGHT

The previous year there was over 200 guests!

click for a downloadable pdf

One of the new horse-drawn kits to be released from GLENCOE MODELS
is the Covered Wagon, otherwise known as the Prairie Schooner

There are many possibilities for dioramas, but here are a couple of alternative ideas...

This is the "World's Largest Covered Wagon" and can be found in Milford, Nebraska, just off the I-80

Now abandoned, it used be more complete -
it even had wheels!

Or how about this 'futuristic version' as featured in :

Frank Reade, Jr, and his Electric Prairie Schooner

Click image to read the complete story

Each year October 4th is the start of World Space Week - that usually runs until 10th

World Space Week commemorates the start of the Space Age -
the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4th, 1957

Sputnik 1

How have YOU been celebrating it?

How about building one of Glencoe's 'space' models?

Check out the on-line catalog

On April 13th 2017, almost to the day (12th) of the launch of the world's first 'Man in Space' in 1961 - and in 1981 the launch of the first Space Shuttle,
GLENCOE MODELS co-sponsored YURI'S NIGHT

It was a great success with over 200 guests, so there are plans to hold the event annularly.
Keep watching!

click for a downloadable pdf