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  THIS IS A REISSUE OF A KIT THAT GLENCOE issued way back when the company was new, in the late 1980s. Mat Irvine: This latest Glencoe Stegosaurus is a reissue of an ITC kit, issued in the late 1950s. But being a skeleton of a dinosaur, that model timespan pales into insignificance, given the age of the original creature. Parts layout ( below ). The small disks attached to most parts are there for identification, and have the part number embossed. Model kits of dinosaurs are actually quite common. They hardly match the number of aircraft kits, but most major model companies have issued dinosaurs over the years. But kits of their skeletons? Well, these are the only ones. Ironically though, we can be certain of what the dinosaur skeletons look like, as we have many examples, but how the creatures looked when they were alive millions of years ago, well, that is a bit more uncertain. The assembled but unpainted model ( below ).   The kit builds into the skeleton of one of the odd...

COURTESY PATHE FILMS here’s a look at the early years of this famous brand. Model cars moving on a conveyor belt that resembles a multi-lane highway make an interesting opening shot. Then  we see designers working away on drawing boards at what was then the original Lesney Products factory. The shots here open a window to the pre-computer past, with parts and and prototypes being made with tools of a bygone age. White lab coats, hand-painted mechanical drawings, wood and chisels for constructing prototypes. But were the models better then? Or are we now living in the real golden age of miniatures!?