ATLANTIS MODELS - 1:6 SCALE AURORA BISON KIT BROUGHT UP TO DATE
Mat Irvine looks at a retro-engineered kit: The original Aurora company excelled at figures, especially TV and movie stars, but the company also made a whole range of animal kits. Sadly, few of these exist today, as mould materials and tool frames were often reused to make new kits when Aurora was at its height, or in later years when Monogram took over the tooling, many were considered no longer viable, and destroyed. The original Aurora box-art, very different to the Atlantis version. Back to the future now Today, several new kit companies - collectively dubbed ‘The New Aurora’ - have come to the rescue. Surviving production tooling has been re-used, or where tooling has long gone, new versions have been made by retro- (or back-) engineering, in which new tooling is made by copying the parts of an original unbuilt kit. One of the newest companies specialising in reissuing or recreating old Aurora kits is Atlantis Models, and here we are looking at the company’s re-to...