Jo-Han Models

[Johnnymac]

Did johan models have plasic wrap on them in 1963? 

I have a couple of old kits with a dinky piece of tape on both sides on the bottom, 

[lordairgtar]

In 1963 all model makers were still using the little pieces of tape to seal the box, JoHan included. The shrink wrap didn't appear until maybe 1966 or so.

[Art Anderson]

32 minutes ago, lordairgtar said:

In 1963 all model makers were still using the little pieces of tape to seal the box, JoHan included. The shrink wrap didn't appear until maybe 1966 or so.

It was about 1964 that Aurora Plastics started using a machine-folded and glued plastic wrap on their model kits--done to help slow down what we in retail hobbies called "shop wear", but also was a deterrent to unscrupulous kits from "getting into" model kits on the store shelves, shoplifting the likes of  "chrome trees".  Within perhaps 2-3 years, every domestic model kit mfr had made that transition (prompted, I am sure, by the then-rise of Big Box stores, such as Kmart.

Art