Special Request. Does anybody have an original box for the c.1972 release of the ...

[tim boyd]

AMT LaFrance "Ladder Chief" kit in good or better condition?  

If so, Round 2 would like to borrow it so that they can use it to recreate the original box art and packaging for this kit, for a reissue release planned for the next few months.  

They already asked me, and several others that regularly help them with this type of request, and we've all come up short (my oldest was the c.1975 release with the Ladder Chief in Firetruck Lime against a white background, and the don't want to use that version for the new release), nor do they want to use the one with the red truck against a white background. .

The original box art that they are seeking was the Ladder Chief in illustrated in red in a firefighting scene.

Typically Round 2 would send you materials to pack the box up and ship it to them at no cost to you, and then you get the box back a few month later no worse for the wear (and I can firsthand vouch that is how it has worked for me on the boxes I have loaned to them). You don't get paid per se, but you do have the satisfaction of knowing that you helped to recreate an original-type AMT kit that model builders and collector can acquire the kit once again in new condition.

If you have an original issue (1972 ish) one that you'd be willing to loan to Round 2, please send me a personal message at the "funman1712@aol.com" email addy and I will pass your name and contact info onto the project manager at Round 2.

Thanks....TIM

[Danno]

Tim,

I have several but I'm not sure whether I have any left that are as old as you/Round 2  are looking for. I'll check later today and let you know. 

PS: I KNOW I don't have any of the limes, because I never touched those . . . real fire trucks are red!!!  LOL.

[tim boyd]

3 hours ago, Danno said:

Tim,

I have several but I'm not sure whether I have any left that are as old as you/Round 2  are looking for. I'll check later today and let you know. 

 

Thanks Danno...as of this afternoon they have now found a usable box....so they are all set.  Thanks for your offer, though.......…...TIM

Edited March 10, 2020 by tim boyd

[Danno]

Glad they found what they needed, Tim.  Would have been happy to help.

Now, when they’re ready to reissue the Aero Chief (Aerial Platform) let me know. I have a nice T514!

As firefighters say, “See you at the big one!”

-Danno-