ZIL 111V Posted April 9, 2009 Posted April 9, 2009 ....Noticed on the lately reissued "Hippie Hemi" decal sheet, a nice touch...... a "CAT" holding a scale modelcar .......if not mistaking this "cartoon" represents AMT's legendary Bud "the cat" Anderson?
Modlguy Posted April 9, 2009 Posted April 9, 2009 Yeah, there's a connection. Take a look here. http://www.artbaxter.com/esoterica-pages/amt_kat-index.html Bill.
samdiego Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 (edited) About 1967 or so, I wrote to AMT asking about replacement parts for a long out of production T-Bird kit that I had gotten hold of. Budd wrote back to say that they didn't have what I was looking for and sent one of those decals. I water-slid it onto my desk and it stayed for years. Wish I had it now, the letter too, for that matter. The desk itself, not so much Edited April 11, 2009 by samdiego
lordairgtar Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Yeah, there's a connection. Take a look here. http://www.artbaxter.com/esoterica-pages/amt_kat-index.html Bill. I saw that sight. How far the Kat has sunk. From AMT ads to a trashy rag. Except for the Kat, everything else he did looks stolen from other cartoonists. R. Crumb, Max Fleischer and others.
ZIL 111V Posted April 11, 2009 Author Posted April 11, 2009 Thanks for website: never saw any of Amt's promotion cartoons..........of course the "K"at...........such a long time ago!
James W Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Here is one of those KATs It was in my brothers collection of parts so I have no idea what kit it was from. Revell 5 spoke is from 32 Ford for scale. Plastic is softer than kit styrene.
samdiego Posted April 14, 2009 Posted April 14, 2009 (edited) I just found that decal in the starliner kit, cool addition. I'm also likin' the full-size vintage style AMT sticker. Thanks for both AMT, and for poppin the Starliner too. Man I would love to get my hands one of those "model" kats, it's probably the same high-impact plastic that Rat Finks and most gumball toys of the '60s were made from. The detail looks pretty soft and I'll bet they don't hold paint very well. I sure don't remember those in any of the hundreds of AMT kits I had back then. I wonder if they might have been from another source, like a trade show giveaway. Edited April 14, 2009 by samdiego
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