The Blue Printer

[Greg Myers]

How long did it run ? Any one have all of them? How many "Blue Printer" kits are there ?

[1930fordpickup]

The partial list of kits

69 Cougar

service trailer

mustang street freak

fiat & dragster

back to the future trilogy

munsters

sunbeam tiger

parts pack bumpers and engines

batman cocoon

64 galaxie -- Thanks ChrisBcritter

Monkeemobile - Thanks GMP440

Edited September 21, 2013 by 1930fordpickup

[ChrisBcritter]

Add the '64 Galaxie Craftsman kit.

[grayghost]

What is the different from the regular kit's?

[Art Anderson]

What is the different from the regular kit's?

Nothing at all, except perhaps decal sheets and of course, they came in plain white corrugated boxes instead of the usual model car kit box. They were simply "first looks" at reissued model car kits that hadn't been seen for a lot of years--exclusively available to subscribers of the Ertl Blueprinter.

Art

[GMP440]

_{Also the Monkeemobile. You were also able to buy promos too.}

[slantasaurus]

Nothing at all, except perhaps decal sheets and of course, they came in plain white corrugated boxes instead of the usual model car kit box. They were simply "first looks" at reissued model car kits that hadn't been seen for a lot of years--exclusively available to subscribers of the Ertl Blueprinter.

Art

If these were "first looks" at reissued kits it only took them what, 15-20 years or so to reissue the Double Dragster ? I'm still waiting for them to reissue the Sunbeam Tiger. All the others I agree, they were reissued within a couple years of being Blueprinter kits

[Luc Janssens]

There was also a motorcycle with sidecar, thinking Zundapp but could be wrong...

[Fabrux]

I can't say for the others but the Cougar's box was the same box board as regular model boxes. At least, the one I have is.

[Nick Winter]

How long did it run ? Any one have all of them?

Looks like it started in January/Febuary 1987(No.1), my last issue is from September/October 1999 (volume 13, issue 5) but it may have gone longer than that .

Nick

[Art Anderson]

The "Blueprinter" started in the mid-1970's when Ertl (well before they bought the AMT line out of the Lesney bankruptcy) as a quarterly publication aimed at encouraging the builders of Ertl kits such as the IH trucks, the farm tractors in their building efforts, as well as updating farm toy collectors (for decades that was Ertl's largest and "bread & butter" business) as to upcoming new items. IIRC, Blueprinter went away for a few years in the early 1980's, and then came back mostly as a modeler's publication, focused primarily on AMT (and later, MPC) model kits then being produced by Ertl.

Art

[robertw]

I have the Tiger and the .....Back to the Future Trilogy both came in plain white boxes or in the case of the future kits a Big white box. I still have a lot of the Blue Printer newsletters somewhere. As I recall towards the end the newsletters went heavily into the diecast realm.

[grayghost]

Nothing at all, except perhaps decal sheets and of course, they came in plain white corrugated boxes instead of the usual model car kit box. They were simply "first looks" at reissued model car kits that hadn't been seen for a lot of years--exclusively available to subscribers of the Ertl Blueprinter.

Art

Thanks Art

I learn something on this forum every day.

[forthlin]

I had a subscription from the early 90's until it ended. They also came out with a '56 Ford Victoria . I've still got it put away & haven't built it yet.