FROG Catalogue 1976 Last Ever Produced Vintage Catalog Page by Page

[@MOS6510Models]

If there is a FROG model kit you remember building, please let me know in the comments below

[@crazybrit-nasafan]

From Memory I have built Shackleton (though still not finished) Fairey Delta Lightning F6 Attacker Spitfire XIV and flying bomb Gannet Baltimore Maryland Hunter F1 Hunter FGA9 Gloster Whittle Canberra HMS Tiger Proctor Magister Hotspur Gipsy Moth Swordfish Dewotine Thunderbolt Mustang Whitley Seahawk Vengence Sea Venom Sea Vixen Hurricane Firefly ME410 Sea Fury Tempest Do335 DH88 Arado234 He219 Tomahawk Skua Javalin Vampire Hornet Tempest Ta152 Spirit of St louis Caravelle Comet (airliner) Vulcan. Master Spitfire VIII Oxford There will be others but with 50 years of model making I can't remember them all.

[@MOS6510Models]

Thats excellent.. a frog specialist indeed

[@crazybrit-nasafan]

@@MOS6510Models Added a few more I remembered building. I started that Shackleton when I was 18 and I am 55 now. It isn't far off done. I have a Bearcat, Firefly, Wessex and Herald on the to build pile. And plenty more in the stash.

[@reghardtvisser4419]

I am currently busy with a Shackleton Mk3. Building it in SAAF colours.

[@crazybrit-nasafan]

@@reghardtvisser4419 it'll look great when it's done. Needs a huge amount of nose weight though. If you like old kits look up the "Unofficial Airfix Modellers forum" It is home to the IPMS Classic British Kits special interest Group.

[@andrewcisalowicz1326]

Still got this after all these years!

[@lesgl]

I remember building their Hawker Hunter FGA 9 which turned out quite well...their paint guides were always spot on

[@MOS6510Models]

Yes, they were on top form right until the very end..

[@anthonybeech676]

I recently built the Swordfish and the Canberra. Must say they were both awesome, well designed and fitted together really well. Came with their own stands too.

[@MOS6510Models]

The stands are missing these days.. sadly.. they want you to buy them

[@andrewnally7973]

These videos bring back many memories. Frog were my go to kits when I was a kid. Yep, they lacked detail (cockpits!) but had terrific decals. Thanks for posting these videos.

[@MOS6510Models]

Thank you.. Im trying to film my whole collection for people to enjoy.

[@ericadams3428]

The He111 and Swordfish were very good for the time, but some of the others were very old, but there were many rare aircraft in their range something which Matchbox did in their latter days.

[@MOS6510Models]

Very true.. and still released by the eastern europeans

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

Back in the day my local toy shop only sold Airfix, so I never got to build a FROG kit. A few years ago I acquired their 1/72 JU88 and rather than build it, I've decided to keep it for posterity's sake. You may already know this, but FROG is actually an acronym and stands for Flies Right Off The Ground- which their early kits did!

[@MOS6510Models]

Yes thats what it stands for.. but the actual scale models were called Penguin as they dont fly :)

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

@@MOS6510Models Yes, they morphed from 'projectiles' to polystyrene kits.

[@janwetzlar]

Got the frog B17 in mint condition it is not a bad kit !

[@tuberchat]

Always happy to see what you're going to come up with next. Keep up the good work you're doing here. Cheers!

[@MOS6510Models]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Ian64003]

Heller have been using that type of top opening box for their kits over the past couple years, even their bigger kits too!

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[@SamsVlogstrainsmore]

Very good content models. Kept your great content up.

[@MOS6510Models]

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[@alantoon5708]

Wished that I still had all of the Frog kits 😪 that I bought. Remember buying the AR-234 in 1976, and the Javelin in 1975. How many did I build? A lot...

[@MOS6510Models]

Some of the tooling has have now been lost because they were allowed to get rusty.. shame

[@janwetzlar]

The AR -234 with the v1 is not hard to find revel reboxed it and in the 80 that kit appeared reboxed as a matchbox kit

[@sorvad99]

some interesting kits there, shame they are no more. I didn't see many of these when I was a child most shops stocked airfix and matchbox.

[@MOS6510Models]

Their spirit lives on.. well the tooling does

[@brianartillery]

Nice to see the little Fokker D-21. Probably going to have to get one, now. A sad time.

[@MOS6510Models]

yep.. i do wonder where they would b if they never had bad management

[@pauladams286]

All the aircraft kits shown are 1/72nd scale. Frog did do some aircraft in 1/32nd, but I think these were all ex-Hasegawa. The older kits in scales such as 1/96th had all been retired by the time this catalogue came out. Frog did a lot of kits other firms did not. I built the great Swordfish as a floatplane, and rigged it with black cotton. I also had the Jaguar (two--seat trainer), Mosquito, Me410 wth 50 mm gun, Do-17Z in Finnish markings,. I also had a number of the Novo re-issues, including types that had not been made by Frog in years, but the decals were terrible. Frog always gave you an interesting choice of markings, often covering the smaller air arms that most firms ignored. Even the RAF and Fleet Air Arm aircraft were often in unusual colours, such as South East Asia Command or the British Pacific Fleet. A few of the really late kits were not included in the catalogue, such as the PV-1 Ventura. I do not think the B-17 and Lancaster were ever released, at least not by Frog themselves. There has been at least one book released on Frog, and another just on the pre-war/early post-war Penguin line.

[@MOS6510Models]

Yes i was told the Grumman 1/32 F6F Hellcat was hasegawa, Which is something im looking at.. Im researching a video on whether hasegawa plain copied 1/72 planes from Frog.. The wildcat is a prime example where the tooling looks very similar.. except Hasegawa was recess panel lines to frogs raised. Keep an eye out for it, im gonna film it this week

[@767bob]

I have built many Frog kits, my first build was in 1973 which was probably the Bf-109F. In the past year I have built 6, my most recent was the Westland Wessex in which I totally enjoyed. I do like the way they build, plus I do not mind scratch building the cockpit area or anything that needs to be made to add into these builds. Their outlines/overall look are not bad, but they do need work in details that are lacking but they are from the 60’s and 70’s so expect to see this when you open a box and that was the norm back then. Currently I have over 90 Frog kits in my stash.

[@MOS6510Models]

Thats amazing.. what a collection, i have around 20.. plus a few novo reboxes

[@davidhinkson8856]

Frog is a company I have heard of but never actually built any of their kits, though I do remember seeing the Novo rebadged ones when I was a child. Were all those aircraft in one scale only? They look as though they went together pretty well based on the photos of the finished kits, and it's interesting to see that as far back as then they had color painting guides on their boxes and the catalogue has miniature roundels symbolising the different decal options available, something I thought only came on stream in the last 15 or so years.

[@MOS6510Models]

I built many as Novo.. It was a jumble sales and car boots you would find old frog kits in the late 80's early 90's

[@daniiltitov5893]

And this was 1976!

[@crazybrit-nasafan]

It is a pity the full range is it available. I know some are released by Ark, Academy and others but there are ones like the early prototype jets (P1, DH110 etc) that would be great to see again. I have probably 30 - 40 old FROG kits in my loft for building.

[@MOS6510Models]

Novo didn't want the evil axis ones as they were a russian company but revell did acquire those tools that were evil axis...

[@jefthing]

The La7. I think I’ve said this before! Got it in 1977 (dark blue plastic) and made a really good job of it. Didn’t see many Frog kits locally, so I thought they were exotic. And French! Soon after, Woolworths started stocking Novo and I had no idea they were Frog either. I was thick when I was young. Made a couple but the decals were atrocious. In recent years I’ve made quite a few and I love them, especially now there are so many after market decals available to spruce them up.

[@MOS6510Models]

Agreed.. also look up decal restorer from Microscale (the makers of micro set and sol)

[@martinradcliffe4798]

I had the Arado Blitz as featured on the front cover.

[@MOS6510Models]

how was the build?

[@martinradcliffe4798]

@@MOS6510Models From memory- this was a looong time ago- it was tricky but the result was quite pleasing.

[@toboldlygosmodelworks1973]

Revell produced the Frog Shackleton MR.3 (with a note of apology) for a number of years, before their new tool MR.3 came out in 2019 - it's still available from Eastern Express.

[@MOS6510Models]

Yes.. I think Revell grabbed that tool within the german evil axis range that the Eastern Block didnt want.. Did you build it?

[@alamocannon3791]

Made a couple of Frog kits back in the day. 1976 I was 16 and just discovering Birds and Booze. I must of made them when I was about 12 ish. Can`t remember what they were tho ...

[@MOS6510Models]

Haha Its always the way.. the draw of the eye haha

[@michaleeuwe]

Great video, 1976 is my year of birth, very good review. Have you got something of ESCI? I stille have a catalog 1986 of this brand.

[@MOS6510Models]

Yes I have.. click here :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6W0dWxtnLifatU

[@skylongskylong1982]

Frog had some of the best, and some of the worst plastic models. One of the best was the float version swordfish aircraft, and the worst was the RAF phantom, where you physically had to cut into the plastic underside of the aircraft if you wanted undercarriage down. Thank You.

[@MOS6510Models]

Frog will have a special place in my heart... Hence when i see a kit even in Novo boxing ill buy it lol. I had a friend who had that swordfish and really enjoyed it.. Will have to look at that phantom.

[@ericadams3428]

The Swordfish was probably the best ever model of the type produced at that time. The main issue I found was low visibility of the models in shops, I had to get mine mail order as Airfix had cornered the market.

[@judebrad]

Such a pity, a lot of good subjects not available now. Their artwork didn't do many favours for them though.

[@MOS6510Models]

yes i agree

[@alessiodecarolis]

I build the older kits of Typhoon and P47 D razorback, they weren't good, no pilots or interiors, and the undercarriage primitive, on the contrary the Blenheim Mk1 was more than decent, FROG in Italy wasn't very widespread such as Airfix or Revell.

[@MOS6510Models]

to be fair, interior wasnt pushed until much later on.. but yes that blenheim does look like a good kit

[@henkvermeer8652]

they had no tanks, that`s why they went out of business.

[@MOS6510Models]

Hmm.. I think the umbrella company Rovex/Tri-ang went bust taking frog with them.. I dont think it was anything to do with tanks..

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

How about this. Put the catalog pics on a web site, and then we can click on each page at our own speed. INSTEAD OF THIS. Please save your video for VIDEO CONTENT, instead of telling people how to get around the obvious s******** of this.

[@MOS6510Models]

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