Went with the wifey to pick up some groceries and decided to see if they had any models worth playing with. Much to my suprise these were sitting on the top shelf in the model section! They had four different ones, one of them was a guy in a boat though so I just picked up the 3 with hot rods. They're only 12 bucks a piece, and they seem to go together pretty easy. I'm working on all 3 simultaneously and need to pick up some more paint so I don't have them finished yet. The casting in the plastic says they're originally from 1963.
They're pretty much just as detialed as the art on the box, a little moreso actually. All the back ground elements in the pictures are in the box too, the pistons and valves falling out of the engine, little fake clouds of smoke, Endsville Eddie has the anchor dragging behind him stuck in the ground. They're pretty damn neat. I tried taking some pictures of the parts, but they're all cast in white so you couldn't make out anything. I'm gonna try to get some paint tonight and I'll post up some more pics after I get some stuff painted. Heres a shot of the paper inside.
Those are neat. I haven't seen any of them since I was a kid. Never had any of them though. Along the same line in the late 60's they had some cast figures. Any one seen any of them as of late?
Yeah, MY local wal-mart...in the middle of absolute NOWHERE. I'll probaly end up buying the one with the boat too, just becuase It'll sit there forever if I don't. No one around here is gonna buy these but me!
My wife brought home Endsville Eddie a few weeks ago for her to build. I went back to get the others and they were all gone. Oh well, at least she got one.
It looks like Hawk really still does make them however there is NO info on the 'net about them or the models. This is the only related site I found... http://www.bonediggers.com/1-2/weird/weird1.html
my wife found a website last night wher eyou could order all of the ones they still make. When she gets home I'll find out what the site was. I just found the website she looked at, they have all 21 of them here for sale. $14 a pop. http://www.ubhobbies.com/hawkmodels/ Apparently there was a short lived cartoon as well? http://www.tv.com/weird-ohs/show/9808/summary.html I read that the cartoon only lasted one season, was canadian, and was CGI...
The only ones that I could find are on ebay. KNUX! Thanx Switchblade327. I will look on here when I get home from work.
Ok, found it... http://hawkmodels.com/weirdohs.htm hawkmodels.com--- duh...i'm blonde, what are your excuses? : )
hey man they have 2 more style too i was jsut looking at those over the weekend and they have a baby carraige one and some other one that you didnt show that wasnt a boat but they sure are Kool looking
There are some kool surfer ones too. I got the one with the Woodie Wagon. It was $9 at the hobby store.
I usually HATE car models.....but these things are cool! Now, can someone build a Walmart over here so I can just walk down an aisle and get 'em!
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