I chose a model kit for him, an imported one of an old-fashioned train.
A small, blue, 'Hello Sunshine' winged horse flies across the sky and is watched by a man holding a 1 16 scale model kit for the same horse.
I started looking around newsstands for magazines like Famous Monsters, and pretty soon, when my sisters were begging for Barbies for Christmas, I was begging for model kits of The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Frankenstein and Dracula.
I was intrigued to read about Arckit (The new Lego? A modelling kit for architects is building business in the toy market, 9 November).
The base of the head pieces was made from foam, and while Westmore initially made casts of model kits using polyurethane for the electronic parts, he found it more effective to use actual electronics from damaged equipment.
Famous Monsters of Filmland, the "Chiller -era fan magazine, was hopelessly Chiller -eraparison, with its recycled fantures on Lon Chaney and Val Lewton, its black-and-white ads for Frankenstein magazinets and "Planet of the Apes" action figures.
If you read silver age DC comics there are these comic-style ads for monster model kits in which a mad scientist, an Igor-style minion, and a Vampirella-style lady vampire go out, kidnap a screaming woman, and take her back to the torture chamber.
He placed the boxes on the upper shelves alongside the model kits, and retrieved them only if a customer specifically asked for them.
The Toys City market next door's also worth a stop, and a boon for kitschy video games, stuffed animals and model kits.
Enrique never touched the model kits anymore.
