HMS Royal Sovereign Battleship, HMS Revenge, Arkhangelsk Battlship

HMS Revenge/Royal Sovereign

Scale 1/500

The first two issues were sold as HMS Revenge and the last one as HMS Royal Sovereign, with additional painting instructions for the ship as it looked when used by the Soviet Navy under the name Archangelsk. The kit actually depicted HMS Revenge in a between-the-wars guise.

FROG model aircraft 1932-1976, R. Lines, L. Hellstrom

Tri-ang/Frog (France)
Lines Freres S.A., Route de Dunkerque, Calais, France (to mid-1964);
Meccano - Tri-ang Lines Freres S.A., 70-88 Avenue Henri Barbusse. 93 Bobigny. France (from mid-1964)
Period: 1962?-1972?

* Existence probable but as yet unconfirmed

FROG model aircraft 1932-1976, R. Lines, L. Hellstrom

OVER THE COUNTER

Competitions to stimulate sales are so commonplace nowadays as to be almost mandatory in some trades, one might imagine, to produce any sales at all. However, when one can have the chance of three days with the Royal Navy simply for assembling and painting plastics which one would have built anyway—it becomes well worth " having a go." International Model Aircraft Ltd. announce an out-of-the-rut approach in their " Frog Navy Competition." This is in conjunction with their kits for the Hawker Sea Fury,Westland Wessex aircraft and H.M.S. Exeter, Torquay, Undine and Revenge ship models. Competitiors are required to purchase either the new " Sea Wolves " pack (which contains four Frog kits, with paint, brushes and cement) or any four of the above-mentioned individual kits. This does require, of course, an interest in marine models as well as naval aircraft—but there are doubtless many to whom this will apply. The 36 lucky prizewinners will spend their three days with the Navy visiting a R.N. submarine and a R.N. air station, after which they will actually put to sea in a Warship. . . . Your local model shop has entry forms.

Model Aircraft MAY, 1965

WIN THREE DAYS WITH THE ROYAL NAVY
FROG competition with over 500 prizes

Visit a real submarine
Inspect a naval air station—planes and all
Put to sea in a warship
and lots of other exciting things

All this for 36 lucky 1st prize winners and there are 500 smashing 2nd prizes of Frog Ship Kits

Here is your chance—the chance of a lifetime... and this is all you have to do.

First, get your entry form from your local toyshop. Now all you have to do is write about what you consider to be the role of any one of the following in to-day's Royal Navy: Helicopter, Strike Fighter, Anti-Submarine Frigate, Cruiser. Collect four box tops from the list of kits on the entry form, to send in with your entry. Complete details are on the form. Winners will be taken from boys in two age groups: 11-13 and 14-18.

Don't delay! Somebody's going to win, so it might as well be you. Besides, it's easy! This is too good to miss, so get cracking!

Model Aircraft Апрель, 1965

UPC
Universal Powermaster Corporation, New York 10, NY. USA
Period: 1967-1970?

The first Frog kits bought were the ten ship kits, in quantities of 15-25,000 pieces each. The R.100, Gannet, Barracuda, Beaufort and Lancaster followed in 1968 with the rest of the aircraft in 1969. Quantities varied between 10,000 and 20,000. The 5,000 Jaguar kits were scheduled for 1968 but eventually delayed until the following year. Most kits had new artwork but used stock decals supplied by Rovcx. Instruction sheets were standard Frog, except for a change of logotype.

FROG model aircraft 1932-1976, R. Lines, L. Hellstrom

HMS Royal Sovereign Battleship

Unknown no. 2
Period: 1977

The Frog records for this year mention another special bagged batch of kits supplied to an unknown customer. The quantities were some 7,000 pieces of the La-7, 1,000 of the Exeter and 2,000 of the Royal Sovereign. In all probability, these sales had something to do with Novo, but it is possible that the kits were in fact sold to some other company.

The kit numbers given below are those shown in the Frog production records and were probably for internal use only.

FROG model aircraft 1932-1976, R. Lines, L. Hellstrom