Aurora's 1/48 Kaman HOK-1 "Egg Beater" was released in the 1950s. We will look at this model.

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We can hope the molds are still around and they will get repoped. The Revell deal makes it appear that will happen with a lot of old goodies.

Is Glencoe still in business? They'd be the ones who might bring this back.

Mikro-Mir from Ukraine has a new-tool kit of this subject in the works - there are CAD drawings on their Facebook page and as of August 26th it was described as "almost ready" - I assume it'll be under their AMP brand like their S-51 and Bristol Sycamore.

Also, as of earlier today, for those who want their early US helicopters, they have preliminary CAD drawings for a 1/48th Piasecki H-25 Army Mule/HUP Retriever.

Me, I'm hoping they follow on from the Sycamore by doing a 1/48th Belvedere...

This kit was in the Aurora catalog into the 1970s so chances are it was among those bought by Monogram. But the molds might have been so far gone as not worth fixing for reissue. Or just no interest. Monogram released as bunch of Aurora stuff in the 1970s and 1980s and then nothing.

As long as an unbuilt kit survives it can be scanned and "back engineered" Polar Lights and Moebius did that with some of the Aurora character kits.

And then there's always the shipping off tooling somewhere for safe keeping and it never comes back or is just forgotten about.