AMT model company history

The story of the AMT kit model company.  This is episode 3 on the AMT, MPC, ERTL history series. Corrections: It was the USS CONSTELLATION in "The Doomsday Machine", not the USS Constitution.. They also gave it the registry number NCC-1017 by rearranging the decals used in the Enterprise kit.  Also the Spock molds were actually made by Aurora with AMT's permission for European distribution as AMT did not want to make figures.  The molds were sent to Aurora UK for production and distribution in Europe.  Once AMT saw the sales numbers they decided to make it after all and the molds (either copies or the originals) were sent to AMT for domestic US production.

Special thanks to boxartden.com and oldmodelkits.com for permission to use their images and a shout out to scalemates.com which is a wonderful resource for information on kit model histories.