[Army Air Corps]

A lot of Aurora’s kits are worth money. Monogram bought their moulds when Aurora folded. The moulds were loaded on a train bound for Illinois, but there was a snag. Unfortunately for Monogram, and fortunately for collectors, the train derailed near a bog and some of the moulds disappeared. Models from the lost moulds are worth a tidy sum (more so than models from the surviving moulds).

[Abathar]

Interesting, I'm a mold maker by trade, have my own tool and die business.

That is too bad though, if you knew how much detail went into the older molds they are truly works of art, unlike the tools generated today by CAD/CAM and etching. that was a time of true craftsmen, now they are built by someone who knows how to set up a vice and push a button, and another guy who can solid model off of a scanned part. As the true craftsman are dying off and retiring no one can ever step up and fill all that skill they are leaving with, its and end of an era in this business.