![]() ![]() The instructions recommend using the foundation base as a jig when putting together the various subassemblies that make up the body of the house. I painted the parts before assembly (more on that in a moment). I followed the assembly sequence as called for in the instructions. The appearance in the entire structure is consistent throughout. While there is no actual structure to make a back on the prop house, the kit does contain a rear structure. I looked on the web for further information on the house and found reasonable amounts of the detail on the original prop house to be present in the kit. The kit parts are all molded very well, and have a good level of detail present. A sheet of pre-printed window inserts and an instruction sheet completes the contents of the box. The 1/87 (HO) scale kit is molded in light tan plastic, and has approximately 70 plastic parts. ![]() Lately, it’s been used in the TV show Desperate Housewives with a few new modifications so as to not look so Munster-ish. It also was in a few episodes of Leave it to Beaver before its most famous residents moved in. It had been moved a few times from its original site, and appeared in the movies The Brass Bottle, The Burbs, and Dragnet. #1313 mockingbird lane munsters movieThe TV house, which is really only a steel-framed front, was originally built for the movie So Goes My Love in 1946 by Universal Studios. The architecture was mostly Gothic, with hints of Victorian included, and a little Haunted House thrown in for good measure! The house they lived in was an amazing place of dungeons, secret passages, and cob webs galore. Just your typical all-American family, who came from Transylvania, and who also just happened to be Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein! The rest of the family had Count Dracula as the slightly off-kilter Grandpa a prepubescent wolf boy named Eddie who slept in a cupboard and one out-of-place niece, the beautiful Marilyn. I remember when The Munsters were first introduced to us. ![]()
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