Atlantis has been in the plastic kit business for many years. After the bankruptcy that included Revell Models was settled the tooling that was stored in ILL was offered for sale. It was a natural fit for Atlantis. Only vintage tooling stored in ILL was offered. Modern tooling in China was kept by Revell. Vintage tooling included Revell, Monogram, Renwal and other old tools.
Tooling was in decent shape as some of it had been run in the last 10 years under the Revell 'Selected Subjects' program. Some of the tooling in storage was sold to Salvinos Model of So Cal. My understanding is it was all the NASCAR tooling from 1983 up through early 1990's when tooling was done in China.
Minor repair and cleaning needs to be done on all tooling after it's idle for years. Salvinos had to tool new tires for the NASCAR kits as that was missing.
Bottom line is if there is support for vintage kits Atlantis will continue to restore vintage tooling and run kits. More than you ever wanted to know about this stuff.......but I have worked in the plastic kit hobby since the 1980's so important to me!!
