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Humbrol is possibly best known for the enamel paints manufactured for use with plastic model kits, such as Airfix, Tamiya and Revell kits. The paints are manufactured in multiple finishes: matt, satin, gloss, metallic and metalcote. The archetypal container was a 14 ml tin with the lid illustrating the paint colour and an embossed reference number.
Humbrol (UK) - Airfix/Heller partnership to build models with common sprues paints and glues, brand kept by Airfix for paints and glues; IBG Models (Poland) ICM Holding (Ukraine) Ideal Toy Company (USA) Ilovekit (China) Imai Kagaku (Japan) Imex Model (USA) Imperial Hobby Productions [1] (USA) Italeri (Italy) Jo-Han (USA) Kaiyodo (Japan) Kawai ...
Tamiya entered the 1/72 market rather late by releasing its first kit in 1993 (see kit 60701). [23] However, this was a reboxed version of Italeri's F-16 and it would take until 2014 to design their own version of this jet (see kit 60786). Tamiya quickly got a large product line in this scale by reboxing more than 30 Italeri kits.
Airfix is a British brand and former manufacturing company which produced injection-moulded plastic scale model kits. In the UK, the name 'Airfix' has become practically synonymous with plastic models of this type, "they became a sort of generic name for any plastic, injection-moulded model kit".
Unassembled parts of a Hasegawa 1/72 F/A-18E kit. The frame surrounding the various parts is called the injection moulding "runner" or "sprue" The first plastic models were injection molded in cellulose acetate (e.g. Frog Penguin and Varney Trains), but currently most plastic models are injection-molded in polystyrene, and the parts are bonded together, usually with a plastic solvent-based ...
The Water Line Series was created by the Shizuoka Plastic Model Manufacturers Association in May 1971. It is a collaborative effort by three manufacturers to produce constant scale models of most of the ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, [5] in their first series, and then an ongoing collection of 1/700-scale kits of warships of the world. [6]
One of the largest distinctions between 1:72 scale and 1:35 scale aside from the obvious size was the amount of ready-to-paint dioramas and sets available to small-scale modelers. Airfix, a leader in the small-scale model market offered several kits for modelers from pontoon bridges, the Atlantic wall, Waterloo, and many others. These kits came ...
Testor Corporation (or Testors) is an American manufacturer of tools and accessories for scale model kits.The business is based in Rockford, Illinois, and is part of RPM International. [1]