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Alan Bussie of oldmodelkits.com, who has done extensive research into the company's history, notes that the molds for Pyro’s very first assembly kits, a series of warships in “box scale”, were cut either in 1952 or 1953. [11] These were the USS Missouri (kit #146); USS Chicago (#147); USS Shangri-La (#148), and USS Sumner (#149).
Along these lines these first two kits appear to have been Hawk kits measured and copied to Aurora's own molds. [ 4 ] By 1953, six more dies had been made for new airplanes: the Curtiss P-40E Warhawk , Messerschmitt Bf 109 , North American F-86D , and the Lockheed P-38L Lightning , and a fictitious Russian "Yak-25" (later sold as "Mig-19"). [ 6 ]
Plastic Model & Tool Catalog 2015 , Magazine Daichi, April 2015; Lune, Peter van. "FROG Penguin plastic scale model kits 1936 - 1950". Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2017, published by author ISBN 978-90-9030180-8
Ungar – Kits from the 1960s, U.S. race cars, toy slot car sets, woodburning kits; at times associated with Eldon (toy company). Unimax – Chinese manufacturer of military diecast (especially tanks) and 'Radline RC' remote control vehicles. Universal Hobbies – Eagle became this (out of Jouefevolution). UT Models – UT Limited (Unique Toys ...
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".
American Motors Corporation was a common client of Jo-Han, producing mainly 1/25 scale promo models. 1959 and 1960 Rambler station wagons were produced by Jo-Han. These were not offered in kit form - but the demand was not as great for station wagon kits. [19] These were later re-issued by X-El Products and Okey Spaulding in the 1990s and early ...
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Attack Hobby Kits (Czech Republic) Aurora Plastics Corporation (USA) - sold their molds to Monogram in 1977, and later bought by Revell; Aurora-Heller (USA-France) AvanGarde Model Kits (AMK) (Macau, China) Avia (Russia) AVI Models (Czech Republic) Avis (Ukraine) AV-USK / Aviation USK (USA) AZ model (Czech Republic)