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Approximately 40 percent of the company's business comes from the simpler glider and airplane toys sold through hobby shops and other retail stores, 30 percent from the more complicated scale model kits, and 30 percent from promotional flying toys printed with advertising messages for various businesses, and sold in bulk through promotional ...
Merit (UK) - ceased production of plastic model aircraft sometime in the late 1950s; Merit International (USA) Merlin Model (UK) MGD Models (Czech Republic) Micro Ace (Japan) - ex-Arii; Micro Scale Design (Russia) Midori Plastic. Kit (KSN) (Japan) Mikro72 (Poland) MikroMir (Ukraine) MiniArt (Ukraine) Minibace (China) Minicraft Model Kits, Inc ...
Carl Goldberg Models manufactures radio-controlled (RC) aircraft and components. This company was purchased by Great Planes Model Manufacturing on August 24, 2007. The model shown on the right was in production during negotiations and is considered to be either the last model produced under the previous owner or the first under the new one; it ...
For example, 1:48 scale is 1/4" to 1-foot (or 1" to 4 feet) and 1:72 is 1" to 6 feet, while in metric scales such as 1:100th, 1 centimeter equals 1 meter. 1:72 scale was introduced with Skybirds wood and metal model aircraft kits in 1932 and were followed closely by Frog, which used the same scale from 1936 with their "Frog Penguin" brand. 1:72 ...
The kits were advertised as "1/4 scale", meaning 1 ⁄ 4 inch (0.64 cm) equals 1 scale foot or 1/48 scale. Additionally, increasingly sophisticated tooling was developed in the 1960s. By the time of its sale to Testor Corp. in 1970, the company's catalog included a wide range of realistic scale replicas of aircraft, ships, missiles, vehicles ...
Sonex The original model, incorporating a low-wing design, seats two, and a conventional tail. Available as plans or a kit. [4] [12]Sonex B Introduced in April 2016, this model is a modification of the original Sonex, with an enlarged cockpit for larger and taller pilots, a center "Y-stick", electric flaps and dual throttles as standard.
Fisher Flying Products is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer that produces kits for a wide line of light aircraft. The company's kits all feature wooden construction with aircraft fabric covering. Many of the designs are reproductions of classic aircraft, such as the company's 80% Fisher R-80 Tiger Moth that is based upon the de Havilland Tiger Moth.
Tamiya produces aircraft scale models in mainly 1/48, but also in 1/72 (Warbird collection) and 1/32 scale. Tamiya made aircraft in the 1/100 scale in the '60s and early '70s but this was abandoned later on.In aircraft models Tamiya offers a few clear skinned kits showing interior parts of aircraft. A few motorized kits are available also which ...