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Scale Aircraft Modelling, Guideline, January 2013; 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
Model Products Corporation, usually known by its acronym, MPC, is an American brand and former manufacturing company of plastic scale model kits and pre-assembled promotional models of cars that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. MPC's main competition was model kits made by AMT, Jo-Han, Revell, and Monogram.
Static model rocket kits began as a development of model aircraft kits, yet the scale of 1:72 [V.close to 4 mm.::1foot] never caught on. Scales 1:48 and 1:96 are most frequently used. There are some rockets of scales 1:128, 1:144 , and 1:200 , but Russian firms put their large rockets in 1:288.
A popular scale for collecting vintage and modern American truck models. Established by First Gear, Inc. in the early 1990s with growing popularity in Europe and Australia. 1:33: 9.236 mm The most common scale for paper model kits of aircraft. 1:32: 3⁄8" 9.525 mm: Model railways (1) Aircraft models. Car models. Toy soldiers
12 Squared (USA) [12] 3D Blitz Models (Switzerland) AA Models (China) A&A Models (Ukraine) - brand of Modelsvit; ABC Modelfarb (Poland) A.B.&K Hobby Kits (Czech Republic)
TrueScale Miniatures caters to model car collectors and motor sports fans through various channels, but their main focus is in the model car hobby industry as evidenced in their heavy advertising and product reviews in industry specific magazines such as Car Room magazine, and attendance at select hobby related trade shows such as the Nuremberg International Toy Fair.
In the following years, Franklin Mint produced more than 600 different issues of motorcycles, trucks and tractors besides automobiles. [1] [2] Marketing of all vehicles was almost exclusively through mail order catalogs. Vehicles - often called 'Franklin Mint Precision Models' - usually cost between $75 and $150 and were meant as adult ...
Pocher, the Italian kit maker, even manufactured kits in a large 1:8 scale. A review of models by Consumer Reports in 1979 discussed American plastic and European diecast metal models in 1:25 and 1:24 scales, but did not once mention 1:18 scale, showing that it had not yet come into marketing popularity (Consumer Reports 1979).