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The Girder and Panel Building Set construction kits enabled a child to build plastic models of mid-twentieth century style buildings. Vertical plastic columns were placed in the holes of a Masonite base board and horizontal girders were then locked into the vertical columns to create the skeletal structure of a model building. Brightly coloured ...
FAC System is a mechanical construction set, invented by Swedish artist Mark Sylwan and launched in 1952. It uses metallic parts, and extensively uses 4 mm steel rod. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The company continued in business as of 2013 [update] , supplying kits stated to give industry a basic construction system which gives the same freedom in 3D ...
Model building, construction American Skyline was a construction set sold in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Elgo Plastics/Halsam Products Company from Chicago, Illinois. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With an American Skyline set, its owner could piece together models of high-rise city buildings.
Meccano is a brand of model construction system created in 1898 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, England.The system consists of reusable metal strips, plates, angle girders, wheels, axles and gears, and plastic parts that are connected using nuts and bolts.
Zvezda LLC is a Russian manufacturer of plastic scale models of airplanes, military vehicles, helicopters, ships and cars. The company was founded in 1990 by Konstantin Krivenko to produce accurate scale model kits with attention to detail. [1]
Kit-of-parts construction is a special subset of pre-fabrication that not only attempts to achieve flexibility in assembly and efficiency in manufacture, but also by definition requires a capacity for demountability, disassembly, and reuse. Kit-of-parts structures can be assembled and taken apart in a variety of ways like a construction toy.
Pride & Groom The Mitt Kit. Price: $38. Pet owners will appreciate this at-home grooming kit — no rinsing needed. “This set proves handy for folks whose fur babies get into messes,” Winfrey ...
Trix model construction sets were originally produced in 1931 by a Nuremberg company, Andreas Förtner (Anfoe). The German patent for the basic Trix pieces had been granted the previous year, in 1930.