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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.
Artin – Chinese manufacturer of 1:64, 1:43, and 1:32 scale cars and track. Asahi – Japanese tin, but also diecast "Model Pet" series as agent in Japan for Corgi & Lone Star. Atlas – Chinese 1:76 (buses), 1:87 (tram cars), and 1:43 scale diecast models, some recasts of Norevs also reissues of old Dinkys with old packaging designs.
A few new models a year were sporadically produced until the company had a line of over 30 cars by 1972 and over 60 by 1978. [4] Traditionally, models were supplied in 'top-up' and 'top-down' versions each being painted in just one color. RIO models were always 1:43 scale and models were ultra detailed with between 45 and 75 individual parts. [8]
Besides an array of airplane and military kits, Revell Germany has also made a variety of 1:24 and 1:18 scale accurately rendered pre-assembled die-cast model cars. These were first produced in the late 1980s and were typical Porsche, Ferrari, BMW and Mercedes-Benz offerings with some Corvettes and a 1965 Mustang. [ 19 ]
For toys, many European pre-war cars and trucks were made to display with railroad layouts, making 1:87 (1 to 2 inches, or HO scale) or 1:43 (about 4 inches long, or O scale) common scales. Other companies made vehicles in variations around 1:40 to 1:50 scales.
In the 1980s and 1990s, car and trucks were well proportioned and had interesting features, but models were a bit too heavy on details that could have been rendered more delicately or accurately. Chrome spears along the sides of 1950s cars, for example, were sometimes too thick and unrealistically embedded in grooves in the die-cast body.
Bburago is a large manufacturing company of toys and die-cast scale model cars formerly based in Italy. The company was based in Burago di Molgora , where all products were made from 1974 to 2005. At the height of its popularity, Bburago's main competitors were Politoys and Maisto , the latter of which was to become dominant in the 1:18 market ...
In 1990, the oldest Vitesse model was a 1934 white truck and the newest was a contemporary Peugeot 205, but most models were from the 1950s. Of course, Portugal had no vehicles of its own to offer to stoke nationalism, so models were fairly evenly selected from Britain, Germany, France, Italy and the United States.