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Carl Goldberg: model aircraft designer and industry executive; Kevin Gowland, John Gowland and Jack Gowland: co-founders of Gowland and Gowland; the company's Highway Pioneers line of early car model kits was marketed by Revell in the early '50s, and was instrumental in the early growth of the scale model hobby in the US.
Most model villages and parks are built to a consistent scale; varying from 1:76 as used by the intricately detailed Pendon in England up to the 1:9 scale of Wimborne Model Town. There has been a move away from the model village concept since the mid- to late 20th century towards a miniature park concept.
The International Plastic Modellers' Society (often shortened to IPMS) is an international organisation of hobbyists interested in building plastic model kits. The Society is made up of national branches, and within these, local clubs who usually represent a town, city or locality. The first branch was established in the United Kingdom in 1963.
This page contains a list of model villages in the UK and Ireland. You might also want to look at Company town. This category is for full size villages, typically built for factory workers. For miniature villages, use Category:Miniature parks.
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Northlandz is a model railroad layout and museum located in Raritan Township, New Jersey, built by Bruce Williams Zaccagnino. [1] It spans over 50,000 feet of track and was awarded with the Guinness World Record of longest small-scale model railway track in 1997. [2] In 2005 the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany established a new world ...
Interior View of Display Geringer's granddaughter looking at a model house in the museum. The 3/8 inch to one foot scale display contains: A 7,450 square foot, fully landscaped village diorama displaying over 300 miniature structures; Up to 18 O gauge trains, trolleys and cable cars running throughout the display; 10,000 hand-made trees
It depicts the town of Wimborne as it was at the time the model was originally made in the 1950s, and captures the essence of a typical market town of rural England at that time. The concrete model, built at 1/10 scale, features 120 buildings including 108 shop fronts and a 15 ft (5m) high Minster. The shop windows accurately show the goods the ...