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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.
The model car "kit" hobby began in the post World War II era with Ace and Berkeley wooden model cars. Revell pioneered the plastic model car in the late 1940s with their Maxwell kit, which was basically an unassembled version of a pull toy. Derek Brand, from England, pioneered the first real plastic kit, a 1932 Ford Roadster for Revell.
In 2010, Marc Faujanet, owner of Passion 43ème (a specialized magazine dedicated to scale 1:43 model cars) began negotiations with the daughter of Edouard Blanc after he had expressed his intentions to re-launch the Minialuxe brand. On 12 March 2012, a license agreement for a duration of 20 years was signed so Faujanet established a company ...
Carrying over from the Playing Mantis era was designer and author Mac Ragan [3] who was responsible for many of the popular models and had written a comprehensive guide to Johnny Lightning cars called Tomart's Price Guide to Johnny Lightning Vehicles (2001). [4] Ragan and Tom Lowe were inducted into the Diecast Hall of Fame in 2010. [5]
Models were now numbered according to a four-digit system, with the first two digits designating the price bracket. Small cars traditionally had numbers that started in 10 or 13, but later on, 08 and 14 were added. Larger vehicles, including helicopters, have various price range designations from 16 and up. The second two digits are the model ...
This is just one of two cars like it in existence. Talk about a hot commodity! To put things into perspective, Road and Track reports you could buy a Porsche 911 Carrera S for less than it would ...
The first home of Brooklin Models was the Canadian town of Brooklin, Ontario, forty miles northeast of Toronto, near Oshawa.This town is the brand's namesake. From the beginning, Brooklin Models specialized in models of cars not generally produced by other manufacturers, including cars produced by smaller 'independent' marques (e.g., Studebaker and Hudson) and 'orphan' marques no longer ...
Companion – Russian model car brand from Gelendzhik, making models of Soviet/Russian trucks and buses of plastic (scale 1:43) Conquest- Handbuilt 1:43 white metal cars (incl. related brand Madison). Most models made by SMTS. Line discontinued and brought back in 2005. Conrad Models – Conrad Modell; German maker of promotional trucks and ...