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Aluminum Model Toys (AMT) is an American brand of scale model vehicles. The former manufacturing company was founded in Troy, Michigan, in 1948 by West Gallogly Sr. AMT became known for producing 1:25 scale plastic automobile dealer promotional model cars and friction motor models, and pioneered the annual 3-in-1 model kit buildable in stock, custom, or hot-rod versions.
The Cigarbox car line was a combination of rather bland plastic slot car bodies with metal chassis. [17] Models were claimed to be HO scale, but the cars were larger than HO – yet a bit smaller than Hot Wheels. Cigarbox cars were packaged in small yellow cigar-like boxes which had fancy red serif lettering and gold trim.
A plastic model kit, (plamo in Eastern influenced parlance), [citation needed] is a consumer-grade plastic scale model manufactured as a kit, primarily assembled by hobbyists, and intended primarily for display. A plastic model kit depicts various subjects, ranging from real life military and civilian vehicles to characters and machinery from ...
No rubber or plastic polymer were used up to 1995. Nowadays, ARLO produces cast, laser-cut and 3D, ready to run scale train models and kits. Bluejacket Shipcrafters (USA) Combrig Models (Russia) Eduard (Czech Republic) Flagship Models (USA) Fleetscale (UK) JetMads - resin cast and 3D printed (Turkey) John R. Haynes (UK) Frog (1931-1949 ...
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.
Scale models are used as tools in engineering design and testing, promotion and sales, filmmaking special effects, military strategy, and hobbies such as rail transport modeling, wargaming and racing; and as toys. Model building is also pursued as a hobby for the sake of artisanship. Scale models are constructed of plastic, wood, or metal
Two years after finally being identified, the "Boy in the Box" case continues to haunt Philadelphia. The slain body of Joseph Augustus Zarelli, 4, was discovered in February 1957 in Philadelphia's ...
Articles related to scale models, physical models of an object that maintain accurate relationships between its important aspects, although absolute values of the original properties need not be preserved. This enables the model to demonstrate some behavior or property of the original object without examining the original object itself.