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Sablon 1:43 scale NSU Ro80 rotary engined car. Note the tires are original but hubcaps/wheels are not due to plastic reaction to rubber destroyed wheels on most models produced. Sablon was a Belgian company near Brussels that made diecast zamac toy cars in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Simex – Plastic cars made in Argentina first and later Colombia [86] SK – Hong Kong maker of plastic toys [38] Skynet – A division of Aoshima producing 1:48 scale diecast aircraft. Slik Toys – Aluminum toys made in Lansing, Iowa. Shine Dew – ODM/OEM model train factory in China, Duangdong. Slottech – US Manufacturer of HO (1:64 ...
Plastic Model & Tool Catalog 2015 , Magazine Daichi, April 2015; Lune, Peter van. "FROG Penguin plastic scale model kits 1936 - 1950". Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2017, published by author ISBN 978-90-9030180-8
Some offerings were in plastic. Cars in 1:20 scale (or about 8 inches long) were also produced. One was a Porsche 914, which, as seen above, also appeared in the small scale. Another nice car was an almost promo-like 1:24 scale plastic 1968-1970 Rover V8 which appeared in both police and fire car versions.
A notable example of the series was the 1957 Corvette, which featured 'Dyn-O-Brakes', special brakes for the front wheels of the slot car. Zingers in approximately 1/32 scale: In the early 1970s, MPC ventured into caricature model concepts, similar to Revell's Ed Roth Ratfink custom car kits, or Bill Campbell's Weird-Ohs series for Hawk .
In 1947, Wiking started to produce simple car models that usually consisted of a single part - with no windows or chassis. These were made of plastic in roughly 1:100 scale. Vehicle axles were made of wire with flat pinched ends, that when squeezed into the still warm plastic wheels, could not rotate - thus the axles rolled with the wheels.
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.
Accurate Miniatures is an American manufacturer of scale plastic model kits. It is owned by Collins-Habovick, LLC and is located in Concord, North Carolina, United States.. Their products primarily consist plastic model airplane kits from World War II, though they also make model kits of planes and automobiles from other