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  2. Monogram (company) - Wikipedia

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    Monogram is an American brand and former manufacturing company of scale plastic models of cars, aircraft, spacecraft, ships, and military vehicles since the early 1950s. The company was formed by two former employees of Comet Kits, Jack Besser and Bob Reder. Mattel acquired Monogram in 1968, and the firm passed through various owners and was ...

  3. Scale model - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Model Products Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Model Products Corporation. 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. MPC's main competition was model kits made by AMT, Jo-Han, Revell, and Monogram.

  5. Aurora Plastics Corporation - Wikipedia

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    AFX. The Aurora Plastics Corporation was an American toy and hobby manufacturing company. It is known primarily for its production of plastic scale models of cars, airplanes, and TV and movie figures in the 1960s. Its principal competition in modeling were various other plastic modeling firms like Revell and Monogram .

  6. Plastic model kit - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Akira Nakai - Wikipedia

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    Akira Nakai ( Japanese: 中井 啓, Hepburn: Nakai Akira) is a Japanese car tuner, founder of Porsche tuning company RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF (RWB), which specializes in the design and installation of custom wide-body kits for classic Porsche models. Earlier examples sported a sticker "Sekund Entwicklung" on the back which was later changed to "Zweite ...

  8. MakeHuman - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .makehumancommunity .org. MakeHuman is a free and open source 3D computer graphics middleware designed for the prototyping of photorealistic humanoids. It is developed by a community of programmers, artists, and academics interested in 3D character modeling .

  9. List of male professional bodybuilders - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of male professional bodybuilders. A. Troy Alves at the 2008 IFBB Australian Pro Grand Prix VIII. Fouad Abiad; Manohar Aich, "Pocket Hercules" ...