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1:32, 1:35, 1:72 and 1:76 scales. Airfix was the first company to release small-scale military vehicles in 1960 with the 1:72 Bristol Bloodhound with Launcher, SWB Land Rover and trailer. The original range of vehicles was in 1:76 scale, also known as OO scale.
Many manufacturers in the past, particularly in the UK, produced items to 1:76 and labeled the packaging as being 1:72, because the scales were historically considered to be close. An example is Airfix's and Matchbox's series of vehicle kits to 1:76, which were eventually re-issued with labeling indicating a scale of 1:72. 1:76 still exists ...
High Planes Models (Australia/Singapore) - Australian Company moved to Singapore after sale. Aircraft kits and accessories. JAYS Model Kits [9] (New Zealand) Aircraft Kits mostly formerly Ventura. Kiwi Wings [9] (New Zealand) - Aircraft Kits part of JAYS Model Kits; Kora Models (Czech Republic) Legato [5] (Czech Republic) - brand of AZ Model ...
Tamiya Tamiya 56301 RC 1:14 King Hauler, RC Tractor Trucks 1:14 Scale. 1:13.71: 22.225 mm Model railway scratchbuilders' scale at 7 ⁄ 8 inches to a foot, commonly used with 45 mm gauge track to represent 2 ft gauge prototypes. 1:13: 59 ⁄ 64 in: 23.44 mm Aurora "Monster Scenes" and "Prehistoric Scenes" Kits. 1:12: 1 in: 25.40 mm: Plastic ...
To see if he can entice a new generation of kids into enjoying model kits, James May assigns a group of pupils with constructing a life-size model of Airfix's notable kit - the Spitfire. While May must train up the pupils in becoming an organised model-making team, the kit's life-size parts require a specialist company in Cornwall to create ...
Lindberg produced molded plastic aircraft kits, plane models of all kinds, battleships and aircraft carriers. They also produced automotive kits of many sizes including 1:8, 1:24, 1:32, and 1:64. This continued until the 1980s. In the 1990s, George Toteff of MPC acquired Lindberg and started producing 1:20 and 1:25 scale car kits.
Unassembled parts of a Hasegawa 1/72 F/A-18E kit. The frame surrounding the various parts is called the injection moulding "runner" or "sprue" The first plastic models were injection molded in cellulose acetate (e.g. Frog Penguin and Varney Trains), but currently most plastic models are injection-molded in polystyrene, and the parts are bonded together, usually with a plastic solvent-based ...
Along with the aircraft and helicopter kits, VEB Plasticart also produced a model of the first crewed spaceship Vostok 3KA (1/25) and the Soviet Energia rocket with Buran (1/288). The Vostok kit is almost the same size as Revell's Vostok, and the box artwork is also very similar, but the two are completely different. Revell's Vostok is actually ...