Plastic kit models history
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Credit to oldmodelkits for the
Credit to oldmodelkits for the use of their images.
www.oldmodelkits.com
This video is a brief history of plastic kit models and the current state of the industry.
A few notes:
Here is a big error as H0 isn't '1:96', it is indeed 1:87, hence all those cars and trucks made in this scale!
The Frog Lancaster shown is not a cellulose acetate Penguin era kit. I just used it as WW2 imagery.
Revell, AMT, Airfix and many othe rmodel companies started in the 1940s under different names making ither products. They rebranded or got into plastic kit models following WW2.
Novo wasn't a 'Russian' company (or at that time it would have been 'Soviet'), it was actually a British company. Novo was set up by DCM (Dunbee-Combex-Marx) that acquired the assets of Frog's parent company, Tri-ang, when it went into liquidation in 1972. Novo was entirely a British company - it just moulded in the Soviet Union!
Really the most popular scale for cars is 1:24, not 1:25. (OK, except for real purists - and there are some! - most treat them the same.)
06.19 The Military scales of 1:32 vs 1:35 is a minefield. Whereas 1:32 is a logical imperial engineering scale (as most model scales are), 1:35 isn't. 1:25 for cars (as against the engineering 1:24) can be explained.
The British 00 gauge is 1:76 BUT it runs on H0 gauge track.. Then '0 Gauge' is 1:43.5 in Britain; 1:45 in Continental Europe and 1:48 in the US! (The US scale to me is the most convenient as at least that ties in with many aircraft and car kits!!) .
I pictured a Flying Saucer in an Atlantis box - which was a Lindberg kit, not Aurora. There have been several 'New Aurora' companies - Polar Lights; Moebius; Pegasus Hobbies; X-Plus; even Monarch - and then Atlantis primarily as it got many Aurora tools when R-M's owners (Hobbico) when bust in 2018 and the new owners in Germany (Blitz) didn't what many older R-M, Renwal & Aurora moulds. Fortunately for all of us, Pete & Rick stepped in!
, I might have masid "8 million" -but meant "8 BILLION" people on Earth!
I saw that in 2018 Revell was sold by Hobbico to a German firm called Blitz. It is based near Munich. Blitz also bought Hobbico Germany. Blitz put the offices at Revell Germany in charge of both companies. They got it for a song, both companies together were valued at something like $18million, and was purchased for less than 1/4 of that, appox. $4million, a large chunk of that to purchase inventory at Revell USA. Looking at the numbers on paper, Revell Germany as a whole was bought for just under $1million, the tooling at Revell USA (worth approx. $3.5million) was on paper purchased for the tidy sum of $50000, licensing, trademarks and copyrights made up a bulk of the remaining costs of purchase.
Now just called "Revell", Revell Germany side of the business, kits are still produced in Poland, and the Revell USA side of the business kits are still produced in China, with the same usual cross pollination of ROG and RUSA kits winding up in each other's boxes for different markets.
Revell in the US was slow to get back off the ground, basically ended up being a warehouse with one employee where the RUSA and ROG kits would come into, and then sent back out to distributors. They have since expanded their footprint in the US, by bringing back Ed Sexton into the fold, and that is basically where we are at today.
Most of the Aurora and Renwal molds, as well as some of the older Revell and Monogram tools, have since be sold to Atlantis Models, whom are having a grand time reissuing them. Subsequently the line of Monogram Nascar kits (most of them) were sold to Salvino JR Models (through Atlantis), and are living on today.
Just thought it would be prudent to tell everyone that how the video ends, is not the end of the story.
Lastly, I hear things are shaking up at Revell but do not h ave the skinny.
www.oldmodelkits.com
This video is a brief history of plastic kit models and the current state of the industry.
A few notes:
Here is a big error as H0 isn't '1:96', it is indeed 1:87, hence all those cars and trucks made in this scale!
The Frog Lancaster shown is not a cellulose acetate Penguin era kit. I just used it as WW2 imagery.
Revell, AMT, Airfix and many othe rmodel companies started in the 1940s under different names making ither products. They rebranded or got into plastic kit models following WW2.
Novo wasn't a 'Russian' company (or at that time it would have been 'Soviet'), it was actually a British company. Novo was set up by DCM (Dunbee-Combex-Marx) that acquired the assets of Frog's parent company, Tri-ang, when it went into liquidation in 1972. Novo was entirely a British company - it just moulded in the Soviet Union!
Really the most popular scale for cars is 1:24, not 1:25. (OK, except for real purists - and there are some! - most treat them the same.)
06.19 The Military scales of 1:32 vs 1:35 is a minefield. Whereas 1:32 is a logical imperial engineering scale (as most model scales are), 1:35 isn't. 1:25 for cars (as against the engineering 1:24) can be explained.
The British 00 gauge is 1:76 BUT it runs on H0 gauge track.. Then '0 Gauge' is 1:43.5 in Britain; 1:45 in Continental Europe and 1:48 in the US! (The US scale to me is the most convenient as at least that ties in with many aircraft and car kits!!) .
I pictured a Flying Saucer in an Atlantis box - which was a Lindberg kit, not Aurora. There have been several 'New Aurora' companies - Polar Lights; Moebius; Pegasus Hobbies; X-Plus; even Monarch - and then Atlantis primarily as it got many Aurora tools when R-M's owners (Hobbico) when bust in 2018 and the new owners in Germany (Blitz) didn't what many older R-M, Renwal & Aurora moulds. Fortunately for all of us, Pete & Rick stepped in!
, I might have masid "8 million" -but meant "8 BILLION" people on Earth!
I saw that in 2018 Revell was sold by Hobbico to a German firm called Blitz. It is based near Munich. Blitz also bought Hobbico Germany. Blitz put the offices at Revell Germany in charge of both companies. They got it for a song, both companies together were valued at something like $18million, and was purchased for less than 1/4 of that, appox. $4million, a large chunk of that to purchase inventory at Revell USA. Looking at the numbers on paper, Revell Germany as a whole was bought for just under $1million, the tooling at Revell USA (worth approx. $3.5million) was on paper purchased for the tidy sum of $50000, licensing, trademarks and copyrights made up a bulk of the remaining costs of purchase.
Now just called "Revell", Revell Germany side of the business, kits are still produced in Poland, and the Revell USA side of the business kits are still produced in China, with the same usual cross pollination of ROG and RUSA kits winding up in each other's boxes for different markets.
Revell in the US was slow to get back off the ground, basically ended up being a warehouse with one employee where the RUSA and ROG kits would come into, and then sent back out to distributors. They have since expanded their footprint in the US, by bringing back Ed Sexton into the fold, and that is basically where we are at today.
Most of the Aurora and Renwal molds, as well as some of the older Revell and Monogram tools, have since be sold to Atlantis Models, whom are having a grand time reissuing them. Subsequently the line of Monogram Nascar kits (most of them) were sold to Salvino JR Models (through Atlantis), and are living on today.
Just thought it would be prudent to tell everyone that how the video ends, is not the end of the story.
Lastly, I hear things are shaking up at Revell but do not h ave the skinny.
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