Scale Models Competitors

Revell GmbH Revell GmbH is the leading producer of plastic model kits and hobby articles. Since the 1960s, fascinating model kits have been the trade mark of the company located in the German town of Bünde. Yearly, up to100 new products confirm the branch leader’s market domination. New ideas and products, always combined with high quality, constantly excite model kit fans around the whole world. This demand for quality defines the technically superior second pillar under the roof of Revell, the young but established brand Revell Control. RC helicopters, planes, boats and cars present a wide and complete range of infrared, MHz and GHz models that meet the needs of every RC fan, from the beginner to the advanced user. Revell, with a mix of high quality, trendy and innovative products, meets all the requirements for exciting, imaginative and creative recreational activities, making many dreams come true. Imprint: http://www.revell.de/impressum.html

Revell USA | 1,099 followers on LinkedIn. Discover Revell - Discover the fascination of model making for young and old with the model making products from Revell | For over six decades, hobbyists of all ages have turned to Revell and Monogram brands for accurate scale plastic model kits. We offer a huge selection of accurately detailed cars, trucks, ships, aircraft, spacecraft and entertainment related model kit subjects including Star Wars, Cars 3, HALO, & Fast & Furious! We work with numerous licensed entities and are continually pursuing new licensing opportunities.

Airfix was founded in 1939 by Nicholas Kove, a refugee from Hungary who originally manufactured rubber inflated toys. The name Airfix was chosen because part of the process involved fixing air into products. Kove believed that all successful companies should have their names at the beginning of business directories and consequently the name Airfix was born. After the Second World War he switched to producing plastic combs, and was the first manufacturer to introduce an injection moulding machine. In the late 1940s Airfix was approached by Harry Ferguson (the tractor manufacturer) to make a cheap model of one of his tractors that could be used by his sales team as a promotional tool. At first there were problems making the model, so it was decided to make it in a series of parts to be assembled by a team of skilled workers. This ready-built tractor proved to be popular and Ferguson allowed Airfix to produce them as toys and sell them under the Airfix name. It soon became obvious that more tractors could be sold if they were cheaper, and to achieve this they sold the kits unmade with instructions. This proved to be successful and shortly after Woolworths approached Airfix suggesting that by using a more stable polystyrene plastic and poly bags with a card header, it would meet the Woolworths retail price of 2 shillings. The small scale Golden Hind was launched in 1952. Woolworths buyers than began to ask for more subjects, then soon after Airfix began to produced a wider range of polybagged model kits - the all famous Spitfire model appearing from 1953.