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Author : Craig Kodera
Publisher : MuscleCarTech
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1580072534
Examines vintage model airplane kits and highlights what collectors should look for in building their collections. Covers model development in the heyday, and shows pricing for vintage kits.
Author : Craig Kodera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 1580072232
A life-long model builder, collector, and connoisseur, Craig Kodera examines the hobby of plastic model building to give you a book on collecting vintage model airplane kits. The book features more than 400 detailed, high-quality, full-color photos of vintage aircraft model kits and their components, and is written in an engaging and entertaining style to examine what gives specific models their current collectible value. Box wraps, direction sheets, and decals are also covered in detail. This book highlights exactly what collectors should look for (and be aware of) in building their collections. For proper historical perspective, the author covers model kit development in the heyday of the 1950s and 1960s. Comprehensive value and pricing information for vintage kits is shown as well.
Author : Arthur Ward
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Models and modelmaking
ISBN : 9780007176953
This fun book treats you to a nostalgic look at the history of model kits from worldwide manufacturers over the last 75 years. Classic Kits revisits our favourite model kits whether they were tanks, ships, aircraft, spaceships or tractors. With superb photography of boxes, magazines, kits and ephemera Arthur Ward reminds us all of a time when pocket money was spent on a Spitfire after school, which was assembled by tea time and destroyed, in an imaginary but fierce air battle, by bed-time. Arthur Ward, with his expert knowledge, reveals the histories of the companies behind the kits we all loved, while at the same time giving us a fun look at our favourite models. Book jacket.
Author : Tim Boyd
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781613253953
In the 1960s, model kit building was a huge hobby. Kids built plastic kits of planes, tanks, race cars, space ships, creatures from scary movies, you name it. Before baseball card collecting, Pokémon, and video games, model kit building was one of the most popular hobby activities. Car and airplane kits were the most popular, and among the car kits, muscle cars, as we know them today, were one of the most popular categories. Many owners of real muscle cars today were not old enough to buy them when the cars were new, of course. Yet kids of the 1960s and 1970s worshiped these cars to an extent completely foreign to kids today. If you couldn’t afford or were too young to buy a muscle car back then, what could you do? For many, the next best thing was to buy, collect, and build muscle car kits from a variety of kit companies. Hundreds were made. Many of these kits have become collectible today, especially in original, unassembled form. Although people still build kits today, there is a broad market for collectors of nostalgic model kits. People love the kits for the great box art, to rekindle fond memories of building them 40 years ago, or even as a companion to the full-scale cars they own today. Here, world-leading authority Tim Boyd takes you through the entire era of muscle car kits, covering the options, collectability, variety availability, and value of these wonderful kits today. Boyd also takes you through the differences between the original kits, the older reproduction kits, and the new reproduction kits that many people find at swap meets today. If you are looking to build a collection of muscle car kits, interested in getting the kits of your favorite manufacturer or even just of the cars you have owned, this book will be a valuable resource in your model kit search.
Author : Roy Cross
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1847970761
Airfix has been commercially producing plastic kits since 1952 and its models have been made by successive generations of young boys and men alike. In the 1960s, a talented graphic artist called Roy Cross was commissioned to paint some of the box art for Airfix, and for a ten-year-period he provided many of the glorious paintings seen on the boxes, setting new standards for realism and accuracy. Many are still being used today, a full four decades later. Inside the pages of this book are some of Roy's best artworks, shown here in full format and in superb detail, with many reproduced here in book form for the very first time. As well as his vintage box art, Roy has included many sketches and alternative versions of his Airfix box art. After Roy left Airfix in 1974, the company went through a turbulent time. The present owners are Hornby, who have ambitious plans for Airfix and the other brands it acquired including Scalextric and Corgi. The decade that Roy Cross worked for Airfix, though, could be classed as their vintage era, with some of their finest models being produced then in their millions, ready for eager youngsters to build up into detailed miniature models of their favorite aircraft, ships and locomotives.
Author : Guy R. Williams
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0399110879
Author : Arthur Ward
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 0007163703
This title aims to enable everyone to relive the glory days of the Airfix plastic air forces (or tank fleets) and perhaps to pass the torch to their children. Photographs show the rare and collectible kits as well as the best sellers, with illustrations of the packets, box art, adverts in 1960s and 1970s magazines, and a mass of period ephemera. The accompanying text charts the rise, fall and rise again of Airfix models. are now re-releasing 40 kits a year, bringing back some not seen for 20 years.
Author : Robert Schleicher,James R. Barr
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0486258017
Two leading experts introduce beginners to basic aerodynamic principles and the building techniques of master modelers. Their richly illustrated manual provides valuable information on every phase of assembling and flying model aircraft--from the correct methods of kit-building and paint and tissue covering to the secrets of selecting the best engine and radio-control rig for each plane.
Author : Oscar Gagliardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521328013
Building plastic model Aircraft is an amazing hobby that makes your imagination fly, it allows you to express your creativity and relaxes you. This book has been written as a guide for newcomers to the hobby, but it may also be helpful for anybody that enjoys building plastic model aircraft.
Author : James C. Johnson
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764319795
This wonderful collector's book explores and identifies hundreds of fantastic items related to model aviation. More than 600 color photos illustrate engines, kits, radio control accessories, propellers, books, magazines, and other important model aviation memorabilia. The history of model aviation is documented in an engaging text. Captions include detailed information about size, vintage, and current market values.
Author : Pat Hawkey
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 9780890247235
Learn how to construct and finish plastic model aircraft by mastering basic and advanced techniques in assembling, aligning, gluing, surface preparation, painting, and decaling.
Author : Thomas Graham
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764325183
Aurora created plastic model kits of all varieties, including monsters, historic sailing ships, sports cars, moon rockets, military and commercial aircraft, TV stars, comic book heroes, wildlife scenes, knights, and much more all included in this book. Over 450 color photographs enhance this comprehensive history and guide to Aurora models. Every model kit Aurora made is described in detail, along with information on reissues and current collectors market values.
Author : Jeremy Brook
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781847979766
The best-known and most important manufacturer of plastic model kits in the UK, Airfix has been at the forefront of the industry since 1955 when the first Airfix aircraft kit appeared in UK branches of Woolworth's. The kits were made to a constant scale and covered a wide variety of subjects, from aircraft to birds and from tanks to dinosaurs. In 1981 the famous London-based company closed down and only the kits survived intact. For the next twenty-five years Airfix was run by Palitoy and later Humbrol, but suffered from a lack of investment. In 2006, Hornby Hobbies Ltd, the train and Scalextric manufacturer, bought the ailing company and transformed it. Money and resources were ploughed into the range, and today Airfix releases around twenty new kits per year, designed to an incredibly high standard. The old kits of the 1950s and 1960s are gradually being replaced by new state-of-the-art tooling, all bearing that most prestigious name - Airfix. Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the first Airfix aircraft kit, Sixty Years of Airfix Models, tells the full story, year by year, of the company and its products. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs.of kits, box art and completed models.
Author : Richard Lines,Leif Hellström
Publisher : P E I International
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : IND:30000043432495
Author : Anthony J Lawler
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781785006340
For most of the past century, beautiful models of airliners have been made to promote their airlines' services in travel agents and their own shops. The models also illustrate the evolution of airliner design over these decades: the wood and fabric biplanes of the 1920s, the broad adoption of all-metal airliners in the 1930s, the first jet airliners of the 1950s, the first wide-body airliners of the 1970s and the pioneering small steps in supersonic air travel are all covered. The increasingly colourful exterior schemes adopted by the airlines, to ensure recognition by aspiring passengers, provide an interesting subtext. For model collectors, the airliner type, makers name, scale, approximate age and the materials used are detailed for each model illustrated. A short history of significant model-making companies is covered. With the onset of online bookings and the closure of airline offices and travel agents, the use of models is fast vanishing forever. The focus of this book is to preserve this fascinating era when models were a significant marketing tool, and to ensure that these models, at least in photographic form, survive as a record for future generations.
