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1930 The first plastic models were manufactured by Frog in the UK.
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1940 American companies such as Hawk, Renwal and Lindberg began to produce plastic models.
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1950 Two businessmen (Lewis Glasser in America, founder of Revell) and (Nicholas Kove in England, founder of Airfix) decided independently of each other to use their injection molding equipment to produce toys that the purchaser would put together with a suitable adhesive.
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1956 Harleyford Publications produced "Aircraft Camouflage and Markings" which quickly became the "bible" for aircraft modelers. Around the same time the German researcher Karl Reis published a book on German Camouflage Colors which became the definite reference for a long period of time. To produce the recommended colors of Dunkelgren and Swartzgren modelers usually used Humbrol nr 30 for the former and added some black for the latter.
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1960 Many manufacturers began production in the 1960s such as Aurora, Revell, AMT, and Monogram in America, Airfix in UK and Heller SA in France. The Airfix magazine appeared on the market. Although owned by the Airfix company, it operated relatively independently with apparent editorial freedom and soon attracted a variety of modeling authors who contributed regular articles ranging from kit reviews to kit conversion articles and a variety of how to do it articles, one of the most prominent was a former Royal Navy sailor named Chris Ellis.
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1960 In the late 1960's the Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicle Association brought out a regular magazine call "Tankette" which provided armour modelers with excellent 3 view drawings which complemented the range of drawings produced by the short lived Bellona Publications
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1970 Later in the 1970's and onwards, the "Letters to the Editor" section of popular modeling magazines often produced serial entertainment as authors and their detractors savaged each other espousing their own particular point of view.
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1981 Most modelers of German aircraft model were stunned by the color scheme revelations contained in the series of books on "Luftwaffe Camouflage" produced by Kookaburra publications which provided alternative schemes in many cases to those put forward by Karl Reis.
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1990 Japanese firms such as Hasegawa and Tamiya, and also Chinese firms such as DML, AFV Club and Trumpeter have dominated the field and represent the highest level of technology. Brands from Russia, Central Europe, China, and Korea have also become prominent recently. Many smaller companies have also produced plastic models, both in the past and currently.
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