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Chad - 05 Apr 2004 13:04 GMT

Can anyone provide with links to home pages of famous brands of plastic
models?

I only have Tamiya, Revell, and Italeri (although for my personal opinion
Italeri could definitely need a MAJOR website redesign).

Thanks,

Chad

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James - 05 Apr 2004 15:47 GMT

> Can anyone provide with links to home pages of famous brands of plastic
> models?
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>
> Chad

http://www.accurate-miniatures.com/
http://www.airfix.com/
http://www.amtechmodels.com/
http://www.dragonmodelsusa.com/dmlusa/welcome.asp
http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/e-w/E-index.htm
http://modelrec.com/products/plasticModels/index.asp
http://www.revell.de/en/index-html.html
http://www.testors.com/
http://www.trumpeter-china.com/en/enindex.htm

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Keeper - 05 Apr 2004 16:18 GMT

>> Can anyone provide with links to home pages of famous brands of plastic
>> models?

Here's a handy link for anything scale plastic related:

http://www.scalemodelindex.com/

hth

The Keeper (of too much crap)

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Chad - 06 Apr 2004 02:05 GMT

Many thanks.

> > Can anyone provide with links to home pages of famous brands of plastic
> > models?
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> http://www.testors.com/
> http://www.trumpeter-china.com/en/enindex.htm

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Lasse Hillerøe Petersen - 13 Apr 2004 07:09 GMT

> Can anyone provide with links to home pages of famous brands of plastic
> models?
>
> I only have Tamiya, Revell, and Italeri (although for my personal opinion
> Italeri could definitely need a MAJOR website redesign).

You certainly haven't seen the Airfix site, then. Doesn't seem to have
been updated since January, rotten layout and interface design, and
afloat with surreal comments on its forums about the site's near future
death, it's (lack of) relation to Airfix and Humbrol, etc. That's
airfix.co.uk or airfix.com.

Don't bother www.humbrol.com. I get an error message going there.
humbrol.com by itself gives the Apache server default page for new
installations. www.Heller.fr seems to be in about the same miserable
state as Airfix.

What are the latest rumours about Airfix, Heller and Humbrol? Should I
be stockpiling Airfix kits by now? It's a shame such a great company can
be run in such a terrible manner. Why can't Airfix management get Airfix
to thrive and prosper? Apparantly it is possible: Revell and
Testors/Italeri seem to do fine. The only difference I can tell is that
Revell and Italeri have continously renewed their ranges, whereas Airfix
re-releases the same old stuff, only occasionally releasing something
new, and when they do it's often outside their traditional realm. Even
so, they remain probably the strongest brand, and their 1/72 aircraft
range is still unsurpassed in variety. Why don't they exploit their
strenghts?

-Lasse

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Chad - 15 Apr 2004 01:40 GMT

Actually, I've seen the site. It's a lot better looking than Italeri.
Usually, companies that don't release much products have existing products
that never seem to go out of demand. If your classic products are selling
like hotcakes why bother moving on when the heat's still on with the old
ones? You earn more and save on development. They're just livin it up. Maybe
if you boycott their old products they MIGHT move on. ;)

> In article <c4rhvq$2kn0sr$1@ID-134513.news.uni-berlin.de>,
> You certainly haven't seen the Airfix site, then. Doesn't seem to have
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> installations. www.Heller.fr seems to be in about the same miserable
> state as Airfix.

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