While the cars on the show field at the Glenmoor Gathering last year (including the Avanti sedan prototypes and Powel Crosley’s Duesenberg) presented quite a spectacular sight, so did many of the miniatures gathered under one of the tents just off the show field. I managed to slide a photo of Fiore DiBernardo’s 39-percent-scale 1939 […]
Tomy, makers of Tomica-brand diecast cars and playsets, announced last week that they will buy RC2 Corp., maker of Johnny Lightning-brand die-cast cars, outright, in a deal valued at $640 million. Tomy is increasing its foreign penetration, in part because toys are no longer a growth area in its home market of Japan, and in […]
The model-building hobby has lost another of its forefathers. Robert Reder, co-creator of Monogram Models, has died. He was 93. Starting in 1935, Reder was a designer and draftsman at Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co. in Chicago. During World War II, he worked with the Navy to develop a national program for building identification […]