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Eduard is a Czech scale-model company founded in 1989 in Most and now headquartered in Obrnice, producing plastic model kits, photo-etched detail sets, masks, decals, resin accessories, and 3D-printed parts for aircraft, armoured vehicles, and ships. The privately held firm is led by its Czech management team, including co-founder Vladimír Šulc, and designs all products in-house. Production of plastic kits, photo-etch, decals, and resin or 3D-printed accessories takes place at its Czech facilities, with worldwide sales through a network of hobby distributors.
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AK Interactive is a Spanish scale-modeling company based in Logroño, La Rioja, that designs and produces paints, weathering products, brushes, tools and publications for modelers and wargamers. It is also the first Spanish brand to develop and produce entirely injected plastic scale model kits. The privately held company develops and manufactures its products in Spain and sells worldwide through its own online store and a network of hobby retailers.
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Faller is a German model-making brand founded in 1946 by brothers Edwin and Hermann Faller, today operated as Gebr. FALLER GmbH in Gütenbach in the Black Forest. The company designs and produces plastic model buildings, terrain and scenery accessories, and the Car System road-traffic line for model railways in H0, N, Z and POLA G scales, and also distributes around 26 third-party model brands. All products are conceived, developed and manufactured at the Gütenbach site, which the company markets as "Made in Germany." The firm employs roughly 90 people and is led by managing director Horst Neidhard, who took over after the 2009 insolvency.
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Vallejo (Acrylicos Vallejo) is a Spanish paint manufacturer headquartered in Leganés, Madrid, producing hobby, model, and miniature paints including the Panzer Aces, Game Color, Model Color, and Scenics lines. The company formulates and manufactures its acrylic and enamel paints in Spain and distributes them worldwide through hobby and model shops. Its product range extends to airbrushes, brushes, pigments, weathering effects, and terrain materials for wargaming and scale modelling.
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AMMO by MIG Jimenez is a Spanish scale-model hobby brand founded by modeler Miguel Jimenez and headquartered in Estella, Navarra. The company develops and produces acrylic and enamel paints, weathering products, pigments, brushes, tools, and The Weathering Magazine for the global modeling community. All product development and manufacturing are centered at its industrial-park facility in Estella, where the full range of paint and auxiliary lines is produced in-house.
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ASK, the own brand of Art Scale Kit Distribution s.r.o., is a Czech scale-modeling company based in Liberec that has operated under its ASK name since 2019. It designs and produces its own masking films for canopies and wheels, lead wires, modeling saws, CA glues, digitally printed decal sets and 3D-printed resin detail accessories for plastic model kits, while also distributing brands such as HK Models and Great Wall Hobby across Europe. Development and manufacturing are carried out in-house in the Czech Republic.
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Plusmodel is a Czech scale model manufacturer founded in 1990 in České Budějovice, specializing in resin kits for military vehicles, aircraft, and diorama accessories in 1/35, 1/48, 1/72, and 1/32 scales. The company designs and produces its own tooling in-house, offering everything from complete vehicle kits to detailed conversion sets, wheels, flaps, and engine cowlings. Its production has received multiple Model of the Year awards, and the brand is distributed internationally through hobby retailers and its own online shop.
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Brengun is a Czech model-making brand based in Brno, run by Jan Sobotka. It is best known for its wide range of photo-etched, resin and vacu-formed accessories for scale aircraft models, and also produces its own plastic construction kits in 1/72 and 1/144 scales, alongside a sister line called Hauler for AFV and track-scale kits. Design and production take place at its Brno workshop, with products sold through its own e-shop and a network of worldwide distributors.
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Lifecolor is an Italian brand of acrylic paints for scale model building, offering a wide range of 22 ml hobby colours for military, vehicle, aircraft and figure models. The brand is produced by Astromodel S.A.S. di A. Balbo, based in Genoa, Italy, where the company formulates and manufactures its paint lines. Lifecolor paints are distributed worldwide through model-hobby retailers.
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Italeri is an Italian scale-model manufacturer founded in 1962 in Calderara di Reno, near Bologna, by Giuliano Malservisi and Gian Pietro Parmeggiani. The company, registered as ITALERI S.p.A., designs and produces plastic model kits covering aircraft, helicopters, military vehicles, ships, trucks, cars, motorcycles, figures and diorama accessories, along with paints, glues and modelling tools. It markets itself as a "Made in Italy" benchmark in the hobby, with a catalogue spanning scales from 1:100 down to 1:6, and has acquired the moulds of former Italian brands Supermodel, Protar and ESCI.
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Heller is a plastic model kit brand offering scale kits of aircraft, vehicles, ships and figures, plus paints and hobby accessories. The brand traces its roots to the French Heller S.A., founded in the 1950s, and is today operated by Heller Hobby GmbH, based in Radevormwald, Germany. According to the company, its models are designed and produced in France, and since 2023 all kits are made with recycled plastic and packaged in silk paper instead of plastic bags.
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AFV Club is a Czech model-kit manufacturer based in Prague, specializing in detailed plastic model kits of military vehicles such as tanks, armored fighting vehicles, and related equipment in scales including 1/35. The company designs and markets kits covering World War II and modern military hardware, with product lines ranging from Soviet T-34s to Israeli Centurion variants and U.S. amphibious vehicles. Design and development work is carried out in the Czech Republic.
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Special Hobby is a Czech model-kit manufacturer based in Prague, founded in 1988 by champion modeller Jiří Šilhánek. The company produces injection-moulded plastic model kits of aircraft, military vehicles, and ships under the Special Hobby, Special Armour, and Special Navy labels, along with resin detail sets, figures, and accessories under the CMK brand. With roughly 40 employees, all design, tooling, and production are carried out in-house at its Prague facility, using both traditional short-run resin moulds and modern CNC-milled steel tooling.
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LEGO is the Danish toy brand behind the iconic interlocking brick, founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen and still family-owned through KIRKBI A/S. The LEGO Group is headquartered in Billund, Denmark, where design, engineering and corporate operations are based. Its six factories in Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Mexico, China and Vietnam produce bricks, sets and play experiences for markets worldwide, with a seventh US factory planned for 2027. The company is working toward making its bricks from more sustainable materials by 2032, already using recycled and renewable content in some elements.
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Hobby 2000 is a scale-model brand based in Katowice, Poland, controlled by Bogdan Marek Dopierała. It releases aircraft and military-vehicle kits combining established manufacturers’ plastic parts with edition-specific markings, instructions and accessories. Edition development and instruction printing take place in Poland, while suppliers include Japanese plastic-kit manufacturers and Italian decal printer Cartograf.
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Arma Hobby is a Polish scale-model company based in Warsaw that designs and produces premium plastic aircraft model kits in 1/72 and 1/48 scale, covering World War II and classic military aircraft such as the Messerschmitt Me 262, P-39 Airacobra, Curtiss Hawk 81-A2, Hawker Hurricane and F4F Wildcat. Founded in 2013 by partners Wojtek Bulhak and Marcin Ciepierski, the company carries out all 3D design, tooling and production in Poland, and also sells model paints, decals and accessories.
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Revell is a German model-making brand headquartered in Bünde, Germany, and part of the Munich-based QCP (Quantum Capital Partners) group since 2018. The company designs and sells plastic model kits of aircraft, ships, vehicles and figures, plus RC models, 3D puzzles, brick-system builds and hobby accessories, and is the market leader in German plastic model building. Product development is carried out in-house in Bünde, while physical production has been relocated to contract facilities in Eastern Europe and Asia.
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Waterloo 1815 is an Italian brand of plastic toy soldiers and historical miniatures in 1/72 and 1/32 scale, covering Napoleonic, World War I, and World War II subjects. The brand is a sole proprietorship owned by Andrea Pierini, based in Livorno, Italy, where product design and development take place. The company sells its own figures alongside a curated selection of other toy soldier brands through its online store, shipping worldwide.
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Belkits is a Belgian model kit brand launched in 2011 and operated by Domino NV of Westouter, Belgium, a family model-making and wholesale business that also runs the Domino Model shop. The brand specializes in 1/24 scale injection-plastic rally car kits, covering WRC and Group B icons such as the Ford Fiesta RS WRC, Skoda Fabia S2000, Opel Manta 400 and Citroën C3 WRC with licensed liveries and photo-etched detail parts. Kit design and product development are carried out by the Belgian company; where the kits are physically molded is not publicly stated.
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Glow2B is a German B2B distributor of scale-model products, based in Radevormwald in the Rhine-Ruhr region. It grew out of the former Heller Deutschland GmbH and is led by managing shareholder Heinz Engstfeld, who also acquired the historic Heller brand in 2019. From a 2,400 m² warehouse equipped with an automated Autostore robot system, Glow2B supplies around 30,000 products from nearly 80 model-building brands to retailers across Europe, typically within 24 to 48 hours. The company concentrates on logistics and in-house IT and software development rather than on manufacturing.
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