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A stick & tissue balsa model airplane under construction, still manufactured by Guillow's. During World War II, the supply of balsa wood was diverted to the war effort for the manufacture of rafts and life jackets. Guillow's was forced to use alternative materials like cardboard or pine wood to manufacture the model kits.
Armory Model Group (Ukraine) Arsenal Model Group (Ukraine) ART model (Ukraine) Artiplast (Italy) Asahi Sangyo (Japan) Astra (Poland) Atlantic (Italy) Atlantis Model (USA) Atom (Japan) Attack Hobby Kits (Czech Republic) Aurora Plastics Corporation (USA) - sold their molds to Monogram in 1977, and later bought by Revell; Aurora-Heller (USA-France)
Almost all model kits on the market were plastic, necessitating paints (the square, glass Testor paint bottles were sold in almost every dime store, department store, hardware store, toy store and hobby store in the US in the 1960s, making them truly ubiquitous) and glues different from those used for wooden models.
The War Assets Administration (WAA) was created to dispose of United States government-owned surplus material and property from World War II. The WAA was established in the Office for Emergency Management, effective March 25, 1946, by Executive Order 9689, January 31, 1946. It was headed by Robert McGowan Littlejohn.
Berkeley Models, Inc. was an American company that manufactured model-airplane kits that pioneered such firsts as the nation's first gas model plane kit, and which became one of the industry's leading companies. Founded in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, and later based in West Hempstead, New York, it lasted from 1933 to 1962.
Development of the company's first design, the W.A.R. Focke-Wulf 190, commenced in 1973, with the first flight following in 1974.The aircraft are all half-scale World War II fighter aircraft replicas, based on a common design, consisting of a wooden fuselage box shape and wooden spar wing.