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The Pyro Plastics Corporation was an American manufacturing company based in Union Township, NJ and popular during the 1950s and 1960s that produced toys and plastic model kits. Some of the scale models manufactured and commercialised by Pyro were cars, motorcycles, aircraft, ships, and military vehicles, and animal and human figures.
Her bouffant hairstyle, described as a "grown-up exaggeration of little girls' hair", was created by Kenneth. [99] [100] During the mid and late 1960s, women's hair styles became very big and used a large quantity of hair spray, as worn in real life by Ronnie Spector and parodied in the musical Hairspray. Wigs became fashionable and were often ...
Sophia Loren, one of the most iconic bombshells of the 1960s, is now 84 years old -- and she's still gorgeous.
Model Products Corporation, usually known by its acronym, MPC, is an American brand and former manufacturing company of plastic scale model kits and pre-assembled promotional models of cars that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. MPC's main competition was model kits made by AMT, Jo-Han, Revell, and Monogram.
The iconic blonde bombshell isn't really a blonde! It was in 1956 that she bleached her naturally-dark hair, and the rest is history. But the lifetime of a Hollywood starlet wasn't what Bardot ...
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 model companies followed up with hundreds of different model cars and trucks for retail markets. [5] The industry expanded as total annual sales of model kits increased from $6 million in 1956 to more than $150 million by 1962. [5] Model car collecting and building were an important part of being an automobile enthusiast in the 1960s. [6]
Previously M&H. He was producing 1/18 scale models mainly from resin kits or transkits provided by APM. Defunct since 2011. VF Models - by Volker Feldman of Germany, scale 43 kits and models. Victory Industries of Guildford – 1:20 plastic models and 1:32 slot cars. Victory Models – Handbuilt 1:43 resin cars (incl. related brand La Familia)