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This list contains the names of significant contributors to the history and development of the scale-model and model-kit industry, including engineers, artists, designers, draftsmen, tool-makers, executives, historians and promoters.

This list does not include people primarily notable for the competitive operation of a scale-model vehicle, unless they have a notable career as designers or executives or outside of the hobby industry such as car designers.

A

  • Steve Adams: founder of Adams Models
  • Harold Alden: early aircraft modeler and industry promoter
  • John Allen: influential model railroader
  • John Amendola: kit-box artist
  • John Anderson (1925–2000), design engineer
  • Mel Anderson: gas engine designer (for flying scale aircraft)
  • John Andrews: artist, kit designer and marketer for Hawk
  • Ray Arden: inventor of the Glo-Plug
  • William Atwood: engine designer (for flying scale aircraft)

B

  • Charlie Bauer: flying aircraft kit designer
  • Adrien Bertin: R/C car glowplug engine designer
  • Edward Beshar: early model designer and builder
  • Jack Besser: co-founder of Monogram Models
  • Maxwell Basset: gas-powered model pioneer
  • Pieter Bervoets: co-founder of Serpent
  • Dick Branstner: co-founder of MPC, kit designer, creator of the 'Color Me Gone' dragsters
  • William Brown IV: created first successful gas engine for mass-marketed flying aircraft


C

D

E

F

  • Jacque Fresco (1916–): co-founder of Revell

G

  • West Gallogly: founder of AMT
  • Lorenzo Ghiglieri: kit-box artist
  • Joseph E. Giammarino (1916–1992): co-founder of Aurora Plastics Corporation
  • "Dirty Donny" Gillies: kit-box artist
  • Lewis H. Glaser (1917-1972): co-founder of Revell
  • Walt Good: considered "the father of remote-control aircraft modeling"
  • Carl Goldberg: model aircraft designer and industry executive
  • Kevin Gowland, John Gowland and Jack Gowland: co-founders of Gowland and Gowland; the company's Highway Pioneers line of early car model kits was marketed by Revell in the early '50s, and was instrumental in the early growth of the scale model hobby in the US.
  • Paul K. Guillows: founder of GHQ Model Airplane Company (later known as Guillows)
  • Leonardo Garofali: co-founder of SG Racing Cars and Blitz Model Technica
  • Jaures Garofali: founder of Super Tigre Saturno micromecanica

H

I

J

  • Dean Jeffries: kit designer, auto customizer, notably associated with MPC
  • Bob Johnson: industry executive

K

L

M

  • Joe Mansour: co-founder of Frog
  • Dick Mates Sr. and Phil Mates (brothers): co-founders of Hawk Model Company
  • Dick Mates Jr.: executive at Hawk
  • Bob McCleod: industry executive
  • Fred Megow: founder of Megow Models (Philadelphia, 1920s)
  • Tom Morgan: kit-box artist, most notably associated with Hawk in the 1960s, as well as Monogram
  • Robert Mudry: President of wind tunnel testing and engineering flow modeling company Airflow Sciences Corporation
  • John Mueller: directed product and mold design and technical illustration groups for AMT

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

  • Dave Vander Wal: industry executive
  • Gordon Varney: founder of Varney Scale Models, developer of early injection molded plastic kits
  • Norm Veber: industry executive
  • Peter Vetri: Founder and President of Atlantis Toy and Hobby and Current President of the HMA (Hobby Manufacturers Association)

W

  • Jim Walker: inventor of U-Control Line Flying (scale aircraft)
  • Jairus Watson: graphic designer, automotive conceptual artist, kit-box illustrator.
  • Dick Wellman: kit-box artist
  • Tom West: industry executive
  • Linn H. Westcott: long-time editor of Model Railroader, hobby industry promoter
  • Charles Wilmot: co-founder of Frog
  • John Wilmot: co-founder of Frog, pioneer of plastic scale kit models
  • Gerald Wingrove: model engineer

X

Y

Z

References

Notes

  1. ^ "有限会社ジル 代表取締役 石井隆｜経営者インタビュー｜仕事を楽しむためのWebマガジン、B-plus（ビープラス）". 2012-05-25. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2016-10-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "Interview: Kyosho's Yuichi Kanai, Father of the Inferno". RC Car Action. 2014-09-15. Archived from the original on 2015-12-20. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  3. ^ http://www.neobuggy.net/2013/08/15/all-change-at-team-orion/
  4. ^ "Interview: Team Associated designer Kody Numedahl". NeoBuggy.net. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
  5. ^ http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0855.htm

Bibliography

  • Lune, Peter van. "FROG Penguin plastic scale model kits 1936 - 1950". Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2017, published by author ISBN 978-90-9030180-8
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