Talk:List of model car brands

Solpa

Anyone ever heard of 'Solpa' ('Solpakides Bros') making tin cars in the late 1960s? http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110874521946  Stepho  talk  09:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Sounds Greek to me. So...you're not sure if the firm existed or not?--Cstevencampbell (talk) 21:55, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

All I know is what was mentioned in the Ebay auction. I've never heard of them before. Maybe they were just distributors of a Japanese product (box is in English). Kind of strange appearing in Europe considering Japanese cars were known as 'Jap crap' at the time. Note: I owned several Datsun 1000s and 1200s and loved them.  Stepho  talk  22:29, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

The book tinplate toy cars by Ralston shows several cars (Mercedes Benzes, Porsches, Citroens, etc.) made by Ichiko and Bandai that were made for export to Europe, but they were usually labeled / marketed as Ichikos and Bandais. --Cstevencampbell (talk) 13:39, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I guess it was made in Japan, then exported to Europe and sold under the Solpa name. I'm not overly worried about it - it was just something piqued my curiosity.  Stepho  talk  03:45, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

...AND there were some tinplate cars made in Europe and South America, but they were usually pretty early compared to Japan. --Cstevencampbell (talk) 22:49, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Kado and Kawabatakikaku

Do you know much about Kado? They seem to be related to Dandy. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/331020355561

How about Kawabatakikaku? They seem to be related to Yonezawa. http://japandiecast.blogspot.com.au/search?q=Kawabatakikaku+  Stepho  talk  07:00, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

I've heard of Kado, but don't know much more than what is in the entry. It seems they were diecast makers and may have switched more to white metal, but I'm uncertain. If memory serves there were several Ferraris like from the 1990s. They seem to be an upscale Tomica product, I've found some VWs and Rolls Royces as well. Check out Vectis.com for auctions. I'm not sure about the white metal production, but some newer models labeled Kado sell for high prices.

Bickford says this: Corresponding with Chuan Chai, I realized that, as he predicted, my Kado says "Tomica Dandy" on the base (you see now the problems of starting a site like this several years after you've put a model in the case). Chuan sited a book written in Chinese in the following: "The book I refereed to didn't really have much on the history or nature of the Kado company. But here is what I got: Kado was a company based in Japan. It commissioned Tomy Co. of Japan to produce models for them, and then these models were sold under the Kado brand name via their own distribution network. Tomy used existing dies and tools to produce these models -- mostly 1:43 Tomica Dandy. However a promotional set for a magazine was made in the 3-inch size. This set consisted of 5 cars, all were based on Tomica no. 27 Isuzu Hipac Van." "

And Bickford says this about Kawabatakikaku: "For an American, this name is quite a mouthful -- and a really difficult model to find. Whenever I had the time, I would put this model name along with some other rare ones into into Ebay to see if anything came up... well it took me about 3 years, but something finally popped up for Kawabatakikaku. There were two for sale -- a Subaru 360 and the Toyopet Crosn that I bought. I would have loved to have gotten both, but it was much more than I usually spend for my models -- I just REALLY wanted this one! I have some pictures below alongside my Modelpet Toyopet Crown. The J-43 is pretty hefty, like a Brooklin, and not a bad model, although it does rest pretty low on its wheels. One thing to note: You'll know that box belongs to the model, because there is a color dot showing the color of the model on the label. I really don't have any information on this company... but there is one interesting note -- I found online a Honda S800 with a box that says "1994 Diapet Collection Club by Yonezawa... Produced by Kawabatakikaku." Does anyone know what the Diapet Collection Club is, and why Kawabatakikaku made this model for Yonezawa?"

So Kawabatakikaku needs to be put into the listing. --Cstevencampbell (talk) 23:52, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Removing non-notable manufacturers

The first comment by JzG was placed on my talk page but I thought the conversation would be better here. JzG deleted a number of entries in the article which he thought were non-notable, which I restored. Let's discuss...  Stepho  talk  00:45, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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Actually we do not usually include items in list articles unless they are notable, the guide for which is generally that they have an article. Sometimes there may be a few unlinked entries, but here the majority of manufacturers in that list have no article and no sources. Which is not how Wikipedia works: we're not supposed to be an unreferenced list of things people remember.

I am not sure if you are a modeller. There are a lot of model firms that make one or two vac-formed or resin cast items, they run out of garden sheds. They can disappear overnight with nobody any the wiser if the proprietor suffers a change of circumstances. My field is railway modelling, this happens all the time. There are also firms that make diecast smokestacks and other details, a craft more than an industry. I doubt they make a living at it, most seem to be semi-retired or spare time. So it's not that easy to tell, without sources and an article, whether a firm is actually a firm or is just a one man band that turned out a couple of resin kits for a few years. Without this kind of context including them in a list is not really helpful to anyone. Guy (Help!) 06:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Toyota KC truck

I agree that manufacturers that are not notable should not be on the list. However, you have put the horse before the cart and imply deleted manufacturers that don't have an article. WP:REDLINK tells us that red links are useful in encouraging editors to create new articles - as long as they are notable of course. To say that they are only notable if they have an already existing article is a circular argument and effectively discourages new articles being created.

So, what it really comes down to is which of those you want to delete are notable or not - not whether they have articles. Cstevencampbell (talk · contribs) created most of the list and Donnie Park (talk · contribs) has made substantial edits too. For where our knowledge overlaps, I have found their edits to be good and trustworthy. I have not found them to be adding two-bit backyard manufacturers that only made extremely limited runs that didn't affect the market/hobby beyond. On the contrary, they have added many manufacturers that are not well known outside of their country but had a great affect on the market and led to bigger manufacturers who are well-known. As time goes on, they create new articles and expand our knowledge of lesser known (but still notable) manufactures - which is the way Wikipedia is meant to work.

WP:BRD suggests that is is perfectly fine for you to make your initial bold edit (ie deleting the manufacturers you think should not be there). But if somebody objects to your changes and reverts them then you should not reapply your changes but should have a discussion on a talk page instead (preferably the article's talk page).

I have dabbled a little in 1:24 car modelling, N scale train modelling and a few other odds and ends. My modelling skills are only modest but I do enjoy it. The image at the right is one of mine. Sadly, plastic kits have become way too expensive to buy new but I have a decent backlog of kits to make. I want to get into scratch building cars but haven't found the time. I also have a decent collection of older Toyota tin and diecast models from the 1960s and 1970s.  Stepho  talk  00:45, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Most of these do not even have redlinks. They have no links at all, and no sources. As I said, a lot of these firms will be basically untraceable. Feel free to source any you think are significant, from reliable sources (i.e. not catalogues, but actual books and such which talk about the brands). Guy (Help!) 22:13, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

I think I'm done editing this article. Too much disagreed on. Too much policed. Did it really matter that the list was longer? I was hoping at least some people searching for these brands on Google would see them mentioned somewhere. Now many may be mentioned nowhere. Collecting information on many of those brands is kind of a lost cause now as this list was a good place to start and most of the brands were not garage operations with just one or two models produced. Now, we shouldn't have 'personal' agendas for these articles, nevertheless, many of the brands eliminated were from well-known producers - I have many of them in my collection, so I know they were valid entries that just need expanding. I just can't keep up with which ones then have been deleted and which ones are 'worthy' in the eyes of administration. I understand the reasons for cutting, but it's still a shame.--Cstevencampbell (talk) 23:16, 8 October 2016 (UTC)--Cstevencampbell (talk) 23:28, 8 October 2016 (UTC)--Cstevencampbell (talk) 23:34, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

TBH, I've never heard of most of these brands as I stopped collecting model cars a number of years ago and my current specialities (in Wikipedia) are competitive R/C racing, the big championships in particular. I said nothing until now as I feel this list is going to be a sitting duck for AfD but if this is to survive, we should either bluelink redlinked articles or only keep historic brands (if only they are sourced) and winners of major competitive events (such as IFMAR Worlds, EFRA Euros and ROAR Nationals) as they are in one way or another are bound to be notable, that's my suggestion. If this list get put into AfD, then I'm not at all surprised. Donnie Park (talk) 09:07, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Just so. That is how Wikipedia lists work.. They are navigational. A few redlinks are fine if they represent a to-do list, but in this case most entries had no links at all and over half those which are likned, are red. I checked a small sample and could not find anyhting that would ever allow that red link to be filled. Guy (Help!) 00:07, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Not so. That's what categories are for. WP:REDLINKS encourage editors to fill in the gaps. I have no problem if we determine that a manufacturer is not truly notable in the real world. But not having an existing article in WP isn't how we determine if a company is notable - otherwise we will never have any new articles.  Stepho  talk  01:48, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

The principal difference between lists and categories is that categories are for defining characteristics, whereas lists can be free form and allow for references which categories do not. For example, adding something to Category:Pseudoscience effectively categorises it as unambiguous bollocks, whereas the List of topics characterized as pseudoscience allows for areas where people differ, and for discussion of subjects that are only partly pseudoscietific. No article on Wikipedia, list or otherwise, is supposed to be an indiscriminate collection of information. Including items that can never be anythign other than redlinks, because attempts to find reliable independent sources turn up nothing beyond their mere existence, is a violation of long-standing policy. There is nothing wrong with a few redlinks for subjects that are probably notable but whihc we haven't got round to documenting yet, especially since some discussions will be in old dead-tree magazines and most libraries won't have the back catalogue of these, but a list where only a small minority of entries have articles at all, is begging for deletion. Guy (Help!) 07:07, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Really frustrating when you see valid entries like Modern Products which made vehicles for Morestone / Budgie and later producers like H. Seener and Seerol (which derived Budgie Toys for the London Tourist market) nixed because a few people have little knowledge of the diecast industry (and they ARE discussed in the Budgie article). These companies made thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of toys. I request they be put back. There are probably dozens of others as well.--Cstevencampbell (talk) 21:30, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

This is Wikipedia. You want content? Provide sources. End of. And yes, I am not well versed in the die-cast industry, I have been an aircraft and military modeller but now I mostly do railway modelling, though I have a small collection of diecast models. That doesn't matter. If the notability of something is only evident with specialist knowledge, then source it so that you spread the knowledge. I don't know why this is difficult to understand, it is canonical policy. Guy (Help!) 21:58, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Well, yes, that is the goal to get everything properly sourced. But we all have day jobs. It does take time. I continue to work on that. I just wish those who have edited this list had a bit more knowledge on the subject. If we go by your strict interpretation, we need to get rid of many more names here that are much less relevant than Modern Products, H. Seener, and Seerol (which were just examples). So, have at it, I suppose. I know a little bit about physics, but I'm not about to edit a list of theories in physics directing readers to different articles according to Wikipedia policy because I wouldn't be qualified and would potentially do damage to the valid ideas therein, whether those ideas were fully documented or not.--Cstevencampbell (talk) 22:36, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Sure, and I have a day job too. I choose to spend my time on Wikipedia addressing inadequate sourcing. You've noted a couple of examples you say could be sourced: good, feel free to do that. I rmeoved hundreds whihc were not sourced and probably can't be. Guy (Help!) 22:43, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

And thus editors take on inadequate sourcing no matter the subject. I would expect editors would normally take on areas in which they feel most comfortable and knowledgeable (see my last comment). But that's the nature of Wikipedia - anyone can edit anything, which often ends up in limiting knowledge instead of encouraging it. The result becomes a mundane, even overly simplified agglomeration of information. --Cstevencampbell (talk) 23:11, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

• Lesney – Original company that produced Matchbox. Combination of the first names of founders Leslie Smith and Rodney Smith.

Can JzG or Guy explain why the above entry was removed?  Stepho  talk  06:43, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

I used a regular expression that removed any entry which did not start with a link, there were a very large number so I did not check them one by one. Feel free to put Lesney back in obviously. Guy (Help!) 07:27, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Okay, I've restored Lesney to the article.  Stepho  talk  15:12, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

More manufacturers

The following entries were deleted from the article due to not having sources. It would be appreciated if editors could create a full WP article (using reliable sources) for any notable manufacturer in red on this list and then add the entry to this article.

• 711 Collection – 1:18 scale cars from German company, though made in China.
• 1320 Inc. – Detailed Funny cars. Mostly 1:24 scale. Company circa 2004.
• 3Racing – R/C cars and accessories

• A2Models – 3 printed, all different scales.
• A & E Tool & Gage – Makers of Midgetoy from Rockford, Illinois
• AAM – Acronym. See All American Models.
• ABC Brianza – firm started by top quality hand builder, Carlo Brianza.
• Absolute Hot (models) – 1:18 scale diecast.
• Accurate Diecast – Agricultural line of Universal Hobbies.
• Ace (models) – Balsa wood model cars from the mid-to-late 1950s.
• ACS (models) – Line by ABC models.
• Ad Hoc (models) – Line by ABC models.
• Ad Modum – 1:43 scale resin models of mostly MAZ and other Russian heavy trucks.
• Advance Molding Corporation – 1:32 scale model plastic kits from the 1950s.
• Advent (models) – Line of 1:24 models by Revell.
• Aga (models)t – Russian toy factory in Saratov. 1:43 scale diecast.
• AGD (models) – 1:43 scale white metal models made in Kaliningrad, Russia.
• AGM (models) – 1:43 scale white metal pre-dating Sun Motors. Made in England.
• AHC (models) – Dutch models later acquired Spanish AutoPilen. Affiliated with Doorkey.
• AH Streamliners – Set of LSR smoothed out Austin-Healeys, made in England.
• AHI (models) – Japanese tinplate toys, including trucks. Various sizes including classic diecast HO.
• AHL (models) – See American Highway Legends and Hartoys.
• AHM (models) – Japanese plastic kits. 1:24, 1:32 scale; 1:40 scale, others.
• AIMS Models – Hong Kong handbuilt 1:43 scale. Often Ferraris or Lamborghinis.
• Aircraft Car Kits – Balsa wood kits like Auto Union, from about 1940.
• Air-Flo – Balsa wood race car kits from about 1950.
• Ajin Precision Manufacturing – HO models of cranes and construction machinery from South Korea.
• Al & Ruby – Handbuilt vehicles like Bugatti tank.
• Albedo (models) – German 1:87 scale (HO) plastic trucks and coaches with authentic liveries of the 1980s and 1990s.
• Alan (models) – 1:35 scale tank models.
• Alerte – 1:43 scale trucks, often French or German makes, often fire trucks.
• Alezan – 1:43 scale resin models made in France, Chrysler concepts among others.
• ALF Models – 1:43 scale white metal handbuilt trucks and military models made in the Ukraine.
• All American Models – 1:24 scale plastic. Some odd selections like 1974 Ford Police car.
• Allards in America – 1:43 scale white metal Allards. Made in England.
• Alloy Forms – 1:87 scale pewter cars & trucks. Made in USA.
• Alps (models) – Common name for Nihon Alps Mizuno Seissakusho (see also Mizuno) – Japanese tinplate cars of the 1950s.
• Altaya – Spanish diecast concern related to Ixo. Models mostly made in China.
• Alte Automobile Miniaturen – 1:43 scale Horches and Mercedes.
• Amalgam (models) – Hi-end 1:8 scale cars, costing around US$4,500.00. Customized models available.
• A Masters – Russian 1:43 scale resin of MAZ and MZKT trucks including oil & gas industry vehicles and ballistic missile carriers.
• American Excellence – 1:43 scale American vehicles like '78 Dodge Monaco police car.
• American Highway Legends – 1:64 scale trucks from Hartoys, related to Lledo.
• American Models – Handbuilt resin variations of Motor City USA.
• Amis du 1:43 – French-made handbuilts, mainly Bugattis.
• Ampersand (models) – 1:43 scale white metal, many modern Indy racing cars.
• Ansolda – 1:43 scale diecast made in Minsk, Belarus.
• AMT / Ertl – Joined about 1990.
• Anguplas – HO scale plastic made in Spain.
• Anmark – Large scale auto kits.
• Ansmann – 1:10 scale radio control cars.

famous for batteries more than they are to R/C cars, Google proves it)

• P. Antelmi – Superb model builder, often of Ferraris for Tameo.
• Aoshin Shoten – Japanese tinplate cars of the 1960s.
• Apex Replicas – Australian company making models in metal and plastic. Many variations on Nissan Skyline.
• APM (models) – Acronym for Auto Place Model.
• Aquavit (models) – 1:43 scale resin models of Peugeot trucks and station wagons.
• AR (models) – French diecast from the 1930s.
• AR Maquettes – 1:43 scale GP Ferraris from the 1940s to 1960s.
• Arena 38 – 1:43 scale handbuilts.
• Advanced R/C Car (ARC) – Taiwanese radio-controlled on-road car

not a R/C majors frontrunner)

• ARKO Models – Hong Kong diecaster of mainly historic Ford vehicles.
• Armour (models) – 1:72 diecast military vehicles.
• ARS (models) – 1:43 scale diecast from Italy. Mainly Alfas.
• Arsenal (models) – 1:43 scale diecast trucks and kits made in Ukraine.
• Art Model – 1:43 scale resin classic LeMans cars. NOT AUTOArt. Ferraris from the 1950s and 1960s.
• Asakusa (models) – Japanese tin toys about 15 inches long like the Olds Vista Cruiser.
• ASC (models) – Japanese tinplate cars of the 1960s, also Aoshin. Name later used for diecast series of buses and other vehicles, possibly related to Tomica / Diapet.
• Asgaard Models – 1:43 scale, often F1. Also HO and other semi-trucks.
• Ashton Models – large white metal fire trucks and older cars like the Ford Model A.
• AS Model – 1:43 scale cars and trucks (resin?) from Voronezh, Russia.
• ATC (models) – trading company marketing many Japanese toys, including Japanese tinplate cars; notably a striking Edsel.
• ATEK (models) – 1:43 scale tractors and shovels made in Kiev, Ukraine.
• Atelier car models – 1:43 scale handbuilts, mostly Ferraris from the 1960s and 1970s.
• Athearn (models) – Mostly HO cars and trucks for train setups. From Long Beach, CA.
• Atlas (models) – 1:32 scale race slot cars made in the mid-1960s, based on Marusan kits. Later, HO sized vehicles.
• Aurore (models) – 1:43 scale kits from Switzerland, Bugattis among selections.
• Austin Craft – Early 1940s balsa wood kits of U.S. Army trucks and others, made in Burbank, California.
• Authentic Models – 1:43 scale resin models line made in Belgium by Formule Kit.
• Autobahn (models) – Line of 1:43 scale cars by Bauer.
• Auto Buff – 1:43 scale white metal models made in the USA. Many were 1930s Fords.
• auto kit – Diecast kits of 1930s sports cars. Made in England during the 1960s.
• Automodelers – 1:43 scale resin models. From Hong Kong.
• Automodelli HiFi – 1:43 scale white metal and resin F1 race cars and Ferraris. From Italy.
• Auto Place Models – APM. Consortium of builders making models to order.
• Auto Replicas – 1:43 scale handbuilts. Since the 1970s, made in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, England.
• Autoshow (models) – 1:43 scale handbuilts of other manufacturers, made in Vienna, Austria.
• Autostile – Line by ABC of mostly Alfas and Lancias.
• Autotime Collection – 1:43 scale Russian diecast. UAZ Police "Patriot".
• AutoWorld (models) – Usually 1:64 scale slot cars and diecast collectibles. In the 2010s often found in Walmart and Target.
• Avanti Models – 1:43 scale. 1950s Ferraris.
• Awesomatix – Russian radio-controlled car

not a R/C majors frontrunner)

• Axel'R – 1:43 scale resin models of 1960s race cars like Lotus and Elva.
• Azzara Models – 1:43 scale, many Porsche 911s.

• B & G European – Line by EMC.
• B-Line Jet Machines – Made in S. Korea by Cox Shinsei.
• B Models – 1:43 scale German oddities like Borgward, NSU, Goliath.
• Jim Bamber – Race car sculpted caricatures.

doubtful he made them himself as he is famous for being Autosport's illustrator)

• Banner Toys – Emanuel Pressner and Bernard Schiller created a variety of plastic cars and trucks. Company based in Bronx, New York, 1944–1967.
• Ban Seng – 1:43 scale resin models, made in Malaysia.
• M. Bashmashnikov – Handbuilt reconversions of Agat and Tantal state factory models in Russia.
• Batmodels – Resin models. Some microcars.
• Bauer – 1:43 scale diecast. 1:12 scale ultra detailed.
• Bee Bop – 1:43 scale Ferraris and Alfas.
• Belle Epoque – 1:43 scale handbuilts.
• Bellini – 1:20 scale white metal kits like Ford GT.
• Berkley – Early 1950s balsa wood models of Allard, Jaguar, Packard Caribbean, others.
• Berlinetta Models – 1:43 scale Ferrari GP cars.
• Best Model – Italian diecast from the 1980s. Often Ferraris. Related to Bang.
• Best Plastics Corporation – 1:32 scale American kits of period Indy race cars.
• Betal – Britain. Diecast from the 1930s and 1940s. Stand for British Metal?
• BGM – 1:43 scale military models made in St. Petersburg, Russia.
• BHG (Beloiannis Híradástechnikai Gépgyár) – Hungarian factory making radios, tires, and Bakelite toy cars, like the GAZ Pobeda.
• Big Farm – Ertl brand of tractors.
• Bigtrak – Futuristic looking RC tank-like vehicles.
• Bilofix – Early (late 1950s) wooden vehicles made by Lego.
• K. A. Birk – Diecast from the 1930s from Denmark.
• Bizarre Models – Sister company to Spark making LSR, weird concepts, and rare design racing cars. 1:43.
• Blue Tank – Reissued Nitto kits from Japan.
• BMA 43 – Handbuilt 1:43 and 1:18 scale models of other kit makers from Weingerwerf, the Netherlands. Made by Vincent & Alice Vink.
• Boley – Inexpensive, but often very handsome, diecasts made in China. Usually about 1:38.
• Bonini Models – 1:43 scale odd Giugiaro / Italdesign concepts.
• Boomerang.ru – Russian tank kits.
• V. Bosica – Associated with MR Models.
• Boss Models – 1:43 scale handbuilts of muscle cars like a Javelin.
• A. Bouissou – 1:43 scale handbuilts.
• Boyd Crystal Art Glass – Not generally known for vehicles, but the classic Tucker in a variety of glass colors and the occasional truck and tractor.
• Bren L (or Brennel) Toys – British manufacturer of small aluminum cars post World War II.
• Brepsomn – Swiss tin models about 20 inches long from the 1920s.
• Carlo Brianza – One of the earliest top quality model producers from the 1970s.
• Brig – Makers of plastic or resin buses, probably from Russia.
• Brimtoy – British tinplate as early as the 1910s. See Wells Brimtoy.
• Geoff Brown – Resin models of LSR racers. See GB Models.
• BSD – Radio controlled dune buggies and other vehicles.
• Karl Bub / Bubmobil – German toymakers of Nuremberg since 1851. Early specialization in tinplate. Produces HO scale today.
• Buccaneer Models – Among other models issued copies of pre-World War II Dinkys.
• Budig – 1:43 scale white metal of Amphicar, Fuldamobile other German minicars and Mercedes hearses, etc.
• Burd Manufacturing – Extremely rare Willys Aero promotional model.
• BV Firenze – 1:43 scale resin models made in Italy.
• By.Volk – 1:43 scale military vehicles.

• C. Model – By Michele Conti. See Conti.
• Canadian Heritage Products – Paper cut models – 1904 Ford.
• Carbone – 1:43 scale resin. Many Ferraris, esp. Ferrari 365 GT4 in many ways.
• Car Legends – 1:43 scale diecast. A DeAgostini line.
• Carmania – A brand by Spanish Mira.
• Carpin – 1:43 line of mainly Abarth.
• Carousel 1 – Higher end 1:18 scale.
• Cavacraft – 1940s wood Indy car kits.
• CB Modelli – 1:43 scale handbuilt resin models, made in Italy, often Alfas.
• CB Car – Matchbox sized diecast made by Esci in Italy. Also pre-painted 1:24 scale kits (similar to Bburago).
• CCC – Usually called Classiques CCC. France. Handbuilt 1:43 cars, mostly made of resin. Some microcars like the Rovin. Citroens, Peugeots, Voisins from the 1930s.
• CD – French firm making lead cars in the 1920s.
• Central – Japanese 1:32 scale plastic kits from the 1970s.
• CG Models – See Christian Gouel.
• CGM Models – 1:43 scale resin.
• Changshan Car Co. – Makes real vans and delivery, but also 1:18 scale Bugatti Veyron.
• Charbens – Small diecast made in England in the 1950s and 1960s. Many veteran cars though main fare was toy soldiers and figures in the Britains style.
• Charmerz – Playart line marketed by Woolworth.
• CHASS – 1:43 scale Russian trucks and horse-drawn carriages. Made in Israel.
• Chernomorskaya Igrushka – Translates to something like "Black Sea Models" 1:43 scale plastic models from Odessa, Ukraine.
• Cherryca Phenix – Japan. Early models were tinplate, some diecast later? Also seen as Taiseiya Cherryca Phenix.
• Chromes – high end sub-brand of Ilario. 1930s Art Deco French cars like Talbot, Delahaye, Delage.
• Citgo Classic Car Collection – Plastic 1:50 scale kits made by Cle in France.
• [[Citroen Factory]] – Made its own toys and promotionals for quite a while.

As much as every other brands claims to be

• City – 1:43 scale diecast of taxis, police, fire, etc. A division of Vitesse.
• Classic Bus – Bus models made in the Ukraine.
• Classic Motorworks – Line of detailed HO metal cars. Ca. 2000 and beyond.
• Clé – French simple diecast Tootsietoy like vehicles 1:65 to 1:43 scales. Also plastic.
• CMW – Acronym for Classic Motor Works, see above.
• Code 3 – Fire Truck collectibles made in the 1990s.
• Cofalu – French plastic and diecast Tour de France bicyclists and motorcycles. Some Peugeots and other cars. Also aircraft.
• Colibri – 1:72 scale trucks made in Ukraine.
• Collector's Mint – Rather crude white metal or pewter. Example of an Avanti with rear window completely cast in. Made in USA.
• Collectoy – Line name for Marx Linemar Matchbox sized cars made in Japan in the late '50s.
• Comet – American balsa wood and plastic kit manufacturer from the late 1950s.
• [[Companion – 1:43 scale Russian plastic. Usually trucks (also]] – buses and camper trailer). Established in Krasnodar.
• Competition 43 – A line offered by Danhausen.
• Comptours – 1:43 scale French cars like Simca Aronde panel.
• Con-Cor – Mostly HO scale plastic trucks, similar to Herpa.
• Contact – 1:43 scale resin Ferrari specials.
• Michele Conti – Expert one-off modeler in 1:10 scale. Lived in Barcelona in the 1970s. Models sell ca. 2010 for between $15,000 and 25,000.
• Continental Racing Auto Models – Balsa wood race car models from the late 1930s.
• Copycat Models – Copies / reproductions of older Danish Tekno and other early diecast. Made in England.
• Cox Shinsei – Made Bachmann and B-Line Jet Machines. Some in Japan. Some in South Korea.
• CP Model – 1:43 scale F1 racers.
• CPC Productions – 1:43 scale resin trucks and fire vehicles. Made in Marnaz, France.
• CPS Models – 1:43 scale Italian. Abarths and Alfas.
• Craft Master – 1:32 scale car and other kits reproduced by Airfix.
• Creative Masters – 1:20 scale line of diecast metal models by Revell.
• Crescent Models – 1:43 scale resin F1 cars.
• Crown – 1:24 and 1:40 scale from Japan with wind-up motors.
• Cruver – 1:25 1949 Oldsmobile 4-door sedan. Made in Chicago, Illinois.
• CSM – 1:18 scale diecast from China. Used as promos.
• CTK Alexandr – Resin tanks in 1:35 scale. Russia.
• Custom Handbuilt – This IS the name of the 1:43 scale white metal maker from England. Often makes odd English brands. Included are Deep Sanderson, Lister, Cheetah, HRG, and even a Spanish Pegaso.

• da Grani – see Grani brothers.
• Daito – Japanese tinplate.
• Daiya – Japanese tinplate toy cars.
• Dallari – rather crude white metal Ferraris and others, made in Italy by Gianluca Dallari.
• D.A.M. / DAM – 1:43 scale white metal odd 1970s LeMans type cars.
• Damir Studio – 1:43 scale Kraz trucks. Made in Russia.
• Dandy – Tomica line of mostly 1:43 and slightly larger diecast.
• Darda Motor – German Matchbox sized diecast wind-up cars for track sets. Later made in China.
• Daron – Toy trucks and police vehicles.
• Davis & Giovanni – High end diecast metal Ferraris and McClarens in 1:43.
• John Day Models – About the earliest to offer white metal kits in the 1970s – 1980s. Malvern, England.
• Day Diecast Model Works – Military dioramas and motorcycles. Moscow.
• Days Gone – Retail old car line of diecast Lledo.
• DB Productions – 1:43 scale, many Bugattis.
• De Agostini – 1:43 scale diecast line of Russian cars by Ixo.

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• Geoffrey Deason – A variety of handbuilt models made of paper, plastic, a versatile hand modeler.
• Dehanes – 1:55 scale trucks from the 1980s in resin and white metal. Made in USA.
• Del Prado – 1:43 scale line by Universal Hobbies.
• DeRoos – Mostly 1:43 scale Ferraris.
• Derrez Models – Resin models in 1:43 like the accurate hardtop Triumph TR2 Francorchamps.
• Paul Desantis – Specially made Petty models for the Richard Petty museum.
• Detail Cars – 1:43 scale diecast of German, French, and British selections. From France, but made in China.
• DG Models – White metal models of mainly old British toys like Morestone / Budgie.
• DG Productions – 1:50 scale heavy diecast trucks made in China, but look a lot like Winross.
• V. Diatlenko – 1:43 scale metal, Moscow. Small handicapped person's minicar.
• Dibro – British plastic wind up toys.
• DiK – 1:43 scale GAZ, ZIL, and other Russian mostly trucks.
• Dimestore Dream – Plastic vehicles, usually generic, about 4 inches long. Ca. 2000 – recreations of old dimestore plastic cars.
• Dingler – German tin trains and also some tinplate cars 1920s and 1930s.
• Dinkum Classics – 1:43 scale white metal models made in Australia.
• DIP – Models of communist era Soviet trucks. Also interesting Soviet version of Harley Earle's 'LeSabre'. Other more modern VAZ and other cars.
• Distler – Mostly tinplate models from the 1950s made in Germany.
• Diwi – Diecast models from the U.S.S.R. that when brought to the U.S. were given heavy import duties.
• Dmitriev Workshop – 1:43 scale odd and very creative cranes, cementers, and other trucks. Made in Miass.
• Doepke – 1:16 and larger metal MGs and Jaguars made in the 1950s.
• Doka Works – Russian diecast 1:43. Often reworked Elekon models.
• Doorkey Ar-gee – Dutch models of Volvos and Nissans, also associated with Auto Pilen of Spain.
• Dragon – Kits of mainly military tanks, vehicles, and aircraft. Also some diecast tanks.
• Dub City – Diecast bling line of Jada Toys.
• Du-Bro – Plastic slot car bodies.
• Dugu – Italian diecast similar to Politoys but slightly upscale and classic cars similar to Rio.
• Durham Industries – Hong Kong plastic toys. Notable were the Hot Wheels inspired "Free Wheelers" in 1:43 scale.
• Duthy – Resin circus and agricultural trailers.
• Dux – 1:32 scale handbuilts.
• Dvigatel – 1:43 scale diecast made in Russia.
• DynaWheels – Line name for Zyllmex / Zyll Enterprises (like Hot Wheels is to Mattel?)

• Eagle's Race – By Universal Hobbies. Jouefevolution became Eagle's Race in the 1990s, then Eagle Collectibles.
• Eastwood Automobilia – Diecast line by Liberty Classics, Inc. of Dyersville, Iowa.
• ECF / Etablissement Cotelle Foucher – France, 1:43 scale plastic Citroens and Simcas in simple castings.
• Edai Grip – Japanese kits and diecast.
• EDF Eligor – Later name for Eligor. See Eligor.
• [[Edil / Ediltoys]] – Creative 1:43 scale diecast Italian models, but could not compete with Politoys or Mebetoys.
• Edocar – Matchbox sized cars from the Netherlands.
• Wyn Edwards – LSR vehicles, probably resin. Made in England.
• [[EFE Exclusive First Editions (Gilbow)]] – model manufacturer, specializing in buses and trucks of British brands and lines. Normally 1:76 scale.
• EGM – Italian diecast toys in the 1960s, perhaps early 1970s.
• Eidai – Model kits and diecast.
• Eidai AHM – Associated making model kits 1970s and 1980s.
• Eidolon Makeup Modelcars – 1:43 resin kits made in Germany. Often Ferraris.
• ELC – acronym for Enchantment Land Coachbuilders founded by Jerry Rettig.
• Electropribor – 1:18 scale plastic and 1:43 scale diecast models made in Kharkov or Kamenets-Podolskiy, Ukraine. Ladas and other trucks.
• Elettrica Teleguidata – Italian RC Cars
• Elegant Models – Small diecast vehicles (and animals) made by Louis Marx. Also using the Linemar name.
• Elite – Hot Wheels line of 1:18 scale diecast frequently Ferraris or movie vehicles.
• Elysee – 1:43 scale resin French vehicles Simca, Peugeot, Renault,
• EMC Pivtorak – rare 1:43 resin cars made by Wolodymyr Pivtorak in the Ukraine.
• Emphasize – 1:43 scale resin model cars in limited edition and handbuilts by Joergen Dankelev. Many Le Mans racing cars. Made in Denmark. Some of the first model was built in cooperation with Ampersand model.
• Empire Made – Not a company but ID often stamped on tinplate cars made in Hong Kong, a reflection of the British Commonwealth connection.
• Enchantment Land Coachbuilders – US company making mainly ambulance and hearse models, founded by Jerry Rettig.
• Enterbay Garage Models – 1:43 scale models from Hong Kong requiring some assembly.
• Enterprise – Solid balsa wood CO2 race cars from the late 1940s.
• Entex – British often large scale plastic kits 1970s and 1980s.
• EPM – Old art deco style European buses. Other more contemporary trucks.
• Epoch – 1:43 scale diecast made in Japan.
• Equipe Gallois – Toylike reproductions of Dinkys.
• Erie – Tootsietoy like castings from ca. 1940. Scale was about 1:48.
• Esci – Italian diecast maker. Made CB Toys.
• Esdo – Mostly 1:43 scale diecast. Mostly European – like Porsches.
• Estes – 1:43 scale of diecast of Vipers in garage dioramas.
• Estetyka – Plastic models made in Poland.
• ET – Japanese tinplate toy cars of the late 1950s and 1960s.
• Etruria Models – 1:43 scale resin kit cars from Italy. Probably from Etruria!
• Euro-Modell – Ziss Modell changed to this name around the late 1970s, from West Germany. Even kept the same numbering system while blotting Ziss name from metal chassis.
• EuroModell – Contemporary HO scale like Wiking. Uncertain if related to Ziss reproducers above.
• Europe – 1:32 plastic kits from France from the 1960s. Features 1895–1905 Panhards.
• ExactDetail – 1:18 scale GM cars from the 1960s by Lane's Automotive.
• Exclusive First Editions – See EFE.
• Excel Products – New Brunswick, New Jersey company made Tootsietoy-like Goodee diecast vehicle line.
• Exem – 1:43 scale diecast. At first many variations of Austin-Healey Sprites, later many types of smaller sports cars.
• Exoticar – 1:18 scale line offered by famous New Jersey model seller.
• Exoto Models – High end 1:18 scale. Mostly sports and race cars.

• F&F Mold and Die Works – Simple plastic models of the 1950s and 1960s. Dayton, OH.
• Fa. Daimler House – Dutch concern of Heeze, Netherlands, 1987–2000 that made Conquest before being bought by American company.
• Fabbri – Line by Universal Hobbies or Ixo.
• Ugo Fadini – also called Cult Cars. Odd smaller LSR cars. Some Corvettes.
• Faenza 43 – Resin Ferraris.
• Faller – From Germany. Mostly kits but also assembled. Including 1:43 scale 'Memory Cars' series. Usually plastic. In the 1960s slot cars in a smaller scale (about 1:72). Hot Wheels like cars called 'Hit Cars'.
• Faracars –
• Fast – 1:43 scale Porsche 917s.
• Fast 111s – Hot Wheels competition cars with weird bumpers. Made by Kenner. CPG Products.
• FB model – 1:43 scale custom Alfas from the early 2000s.
• F.D.S. / FDS Automodelli – 1:43 scale white metal classic grand prix cars. Made in Italy.
• Feeling 43 – Detailed 1:43 scale engines.
• FF Ertl III – Makes ultra detailed 1:18 scale American cars, usually under the Highway 61 brand. Relation to the other Ertl uncertain.
• FHA – British older diecast – some unique land speed record cars.
• Figurino – 1:43 scale 1950s Ferraris.
• Finoko – 1:43 scale buses in particular. White metal, from Omsk, Russia, east of the Urals.
• First Gear – Diecast GMC, Mack, International and other truck models in about 1:35 scale.
• Fischer & Co. – Early tinplate toys from Nuremberg, Germany.
• Fishel – Plastic military and emergency vehicle toys.
• Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild – Model entrants to the famed company contest which first did Napoleonic Coaches and later all kinds of vehicles, 1930–1968.
• Fisher Model & Pattern – 1:24 scale collectibles.
• FJ – acronym for France Jouets.
• FM Studio – 1:43 scale fire vehicles from Kiev, Ukraine.
• Forces of Valor – 1:72 scale diecast tanks and military vehicles.
• Formula – 1:43 scale white metal of F1 and Indy cars. Often made by Colin Fraser.
• Formule Kit – 1:43 scale resin models made in Belgium.
• Colin Fraser – Talented 1:43 scale model designer, often for 'Formula' Models. See Formula.
• Frobly – 1:43 scale white metal classic (1930s) cars made in France.
• FrontiArt – 1:43 and 1:18 scale resin models from Hong Kong. Offers Konigseggs and Lamborghinis.
• Fuman – Japanese kits sometimes made in association with Bandai.
• Fun Ho! – New Zealand diecaster since the 1930s; HO and Matchbox size made by Underwood Engineering. Some given out as Mobil Gas promos.
• Fundler Models – 1:43 scale white metal model company like Danhausen in New York. Models usually made by Tin Wizard.
• Funline – makes diecast cartoonish Muscle Machines in 1:64 and 1:18 scale.
• Future – 1:43 scale 1930s Alfas.

• G & A Models Ltd. – 1:43 scale models of mostly GAZ and UAZ. Includes a Porsche 968 snowplow! Made in Lviv, Ukraine.
• G & M Originals – Resin and white metal. Mostly tractors. Some trucks and buses. Various scales.
• Gabriel – Metal model kits, associated with Hubley.
• GADM – Acronym for Great American Dream Machines.
• Gaffe Models – Rally Raid vehicles like Paris-Dakar trucks and cars. Kits and built-up. French.
• Gakken (sometimes seen as Gaaken) – Large scale plastic kits from Japan.
• Galaxie Limited – 1:25 scale kit maker from Neosho, Wisconsin.
• Lewis Galoob – Made Micro Machines in the early 1990s. Also made larger remote control cars in the 1970s.
• Gamma – 1:43 scale white metal. Alfa BATs among others.
• Garage 43 – 1:43 scale Russian military trucks.
• Garage Models – Hong Kong line by Enterbay.
• Gaso Line – Metal military smaller vehicle and figurines line made by Master Fighter, tanks and wheeled guns.
• Gate – A main brand of Gateway Global, related to AUTOart.
• GAZ – 1:43 scale models right from the factory apparently.
• GB Models – Many Land Speed Record cars. Handbuilt in resin by Geoff Brown.
• GCG Associates – Made 1985 Chrysler Laser promotional plastic model made in South Korea. Based in Livonia, Michigan.
• GCM – 1:43 scale handbuilts, often Bugattis.
• Gearbox – Mainly trucks, often banks in 1:24 scale, and replicas of pedal cars.
• Gems and Cobwebs – Milestone Miniatures line of white metal models made in conjunction with the Brooklands Museum Trust of England.
• General Molds and Plastics Corporation – From Pittsburgh, PA, made larger fire trucks ca. late 1950s.
• George Wagner and Co. – Toy distributor similar to Cragstan, mainly tinplate toys.
• Georgia Marketing and Promotions – commonly known as GMP.
• Gibbs Manufacturing Co. – Made Gibbs Metal Miniatures in Canton, OH. Also known as Lit'l Toys. Made in US in association with Mercury of Italy.
• Gila Models – Handbuilt truck and bus replicas. Some cars like Alfas.
• Giocher – Handbuilt 1:43 models of special carrozzeria like 'Popemobile' and Alfa beach car.
• Gladen Enterprises – Model of Gladen's own Aerocar.
• Glamour – VW bugs in different liveries, Ferraris and FIATS.
• Glover Toys – South Korea diecast toys.
• GM-Art – Specially crafted Minichamps and AutoArts, usually in 1:43. From Moscow.
• GMP – General Molds and Plastics Corporation of Pittsburgh made large plastic fire trucks.
• GMP – Georgia Marketing and Promotions. 1:18 scale muscle cars.
• Golden Wheels – Inexpensive Chinese diecast. Some clever models like Matchbox sized Checker taxi.
• Gollwitzer Modellbau – Modelling firm HO and 1:43 from Heroldsberg Germany.
• Goodee Toy – Tootsietoy-like metal cars made by Excel Products on New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• Gorgo – Tinplate toys made in Argentina.
• Christian Gouel – Also called CG Models, artisan Maquettiste. 1:43 scale Bugattis. France?
• Gowland Brothers / Gowland & Gowland – Small vintage car kits later brought to the U.S. as Revell.
• GPM – see Grand Prix Models below.
• Gran Toros – What Mattel called Italian Mebetoys in the US.
• Grand Prix Models – White metal models of classic race cars also called GPM. Radlett, England.
• Grani and Partners – Made 1:43 scale diecast for EG (Edison Giacattoli).
• Graphyland – 1:43 scale resin kits made in France.
• Great Garages – Garage dioramas by Estes. Often with Vipers, diecast in 1:43 scale.
• Grip Zechin Eidai – Japanese diecast. About Matchbox size. Some very small N Scale.
• GTM Models – 1:25 scale handbuilts.
• GTS / Series GTS – 1:43 scale resin models of French vehicles like Bonnet and Matra and the usual brands, but in strange race liveries and carosserie – made in France.
• Gubskih – One-off Russian (from Troitsk) 1:43 scale models of WWII vehicles from Russia, USA, Germany, and Japan.
• Guiterman – Hong Kong. Interesting larger models that appear to mimic British Corgi and Dinky in themes and packaging.
• Gulp Models – 1:43 scale resin oddball Alfa carrozzeria from the 1960s. Made in Italy.
• Güntermann – Tin toys made around 1900 in Germany.
• Gusev (SCM) – 1:43 scale trolleybuses made in Moscow.
• GW – Distributor for Japanese toys, particularly tinplate cars, stands for George Wagner and Co.

• H – Tinplate toy cars of Japan. Pretty toy-like.
• Hadson Trading – Company importing Japanese tinplate cars and other toys to the US.
• Haji – Made by Mansei Toy Company. Fancy Japanese tinplate, sometimes with opening doors.
• Hallmark – Usually Christmas ornaments but many models done very well. Mostly about 1:43 scale.
• Harris – Little known hand crafted models in the 1980s. Probably 1:43 scale.
• Haynes – Line of Trends, mostly 1:32 scale kits of British cars.
• HEC – Indian tinplate motorcycles and other vehicles.
• Hekorsa – 1:43 scale resin models (Denmark?), often of BMWs, possibly like Danhausen, contracting models built by others, like Premium X.
• Heljan – Danish HO scale plastic kits of buildings. Cars especially of early 1960s Chrysler products made in conjunction with Con-Cor.
• Heng Long – Remote controlled tanks and fire trucks. Military vehicles usually 1:16 scale.
• Highway Travellers – Line of models made mostly by Illustra.
• Highway 61 – Ultra detailed and authentic brand of cars made by F.F. Ertl III. Normally 1:18 scale diecast. Some trucks too, like 1947 Chevy Snow Plow.
• John Hill & Co. – Creative fantastical race cars from the 1930s.
• Hi.S Models (Hideki Suzuki) – Talented Japanese modeler of various brands.
• Hispana Daz Hoby – 1:43 handbuilt of Spanish vehicles like Pegaso transporter.
• Hitari – Remote control TV cars, like Kit, A-Team van, and Dukes Charger.
• Hobbycar – Swiss company that makes Eligor.
• Hobby Engine – Remote control military and construction vehicles.
• Hobby Products International – also known as HPI.
• Holly – Rather cruder diecast from Hong Kong.
• Hostaro – 1:43 scale resin models and kits made in France.
• Hot Bodies – brand of HPI Racing
• Hot Wheels Elite – an upgraded version of 1:18 Hot Wheels, mostly replicas of Ferrari.
• Hotworks Japan – 1:43 scale diecast.
• Hobby Master – 1:48 scale mostly military diecast. For ex: VW bug German staff car.
• HPL Replicars – HO scale plastic vintage auto kits like 1899 Renault and 1927 Bentley.
• HSA Models – HO scale resin.
• Hudson Miniatures – 1950s copies of Gowland Revell Highway Pioneers series. But similar vehicle kits of balsa wood and cardboard from late 1940s! Company from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
• Huki – German tinplate cars of the 1950s.
• H.V. Mod. – 1:43 scale white metal kits of European cars.

• Ichiko – Japanese tinplate, sometimes seen as trading company ATC Ichiko. Made toys for Asahi and others.
• [[Icis – Italian plastic models made around 1959]] – 1960 in 1/43.
• ICM – Mostly kits of various scales and vehicles, figures, guns, and airplanes, besides tanks and trucks.
• Icon Models – 1/8 precision models of Australian Falcons and others.
• Idea3 – Some of the first white metal models made in the '70s. 1:43 scale. Made in Italy.
• Idem – 1:43 scale kits. Bugattis among selections.
• Ifitsgotwheels – Handbuilt English white metal models, mostly 1:43. Made by RAE.
• Imagine – Odd resin Citroens and Beetles (like a Beetle limo).
• IMCO Speed Wheels – Inexpensive diecast from circa 1970.
• IMEX – Diecast trucks, similar to Hartoys AHL, or Lledo.
• Immocars – Line of MCM.
• Import Racer! – RC line of Jada Toys.
• IMU or I.M.U. – HO plastic from Germany, similar to Herpa, Wiking, or Busch.
• Industro-Motive Corporation – See IMC.
• Ingap – Italian HO plastic cars.
• Intex – 1:18 scale from the early 1990s. Similar to Maisto, but offerings not as broad. Could be Maisto second hand castings.
• Irwin or Irwin Toy – Variety of plastic toys, including vehicles. Canadian distributor of Kidco's "Tough Wheels" line.
• Ishmash Factory – Same factory making motorcycles apparently making 1:18 scale motorcycles too.
• IST – a 1:43 scale diecast line of Ixo. Models are often of East European vehicles of the communist era and are made in near Shenzhen, China. Marketing offices are in Macao.
• ITC Model Craft – Plastic kit maker from circa 1960.
• Ivan Ivanov – 1:43 scale more modern military vehicles.
• IY – Japanese tinplate vehicles including trucks and buses.

• J-Collection – 1:43 scale diecast, possibly made in China (connection to Iso, Atlas?).
• Jadali – Early on French copies of DCMT Lonestar toys and Matchboxes, company later became Safir.
• Jadanette – Late 1950s French Jadali copies of Matchbox.
• Jade Miniatures – Resin kits in 1:43 scale made in Gumieres France, both French and British racing and sports cars mainly from the 1950s and 1960s.
• Jaguar Specials – 1:43 scale resin models, apparently of just Jaguars.
• Jane Francis – Diecast Tootsietoy-like cars from the late 1930s.
• JarMarK – 1:43 scale kits of F1 cars.
• Jemmpy – 1:43 scale resin models made in France.
• JEP – acronym for Jouets en Paris – tinplate cars from the 1920s
• Jet Machines – Diecast line of 1:38 scale cars by Cox Shinsei, marketed as B-Line.
• JM Dubray – 1:43 scale resin kits and built-up classic Peugeots. Usually seen as simply 'Dubray'.
• JML – French tinplate motorcycles and with sidecars and three wheelers.
• JNF – West German tinplate cars of the 1950s.
• Johillco – Britain. Pre-war diecast. Coronation coach, motorcycles and land speed record cars.
• John Day – Handbuilt white metal kits from England, 1970s – 1980s.
• Jolly Models – 1:43 scale resin of rarer 1950s & 1960s sports racers. Mostly Italian cars, and mostly Ferraris.
• Jones Models – resin handbuilt models.
• Jordan Products – HO scale plastic vehicles from the 1910s to 1930s. Company produced during the 1970s.
• Joseph International – Simpler Remco or Tonka like plastic trucks.
• Jouets en Paris – Tinplate French toys from the 1920s, acronym is JEP.
• Joustra – French tinplate and plastic vehicles and toys.
• Joy Toy – Cute plastic toys made in Greece.
• Joyride – 1:18 scale diecast of movie and TV vehicles.
• JPS – 1:43 scale kits, especially of F1 race cars. Also many Mercedes.
• JRD – French manufacturer of 1:43 die-cast models up to about 1950s. Norev announced they are bringing back the line.
• JRL – 1:18 scale diecast. 1990s.
• JUE – Brazilian diecast company, also known as Minitoys JUE.
• Jurgens – American maker of resin handbuilt models.

• K – Japanese tinplate toy cars.
• K & R Replicas – Handmade English 1:43 scale white metal models mainly of English Fords.
• Kabaya – HO scale kits of construction and utility trucks.
• K. A. Birk – Diecast from the 1930s from Denmark.
• Kado – 1:43 scale diecast and white metal made in Japan. Some made in Korea. Often European vehicles.
• Kager – 1:43 resin cars. From Portugal.
• Kaiser Models – 1:43 scale of German GP and LeMans cars like BMW and Porsche.
• Studio KAN – Russian 1:43 scale ZIS among others. From Krasnodar.
• Kaname or Kanami Sangyo – Alternate name for KS Japanese manufacturer of tinplate toy cars.
• Kawabatakikaku – Special rare 1:43 scale models made for the Diapet Collection Club / Modelpet / Yonezawa.
• Kawai – Japanese kits circa 1990.
• Kaysun Keepsake Kit – Old vintage car kits.
• Kazan Workshop – 1:43 scale diecast alterations of Elekon Models.
• KB Design – A line of Minigrad. Ural trucks in 1:43 scale. Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• KB Kokusai – Resin sports and Italian GTs. See Kokusai. Related to Spark?
• Keen Kit – Balsa wood, late 1940s.
• Keil Kraft / Keilkraft – British 1:72 scale road rollers early trucks. From the 1980s.
• Kemlows – Britain ca. 1960. Trucks and other diecast toys.
• Kempal Models – A line of Minigrad. KraZ, Kamaz trucks and a variety of giant crane models. Saint Petersburg.
• Kess – 1:18 scale Maseratis, Alfas, & older Cadillacs.
• Keystone – Boston company of pressed steel trucks, trains, and buses in '20s and '30s. Trucks often carried the Packard name. Plastic cars with 'oil changing' feature in the late 1940s. Also known as 'Keystone Thomas Toys'.
• KFT – 1:43 scale French diecast of concepts among others.
• Khan Modelcars – Asad Khan is a professional modelmaker of 1:43 scale resin and white metal Bugattis from other kits. He resides in Veenendaal, the Netherlands.
• Kherson Models – White metal 1:43 scale from the Ukraine.
• Kidco – Smaller Matchbox sized cars. Made Tough Wheels line.
• Kimmeria – 1:43 scale utility trucks, buses, military and some cars. Made in Ukraine.
• KIModels – Bulldozers. Russia?
• King Size – Larger scale line of Lesney Matchbox.
• Kingsbury – Pressed steel cars 7–18 inches made by Wilkins Toy Co. made in the 1920s–193os. For a while bodies were made by Fisher Body Co. who made real car bodies.
• Kinsmart – Chinese manufacturer of highly detailed and precise model cars such as Mercedes, Audi, Mini, Lexus and Land Rover. Usually pullbacks – some cars are cartoonish, others very precise.
• Kintoy – Chinese pullbacks, but some very nicely detailed.
• Kirk – Reproductions of Danish Tekno dies. Kind of like what Verem is to Solido?
• Kit O'Boy – Assembler of resin and white metal kits.
• K K Sakura – Japan. Mostly 1:24 scale white metal. Unknown if related to Sakura.
• KKK – Japanese tinplate cars and buses from the 1950s.
• Kleeware – Simple but often handsome plastic trucks and cars, especially military and futuristic space-cars.
• Kleincoche – 1:43 scale Russian white metal.
• Knight's Head Precision Toys – Hereford, England. Diecast trucks and trailers. Made by True-to-Type Products.
• KB Kokusai – 1:43 scale Resin sports and Italian GTs. Relation to Spark?
• Kobra – 1:43 scale military. A line of Minigrad.
• Kohnstam – Bought J. Meier in Germany in the 1920s.
• Kokyu Shokai – or KS, Japanese maker of tinplate cars.
• Y. Kolivanov – 1:43 scale alterations of Elekon Kamaz.
• Kramsov – Tin handmade military models from Russia.
• KrAZ – 1:50 scale metal trucks – made by KrAZ.
• Krugozor Toy Factory (Krugozor means Mental Outlook) – Russian factory in Moscow, produced 1:43 model toy cars (often copies of Mebetoys in plastic), soft toys and dolls.
• KS – Acronym for Kokyu Shokai, or Kanami Sangyo, or perhaps Kosuge. Japanese tinplate car maker.
• Kultowe Auta – Polish name for DeAgostini?
• Kuznetsov – 1:43 scale models of Mercedes-Benz 170 as used from 1936–1952. Models by Leonid Kuznetsov of Moscow, Russia.
• KV Workshop – Mostly 1:43 scale ZIL trucks. Ukraine.
• KY – Tinplate toy maker in People's Republic of China.
• Kyznecov – Alternate spelling for Kuznetsov.
• Kzyl Tu – 1:43 scale plastic made in Kazakhstan. 1920s trucks.

• La Familia – Line of models from Victory Models.
• La Storia Models – Officially licensed Ixo Ferrari line.
• Laboratory of Minimodels – 1:43 scale models of old buses and trams including old buses that ran on tracks. From Saratov, Russia.
• Land Speed Unlimited – Defunct 1:43 scale maker of Land Speed Record (LSR) cars.
• Lane's Automotive – Marque making ExactDetail 1:18 scale replicas of GM cars from the 1960s.
• Langes Legetøj (Langes Toys) – Danish diecaster from Copenhagen making parts and vehicles for Tekno.
• Lapin – Late 1930s vintage plastic cars made in USA with swirly splotchy colors.
• LaTrax – Remote control cars with precision suspensions from the 1970s.
• LBS Models – French line started by Louis B. Surber, mostly racing car transporter trucks.
• LCCA – 1:35 scale diecast trucks similar to First Gear.
• Leader – 1:43 scale resin. 1930s to 1960s Renaults, Peugeots, and Panhards.
• Lebedev Studio – 1:43 scale Russian trailers and excavators.
• Lee Town – 1:87 scale pewter heavy trucks now made by Alloy Forms. Made in USA.
• Legends of Racing – Resin classic stock cars from '50s to '70s in 1:43 scale.
• LeMans 43 – 1:43 scale 1980s and 1990s LeMans racers made in Italy.
• LeMans Miniatures – 1:43 scale LeMans racers.
• Le Phoenix – 1:43 scale collectibles.
• Lendulet Auto – Hungarian plastic and tin toy producer. VW Transporters very enduring.
• Leningrad Souvenir Factory – Ishmash motorcycles in 1:24 scale, and others.
• Lermont – Mostly WWI tanks and other military trucks, often British. Many Russo-Balt.
• Lesney – Original company that produced Matchbox. Combination of the first names of founders Leslie Smith and Rodney Smith.
• Lewin & Bros. – Rare toys mainly diecast trucks. Britain.
• LF Models – Mostly tanks.
• Lido – Crude Hong Kong pull-backs made for Marks International.
• Liege – Ghost Club Collection are vintage Rolls-Royces.
• Life-Like – 1:32 scale auto kits from circa 1960. Pyro designs made under license – later took over Pyro.
• Lincoln International – Hong Kong plastic remote control w/ wires. Labeled as "Empire Made".
• Lincoln Line – U.S. toys from the 1950s, including a promo style Kaiser Henry J.
• Lincoln / Lincoln Replicar – Plastic remote control, battery operated, and static vehicles made in Hong Kong.
• Linemar – Brand name used by Marx. Often for Japanese tinplate cars.
• Lion Toys – Another name for Lion Car?
• Lit'l Toys – Also known as Gibbs Metal Miniatures. Made in US in association with Mercury of Italy.
• LMS / LeMans Miniatures – Resin replicas of top prototype LeMans racers and winners.
• Lomo – 1:43 scale diecast trucks from St. Petersburg, Russia. Sometimes conversions of Dvigatel.
• London Toy – Canadian firm making Tootsietoy-like cars around 1940.
• Long Creek Toy Company – 1:64 scale replicas of super large tractors like Knudson, Woods & Copeland, Rome, and Rite by Curtis.
• Looksmart – 1:43 scale resin model cars. Often Lamborghinis.
• LOR – Acronym for Legends of Racing.
• LSR Productions – LSR models.
• Lucky – Hong Kong and Chinese plastic and diecast producer. Mini-Mite 1:43 scale plastic.
• Lutil – Citroen trucks, resin about 1:43 scale.
• Lux Beta / Lux B – 1:43 resin of smaller Italian carrozzeria.
• Luxcar – Bugatti in resin in 1:43 scale.

• M – Japanese tinplate.
• M4 Models – 1:43 scale diecasts mostly of Italian cars from the 1960s.
• M 43 – 1:43 scale, often classic Bugattis, not sure if related to Master 43.
• M.A. Scale Models (Mike Arensdorf) – 1:43 scale resin kits of racing cars. Costa Mesa, California.
• Macadam – 1:20 scale Ferraris among other things.
• Mach One Models – Land Speed and Water Speed record vehicles in 1:43 scale. Mickleover, Derbyshire.
• MAE – Mini Auto Emporium from Canada.
• Magic Image – Canadian supplier of often specially commissioned 1:43 scale handbuilts and diecasts. Similar in concept to Danhausen who had many supplier. Mimodels is one line.
• Magnison Models – 1:87 scale solid cast resin cars & trucks – now owned by Walthers Inc. Made in USA.
• Major Models – 1:43 scale Ural trucks, mostly. Russia.
• Make Up Co., Ltd. – 1:43 factory hand built resin model cars from Tokyo, Japan. Series include Eidolon, Eidolon Collection, Eidolon Formula and VISION. Officially licensed model cars of Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Zagato, etc.
• MAL Studio – 1:43 scale Mercedes military, and Humvees, but also ZILs and GAZs. Kirov, Russia.
• Mamod – Actual working steam engine models and vehicles.
• Manoil – Diecast cars made in the US pre- and post-WWII.
• Mansei Toy Company – Made Haji tinplate cars of the 1950s and 1960s.
• RD Marmande – Made 1:43 scale models in France out of balsa and other woods from late '50s through late '70s.
• Marsh Models – Handbuilt resin models with white metal parts. Mainly European GP and racing cars. Made in E. Sussex, England.
• Marui – 1:24 scale plastic kits of native Japanese cars, Ferraris and Lamborghinis – made in Japan.
• Master 43 – White metal handbuilts in 1:43 scale, made in Moscow. Another source says made in Italy.
• Master Fighter – Metal military vehicles. Also makes Gaso Line of figurines and smaller vehicles.
• Masudaya – 1:87 scale (HO) kits made in Japan. Porsche 928, Lamborghini Miura, etc.
• Masutoku Toy Factory – Japanese tinplate of Tokyo.
• Matsudaya – Japanese tinplate toy cars also known as MT or maybe Modern Toys.
• Max Models – Diecast line of Mercedes-Benz from Louis B. Surber S.A. from France. Mainly during the 1990s. Made models for Danhausen then was absorbed by them into the Minichamps line.
• Maxi-Models – 1:32 scale motorized resin race slot cars from Buckinghamshire, England.
• Maxwell – Corgi tooling moved to India, but other models, too.
• MBK – 1:43 scale Ford, Opel, Studebaker military trucks. Made in Ukraine.
• MCM – Resin and diecast model kits, mostly European classic cars of the 1930s of Bentleys, Aston-Martins, Lagondas, and Rileys. Made in France.
• MCW Automotive Finishes – Resin 1:25 scale models produced by Model Car World.
• MDC – Diecast (mostly) European Rally cars; Ferraris, Subarus, Ford Escorts.
• MD Studio – ZIL and GAZ parade limos, Moskvitch rally cars. Ukraine.
• MDP Klaus Mohaupt – Rideable Setra Neoplan buses made of fiberglass. Made in Germany.
• Meccano – Early toy company eventually made Dinky – but also other metal vehicles.
• Megow – Balsa wood race and futuristic cars from the early to mid-1950s.
• J. Ph. Meier / Kohnstam – Originally just Meier from around Nuremberg, later taken over by Kohnstam.
• Memory Cars – Line of 1:43 scale diecast from Faller of Germany.
• Memory Lane Models – 1955 Pontiac promo-AMT-like resin 1:25 scale. Made in Pittsburgh.
• Mercury Industries – Company in the U.S. making diecast Lil Toys, especially construction vehicles like bulldozers. Not related to Italian Mercury.
• Meri – 1:43 scale resin kits made in Italy.
• Merit Product – Plastic kits made by J & L Randall in England.
• Message Models – Australian reproductions of New Zealand Fun Ho! Midget Models.
• Metalbox GMK – Hungarian copies of 1970s Corgi Jr. and Matchbox toys.
• MetalModels – White metal Morris Commercial truck kits in 1:43. Made in England.
• MF – Chinese tinplate trucks and cars.
• MF Création – Resin 1:43 scale racing Renaults.
• MG Model – Italian manufacturer in resin, often makes Italian trucks – usually Ferrari service vehicles; also F1 race cars.
• Micro Chargers –
• Micro Pet – Japanese Diecast.
• Midlantic – Resin 1:43 scale models of mostly 1960s race cars.
• Midori – Japanese model kits.
• Milestone Miniatures – English white metal models-unsure of the relation with the South African made vehicles below.
• Mili Models – Resin. Microcars like Trabant or even classic 1930s Mercedes-Benzes.
• Mill City Models – Resin conversion kits mostly in 1:25 scale from Carver, Minnesota.
• S. C. Miller – 1:48 scale resin cast.
• Mimodels – Division of Canadian handbuilt supplier Magic Image. 1:43 scale handbuilts.
• Mini Auto Emporium Scale Models (MAE) – Handbuilt white metal models from Canada.
• Mini Classics – Line of variations on BMC Mini. Maker uncertain.
• Mini-Lindy – HO scale plastic kits by Lindberg Products, Skokie, Illinois.
• Mini Mite – 1:43 scale plastic line made by Lucky of Hong Kong.
• Mini Partes – Many 1:43 scale diecast rally cars.
• Mini Power – diecast made by Shinsei.
• Mini Promo – 1:43 scale coldcast resin (body & wheels are single piece) models made in Japan by Q Model.
• Mini Racing (Igor Borcov) – Many are 1:43 scale African rally cars. Other special racing Mercedes.
• Miniacar – 1:43 scale resin French vehicles like Dauphine cabriolet, '56 Gregoire coupe, and newer Peugeot presidential limousine.
• Miniature One Models – Resin models.
• Miniature Vehicle Casting – Lead cast models often in 1:41 scale.
• Miniclassic – 1:43 scale diecast Russian bloc trucks made in Ukraine. Mostly ZIS.
• Minigrad – Russian diecast in 1:43, often VAZ including small Oka. Often alterations of Radon.
• MiniMax – A Spark line.
• Minimodels – British line in late '50s than started Scalextric slot cars. Acquired by Hornby.
• MiniStar – 1:43 scale resin racing and rally cars like winged beetle and odd Ferrari 4-door wagon. Sister brand is MiniStyle.
• MiniStyle – 1:43 scale resin mini cars like VW beetle, the original mini, Citroens.
• Minitoys JUE – Diecast trucks and other toys made in Brazil.
• Minsk Club of Scale Model Collectors – Kamaz, Kaz, Bedford. Belarus.
• Minsk Factory – State factory of USSR in Belarus making 1:43 diecast Soviet cars.
• Mirage – 1:43 scale European rally cars among others.
• Mishel – Russia? Bulldozers.
• Missing Link Resin Casters LLC – 1:24 scale recasts of older kits.
• Miva Models – Model maker from Czechoslovakia only credited with a couple of issues.
• MIW Modern Toys – Plastic race cars in red and yellow boxes.
• Mix R/C Technic – A R/C company mainly making Ferraris.
• Mizuno – Japanese tinplate but probably same as Nihon Alps Mizuno Seissakusho. See Alps.
• M.K. Pla – Japanese plastic kits. Also called Shimizu Mokei.
• Model Box – See Box Model. But on box looks like the reverse.
• Model Car World – Also see MCW. Model car company making resin and diecast models from many countries. HQ in Florsheim, Germany.
• Model Craft – Simple smaller plastic kits from the 1960s and 1970s.
• Model Icons – 1:18 scale Jaguar Mk. IIs and Ford Escorts.
• Model MAZ – 1:18 scale MAZ trucks made in Brest-Litovsk, Belarus.
• Model Pet – Diecast line made by Asahi.
• Modelhaus – Resin kits, including 1:24 scale.
• Models of Yesteryear – Matchbox's classic line of 1:43 scale cars.
• Modellismo 90 – 1:43 scale resin and white metal models, often F1 race cars.
• Modern Toys – Japanese tinplate toy cars, also known as MT.
• Modifiers – Chinese diecast in the late 1990s, car could be changed from stock to tuner.
• Modus 90 – 1:43 scale metal made in Belarus.
• Moebius – Related to the old Aurora. Mostly movie monster kits, but a few car models like the step down Hudson.
• MOG Models – 1:43 scale resin kits made in France.
• Moko / Moko Lesney – Distribution company that marketed Lesney Matchbox cars in the 1950s. Named for Moses Kohnstam. Moko was eventually bought by Lesney.
• MOMO Factory (Kasuhiko Momose) – Talented builder of white metal kits, mostly 1:43 scale.
• Motorart – 1:43 scale diecast. Often Volvos, also a 1:50 scale Volvo construction vehicle line.
• Mossar – Russian toy factory. 1:43 scale diecast.
• Motorific Racing Cars – Line of about 1:38 scale slot cars by Ideal Toy Company.
• Motorkits Models – 1:43 scale white metal models made in England.
• Motorway Models – Tinplate Hong Kong (Empire Made) toys.
• MP-43 – 1:43 scale made in Russia. Often reworked ZIL models.
• MR Collection Models – 1:18 scale resin models handbuilt in Italy. Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Bugattis and Alfa Romeos in special paintcode combos. Limited runs of less than 90, but also one-offs. Special leather / alcantara bases.
• MRC-Tamiya – For a time, the name of Tamiya. Made remote control cars even in 1:12 scale.
• MRF / M.R.F. – 1:43 scale resin. Ferraris etc. Also called Record M.R.F.
• MS – Chinese tinplate motorcycles and other from ca. 1960.
• MT – Japanese tinplate, acronym for Modern Toys or Matsudaya.
• MTech – Line of 1:43 scale diecast cars made in Japan by Epoch.
• Muscle Machines – Cartoonish diecasts of '50s and '60s hot rod classic cars by Funline.
• MVI – Resin kits of trucks and fire engines in 1:43 scale.
• Mystère 43 – Alternate line of resin kits made by Jade Miniatures.

• Nakamura Sangyo – Plastic kits from Japan.
• Nakamura AHM – Plastic kits from Japan.
• Nano Speed –
• Nash Autoprom – Russian factory making diecast 1:43 scale Russian models from the 1920s to the 1970s.
• National 7 – Resin models in 1:43 scale of Peugeots.
• National Motor Museum Mint – brand like Hi-Speed or ARKO whose models made available through ads. Wonderful detail and colors. Parts often crooked.
• National Products – Company providing promo metal cars in the early 1950s, something like Banthrico.
• Newbank – High end white metal models, mostly Hudsons.
• New Bright – Remote control dune buggies and boats.
• NFIC – Plastic cars, trucks, and military vehicles from Hong Kong.
• NGS – Japanese tinplate cars, locomotives and passenger jet aircraft usually seen along with the Cragstan name.
• Nicky Toys – Dinky tooling and dies shifted to production in India.
• Nitto – Japanese plastic kit maker, 1970s–1980s.
• Nitto Kagaku – Japanese plastic kits.
• NN – Plastic toys from Hong Kong.
• Nomura Toys – Japanese tinplate. Sometimes seen as TN Nomura.
• Normatt Products – From St. Paul, MN. Plastic replicas of Winnebago and Snomobiles (with track!).
• Norshin – 1:40 scale promotional Can-Am model kits given out with Arakawa-Chotaro & Co., makers of child headache medicine.
• Norscott – Mostly 1:50 scale diecast construction vehicles, like Caterpillar. Often promos.
• Nostalgie – French vehicles of the 1950s and 1960s, like the Panhard Dyna. Made in China?
• Novoselov – 1:43 scale models mostly of GAZ trucks made in Nizhny Novgorod, where this modeler is also located.
• Nostalgic Miniatures – White metal handbuilts in 1:43. Made in USA.
• NSK – Japanese diecast buses and other vehicles; similar to Tomica / Diapet.
• NV Studio – 1:43 scale models of GAZ, ZIL, Ural, etc. fire and military trucks. Made in Lviv, Ukraine.

• Ocean Metal Factory – Company in Shenzhen making 1/72 scale tanks.
• OCR – Plastic slot cars.
• Odgi Toys of Yesterday – 1:45 scale white metal models of old Dinkys that were planned, but never made. Made in Chiswick Village, London.
• ODK – Plastic kits.
• Off 43 Models / Pego – Italian white metal of service vehicles for Ferrari – unsure if related to MG Model.
• Old Cars – 1:43 racing cars and their transporter trucks.
• Old Garage by Igor Ermakov – Appear to be 1:43 scale white metal.
• Oldies – 1:43 scale resin / white metal. Bugattis among selections.
• Oliex – 1:43 scale diecast of many types of European cars.
• Omicron – handbuilt land speed record cars. Related to Touchwood Models.
• Omsk Workshop – 1:43 scale white metal from Russia.
• Open-43 – 1:43 scale resin model cars with opening parts. The most well-known item is the McLaren F1 street car with all opening doors and steering front wheels.
• Orangerie Moderne – 1:32 scale handbuilts – sometimes Bugatti.
• Orfey – 1:43 scale models made in Turkey. Iso Grifo and Lamborghini Miuri likely a secondary Corgi tooling. This company may have originally been Meboto.
• Oto – More commonly known as Holland Oto which took over Efsi.
• A. Ovchinnikov – 1:43 scale models of ZIL, Moskvitch, and VAZ cars, but often in different forms, like taxi, pickup, or camper. Made in Moscow.
• Oxford Diecast – Swansea, Wales based UK company making 1:43, 1:76, 1:87, 1:148 vehicles, plus 1:72 planes. Mainly British vehicles in the spirit of Matchbox or Lledo. Slogan is 'Surprisingly affordable quality'. Celebrated 20 years of manufacturing in 2013, with roots back to Swansea Mettoy factory and Corgi staff. Final UK volume diecast manufacturer before main production moved to China. Website: http://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk

• P 4/5 Competizione – Models only of the new Ferrari P 4/5.
• Palace – 1:43 scale 1930s French 'streamline' cars in resin.
• Palmer – Relatively simple plastic kits from the United States. Often 1:32 scale. Company lasted from the late 1950s to about 1975.
• Pandora Models – White metal LSR cars in 1:43 scale. Kit and builtup.
• Paradcar – 1:43 scale resin models like strange and one-off Peugeots, Renaults, Panhards and Delahayes. Made in France.
• Paradise Garage – Chinese diecast in 1:43 scale. Mainly Australian vehicles.
• Paragon Models – 1:43 and 1:18 scale diecast from Jadi Modelcraft.
• Paramount – Japanese model manufacturer, sometimes using Bandai dies.
• Paya – Traditional and reproduction tinplate made in Spain.
• PB – 1:43 scale resin models made in Italy.
• PB Racing – British manufacturer of radio-controlled cars, active 1971–c1990s (definitely notable)
• PE – Plastic toys and cars from Portugal.
• Peako – Hi-end 1:18 scale resin models from Hong Kong of Gumperts, Paganis, and McLarens.
• Pegas – 1:43 scale AC fire trucks. Models made in Nicolayev (Ukraine)?
• Peerless – Remote control cars in the 1970s.
• Pego – 1:43 scale diecast of mainly Italian cars.
• Peresvet – 1:43 scale models of VAZ and Moskvitch all with same livery. Made in St. Petersburg.
• Piccolino – 1:76 scale white metal line made by RAE. At least one LSR car.
• Pilen – see Auto Pilen
• Pilot Plastics – From Denmark. Wooden and plastic horse-drawn coaches. HO scale cars with Lego markings.
• Pinko – Resin 1:43 scale 1960s sports cars. Aston-Martin, Lotus, AC.
• Pirate Models – Among some of the earliest white metal models in the 1970s, example being GMC buses, a Model T jitney bus, and a Model T hearse.
• Planet Toys – Small plastic remote control toy cars and pickup trucks.
• Plasticart – Brand name of East German toy producer, known also as VEB or Espewe.
• Plasto – Finnish producer of plastic toys, but also some promotional quality cars.
• Playing Mantis – Company to resurrect Topper's Johnny Lightning.
• Playtoy – White metal models made in Belgium, sometimes done by Carlo Brianza (see ABC Models).
• Plumbies – Early Western Models white metal kit line. 1:43 scale. Made in England.
• PP Models – 1:87 scale promotional trucks like the DAF semi with "TNT" logo.
• PMA – acronym for Paul's Model Art.
• PMC Models – Also appears to be a white metal model maker of Mercedes-Benzes.
• Polar Lights – A modern reissuing of Aurora dies and Aurora-like vehicles and movie cars and creatures.
• Praline Auto Modelle – German 1:87 scale vehicles going back several decades.
• Precision Models – Another name for Franklin Mint's models usually in 1:24 scale.
• Premium ClassiXXs – European diecast classic race cars, and their transporters.
• Premium Models – Old buses – appears different from PremiumClassiXXs.
• Premium X – 1:43 resin models often made for others like Hekorsa.
• Press – French cars with many liveries of food and also Tour de France.
• Pressed Metal Company – Pawtucket, Rhode Island, made pressed steel 'Sturditoy' line 1927–1933.
• Prestige Models – 1:43 scale resin models made in France.
• Processed Plastics Company – Mostly simple toys, but early on some nice smaller plastic and rubber replicas of various cars.
• Pro-Cision – Remote Control vehicles in the 1970s.
• Progress – 1:50 scale plastic trucks made in Moscow.
• Promtractor – Russian 1:43 scale diecast from Chelyabinsk. Include pipelayers, loaders, bulldozers and other construction related equipment.
• Proscale – 1:43 scale resin kits, like '69 Camaro.
• Prototypo – Low volume issues of resin 1:43 kits; .
• PST – 1:72 scale kits of WWII tanks and military. From Minsk, Belarus.
• PZ Model – Resin 1:43 scale handbuilts made in Vienna, Austria.

• Q Model – 1:43 scale coldcast resin (body & wheels are single piece) models made in Japan.
• QSK – Chinese tinplate. Especially motorcycles.

• R & D Unique – Resin and pewter castings for usually 1:24 scale cars. Based in Renton, Washington.
• R & J Miniatures – White metal handbuilts from the UK. Related to SAMS.
• R & R Vacuum Craft – Resin 1:24 scale kits based on Lindberg, etc. Based in Flint, Michigan.
• Racing Models – 1:43 scale model consortium, usually in white metal.
• Radar – Resin models. Microcars featured like BMW Isetta.
• Radon – Russian state factory making 1:43 scale diecast Soviet vehicles.
• RAE or R.A.E. Models – White metal made in England, 1:43 scale.
• Rainbow Rubber Co. – Butler, Pennsylvania company made Rubrtoy (spelling is correct here) vehicles mainly of 1935 Oldsmobiles. Near promo detail.
• Ralstoy – American maker of diecast metal toys and logo trucks 1950s – 1970s.
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• Paolo Rampini – Collector's plastic models mostly 1:43 scale from Italy, later started Tron.
• RaMei – 1:43 resin older Alfas costing about $400.00.
• R.A.M.I. by J.M.K. – Classic diecast Tacots (classic cars) of France in the early Rio or Brumm or Safir tradition – made in France. Late 1960s to mid-1970s.
• Ranco Models – Balsa wood from the 1950s.
• J & L Randall – Kit maker from England circa 1960. Made Merit Products.
• Rapide – Resin models, some microcars.
• Rastar – Various scales of diecast cars. Made by Xinghui Auto Model Co. Ltd. of Shantou, Guangdong, China.
• Rawcliffe Pewter – accurate HO scale pewter models of 1950s American cars.
• RBA Model – 1:43 scale models of mainly European racing cars.
• RC2 – Large conglomerate taking over MPC, AMT, Ertl, some Aurora dies, and other names also.
• Realtoys – Smaller to medium-sized diecast from China. Many models very well done. Many come in 1:54 scale, and are often found in toy retailers and supermarkets.
• Record M.R.F. – Handbuilt White Metal Models from France. Often Ferraris.
• Red Line Models – Sparks 1:43 line of exclusively Ferraris.
• Red Lines – Unofficial name for Hot Wheels' first few years of production where models had hard plastic 'red wall' tires.
• ReadYcut – Balsa wood midget racers, etc.
• Reggiana Elettronica – Italian Scale RC Cars
• Reliable – Simple plastic casting toy maker from Canada. One model was 1:25 scale '50s Rolls Royce.
• Renaissance Models – 1:43 scale resin models of vintage LeMans cars.
• HPL Replicars – HO scale plastic vintage auto kits like 1899 Renault and 1927 Bentley.
• Replicars – 1:43 scale. Made in England for Dutch firm. White metal, sometimes copying Spot-On in 1:42 scale, but often are Italian Alfas. Defunct since about 1990s.
• Retrotoys – Collectible resin cast cars sometimes in 1:12 scale like their Jaguar D-Type.
• Rettig (Jerry Rettig) – Conversions of Durham Classics, Western Models, and others.
• Rêve Collection – Mainly 1970s F1 cars in resin. 1:43 scale.
• Revell / AMT – Late 1950s kits sponsored by both companies with both logos on front of box.
• Revell / Ceji – Kits made in association with Japanese Ceji.
• Revolution Models – Resin models of Australian concept cars, made in Australia.
• Rialto – handmade resin models in 1:43 made in the Netherlands: Lancias, Daimlers, Jaguars, and a Caddy Catera, of all things.
• Richmond Toys – Diecast British fire engines and trucks – made in China.
• Rik & Roc – Cararama Hongwell sold under this broad toy brand name.
• Ringo Plastic Model Twin Kits – Always two kits in one by ITC (Ideal).
• Rivarossi – Italy started just at the end of World War II. Mostly train sets, but some trucks and cars to go along with the sets.
• John Rixon – Handbuilt military models usually Airfix conversions.
• Road Ragers – Mostly 1:87 scale Australian vehicles.
• Road Signature – Name used by Yatming.
• Road Tough – Line of diecast made by Yatming.
• John Roberts – converter of Brooklin models to other forms.
• Romu Factory – Build to order Japanese firm, mainly doing white metal.
• ROS – Model tractors in diecast and plastic, made in Italy.
• Studio Rosso (Hiroshi Watanabe) – Japanese builder of 1:43 scale kits.
• Rossosh Factory – 1:50 scale plastic models from Russia.
• Rotarex – Japanese 1:43 scale kits.
• Route 66 Original Toy Co. – 1:64 scale cars made for Kmart Corporation.
• Royal Plastics Company – Small vintage car plastic kits from Winnipeg, Canada.
• RSM – 1:43 scale Russian military vehicles.
• Rubicon Kojima – 1:43 scale white metal models made in Japan.
• Rubrtoy – 1935 Oldsmobiles made by Rainbow Rubber Co. of Butler, Pennsylvania (spelling is correct).
• Running 43 – Resin kits in 1:43, often '70s sports and race cars.
• Ruslan Pinas – 1:43 scale conversion models of UAZ and Kamaz. Made in Samara, Russia.
• Russian Miniature – 1:43 scale GAZ 66 trucks in diecast. From Ekateringburg.
• Russian Scale Models – 1:43 scale diecast. Mostly military vehicles.
• R.W. Model – Plastic and diecast classic cars in the Rio, Dugu, or Safir style. Later became Ziss Modell.

• Sablon – Belgian 1:43 scale diecast similar to Dinky and others, always with chemically reacted, melted wheels.
• Saico – Manufacturer of sports cars such as Subaru Impreza, Ford Focus and Mitsubishi Evo. Good quality, and can be found in department stores like Boyes.
• St. Louis – Small diecast producer making 1:43 oddities like the 1942 DeSoto Custom.
• St. Petersburg Tram Collection – 1:43 scale city trams.
• Sakatsu – 1:24 scale Japanese resin kits.
• Sakura – Rather simple 1:43 scale diecast from Japan. Corvette though has accurate wheels. Also known as K K Sakura.
• SAMS – White metal company of the UK related to R & J.
• SAM Toys – Italy. Plastic Alfa and other European models.
• Sankyo Mokei – Plastic kits from Japan from the 1960s.
• Sanwa Plastic – Japanese 1:32 scale kits from Japan from about 1960, about the earliest kit maker from Japan.
• Saratov workshop – 1:43 scale Russian diecast, often alterations of Radon models.
• Saunders Swadar – 1:16 scale plastic kits from the 1950s like 1912 Mercer and 1914 Mercedes racers.
• Scale Model Technical Services – See SMTS.
• Scale Racing Models – 1:43 scale F1 and other race cars, made in Cottingham, England.
• Scale Structures Ltd. (SS LTD) – 1:87 scale HO railroad details, buildings, supplies and accessories, also pewter model vehicles. Made in USA.
• Scalecraft – Plastic models from the 1960s.
• Schaper – Known for clever big wheeled but accurately detailed plastic 'Schaper Stompers' lines of trucks and SUVs.
• Schylling – German wind-up tin toys for many decades. Chinese reproductions of many of those toys as well.
• Scientific – Balsa wood models from the early 1950s. Newark, NJ.
• Scottoy – Italian maker of diecast vehicles.
• H. Seener – British firm making London promo recasts, mainly of Budgie / Morestone. Seerol came later.
• Seerol – British firm selling promo and tourist vehicles of Rolls and London Taxis. Models most often recastings of Budgie / Morestone. H. Seener came first.
• Selcol – British plastic toys. "Self-balancing" motorcycle.
• Septoy – Belgian maker of diecast also known as Gasquy-Septoy.
• Series GTS – See GTS.
• SES Minicars – Plastic HO scale cars like Lada sedan. Sometimes made in transparent plastic. Made in East Germany.
• SFA – Tinplate toys from Paris.
• James Shackleton & Son – Diecast clockwork trucks. Look like Dinkys. Clockwork like Schuco. Late 1940s – early 1950s.
• Shantou City Chenghai Jingwei Industrial – RC and friction models particularly of licensed Corvettes.
• Sharp – Japanese plastic kits. 1:24 scale Beetles among others.
• Shehovtsov, Yuri – 1:43 scale Russian. Conversions of Tantal Models.
• Shelby Collectibles – Diecast Cobras, Mustangs and Aston Martins. Different scales.
• Shimazaki – Japanese tinplate toys of the 1950s and 1960s. Also known as SS.
• Shimizu Mokei – Japanese kits also labeled M.K. Pla.
• John Shinton Models – 1:43 scale and often F1 race cars.
• Shioji – Japanese tinplate from the mid-1950s. Also called SSS. Made Tiny Giant series of cars is about 1:38 scale.
• Roger Sills – Producer of promo-AMT-like 1955 resin Pontiacs and others.
• The Silver Crane Company – promo producer, for example 10 inch long Checker banks and vanity.
• Silverlit – Many remote control 1:16 scale vehicles. Many Ferraris.
• Simms – Plastic hot rods and the Batmobile from the late 1960s to early 1970s. At times associated with Aurora.
• Skid – 1:43 scale diecast of mainly rally cars. Lots of Mitsubishis.
• SKK Ichida – Tinplate toys from Japan from the early 1960s.
• SLM 43 – British 1:43 scale of British race cars from the 1930s. Made in France.
• SMEC – Balsa wood car kits.
• SONSCO – Japanese tinplate cars and motorcycles among myriad other toys.
• South Eastern Finecast – 1:43 scale model kits of classic English sports cars, mainly. Company was formerly Wills Finecast.
• Southern Cross Miniatures – 1:43 scale handbuilt LeMans cars from 1950s/1960s from Victoria, Australia.
• Spa Croft – British Manufacturer. Label like Danhausen, using models from many manufacturers? Nothing like Danhausen. Made by two pattern makers, cast by mainly one casting company, painted by mainly one company, assembled solely by GTA Models initially, then by Spa Croft Models, but always an original product, never a product by others. Like Somerville, producer of 1/43rd scale white metal models of British cars from the 1930s to the 1960s.
• Spark – Mostly 1:43 scale European, originally in resin, but now diecast. Strengths are 'back of the pack' Formula 1 and GP models. Guangdong province. Variety is reminiscent of Minichamps.
• SpecCast – Mostly 1:24 scale diecast line of Liberty Classics, Inc. headquartered in Dyersville, Iowa.
• Speed Models – Line of resin cars in 1:43 by ABC Models.
• S.R.C. Models – White metal F1 kits made in England.
• SS – Shimazaki. Japanese tinplate toys in the 1950s and 1960s.
• SSS International – Abbreviation for Shioji. Japanese tinplate toys, relation to SS is uncertain. Made Tiny Giant series in about 1:38 scale.
• Arthur Paddy Stanley – White metal pre-war German racers built in the early 1970s.
• Starline – 1:43 scale diecast. Mostly Italian cars, including Fiat, Lancia and Siata.
• Sterling – Plastics company making Auburn Rubber style nicely proportioned plastic (not rubber) cars. Often they had pencil sharpeners underneath.
• Steve's – 1:43 scale plaster models.
• Stomper – Line of pull back motored and smaller unmotored trucks and SUVs by Schaper. Made in Hong Kong & Macau.
• Straco – Plastic radio Controlled cars from about 1980s. Made in Hong Kong. Some interesting offerings like the Mercedes C-111 type 1.
• Streamlux – Australian manufacturer that eventually provided the tooling for 9 models that became the core of the Fun Ho! Midget Scale Models line in New Zealand.
• Strombecker – Slot car maker from the U.S. since the late '50s, later merged with Tootsietoy.
• Sturditoy – Pressed steel trucks 1926–1933. Made by the Pressed Metal Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
• Styling Models – a line of American '50s cars by BBR.
• Stylish Cars – very high end $800.00 hand built Duesenbergs made in Germany.
• Summer – Simple, but sometimes attractive Hong Kong 1:64. Identified by the triple pine tree logo with superimposed horse.
• Sun Motors Company – 1:43 scale collectibles from the UK made by Rod Ward.
• Superior Models – White metal kits in 1:24 and 1:43 scale.
• Superscale – English company of 1:43 scale trucks.
• Louis B. Surber S.A. – Made Max Models, Eligor, LBS, and Quiralu Re-editions in France.
• Suzuki Gangu – Japanese tinplate from the mid-1950s. Uncertain if related to motorcycle and real auto company.
• Swash Design – Resin Models designed by Masaya Saito.
• Swiss Mini 43 – 1:43 scale variety in resin, but several appear to be reproductions of Goldvargs.
• Sword – Diecast trucks similar to Conrad.
• SWORKz – Taiwanese radio-controlled off-road buggy

Aside it's only FEMCA Asian Champonships win (though not as prestigious nor as competitive in comparison to ROAR Nationals (in the US) and EFRA Euros), not a R/C majors frontrunner like XRAY, TLR, Associated, Kyosho etc; only thing of note was signing up double IFMAR champ Atsushi Hara (from Hot Bodies) only for short time therefore may scrape for notability, although do appear in major competitive events)

• SY – Japanese tinplate toy vehicles. Also known as Yoneya.

• Taguchi – Japanese Tinplate cars.
• Taiseiya Cherryca Phenix – Diecast from Japan. Often seen as only Cherryca Phenix.
• Taiyo Kogyo Company – Simple tin plate cars from Japan in the 1960s.
• Takatoku Toys – Name of TT toys, Japanese tinplate toy car maker.
• Tanaguchi – Japanese tinplate vehicles, also known as TKK.
• Tantal – Soviet/Russian 1:43 scale model maker or exporting organization established in Saratov. Tantal means tantalum in English, which is a very hard silver metal. Tantal is also a Russian weapons manufacturer that could have made models.
• Taylor & Barratt – Britain. Diecast race cars, buses, etc. from around from the 1930s and 1940s.
• Teama or Team A – Hong Kong producer of accurate plastic models including buses, trucks, ambulances and tractors. From 1:48 (tractor trailers) to 1:16 (forklifts).
• Technofix – French copies of original German tinplate race sets featuring motorcycles, cars, buses, etc.
• Tecnomodel – Handmade Resin Models in 1:18 and 1:43 scale made in Italy. Exclusive lines of Aston Martins, Lancias, Alfas, Maseratis, and McLarens.
• Tek-Hoby Miniature – Diecast and resin made in Switzerland. Mostly Swiss Sauer trucks and buses. Mostly 1:50 scale. Also, 1:43 scale Citroen Traccion Avant & Peugeots that look like copies of Dubrays.
• Teknoby – 1:43 scale handbuilts.
• Telsalda – Plastic vehicles of all kinds from Hong Kong.
• Tenariv – 1:43 scale F1 kits from France.
• Teplukhin – 1:43 diecast with plastic parts, alterations of Russian Miniature.
• This Way Up – F1 white metal handbuilt kits from South Africa.
• Julian Thomas – Replicas of cast iron originals from the late 1970s.
• Thomas Toy – Plastic and metal made by Keystone.
• Tiger Hobbies – 1:48 military associated with Hobby Master.
• [[Timpo / TimpoToys]] – British die-cast manufacturer.
• Ting – Balsa wood truck kits from the late 1930s.
• Tipp & Co. – Classic tinplate vehicles from Nuremberg, Germany, 1912–1933.
• TKK – Japanese toy tinplate vehicles – apparently acronym for Tanaguchi.
• TN – also Nomura. Japanese tinplate cars.
• TO Models – All decades of 1:43 scale military Soviet trucks. Made in Ukraine.
• Togi – Italy. Special Alfa Romeo promotionals from the Alfa factory.
• Tomiyama – More accurate Japanese tinplate toys. Predecessor name to Tomy.
• Tonkin – Diecast trucks about 1:64 scale. Made in the 1980s.
• Top Gear – Remote control vehicle manufacturer including weird things like a Triumph Herald with a sail, and water crossing vehicles, amidst regular Ferrari fare.
• Top Gear Pty – Australian diecast manufacturer. Makes models under its own banner and owns the Trax Models line of "Australian Motoring History".
• Top Gold Model – Classic odd race cars like old Bugattis. Does not appear to be Top Model.
• Toriumi factory – Early 1950s factory making Marusan tin toys.
• Total Model – 1:43 scale F1 kits.
• Totem Industries – Balsa wood 'Jet' cars and others from about 1950.
• Touchwood Models – 1:3 scale pedal cars and then different scales of land speed record cars and boats, from Norfolk, England. Relation to Omicron Models uncertain.
• Tough Wheels – Kidco line of Matchbox sized cars.
• Toy World Collectibles – Diecast 1:43 scale Ferraris, Renaults, Vespas, more low brow and in blister card similar package.
• Toy Zone – Diecast Hot Rods in different sizes, particularly Tom Daniels Hot Wheels / Monogram style rods brought back.
• Toys For Collectors – White metal 1:43 made by Western Models for this U.S. store.
• TP – Truck models – related to Conrad.
• TPI-Me-Mod – Resin kits made in Switzerland.
• Transpub – 1:43 resin handbuilt commercial cars. Made in France.
• Trends Haynes – 1:32 scale British car kits.
• TRL Models – 1:43 and 1:18 Chinese resin models. Mercedes and Rolls-Royce.
• Tron Models – White metal models by Paolo Rampini from Italy.
• Tru-Scale – Tonka-like pressed tin and diecast miniatures like the International Scout.
• True Scale Miniatures – 1:18 and 1:43 resin models made in Hong Kong and USA.
• True-to-Type Products – Hereford, England. Made Knight's Head Precision Toys.
• TSM – Acronym for True Scale Miniatures.
• Tsugawa – Tiny models from Japan. About 1" long.
• TT – Japanese tinplate toy car maker.
• Tudor Rose – Britain. Plastic trucks and buses. "Tudor Rose Toys for Girls and Boys".
• Tuf Tots – HO diecast line of DCMT Lone Star of England.
• Twin Cam – 1:43 scale resin models of '60s Jaguars and Bentleys.

• Ulrich – HO scale diecast Kenworth semi trucks and tankers.
• Underwood Engineering – New Zealand diecaster making the Fun Ho line in the 1960s.
• Union – Japanese plastic kits from the 1970s.
• Unique Toys – full name, more commonly known as UT Models.
• Universal – 1:43 scale white metal figurines (Ukraina).
• UPC – 1:43 scale plastic model kits of European brass era cars like 1911 Renault & 1914 Mercer. From the 1960s. Also large scale plastic cars.
• USA Models – Mostly white metal handbuilts. A line of Motor City USA.
• US Model Mint – Line of white metal models by SMTS.
• Uralskiy Sokol – 1:43 scale Russian models of older Soviet cars and military vehicles. Often GAZ. Made in Ekaterinburg.

• Varney – Small plastic kits of construction vehicles and others.
• Vatutin Toy Factory – 1:43 scale diecast from Kiev, Ukraine.
• Vector Models – Mostly buses. Mostly 1:43 scale. Made in the Ukraine.
• Vertex – Line made in Ukraine by Volodymyr Pivtorak.
• VF Modelauto – Handbuilt models in 1:43 scale from Germany.
• Victoria – Military vehicles, resin, made in Italy, defunct in the 1990s.
• Viking – Toylike Swedish cars, but occasional realistic Volvo.
• Villa Model – 1:43 scale kits, often of F1 cars.
• Vilmer – Denmark. Early diecast make later related to Kirk and Tekno.
• Vision Models – Taiwan manufacturer of military and racing cars.
• Viva Scale Models – 1:43 scale special use GAZ trucks like a drilling rig. From Belarus.
• Volchanetsky – 1:43 scale YA and Jag trucks from the 1920s – 1930s. Made in Zaporizhia, Ukraine.
• V.Olga – 1:43 scale GAZ and ZIL and other special trucks and buses. Made in Rivne, Ukraine.
• Vroom – 1:43 scale kits and handbuilts, often Bugattis.
• K. Vshivtsev – 1:43 scale tinplate models made in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan.

• Walldorf – German 1:43 scale white metal.
• Wells Brimtoy – Company made Welsotoys plastic models in about 1:20 scale and others.
• Welsotoys – Plastic models often in 1:20 scale. Made by Wells Brimtoy.
• West-Craft – Punch out cardboard Jeeps from the late 1940s.
• Western Stamping Corporation – Pressed steel toys made in Korea like the mail Jeep.
• Wheat's Nostalgia – 1:25 scale resin models, kits and built up.
• WhiteBox or White Box – A line of Model Car World.
• Wilkins Toy Company. – Made Kingsbury Toys in the '20s – '30s in pressed steel.
• Wills Finecast – English producer of white metal kits in 1:43 scale. Often MGs. Later became South Eastern Finecast.
• Don Winter – 1:48 scale early steam vehicles and tractors.
• WMS – Abbreviation for Western Models.
• WSI – Specialized diecast models, something like NZG, like the Dutch FTF truck with deluxe edition book.
• Wyn Edwards – LSR vehicles, probably resin. Made in England.

• XCM – Tracked tanks and personnel carriers of all types. Made in Kazakhstan.
• Xinghui Auto Model Co. Ltd. – Makes Rastar diecast in Shantou, Guangdong, China.
• XQ – Remote control Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Ford GT40s, tanks, and buggies.

• Yamada SDM – Japanese plastic kits in the 1970s and 1980s.
• Yamazaki – Japanese company making 1950s tinplate toys and gold colored metal promotional ashtray 9" models specially cased.
• Yaxon – Group 5 and Formula 1 diecast cars made in Italy.
• Yeah Racing – R/C cars and accessories
• Yekaterinburg Laboratory – 1:43 scale diecast models made in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• Yodel – Japanese plastic kits.
• Yonewa – Japanese tinplate cars] – uncertain if related to Yonezawa below. Sometimes seen as SY Yoneya.
• Yoneya – Japanese tinplate vehicles – relationship, if any, to Yonewa above or the more modern Yonezawa below is uncertain.
• Yoshiyo – Japanese tinplate toys.
• Young Engineer – English plastic kits (like of Ford sedans) from the 1950s.
• YOW Modellini – Japanese 1:43 specialty kits & models of concept and one-off vehicles.
• Y.Udarce – Member of GMM Minigrad. Soviet tractor models.
• YVS – MAZ, Zil, BAZ, American and German heavy military vehicles and construction equipment. Made in Minsk, Belarus.

• ZAP – Remote control vehicles including NASCAR stock cars.
• ZAZ Kommunar – 1:35 scale plastic models of ZAZ cars made in the factory.
• Zebra Toys – White metal reproductions of Morestone and maybe other toys.
• Adam Zhukovsky – MAZ container and dumper trucks, Minsk, Belarus.
• ZIL – Possibly same as ZIL auto factory also making 1:43 diecast.
• Z-Tanks – KZKT and other Soviet tanks.
• Zvezda – Military model plastic kits. Apparently Russian.
• Zwicky – 1:43 scale resin pre-assembled models.

The red entries will turn to blue when you create the new articles. If you use a different article name then update this list appropriately or just delete it from this list after adding it to the article.  Stepho  talk  06:40, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Don't forget to check WP:GNG and WP:CORP, Creating a hundred articles whose only source is a listing in a sale catalogue will create massive drama (we have been there before). Otherwise: fill your boots, but please start by disambiguating any of the blue links above which are not actually relevant (whic is every single one I have checked so far). Guy (Help!) 21:44, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

An example of the problem

• ABC Hobby – Japanese radio-controlled cars

Issues:

1. It's a redlink and it probably always will be a red link because I didn't find anything in the first few pages of Google results that would be usable.
2. The source is not a WP:RS.
3. Even if it were reliable, the source is not about the subject: it has some pictures of a car which claim to be made by a company with this name but there's nothing about the company, and to state that it makes models of this kind of car is synthesis. So it des not support the statement or the entry in the list.

I know these things are niche, but there are magazines devoted to car models, both collectable and RC. That is the kind of source that's needed. Guy (Help!) 21:40, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

You might not be "find anything useful on Google", not for a brand whose notability is limited to it's home country. You'll find most of the source in here, particularly the early part, though I don't know much Japanese. Donnie Park (talk) 00:07, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Why is the redrc reference not considered reliable? Red RC is a professional news company, not just some simple blog or forum.

Searching for "ＡＢＣホビ" (Japanese for "ABC Hobby") gives plenty of results - mostly Japanese of course. There is also a US arm of the company at http://abchobbyusa.com/about-us.aspx . Using Donnie's link I searched for "hirosaka" (Masami Hirosaka is an RC world champ) and found http://www.rcmx.net/modules/wordpress1/ where he lists major accomplishments - including Japanese grand prix's sponsored by ABC Hobby.

Surely a Japanese company that is still running after 48 years, sponsors competitions big enough to attract world champs, hires world champs and also has a US arm is more than a back room guy making a handful of models. Granted that this is not quite enough to actually build an article but it does show it is worthy of having an article and that an interested editor could build an article with a bit more digging. I am concerned that you were willing to dismiss it as "probably always will be a red link" after such a meagre search. This is why WP:REDLINKS is useful for encouraging new articles.  Stepho  talk  00:12, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Whilst this OP claiming this brand isn't notable enough to be listed, well I managed to find this scan from a 80s French magazine (Auto 8) Donnie Park (talk) 22:59, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Please try to focus on the actual issue here. I am not saying that this is categorically not notable, what I am saying is that notability is not substantiated here, and Google shows it may be impossible to do so. Read the general notability guidline: the litmus test is significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. If you want RedRC to qualify as a source you have to show that it has an editorial board, fact checking, and a reputation for reliability established by, for example, being quoted by other reliable sources such as newspapers and magazines. This is absolutely standard for Wikipedia, noth in any way special to this subject area. Remember, Wikipedia is not a directory. Your passion for the subject is obvious and your belief that X, Y and Z| manufacturers are plainly of surpassing importance is clear, but you have to demonstrate that they meet inclusion guidelines, by reference to the same kind of sources every other subject has to use. Virtually every source you discuss turns out to be a catalogue listing or a review of a specific model, and only in extremely rare cases have you provided anything at all that is about the company. Teasing an article out of product reviews is simply not allowed by Wikipedia policy. Guy (Help!) 07:53, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

to qualify as a source you have to show that it has an editorial board - I don't know if you are aware though I don't care about the static modelling industry anymore as I stopped collecting model cars years ago but since I started working on articles of R/C racing in 2014, I noticed that modelling magazines, especially those of R/C cars (especially with "an editorial board"), are becoming a dying breed. AFAIK, all French ones are now extinct; the longest running R/C car magazines, RCCI of the UK, folded in late 2015 after being in existence since 1981, thus the title goes to America's Radio Control Car Action (founded in 1985). These professional websites such as Red RC, NeoBuggy and Live RC, consisting of freelancers, are killing them. Thus in the future, what if all print magazines and newspapers becomes extinct and one-man news media like these websites I mentioned takes over? Are you all going to say these are not relaible third party sources. Donnie Park (talk) 14:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Specialist magazines are thriving in some areas, not in others. In some case they are now online, but still with editorial boards run by provable experts. In other case, they are just fansites and not usable for Wikipedia. We don't rewrite our policies in order to allow us to keep articles on subjects that can't meet them, though. Guy (Help!) 21:18, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

References

Another toy car brand

There is another toy car brand not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, and it's called Tiny from Toyeast Limited. Link:https://www.tiny.com.hk/ 2601:249:A00:8C30:6485:B3B0:392:F2D (talk) 22:35, 25 January 2024 (UTC)