it details the history of model building from 200,000 years B.C. until today. some of you might recognise some of the older models, hopefully not from 200,000 years ago
you can see models were made from stone and then wood, there is a model boat taken from tutankhamen’s tomb. as technology evolved, metal started to be used.
solid metal models were replaced by hollow metal castings which made the models lighter and cheaper to produce. next came plastic and then resin models and you can see molds that may look familiar to you.
and now ladies and gents i will show off a multitude of models (so Brian for the purple prose) that are on display. i am quite sure you will recognise some of them from various magazine articles etc.
Thanks for taking the time to both photograph and post all this David. I had no idea the museum was so big or had so many models on display. There is so much variety on display with interesting bits from the production side as well. Some of these I’ve seen in their publications (or other publications) but many I’ve never seen before. Just a great thread to look through!
David thank you for taking the time to take the photos and post them. Some excellent builds I especially liked the 4 scenes with the different jeeps and seasons all using the same base.
Yes I had and still have some of those old kits the Airfix emergency set is in the stash.
Great pictures. The museum is well done, although I’m a bit biased since I did much of the English caption editing…
AK is actually hoping to expand the museum into a larger building (and thus with more displays) in the future.
I believe most of the kits on display are on loan from @Uncle-Heavy’s stash. The two “figures” on the extreme left of the first photo are misdated; they are recent sculpting attempts of mine…
Cheers,
Yes, there is a shop attached to the museum (or rather museum attached to the shop, since you go through the shop to get to museum), with lots of items. Of course, what isn’t out on the shelves is in the warehouse, which is only a few steps away, so if it’s on the website it’s available.
@Karl187 the museum isn’t that big but remember all the items are scaled replicas so they can fit a lot in. my wife assured me i spent 2 hours in there as i left her at the cash desk on a chair talking to the 3 women there.
@jfeenstra first of all thank you for doing the translations into English. i would like to know more about their plans to expand the museum, would it be completed for this time next year? they do have an upstairs section which is used as a storeroom for the shop.
@Tojo72 the shop isn’t as big as i had hoped for but caters to all aspects of modelling particularly post construction, paints, weathering, etc. there are models to choose from but because they are aiming at everyone trains, planes and automobiles etc there is only a sensible amount on each subject, in short they don’t specialise or focus on one subject so there isn’t umpteen shermans…they didn’t have any afvclub stuff there and i was looking for some. Yes they have plenty AK products.
I believe the intent is to build a new building, so it will take a few years before they have the new museum in place. The upstairs was actually the old offices and the back the old warehouse; they just relocated the warehouse and offices to a building down the block last fall/this spring, so that’s why the upstairs is being used as a storeroom.
