My Lineol additions for 2010...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

That is correct in both cases Sergey.
The former factory of the VEB Plaho was in other hands before, and had different names and products in their production before, but mainly toys.
They managed to buy or get some of the original moulds from the Lineol factory from before, and so they could copy many of their models in a smaller scale, and in plastics of course...
I forgot the name of the sculptor that worked for Lineol in those early days, but he was a master in his work, as he made those models in a time that almost nobody wa able to see those animals in real life, maybe not even from pictures....
For Christophe and me, they are still the kings in the modelling field, and the painting, colouration and modelling does represent very often the real animal indeed!

...Thank,Willy for your interesting explanation .

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

That is correct in both cases Sergey.
The former factory of the VEB Plaho was in other hands before, and had different names and products in their production before, but mainly toys.
They managed to buy or get some of the original moulds from the Lineol factory from before, and so they could copy many of their models in a smaller scale, and in plastics of course...
I forgot the name of the sculptor that worked for Lineol in those early days, but he was a master in his work, as he made those models in a time that almost nobody wa able to see those animals in real life, maybe not even from pictures....
For Christophe and me, they are still the kings in the modelling field, and the painting, colouration and modelling does represent very often the real animal indeed!

I have a book about the Lineol models but unfortunately I don't read German so I can't answer you...

You could always send it to me, for the right explanation and translation...