The car model, namely the car model, is a scale model made strictly according to the shape, structure, color, and even the interior parts of the real car. The car model has a high collection value because it truly represents the main features of the original car and is well made. A set of carefully collected car models can completely and truly reproduce the history of a car company and a car brand.
be born
The first batch of car models in the world was born in 1914. At that time, when Ford Motor Factory in the United States was selling new T-type cars, it also gave buyers a small model of sophisticated T-type cars. Ford's original intention was purely to compete with General Motors. However, it was unexpected that Liu and Liu did not want to make a living. Once this gift car model was introduced, it was quickly loved by car lovers. The automobile manufacturers then rushed to follow suit, launching new models while launching new cars. In 1925, Buick mini car models appeared, and then various brands of car models also appeared in Britain, France and other European countries. According to incomplete statistics, in the past 90 years, automobile manufacturers around the world have launched tens of thousands of models of automobiles, breaking the monopoly of production and collection of automobile models in Europe and the United States, and gradually developing into a collection and investment project popular around the world.
As of 2012, all domestic car model enthusiasts have shown a significant upward trend. According to relevant media reports, there have been more than one million professional car model players.
definition
The simulated car model is a handicraft made by strictly scaling down the shape, structure, color, and even interior parts of the real car.
1. The simulation vehicle model must have the original vehicle model it represents. The original vehicle model is reduced according to a certain standard proportion. The common proportions are 1/12, 1/18, 1/24, 1/43, 1/64 and 1/87. The accuracy of the proportion with the original vehicle is one of the important standards to measure the manufacturing level of a vehicle model. The size design of toy cars can be large or small, very casual.
2. In order to faithfully reproduce the real car, the model maker will not modify and exaggerate the appearance of the prototype car in the slightest, let alone imagine a car out of thin air. Many toy cars may also imitate a real car, but manufacturers often make arbitrary modifications according to customers' preferences and production technology limitations. Toy designers can also give full play to their imagination to launch cars that do not exist in reality, but this imagination is "not allowed" for models. In addition to the overall appearance, the details of the car model should also be highly simulated. Often, the entire car model will be composed of hundreds or more parts. Each part is a reduction of the corresponding parts of the original car model. The more parts of the car model, the more detailed the parts are, indicating the higher the manufacturing process of this car model.
However, the details of toy cars are far from the level of car models, and many details are ignored or made of the same material.
3. The car model is made of high-grade metal, plastic or resin materials. The processing technology requirements are high, and the requirements for painting almost reach the level of the real car.
4. The car model manufacturer must obtain the authorization of the original manufacturer to make the model of a certain model, otherwise it will infringe the intellectual property rights, for which the car model manufacturer may have to pay a certain fee. In order to manufacture high-precision models, manufacturers also need technical support from the original factory to provide accurate data. These are what toy designers need.