My uncle was a big collector of things. From him I have a Alcan Aerie ORO 240-270 "Locomotora de Vapor" sealed in the box. Very interesting looking model. Quite tempted to open it up.
On Friday, March 6, 2009 11:51:22 AM UTC-5, gunnar wrote: > > Hej Todde > Some years ago I visited the Alcan company in Vigo in Spain. They also > gave > me an invitation to the Nürnberg Toy fair. Card models was one of their > nicely designed paper products. > What specially interested me besides their ship models (they even had a > model of the Wasa ship) was their interesting line of R/C airplane models, > all constructed out of specially treated cardboard. The biggest R/C model > was a huge three engined Junkers Ju52 - all constructed of cardboard and > delivered as a kit. > Somewhere I should have a picture of the Alcan T-Ford built by my friend > Jan > Ohlson in Kalmar and used for a nice diorama. > Gunnar > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "tord" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > To: "Papermodels II" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:11 AM > Subject: [Papermodels II 34929] Re: Alcan papermodels > > I tried my favorite supplier in Germany, Moduni/HMV but they hadn´t > anything from Alcan. But they have lots of other things... I saw > pictures from a few of Alcan cars and became interested of building > some of them, or all of them... But as usual am I to late for that I > think. So I guess I had to finish my french Spiderman and his fingers > tonight instead. > Todde > > On 5 Mar, 15:14, tord <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone knows anything about those models that this company have > > published. I have found out that the company was established 1993 - > > 2004 After that it seemed to be gone. > > > > http://www.cardfaq.org/faq/reviews.html#s-alcan > > > > thru this site have I found out that they had several interresting > > cars. So do anyone here know anything about those models? > > > > Tord > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
