Richard Vyškovský (13 July 1929 – 1 August 2019)
was a
Czech
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architect and creator of paper models.
In 1960s Vyškovský worked for the ''State institute for reconstruction of historic towns and monuments'' (SÚRPMO) in
Prague
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. After a discussion with
colleagues, complaining about the limited availability of die-cast
Matchbox
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scale cars sold in the
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
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only in
Tuzex
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shops, he decided to create similar models from paper.
His first model was designed after a die-cast Packard Landaulet model manufactured by
Lesney Products
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Lesney was founded on 19 J ...
under code Y-11 in the series ''Models of Yesteryear''.
In October 1968 the newspaper ''Lidová demokracie'' published a short article about "
ing.
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Blecha and his colleague" accompanied by photos of paper models Mercedes 38/220 and Packard Landaulet.
The state-owned publishing house SNDK and Vladislav Toman, editor in chief of ABC magazine, showed interest in publishing paper models by Blecha/Vyškovský.
Already in 1968 SNDK published their paper
diorama
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"''
Hussite
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siege of
Karlštejn
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''". ABC Magazine published a simplified paper model of a Packard Landaulet in March 1969. In the following seven years Blecha and Vyškovský published in ABC and SNDK/Albatros a series of further paper models, including a vast model of
Prague Castle
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. From 1976 Vyškovský designed the models for ABC and Albatros on his own. The first published self model was Formula 1
Ferrari 312-T2 of
Niki Lauda
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for ABC. Since 1997 his models have also been published by the company ERKO''typ'', which is co-owned by his son Richard.
[Commercial register at justice.cz, company number (IČ) 25101226, ERKOTYP, s.r.o., since the incorporation on 21 January 1997 is Richard Vyškovský (born 1968) co-owner and managing director of the company]
Books with paper models
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References
External links
Three free modelsin pdf format on the website of state-owned
Czech Radio
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(manual only in Czech)
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1929 births
2019 deaths
Czech architects
Scale modeling