Trumpeter is a Chinese company that manufactures plastic
injection moulded
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scale model kits. Their product line consists of model
ships
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,
aircraft
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,
cars and
military ground vehicles. The company is located in
Zhongshan
Zhongshan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is now part of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen conurbation with 65,565,622 ...
,
China
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, just north of
Macau
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. All of the design and development is done at this site and production facilities on site extend to full mold making engineering using
spark erosion
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fabrication process whereby a desired shape is obtained by using electrical discharges (sparks). Material i ...
techniques. The factory has the capacity to take production from computer design right through to packaging with some outsourcing done on things like
photo etched parts. Not only are they making models for the Trumpeter label but, under license, also for a number of other brands like
Hobby Boss
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,
Mini Hobby and even
Fujimi Mokei
is a Japanese model manufacturer based in Shizuoka Prefecture. It produces plastic model kits of a variety of vehicles, including model aircraft, model cars, model ships and model armored vehicles along with historical structures and science fic ...
and
Pit-Road.
Armor models
Trumpeter make military vehicle kits in 1/35 and 1/72 scale.
Ship models
Trumpeter plastic models of ships are produced in 1:200, 1:350, 1:500 and 1:700 scale, although 1:350 and 1:700 are dominating. Trumpeter has a cooperation with Japanese ship model manufacturer Pit-Road for kits in 1:700 scale. These kits are usually available under the Pit-Road label in Japan and under the Trumpeter label in the rest of the world.
Aircraft models
Trumpeter produces kits of airplanes in 1:350, 1:144, 1:72, 1:48, 1:32 and 1:24 scale.
References
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External links
Trumpeter's Homepage
Model manufacturers of China