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wife, Romy, took over the business and formed Paul's Model Art in the late 1990s, which is a name still used alongside the main line of
Minichamps. Paul's Model Art started a trend of moving production to China – as labor costs made models too expensive to fabricate in Europe. Generally, diecast models were increasingly made for adult clientele – so the industry was entering a new era when models would not be played with by younger folk, so the question of cars holding their value (that is, with more surviving for longer periods of time) became a central question.
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Related to UT Models, in 2004, a lawsuit in Hong Kong courts was initiated by Paul's Model Art as the plaintiff. UT Models and
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and the cars provided were given several different names; one was 'SD Modelle', another 'Metal 43', 'Plumbies' and 'Plumbies Inter'. Yet another was to go on to become the permanent name for the company – Minichamps by
Danhausen, at first mainly a range of racing cars. Reportedly, the first model
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was a trade company established in 1921 which sold a variety of products like bicycles and motorscooters. As time passed it focused more on toys and by 1971 the company was owned by the
Grandsons of Emma Danhausen, Hans Peter and Paul Gunter Lang. At this time the Lang brothers moved into selling
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During the 1990s, in collaboration with Kelvin Kwan of Unique Toys (UT Models), Hong Kong, a line of 1:18 scale models was introduced. Kwan had apparently pushed for development of most of the selection for the UT series of model cars. A small line of 1:64 models called "MicroChamps" was also
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cars and other racing cars, road cars, 1:12 scale motorcycles, trucks, buses, and military vehicles. Cars in 1:43 scale have exceptional detail including items like badges in the center of steering wheels and hubcaps, and separately molded parts for windshield visors, door handles, air vents,
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annually from 1971 to 1993, which was the last word in available 1:43 scale models worldwide. The last edition of the catalog in 1993 was 350 pages long and listed 15,000 models.
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