This list contains the names of significant contributors to the history and development of the scale-model and model-kit industry, including engineers, artists, designers, draftsmen, tool-makers, executives, historians and promoters.
This list does not include people primarily notable for the competitive operation of a scale-model vehicle, unless they have a notable career as designers or executives or outside of the hobby industry such as car designers.
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Steve Adams: founder of Adams Models
Harold Alden: early aircraft modeler and industry promoter
Walt Good: considered "the father of remote-control aircraft modeling"
Carl Goldberg: model aircraft designer and industry executive
Kevin Gowland, John Gowland and Jack Gowland: co-founders of Gowland and Gowland; the company's
Highway Pioneers line of early car model kits was marketed by
Revell in the early '50s, and was instrumental in the early growth of the scale model hobby in the US.