In Italy, modelling began during the 1960s wih a few companies like Artiplast (initially Plastic Toys), Aliplast (which became later Italaerei, the finally Italeri) and ESCI. ESCI actually brought many innovations to the world of modelling with the first wide-scale distribution of additional decal sheets, the first large scale military motorcycles, the first European 1/72 AFV models, the first to issue multiple variants of the same model with different detail parts of marking, the first (and so far only) kits of large-scale fighter aircraft cockpits among other innovations.
20cm x 24cm, Soft-Cover, 82 sites, many Color Pictures, text in english, by Jean-Christophe Carbonel.
