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.
A
Steve Adams: founder of Adams Models
Harold Alden: early aircraft modeler and industry promoter
John Allen: influential model railroader
John Amendola: kit-box artist
Mel Anderson: gas engine designer (for flying scale aircraft) John Andrews: artist, kit designer and marketer for Hawk Ray Arden: inventor of the Glo-Plug William Atwood: engine designer (for flying scale aircraft)
B
Charlie Bauer: flying aircraft kit designer
Adrien Bertin: R/C car glowplug engine designer
Edward Beshar: early model designer and builder
Jack Besser: co-founder of Monogram Models
Maxwell Basset: gas-powered model pioneer
Pieter Bervoets: co-founder of Serpent
Dick Branstner: co-founder of MPC, kit designer, creator of the 'Color Me Gone' dragsters William Brown IV: created first successful gas engine for mass-marketed flying aircraft
C
Bill Campbell: illustrator, kit-box art designer/painter; creator of the Weird-Ohs and Silly Surfers series for Hawk Tom Carter: industry executive Bill Coulter: writer; builder; kit-developer James "Jim" Petit Cox (1910-1993): illustrator, kit-box art designer/painter. Notably associated with Aurora John Cuomo (1901-1971): first salesman for Aurora Bill Cushenbery: custom kit designer, notably associated with AMT Roger Curtis: Co-founder of Associated Electrics and R/C car designer (RC10, RC12)
D
Tom Daniel: kit-designer of custom and caricature subjects for Monogram Models
Bruce Devlin: Laboratory Manager of wind tunnel testing and engineering flow modeling company Airflow Sciences Corporation
E
Billy Easton: R/C car designer for Serpent (and previously Team Durango) Scott Eidson: kit-box artist Fred Ertl, Sr.: founder of the Ertl Company
F
Jacque Fresco (1916–): co-founder of Revell
G
West Gallogly: founder of AMT
Lorenzo Ghiglieri: kit-box artist
Joseph E. Giammarino (1916–1992): co-founder of Aurora Plastics Corporation
"Dirty Donny" Gillies: kit-box artist
Lewis H. Glaser (1917-1972): co-founder of Revell
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. Paul K. Guillows: founder of GHQ Model Airplane Company (later known as Guillows) Leonardo Garofali: co-founder of SG Racing Cars and Blitz Model Technica Jaures Garofali: founder of Super Tigre Saturno micromecanica
