Revell GmbH is an American-origin manufacturer of plastic scale models, currently based in Bünde, Germany. The original Revell company merged with Monogram in 1986, becoming "Revell-Monogram". The business operated until 2007, when American Revell was purchased by Hobbico, while the German subsidiary "Revell Plastics GmbH" had separated from the American firm in 2006 until Hobbico purchased it in 2012, bringing the two back together again under the same company umbrella. After the Hobbico demise in 2018, Quantum Capital Partners (QCP) acquired Revell.
Revell corporate headquarters in Bünde
A young boy paints a Revell model of the South Goodwin Lightship
A Revell built model of the SMS Dresden from 1907
A 1:72 scale Revell Heinkel He 111
Ship models or model ships are scale models of ships. They can range in size from 1/6000 scale wargaming miniatures to large vessels capable of holding people.
Model of a 19th-century vessel in the Bishop Museum, Hawaii
Model ship cross sections on display in a shop in Mauritius
model ship from a tomb, Ancient Egypt, c. 2000 BCE
Church votive hanging in a church; the workmanship is somewhat crude, but sufficient to identify it as mid-19th-century