168 pages over 600 color and b / w photos and valuable reprints 28.5 x 26.5 cm, linen bound with dust jacket The book in the anniversary year: 85 years of model history For 85 years, there are the famous miniatures from the Wiking model workshops - the anniversary book tells the impressive history of the models and their makers. "Wiking Car Dreams" takes the reader back to the beginning, when the former young publisher of animal books, Friedrich Peltzer, turns his childish passion into a business model. Initially, he miniaturized ships, invented the later world-wide scale 1: 1250, then he built 200-fold smaller aircraft and first transport models. Since the war, each generation can fulfill their own individual Wiking car dreams - Friedrich Peltzer and his legendary model builder Alfred Kedzierski launch a model-making complete work after the currency reform in 1948, which continues to thrill and inspire people. Wiking stands for a very individual, A unique model worldThe book gives a chronological overview of the different epochs, makes the mind of the makers tangible and shows in impressive photo series why people so passionately collect Wiking models to this day. For the many thousands of enthusiasts, the small cars have become life companions - often from childhood on. Unique dioramas can be seen as well as rare models. The book presents plagiarism that has never been able to achieve anything like the fascination and aura of its miniaturized role models. Wiking - as the book with over 600 illustrations makes clear - stands for a completely individual, unique model world. Purist, simply unmistakable. This extraordinary status of the traditional model brand has remained untouched to this day. Many stories, Impressive eyewitness accounts and previously unpublished documents from 85 years describe the Wiking model history on 168 pages and complete the brand image in all its multifaceted details - even beyond Germany. As it really was. The book becomes a richly illustrated contrast program of history and the present, making the exciting model myth Wiking understandable as a large world of small miniatures. It's about emotions - otherwise Wiking cars would never have been so successful and thus became the chronicler of automotive history. The book becomes a richly illustrated contrast program of history and the present, making the exciting model myth Wiking understandable as a large world of small miniatures. It's about emotions - otherwise Wiking cars would never have been so successful and thus became the chronicler of automotive history. The book becomes a richly illustrated contrast program of history and the present, making the exciting model myth Wiking understandable as a large world of small miniatures. It's about emotions - otherwise Wiking cars would never have been so successful and thus became the chronicler of automotive history.