Cy Broman was an innovator in the scratch
building of 1:1200 models. Broman started HR Products in the early 1960's and
operated it until his death in 1993. HR Products still produce metal parts in
various scales for ship model builders. Broman scratch built models starting as
far back as before WW II. In the early 1960's he experimented with a number of
new mediums for scratch building. The CAVINA incorporates some of these. The
hull is wood, but the superstructure is made from plastic sheet, and many of the
parts are metal or brass. Later, on some of his models he tried cast resin
parts, including even resin hulls. Today, we take resin, and the use of sheet
plastic in modeling as a given, but in the early 1960's these materials were
relatively new for scratch building, and resins in particular were nowhere near
as good or as easy to use as they are today.
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