An Aviation Enthusiast´s Kit Collection Home How it All Began Plastic Kits 50´s & 60´s Plastic Kits 1970 up Various Topics Books 50´s & 60´s Contact back to 1970 Fischer Modelle In Plastic Aircraft Kits of the 20th Century [1] John Burns states in his entry for FISCHER MODELLE West Germany, not producing Though these kits appeared more frequently as built-ups using the NOCH logo, they were also marketed briefly as kits in the mid 1960´s. There have been reports of a single kit containing both the Boelkow Phoebus and Boelkow Jr. gliders but this has not been confirmed . He lists the following kits, scale is 1/87 (HO) throughout: FM-1B Ka-10 FM-4B Ka-10 w/trailer FM-6B Boelkow Phoebus FM-8B Boelkow Jr. FM-12B Schleicher ASK-13 FM-14B Schleicher ASK-13 w/trailer FM-15B Hang Glider FM-16B Dornier Do-28 Additionally I found in an auction: FM 5 Flugzeughalle ( Hangar). On the website of 87thScale.info there is listed a car FM 2 VW Karmann Ghia II distributed by Modell International .Ovbiously this is the tug of the set FM-4B Ka-10 w/ trailer, listed above. From an e-mail contacts in August and September 2010 I got the following information from U.G. who was auqainted with Mr. Fischer.: Mr. Fischer passed away in 2001. His wife sold all kits to a private collector in Stuttgart, Germany. The moulds were bought by Weinert company in Weye, Germany (still existing as Weinert Modellbau ). But there are no kits on store there. Another information from R.B. : He sold Fischer sailplanes in bags without any lettering in the kiosk of the mountain rescue service on the Waserkuppe gliding center in Germany. To my present knowledge (11.Aug 2010 ) four companies issued kits resp. models based on FISCHER MODELLE moulds. BUSH NOCH MODELL INTERNATIONAL BASTEL STOEVEN In the Modeling column of FLYING REVIEW INTERNATIONAL Vol22 No 14 October 1967 W R Matthews reviews a "Fischer" kit: " GERMAN SAILPLANE A new West German company, Fisher, has issued a neat little model to 1/87th scale of the Ka-10 sailplane. This is accurate and extremely well made, and it can be assembled literally in two minutes.It forms part of a set which comprises a VW Karman Ghia coupé , a trailer for the ailplane (the wings of which are detachable to alow loading) and a hangar. By the use of all these items an attractive gliding scene may be assembled. A similar set comprising a Boelkow Phoebus sailplane, a Boelkow Junior tug, a winch, windsock and six figures will be issued shortly. References [1]   Burns (2003) Fischer Modelle Picture 1: FM-1B Ka-10. Yellow plastic. Picture 2: FM15B. Hanggleiter (slope glider) back to 1970 Home How it All Began Plastic Kits 50´s & 60´s Plastic Kits 1970 up Various Topics Books 50´s & 60´s Contact Started: 06.11.2009 Revised last: 12.08.2013 Author: cjk  © Pictures cjk if not otherwise stated