Arbeitskreis Geschichte des Kartonmodellbaus (AGK) e.V.

The "Arbeitskreis Geschichte des Kartonmodellbaus (AGK) e.V." is a German non-profit association. We investigate and document the history of card modeling (papercraft) in Germany, Europe and all over the world from its beginning (around 500 years ago) to the present. Our principal work is the maintenance and expansion of our public databases of Card models and Publisher catalogues and the publication of our annual magazine "Zur Geschichte des Kartonmodellbaus" (on the history of card modeling, in German language).
We are not affiliated to publishers or other institutions nor are we dependent on revenue from sales or advertising, but we encourage an active cooperation with any interested publishers and printers, authors and museums.
Are you interested in what we do? Then please have a look around.

We do not operate an online shop or mail order for currently available sheets. However, the AGK receives model sheets from estates or donations, which are sold at trade fairs or in our online shop.
Sometimes people ask us whether we are interested in workshop reports. The answer is: Yes, we are, but only if they are helpful for our research on a publisher, designer or a specific (historically important) model; we do not offer advice to modelers about how to construct their models. There are other platforms on the web that offer that kind of assistance.

These illustrations are all from the French publisher Pellerin in Epinal. They are intended to introduce our current publication Die "Constructions" [Modellbaubogen] der Imagerie d'Epinal Pellerin 1862 - 1995. see more information

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Pellerin 1002 La maison du forgeron

Pellerin 1205 Wagons

Pellerin 1380 Aeroplane-biplan...

Pellerin 192 Chambre a coucher

Pellerin 277 Le Louvre

Pellerin 29 (43) Case indienne

Pellerin 539 La cascade

Pellerin 79 Jeanne dArc sur son bucher

Pellerin 867 Pagode de Bhatgaon

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