Tamiya

[matrixone]

Tamiya will be producing a WWII German airfield set in 1/48 scale.

No information on when it will be released or how much it will cost but the pictures I had seen of them look very good and they will be a 'must have' for anybody doing dioramas or a photobase.

Matrixone

[Sisko]

Man this is a sub that I have wanted to kit for years now someone has done it.

I-400


Happy days I should by two!!!!!!!    B)

[Jeffry Fontaine]

I can only hope that the HMMWV kit is in the same scale as the F-117.  Anybody got more information on this: Item TA89773 Hannants future releases

Looks like some of the recent Tamiya kits are recycled from the old molds as well as from other companies.  Terry Ashley's that PMMS has the latest update under New Kit News

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

New Releases or Re-Releases...... Hmmmmmm

Ian

[jcf]

The 1/35th re-pops look like they come with new detail parts i.e. turned aluminum gun barrels, photo-etch etc.,
which is a sensible approach as they got the basics right on a number of their older kits. Not all, but some.

The AB.41 is currently available in a Supermodel box as a combo kit with the Italeri 1/48th CR.42 for over ten bucks less
than the regular CR. 42 boxings. 

Marder III and Blitz in 1/48 are both new moulds.

Jon

[jcf]

http://www.tamiyausa.com/survey/index.php?sid=98248

Along with a bunch of general hobby related questions they ask: ' What would you like to see in the next year?'

Jon

[upnorth]

I doubt they'd do Brigand somehow....

Would have hoped to have seen Valom's on the shelves by now.

[Daryl J.]

Gotta go see if they are interested in a 1/32 Fokker D.VII   


Daryl J.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

http://www.tamiyausa.com/survey/index.php?sid=98248

Along with a bunch of general hobby related questions they ask: ' What would you like to see in the next year?'

No way to let Tamiya San know that he might have missed a variant of the PzKwXXX?   Because we all know how important PzKwXXX was to the war effort and it needs to have the correct road wheels for each production batch that was built during the war. 

Actually it would be nice if Tamiya could offer some modern cargo and utility vehicles in the appropriate scales to appease the masses. 

[Maverick]

Some of Tamiya's recent "New Releases" are repops of ICM's 35th scale kits.  These are of dubious quality, certainly not up to Dragon standards for instance, and I really can't fathom Tamiya churning these out.  Having the audacity to call them 'new' just adds insult to injury in my opinion.

All I can guess is that they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for 'new' ideas, content to plug along with Panzers.  It's quite a disappointment after their Char B and Renault UE.  I genuinely thought they were heading in new directions.

Regards,

Mav

[NARSES2]

I doubt they'd do Brigand somehow....

Would have hoped to have seen Valom's on the shelves by now.

The Hampden's only just out in the UK - got mine in Prague. When I asked about the Brigand, I was told Q1 next year "probably"

[Jeffry Fontaine]

ModelVersium just posted an in-box review of the Tamiya #61062, 1/48th scale De Havilland Mosquito FB Mk.VI/NF Mk.II for your viewing pleasure. 

The kit provides markings for the three aircraft:

FB Mk.VI, 487th Squadron (MM417 / EG-T)
FB Mk.VI, 143rd Squadron (RS625 / NE-D)
NF Mk.II, 157th Squadron (W4087 / RS-B)


(image source: ModelVersium)

[nev]

One of the best kits ever made IMO.

[sequoiaranger]

I really don't know if this is "new" or not, but I recently found out about the Tamiya 1/72 Seirans and Nanzans (Seirans without floats). Pretty cheap on eBay (around $6 plus shipping).  Of interest to me was someone's built-up model of a "Nanzan-Kai" bomber.

http://www.ipmslondon.ca/old%20site/ipmslondon.tripod.com/aircraftreviews/id28.html

The Nanzan, a land-based trainer for the Seiran floatplane bomber, has a cropped vertical stabilizer, a holdover from its cousin Seiran that had folding everything to fit in a chamber to be carried aboard a submarine.

What caught my whif eye was the remarkable similarity of the Nanzan to the D4Y "Suisei" dive bomber. Indeed, the Suisei was built by Aichi, maker of the Nanzan/Seiran (the "Y" in the designation is from the Yokosuka Technical Arsenal, a designer and fabricator of aircraft that usually turns over production to established companies). It turns out that compared to the Suisei, the Nanzan has slightly greater wingspan with wing attachment lower in the fuselage, looks like it is a bit longer, and has folding wings, but the general size and shape of everything is Suisei-like. I also like the fact that the kit came with a large (800-kg?) bomb. Now doesn't that just SCREAM "Carrier Dive Bomber" to you?? It did to me!

So the top pic below shows the OOB Nanzan, as done up by....sorry, I can't seem to find where I got this to give the modeler credit.  Then below it there is my PhotoShopped mock up of my "D4Y8 Suisei-Kai" that could complement nicely the single-seat C6Y1 Suisei reece whif I will be doing. Notice the Suisei nose and tail top morphed onto the Nanzan. I may retain the Suisei canopy for better recognition effect.

I think they will be simultaneous builds, as long as the parts are different colors to keep them straight!

[EDIT]

Got the kit and...was taken aback by the similarity between the "Suisei" and "Nanzan". OK, so they were both built by Aichi.

The moldings are excellent in quality. There is quite nice cockpit detail (but no pilot/gunner, of course). Though it is not part of the Nanzan trainer, the rear machine gun and bomb are included on the sprues. Though I have never seen a picture of the Nanzan with full wheel covers, they are included in the kit.

I had not read of dimensions of the Nanzan, only the Seiran, but assumed they were the same, since only the floats made the difference. The Suisei was listed as 33 feet long, and the Seiran (and I presumed the Nanzan) was 38 feet long. Well, guess what. The FLOATS of the Seiran projected in front of the propeller, but if we measured the Nanzan from propeller to tail---33 feet!! EXACTLY the same as the Suisei. The wingspan is only two feet wider, so the Nanzan and Suisei are even closer to the same aircraft as I had suspected. I had WANTED the Nanzan to be considerably longer for my "Suisei-Kai" whif, but now I will have to artificially lengthen it. It will end up kinda like my Jinpu-Kai made from a Shiden-Kai.

Of interest (and a bad impression, unfortunately) is that the rear underside of this Nanzan model is decidedly flat, or actually V-shaped, and NOT the oval of the Suisei and every actual photo I have seen of the Seiran/Nanzan. So for me the Nanzan is almost "trash" for a "Suisei-Kai" conversion.

HOWEVER....!! I have always wanted to make a super He-100 in desert camo. The nose of the Nanzan has PERFECT He-100 contours, and the underside radiator setup makes He-100 sense, too. SO.... I may indeed use the Nanzan (modified) and combine it with a discarded He-280 wing to make a "Desert He-100".

[Green Dragon]

Was looking at Rainbow Ten's site and and found a Tamiya 1/48th scale BAe Hawk Mk66 due in the Far East on May 28th, Kit No. 89784.
http://www.tamiya.com/japan/news/news0905/images/89784/89784.jpg

I'm assuming this is the Italeri kit, maybe Airfix I suppose. Anybody know anything about it?
Rainbow Tens main site. http://www.rainbowten.co.jp/english/index.html
Edit: forget to mention the 1/35th Long Range Desert Group truck is getting repopped with a towed Breda 20mmm AA gun

Paul Harrison