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Started by Green Dragon, October 12, 2009, 04:14:40 PM

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Green Dragon

October 12, 2009, 04:14:40 PM
Run Chicken has posted some good pics from the Japanese show. http://happy.ap.teacup.com/applet/runchickens/200910/archive

Paul Harrison
"Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."-Gremlins 2

On the bench.
1/72 Space 1999 Eagle, Comet Miniatures Martian War Machine
1/72nd Quad Tilt Rotor, 1/144th V/STOL E2 Hawkeye (stalled)

The Rat

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October 12, 2009, 07:39:39 PM
Couldn't decipher that Japanese, but there are some things that are universal:

"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Life is too short to worry about perfection

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ChernayaAkula

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October 13, 2009, 08:45:01 AM
I'm looking forward to those Platz 1/144 Yukikaze kits!  :thumbsup: Especially the FA-2 FERN II!  :party:
Cheers,
Moritz

Must, then, my projects bend to the iron yoke of a mechanical system? Is my soaring spirit to be chained down to the snail's pace of matter?

Doc Yo

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October 13, 2009, 09:47:21 AM
     The 1/35 scale howitzer from Pit-Road looks really nice...I don't recognize the model, but it looks
very wiffable...

dy031101

#5
October 13, 2009, 02:53:18 PM
Whah~~~~~~ Idolm@ster decals  :drink:
To the individual soldiers, *everything* is a frontal assault!

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Sauragnmon

#6
October 13, 2009, 03:22:56 PM
The Tone from Fujimi looks interesting, though I find myself cursing Hasegarbage I think it is, for producing the Block 60 Viper in 48 not 72.  I find myself watching the 350 ships that get done, and praying for some of them to come out in 700.
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Overkill? Nah, it's Insurance.  So are the 20" guns.

Jeffry Fontaine

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October 13, 2009, 07:43:16 PM
Quote from: Doc Yo on October 13, 2009, 09:47:21 AMThe 1/35 scale howitzer from Pit-Road looks really nice...I don't recognize the model, but it looks very wiffable...

According to the document titled "The Survey of Japanese Seacoast Artillery"from the GHQ USAFPAC, Seacoast Artillery Research Board, dated 1 February, 1946 there were three types heavy howitzers in use for seacoast defense by the Japanese during WWII. 

These are described as:

300 mm Type 7 (1918)
240 mm Type 45 (1912)
280 mm  (1890)

Not much else available but that narrows the Pit Road model to one of these weapons.  I would have provided an image from the document but the quality of the document is such that the images are next to impossible to interpret thanks to this being a second or third generation copy of the original document. :^(
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Doc Yo

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October 14, 2009, 08:36:06 AM
 No worries on the image, Jeffry, and I appreciate the legwork! If I were to guess, I'd bet on the 1890 model-
I know there was a heavy siege howitzer used at Port Arthur, but the one line drawing I've seen of that one
looks a bit simpler than this...
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