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Post by Buddho on Jun 3, 2022 9:02:36 GMT -6
Joe, this is coming together quite nice... fantabulous weathering on the body components. The figures look awesome too. This will make quite a stunning diorama.
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Post by JCON on Jun 3, 2022 10:14:32 GMT -6
Thank you Dan, I have hit the busy season and haven't made it to the bench in a while unfortunately...
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Post by JCON on Jul 5, 2022 15:45:24 GMT -6
Got back on this bad boy yesterday. Pulled out 3 bikes and a Kubelwagon I built back in high-school and redid the figures and some other bits and pieces to use in the diorama... time will tell.   |
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Post by mustang1989 on Jul 6, 2022 16:49:01 GMT -6
Those are going to go great with the rest of what you've done. Ummm....not to give away ages here but..just how old are those older builds Joe? lol
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Post by JCON on Jul 6, 2022 18:57:49 GMT -6
Those are going to go great with the rest of what you've done. Ummm....not to give away ages here but..just how old are those older builds Joe? lol Early 70's... |
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Post by mustang1989 on Jul 6, 2022 20:51:41 GMT -6
Those are going to go great with the rest of what you've done. Ummm....not to give away ages here but..just how old are those older builds Joe? lol Early 70's... That's frickin' cool that you've got builds from that long ago!! The oldest ones I've got are from the early to mid 80's. I have one of those that has remained pretty much untouched. |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Jul 7, 2022 13:11:46 GMT -6
Interesting Joe Con. Like you I have kits from the late 60's (1969-first kits built) and I still have them. Of course they look like a kindergarten kid on caffeine built and painted them! LOL!
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Post by JCON on Jul 7, 2022 17:31:34 GMT -6
Always fun to resurrect some old kits with a slight redo on them and keep them going for another 50 years...  |
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Post by mustang1989 on Jul 7, 2022 21:12:55 GMT -6
Always fun to resurrect some old kits with a slight redo on them and keep them going for another 50 years... I've done exactly this with two of my 35+ year old kits and it is indeed a true blast to re-visit builds like that. I had "deja vu" moments at several points in those builds. |
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Post by ARMORGUY on Jul 8, 2022 23:40:07 GMT -6
These kits all together will guarantee a great looking diorama. Two +35 years old reworked kits will make it extra special, cool.
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Post by JCON on Jul 9, 2022 8:46:49 GMT -6
Thanks AG!!!
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Post by JCON on Jul 14, 2022 10:25:36 GMT -6
Here is a a bit of history for you on Tamiya Co:
The company was founded in 1946 as "Tamiya Shoji & Co." (Tamiya Commerce Company) by Yoshio Tamiya (ja) (15 May 1905 – 2 November 1988) in Oshika, Shizuoka City. It was a sawmill and lumber supply company.[1] With the high availability of wood, the timber company's wood products division (founded in 1947) was also producing wooden models of ships and airplanes, which later became company's foundation. In 1953, they decided to stop the sale of architectural lumber and focused solely on model making.
In the mid-1950s, foreign-made plastic models were beginning to be imported and wooden model sales were decreasing, so in 1959 they decided to manufacture plastic models. Their first model was the Yamato. However, Tamiya's competitors had already sold Yamato models at 350 yen. Tamiya was at risk of getting into the red by setting the same price as the competitors. This cheap price led Tamiya unable to recover the cost of producing metal molds, so once again, they changed their products to wooden models, but at that time the model trade's tide was turning toward plastic models.
Using metal molds no longer needed for plastic toys, they released a racecar mini-kit, which was to finance the production of their next plastic model. To their good fortune, it became a hit. They decided that the second plastic model was to be the Panther tank, which had a linear form which would make the molds simple to produce. They commissioned Shigeru Komatsuzaki (ja) to do the box art. The Panther was motorized, moved well, and had a clear instruction manual which made it easy to assemble. Because of this, it gained a good reputation. The model was made in a 1:35 scale, later to become a standard scale modelling scale for military subjects, because it was decided that tank would use a single TYPE 2 battery but would hold two of them.
Tamiya's original Kubelwagen dates back to 1970. It was reasonably accurate in profile - perhaps a few contours are not quite right - but for its day it was a great kit and they have updated it many times with other variants for different theaters of WWII.
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Post by rustybaer on Jul 22, 2022 20:16:36 GMT -6
Wow. The only model I have from my high school years or earlier is a 1/32 (54mm) M3 Stuart in white metal. It was made by a figure company (Imry-Risley?) and came in maybe five pieces. I think it cost over $30 in 1971 or thereabouts. It's on a shelf in the bedroom, makes a great bookend since it weighs about three pounds.
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Post by mustang1989 on Jul 23, 2022 7:15:17 GMT -6
That's quite the history on not only Tamiya but plastic modeling as well. Very informative and enjoyable read Joe.
I'm sure it's been done not only here but abroad many times, but would you like to see, or would anybody be interested in starting a "What original dated builds to you still have?" thread?
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Post by Dukemaddog on Jul 24, 2022 16:07:28 GMT -6
That's quite the history on not only Tamiya but plastic modeling as well. Very informative and enjoyable read Joe. I'm sure it's been done not only here but abroad many times, but would you like to see, or would anybody be interested in starting a "What original dated builds to you still have?" thread?
That would rock. I think we should do that. Even if it had been done before, it has been a long time ago.
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Post by JCON on Jul 24, 2022 17:51:21 GMT -6
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Post by JCON on Jul 26, 2022 16:22:47 GMT -6
The Gestapo officer has arrived in his little Citroen Staff Car, all nice and shiny black the way they always keep them, unlike the Wehrmacht vehicles in the flat armor colors... Here is the kit I am using for him and his driver will be waiting ever so patiently behind the wheel!    |
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Post by JED on Jul 27, 2022 4:49:47 GMT -6
I can almost visualise the finish, looking good Joe
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Post by JCON on Jul 27, 2022 9:12:08 GMT -6
Thanks Jed!!!
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Post by JCON on Aug 4, 2022 9:39:39 GMT -6
And so with a wee bit o' time it begins to look like a Gestapo vehicle...  |
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