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Tamiya 'Shock' 1/48th Release
jimbrae
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Posted: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 11:34 PM UTC
Every wanted to clear that debris off your airfield? Thing of expanding your aviation facilities? If so, check out Tamiya''s latest release announcement...

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

TedMamere
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 12:09 AM UTC
Wow! This is indeed very good news! Let's hope they do the Cletrac too at one point. Anyway, this model is already very promising...

Thanks a lot for sharing!

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 12:28 AM UTC
Isn't that something for your Aleutian dio? ....

looks great

cheers

Steffen
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 04:20 AM UTC

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Isn't that something for your Aleutian dio? ....


No, I need a Cletrac for that...

How is your Avia doing?

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 04:48 AM UTC
No need to pull out the big gun

I just thought of an invading troop of Japanese hiding behind the shield

cheers

Steffen
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 05:16 AM UTC
This is an interesting development.

Al
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 07:30 AM UTC
Hi there

Very nice, albeit not exactly top of my list for day-to-day airfield vehicle. But it does conjure up a crazy idea for a diorama depicting Japanese aircraft being bulldozed after the surrender... Done well, that could be awesome!

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 07:36 AM UTC
Well I rather picture a dozer pushing some piece of jungle on an tropical island to free up some space to park the aircraft...

cheers

Steffen
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 08:00 AM UTC
Hi Steffen

Yes, that'd be nice too (although I'm not sure I could model the trees and undergrowth convincingly) - but just as over-ambitious as the wreck-clearance for me, for whom just finishing the bulldozer itself would be a notable achievement!

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 08:27 AM UTC

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.... But it does conjure up a crazy idea for a diorama depicting Japanese aircraft being bulldozed after the surrender... [ ]


Oh no, please not, Rowan! That guy in the seat is japanese, so this nice bulldozer will fit perfectly to all my japanese aircrafts like A6M,Ki-61, Ki-45 etc..... Have to look at my hobby dealer when he gets it in stock ....

Torsten
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 08:35 AM UTC
I was just at the Tamiya Japan site and the pic there is a bit larger. I was just asking myself why the picture is named Komatsu G40 while on the model it reads Komatu???

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all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 08:59 AM UTC

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I was just at the Tamiya Japan site and the pic there is a bit larger. I was just asking myself why the picture is named Komatsu G40 while on the model it reads Komatu???

Licensing, I'll bet. They can depict every component of the bulldozer, all of which are the intellectual property of Komatsu, but they can't show the actual name, also the intellectual property of Komatsu. Weird.
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 09:16 AM UTC

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Licensing, I'll bet.


Sure, but there must be ways to show at least sufficient letters. How about KOMATBU or KOMAT8U which can be adjusted to an S or even leave a blank .... also I thought the "renaming-hype" in the modelindustry is primarily a result of the american copyright act. OTOH I know nothing about japanese laws, might be there is something similar. We had an interesting court decision here in Germany recently ... should make life easier (for some model car companies at least)

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 10:19 AM UTC
Hi all,

Over at Missing Lynx someone explained that KOMATU was indeed correct: see here



No need to worry, it seems Tamiya San has made a good job...

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 07:00 PM UTC
See, that is the answer I wanted!!! Thanks mate!

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 11:02 PM UTC

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was just at the Tamiya Japan site and the pic there is a bit larger.


The picture at the side of the Report is much bigger than Tamiya image as well.. The photo on the Header of the story is reduced so it can be used in the 'What's New' Thread...
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Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 11:05 PM UTC


ahhh yes, my bad (again). I only clicked the other image....

cheers

Steffen
jimbrae
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Posted: Friday, March 05, 2010 - 12:26 AM UTC
A COMPLETE set of images have now been added to the Report.
Jmarles
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Posted: Friday, March 05, 2010 - 11:06 AM UTC

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Hi all,

Over at Missing Lynx someone explained that KOMATU was indeed correct: see here



No need to worry, it seems Tamiya San has made a good job...


I googled images, the second one that pops up appears to be the restored musuem piece that Tamiya used. It would appear that KOMATU is definitely correct. Goody!

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 06:56 AM UTC

Original and useful subject choice, for a change... A Cletrac or a Type 97 or 95 tank with soldiers would have been more logical, but this is Tamiya's 1/48th scale vehicle range after all...
Hopefully they didn't muck it up like the Fi-156, Kubelwagen etc...

Gaston

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