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Post by Jcon on Apr 26, 2022 21:46:54 GMT -5
Slow but sure my friend!!!
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Post by Jcon on Apr 28, 2022 0:20:52 GMT -5
Crank it over once more Fritz!!!   |
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Post by Jcon on May 7, 2022 19:26:13 GMT -5
Started laying in figure colors...   |
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Post by Jcon on Jul 5, 2022 17:07:04 GMT -5
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 mopar on Jul 5, 2022 20:11:59 GMT -5
Wow I guess that Blonde is really drawing in a lot of attention lol. It’s looking great Joe glad to see you back working on it.
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Post by Jcon on Jul 6, 2022 0:15:41 GMT -5
Thanks my friend!!!
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Post by tubbs on Jul 12, 2022 6:16:57 GMT -5
looks cool. so you built those back in high school. i didn't think they had model kits way back then... kidding. still don't see how you get all that detail in such a small scale. good job!!
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Post by Jcon on Jul 13, 2022 12:54:58 GMT -5
looks cool. so you built those back in high school. i didn't think they had model kits way back then... kidding. still don't see how you get all that detail in such a small scale. good job!! Silly boy, early 70's was when I built these Tamiya 1/35 armor models... they first came out in 1968 with armor kits. Here is a a bit of history for you: 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 mopar on Jul 13, 2022 13:17:44 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing the history on Tamiya Joe very interesting that they were a lumber company.
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Post by Jcon on Jul 14, 2022 11:24:03 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing the history on Tamiya Joe very interesting that they were a lumber company. I found that truly amazing as well!!! |
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Post by tubbs on Jul 15, 2022 6:24:35 GMT -5
thanks for sharing Joe. so you graduated in early 70's, 78 for me.
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Post by mopar on Jul 15, 2022 9:30:05 GMT -5
77 for me.
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Post by Jcon on Jul 15, 2022 17:41:32 GMT -5
Mid 70's... graduated in 1975 and got married in 1976... the bicentennial year... still married to the same girl! Another man here on our site, Mike Snell was one of my wedding party and we went to school together from grade school on...
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Post by tubbs on Jul 19, 2022 6:15:06 GMT -5
78 for me. i worked at a mall from 76 to about 83, i wasn't even thinking about marriage at that time. hell that place was better than a night club. women everywhere, what fun times!! i hardly dated in high school. was monkeying around with booze and fast cars. what a lethal combination. i finally settled down in 86.
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Post by Jcon on Jul 24, 2022 18:53:24 GMT -5
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