-Made of brass
-1/80 scale 16.5 mm gauge model
-Expected release date: around 2019 (Summer) in early summer
-Estimated price:
announced later (as of 20/19/24) ¥ 450,000 + tax (19/06/15)
[About Tenshodo original brass model products]
-The flagship of Tenshodo, that is a brass model. There are a lot of brass fans for model model lovers who entered the season because they can faithfully reproduce the real luster and texture. Craftsmen make full use of technology and assemble parts by hand. Even the box-shaped [resistor cover] is composed of many parts. Tenshodo's commitment, quality, is a masterpiece of all.
[Vehicle Guide]
-The D52 was manufactured as the strongest steam locomotive in Japan that can pull 1200t freight trains under the pressure of cargo transport during the Pacific War, and was deployed in Tokaido, Sanyo, Hakodate, and Muroran Main Line.
-However, due to the decline in work technology during wartime, inferior materials, and substitute materials such as timber, not only the required performance can not be achieved, but there have been three boiler explosion accidents.
-While 492 cars were to be manufactured, there were missing numbers due to the fact that 285 cars were produced by the end of the war. In addition, the 285 manufactured vehicles were remodeled into 55 C62 disused cars and 70 C62s and D62s after the postwar period due to poor condition and war damage. The remaining D52 was upgraded (without partial construction) and standardized, and was used to pull heavy-duty freight trains with its original performance on Tokaido and Sanyo Main Line. After that, we advanced to Hokkaido and Kyushu by extension of electrification, but we did not move out from main shaft system (in-line) from the shaft weight.
[Notes]
※ Some images are of prototypes. It is different from the product actually released.
( This is a machine translation. Please allow for possible misinterpretations in the text. )