I overslept one station on the train last night,
and although I dashed to the other side, the next train was in 20min...
It's really sad living on the countryside...
Anyway, Tomeko here, wishing she could stick onto a train like a remora.
How do you do?
Oh yeah...
Since last month, we have been
improving our trade on the import model
kits.
From tanks, ships and aircrafts, to detail improvement parts of each kind, we are adding them slowly but surely. So those of you who are interested, now would be good to check them out!
Right. These new face model kits, I'm slightly hesitant to say,
are rather minor items...
The models that are popular here in Japan are mainly the Japanese, German, and American models. Others such as the French, Russian, and British etc. also has well known crafts, I gather.
Periodically speaking, I think the main ones are from WWII up to now.
Today, I'd like to introduce products, which is not any of the above.
Avia B.534 ver.2
A biplane of Czechoslovakian Air Force, yup.
......there really aren't much reference text nor knowledge with me for me to give you a decent explanation of this item, I apologize.
But it comes with a German Air force decal, so I'm assuming its been taken by the Germans, may be.
By the way, I heard that Czechoslovakia was, until recently (well around my childhood, anyway), was two separate countries, Czech and Slovakia. Its not a very familiar place from the Japanese, but I
know that it's a very good manufacturing country that has the car maker Škoda auto, and created automatic pistol Cz75 etc.
...though I didn't know about Avia...
But this kit. The point that makes this item rare is the fact that it's a biplane. It's a form you can't disregard when looking at the history of planes, but there aren't many of these left as model
kits. I guess it could be because it was from pre-WWII, so its harder to make into a model kit.
Moving on, the next item is not quite minor, but an interesting item with things you would wonder about.
Fiat 626 NML Kitchen Vehicle
Fiat. An Italian car manufacturer that's still around to this date.
Apparently they were still around back in WWII, making cars for military purposes.
The kind of cars they were making, were...
Kitchen Cars with oven installed, to bake bread on the battle field!
Enjoying food in any occasion, a very Italian like vehicle.
(*extracted from the product info.)
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......
gee, you really would have to wonder, what is wrong with these people...?
I really hope this wasn't actually used on the front line, where they exchange leaden bullets, but the fact that its preserved as a military vehicle is just... amazing.
And one question popped to my mind...
To bake bread... did they make it from scratch, squishing flour and stuff...?
Right right, the final item that I actually really recommend.
Focke Wulf Fw-190D9
Focke Wulf.
A name that most people who are even remotely interested in military stuff would have at least heard of before.
This is a model that many manufacturers, regardless of the country they are from, are productizing, but this particular item has an interesting selling point... and that is.
You can see the engine from the undercarriage hanger!
You don't really expect to be able to see it, but you can see a bit of it... this kind of realistic design is very nice, and it would be interesting to compare it with models from other companies.
Now, the import model kits generally have instructions written in a different language, so its not very recommendable for someone new to model kit building. There are some that are easy to construct,
but there are some that aren't so simple, I believe.
So if you would like to challenge the import model building, I think you should gain some exp. by making normal ones to some level. (I had once experienced making a kit from Dragon, and had glued parts
at the wrong place and saw hell... though the kit itself was quite nicely arranged.)
Anyway, that was it for today's blog.
See you next time!
By Tomeko
Extra.
Lacking knowledge of Czechoslovakia, I almost wrote [that place where the president and wife had been executed, right?] etc, but that's a secret. (I apologize to all Rumanians, Czechs, and Slovakians
out there.)