Atmobil Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Great looking molds. I have a couple of very fine 1.32nd kits from Tomy and I'm wondering if Tomytec is the same company with a new name.I think maybe they are also they same company that are behind the Tomica die-cast toy cars. I have a VW baywindow bus somewhere from Tomica, it is about 1:64ish scale I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteski Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Tomytec name has been around for a while - they usually make model railroad items. A good breakdown of the company history and their brands is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomyTomica （トミカ）die-cast – model vehiclesTomix – the model railway brand of Tomytec, a subsidiary of Takara Tomy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niteowl7710 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Incidentally the two December kits (the Van and the Police Wagon) came into stock this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarana-X Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 These look about mid 80's vehicles to me. I'm no expert, but....The Cedric was the Japanese Crown Vic, and the Gloria the Grand Marquis. They saw common use as police and taxis. They were never sold in the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinfan5 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 These look about mid 80's vehicles to me. I'm no expert, but....The wagon deluxe and the Police version are the Y30 , which was in production from 1983-1987, but the wagons were built tell 1999The Standard wagon(white box art)and the Military version, is the 430 version which was in production from 1979-1983. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel-Dan Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I just checked Both H-L J & Hobby Search and Neither have the kitsI got "NO Match Found" on both using the title of this threadIt Should have given me the kit links, but, No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Smith Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10335931http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/search?typ1_c=112&cat=car&sold=0&state=0&sortid=0&target=series&searchkey=Modelers+Spirit Edited December 10, 2015 by Erik Smith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fumi Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 The Cedric was the Japanese Crown Vic, and the Gloria the Grand Marquis. They saw common use as police and taxis. They are more like Buick, big expensive sedans for people over 50, just one rung below the President.The commercial version is very different from the consumer version. It uses a posted sedan body style instead of the consumer version's hardtop. At the 1991 model change, the commercial version broke off and remained on the Y31 platform, and is still being produced today.The consumer version progressed to the Y32/33/34 platform until it was replaced by the Fuga in 2004. The Y34 Cedric/Gloria was exported to North America as the Infiniti M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinfan5 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 These look about mid 80's vehicles to me. I'm no expert, but....The Cima's (Y) and the Gloria/Cedric are all related , the First Cima(Y31) went into production in 1988 , the Cima Y34 was sold here as the Q45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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