niteowl7710 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 While the show doesn't happen until May, the things that will be featured at the show will start breaking cover as the pre-orders need to go up in advance of the summer. To that effect we got the Hasegawa show announcements (June/July delivery) today. To whit the most significant items are a new tool Nissan Skyline R30. I'll do a victory lap here as this is a project I've been saying needed done since the introduction of their excellent R31 series. This plugs one of the last significant "crappy old kit" gaps in modern (80s and up) Skylines and the early Group A years of Japanese Touring Championship action. Also featured the first racing version of the new tool EF Civic line - the factory stock kit was just released last week. 4 2
Luc Janssens Posted March 28 Posted March 28 (edited) 10 minutes ago, niteowl7710 said: Remember as a kid having a modelkit of this one, but don't remember which manufacturer and if it was a two or four door. Edited March 28 by Luc Janssens
fumi Posted March 28 Posted March 28 Long expected and long overdue. As usual they will release the zenki under regular series number and the Iron Mask that everyone wanted as special release afterwards, probably six months later. There should also be a couple of Group A cars and a few custom versions that suspiciously resemble the lead cars in a certain police show down the road.
Chuck Kourouklis Posted March 28 Posted March 28 My God, I swear Hasegawa could announce the release of a half-scale dented can of Sapporo and I'd be like OoOoOoOoooooh... 1 1
Bill Eh? Posted March 28 Posted March 28 49 minutes ago, Chuck Kourouklis said: My God, I swear Hasegawa could announce the release of a half-scale dented can of Sapporo and I'd be like OoOoOoOoooooh... From a Tamiya. Fujimi, Hasegawa, Aoshima junkie, I can totally relate to this! 2
niteowl7710 Posted March 28 Author Posted March 28 5 hours ago, Luc Janssens said: Remember as a kid having a modelkit of this one, but don't remember which manufacturer and if it was a two or four door. Tamiya is the only one to do a 4dr of this generation of Skyline, and it came with a Suzuki Gemma Scooter. Aoshima and Fujimi (along with two more kits from Tamiya) made all of the other coupe and racing versions. All three company's kits were made back at the time when these were new cars and therfore are each in their own way motorized dreck. 1
niteowl7710 Posted March 28 Author Posted March 28 (edited) Aoshima has announced (for August delivery) URAS styled versions of their new tool 180SX Difference between the two appears to be wheels and spoiler height, with the Work VS-KFs on the white car being new. This comes on the heels of the recent (within the past two weeks) release of a factory stock 1989/1991 kit. The 1991 car (top) was also done by Tamiya and Aoshima's body choice directly mimics that kit's box art. I don't believe anyone has directly replicated the "1st Gen" ('88/'89/'90) 180SX before. Edited March 28 by niteowl7710 1
Spottedlaurel Posted March 31 Posted March 31 Great to see the R30. I've enjoyed building several examples of the 2/4dr Tamiya kit, but Fujimi's version saddens me. Some years ago I also had an Otaki version which I thought looked OK for the standards of the time.
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