Beyond The Sprues
General Category => Market Place => New Model Kit News/Reviews => Topic started by: Jeffry Fontaine on February 26, 2013, 05:30:09 AM
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Click on html or thumbnail image see review at CyberModeler.
Aoshima 1:48th scale Airwolf (kit number 05590) (http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/aos/kit_aos_05590.shtml#.USvXIDd1aVo)
(http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/aos/images/aos_05590_titletn.jpg) (http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/aos/kit_aos_05590.shtml#.USvXIDd1aVo)
Aoshima 1:48th scale Blue Thunder (kit number 48004) (http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/aos/kit_aos_48004.shtml#.USvYWzd1aVp)
(http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/aos/images/aos_48004_title.jpg) (http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/aos/kit_aos_48004.shtml#.USvYWzd1aVp)
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Airwolf is on my wish list at SprueBrothers...I've almost pulled the trigger and purchased it a couple times, but I'm trying to thin the herd on the shelves before I go and add more boxes to the stash.
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@Lemonjello,
You know what will happen .... They will discontinue it or the price will drop. Same principal applies to the scratch build you worked two years on. Soon as its done, a kit will come out.
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Have got both...I think ???
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Those two kits, along with a Hughes 500 as TC's Chpper from "Magnum PI", and an S-58T in pink as the chopper from "Rip Tide" would pretty well complete the 80s TV show Helicopter collection. I think the truck in "the Highwayman" also had a helo that popped out of it tho. Drat. Now I'm not sure.
I've got the AMT Ertl Airwolf, it is pretty basic, and the Monogram Blue Thunder is in 1/32. I was going to convert a Heller Aerospatial to Blue Thunder, but by dragging my feet for over 20 years, somebody finally did a kit of it! Hurrah! Procrastination pays off!
Alvis 3.1
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Unlike the Aoshima kit, the AMT airwolf can be used to build a stock Bell 222. :)
BTW the Aoshima Lamborghini Aventador kit is very nice looking and I've been sorely
tempted.
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News from HLJ:
http://www.hlj.com/thsaoshima2013 (http://www.hlj.com/thsaoshima2013)
These two are cool, two per box:
http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist?ItemGroup=hbs1310&Maker1=AOS&GenreCode=mil (http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist?ItemGroup=hbs1310&Maker1=AOS&GenreCode=mil)
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Yes, that Type 60 is a very interesting little vehicle with all sorts of whiffy possibilities. I wonder if the kit has the option of building the RRs in the extended position?
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I wish the Type 60 was in 1/35
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I wish the Type 60 was in 1/35
I don't: Sponsored-By-Estate-Agents-Scale gets all the good stuff.... ;)
Type 60:
(http://d2ev13g7cze5ka.cloudfront.net/aos/aos00796_0.jpg?v=1378880078)
This is why there are two in the box....
(http://d2ev13g7cze5ka.cloudfront.net/aos/aos00796_1.jpg?v=1379062609)
Type 60 info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_60_Self-propelled_106_mm_Recoilless_Gun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_60_Self-propelled_106_mm_Recoilless_Gun)
It's remarkably hard to find out about the tracked dumper/crane thing: all I can make out is that it might be made by a company called "Morooka":
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/JGSDF_Materials_truckter_in_Camp_Sinodayama.JPG/800px-JGSDF_Materials_truckter_in_Camp_Sinodayama.JPG)
Should appeal to Jeff's interest in plant and machinery....
Pic from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Morooka_tracked_dumpers (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Morooka_tracked_dumpers)
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That Type 60 SPG(?) has always intrigued me but yeah, I'd like to see it in 1/35 scale too.
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I'm ok with the type 60 in Braile scale...be nice to have an Ontos to go with it. ( I know there is a kit out there in resin, but its kinda pricy. )
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That Marooka Tracked vehicle is really neat looking. Would love to see that in 1:35th scale too.
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That Marooka Tracked vehicle is really neat looking. Would love to see that in 1:35th scale too.
You can get a 1/50 scale one, probably die-cast though.
http://www.elitetoysandmodels.co.uk/acatalog/Joal_223_Morooka_MST1500VD_Tracked_Carrier.html (http://www.elitetoysandmodels.co.uk/acatalog/Joal_223_Morooka_MST1500VD_Tracked_Carrier.html)
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I usually do not build 1/72 vehicles,but I may get the material carriage vehicle.
http://www.aoshima-bk.co.jp/english/ (http://www.aoshima-bk.co.jp/english/)
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Merging with Aoshima thread.
Brian da Basher
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Aoshima is to release a JGSDF Type 96 8x8 Armored Personnel Carrier: LINK! (https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10684128)
The CAD drawing's colours look interesting:
(https://www.1999.co.jp/itbig68/10684128b.jpg)
Something for the fire brigade? A project for the upcoming Fire-fighting GB (set to kick off in two weeks)? :icon_beer:
Trumpeter also does one in 1/35... 8)
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Something for the fire brigade?
My exact thought
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A bit stunned Aoshima still make kits :o
I have a gawdawful ship kit somewhere I apparently had to have. Needless to say it is unfinished.
But in this day and age things would no doubt have improved. I hope.
Nonetheless.. interesting subject
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I have a gawdawful ship aircraft kit somewhere I apparently had to have. Needless to say it is unfinished.
Same with me --- the Grumman F7F kit, had to have it because it had the prototype as an option
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Uh, Aoshima never stopped making kits and they've been producing a huge series of automobile kits
for decades, ditto 1/72 armour.
;D
Their 1/72 Ta-152 kits, released in the late '90s, are considered amongst the best of that subject,
their Ki-61 II and Ki-100 kits and Shiden series are also highly regarded.
http://www.aoshima-bk.co.jp/en/ (http://www.aoshima-bk.co.jp/en/)
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I've got their OH-1 kit and it's a good one.
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Something else from Aoshima for the Fire Brigade:
http://www.aoshima-bk.co.jp/en/product/4905083057940/ (http://www.aoshima-bk.co.jp/en/product/4905083057940/)
(http://www.aoshima-bk.co.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/4905083057940_2.jpg)
;) ;D :icon_fsm:
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:smiley:
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I have their 1/700 Ark Royal and Victorious, haven't built them but they look good.