Peter Roberts Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 OR, maybe a 1/48 P-38J? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon J Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 On 1/20/2021 at 8:00 PM, Denford said: Back on track, I've read somewhere (probably here, Britmodeller) that the Tamiya announcement (the subject of this thread, though you might not guess so reading recent posts) will be at 4.00pm Tokyo time. Here, in UK, that's 1.00 am the next day and even later in US, but better for Australia. Perhaps somebody from there ie Australia could post what is announced. If the announcement is at 4.00pm Japan time then that makes it 7.00am UK time. Japan is nine hours ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenshirt Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 On 1/21/2021 at 2:13 PM, Robert said: But which version, B, C, D, E, EJ, EJ Kai, F, G, J, K, M, N, S A 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scimitar F1 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 22 hours ago, Col Walter E Kurtz said: Yes i do have an interest in the BoB and will follow up on Stephen Bungay's The Most Dangerous Enemy Best book on the BoB. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czaralko Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Is the announcement the 25th japanese time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One 48 Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 29 minutes ago, czaralko said: Is the announcement the 25th japanese time? Its on the 24th Japan, but adjust for local time where ever you live, if its UK its 7AM 25th apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 (edited) 13 minutes ago, One 48 said: Its on the 24th Japan, but adjust for local time where ever you live, if its UK its 7AM 25th apparently. Other way around: the 24th is already gone in Japan as they are 9 hours ahead of the UK. Announcement will be in the afternoon of Monday 25th in Japan, meaning morning of the same day in the UK Edited January 24, 2021 by Giorgio N 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 On 1/22/2021 at 3:08 PM, Greenshirt said: A I would be more than greatly surprised to see an A, especially an early one, but to be honest a really good early F-4A would make a nice addition to any Phantom II enthusiast's collection. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boman Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Tamiya is a commercial manufacturer, so requesting niche items like the F-4A is a bit far off as I see it, sorry. This is also why there is so many BF-109's, P-51, Spits, F-4 Phantoms, F-16 and the like around - it sells! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One 48 Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 2 hours ago, Giorgio N said: Other way around: the 24th is already gone in Japan as they are 9 hours ahead of the UK. Announcement will be in the afternoon of Monday 25th in Japan, meaning morning of the same day in the UK Thanks for correction Genuinely curious what it is now, apparently more than one major new release has been hinted at, but definitely one at least scale kit model, read an official Tamiya announcement about a year ago, when Covid started I think it was and we were all wondering how that might effect production by scale model factory, they said something like we will be having an aggressive release policy ... something like that ... so given research and production lead times, maybe this is the result of that statement? We'll know soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One 48 Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 25 minutes ago, Boman said: Tamiya is a commercial manufacturer, so requesting niche items like the F-4A is a bit far off as I see it, sorry. This is also why there is so many BF-109's, P-51, Spits, F-4 Phantoms, F-16 and the like around - it sells! Boman ... I agree, Tamiya make safe releases in general, they were semi adventurous in the past, but not so much in the last decade or so ... I'll welcome anything they release and even though I'm straying away from big scale Aircraft kits these days and if it is another new tool WW2 warbird, whatever it is I'll buy one, they are just sheer luxury kits in this hobby and a joy to build. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One 48 Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 And its not even a 1/12 Motorcycle in sight, not even a 1/48 Aircraft, LOL Unless the best is still to come? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Am I reading this right? Tamiya to do a 1/48 F-4B? https://www.tamiya.com/japan/featuredreleases_early2021.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) Online: https://www.tamiya.com/japan/featuredreleases_early2021.html Military Models Item: 35377 1/35 German Sd.Kfz.2 Kettenkraftrad (Mid-Production) Item: 35378 1/35 German Tank Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.G (Early Production) Item: 32599 1/48 Russian Medium Tank T-34-85 Aircraft Item: 61121 1/48 McDonnell Douglas™ F-4B Phantom II™ Car Models Item: 24359 1/24 1989 Sauber-Mercedes C9 Item: 24360 1/24 Scale Nissan Fairlady 240ZG Item: 24355 1/24 McLaren Senna Item: 20069 1/20 Fiat 131 Abarth Rally Olio Fiat V.P. Edited January 25, 2021 by Homebee 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One 48 Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 Thats good news, a new tool 1/48 Phantom ... I'll have one or two of those for sure, YAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One 48 Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) Item: 61121 1/48 McDonnell Douglas™ F-4B Phantom II Anyone know Tamiya 1/48 kit numerology ? is Item: 61121 next in sequence? EDIT: The 1/48 P-38 was kit 61120, so this is the real deal for a 1/48 Phantom from Tamiya I'm honestly pleased about this to tell the truth, yay ... sorry for the bigger scale guys, but so pleased about this. Edited January 25, 2021 by One 48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Considering the very serviceable new kits already out from Academy and ZM, this is a little surprising, however it’s a popular subject so has every chance of outselling these earlier kits. U.S Navy is a popular genre and I’m sure Tamiya realise this after the good sales of their 1/48 F-14 kits. Cheers.. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenko Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 The one thing you can guarantee.......................................... it will be idiot proof. Question will be .... will they introduce other marks in time like they did with the F14 ?? Dick I want one ................NOW !!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokeyr67 Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 I’m looking forward to some more details on the 240Z, it looks like it’s going to be a full kit rather than kerbside, if so I can see at least a couple of them in my future😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One 48 Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 Yep Dave, there are pretty serviceable kits of nearly all realistic expectation kits they could have released too Aircraft wise, still have a couple of Hasegawa F4's in this scale I'll still keep. Really looking forward to this, for anyone who has built a Tamiya F14 in 1/48 and compared it to an older Hasegawa F14, this will be a new benchmark of quality from Tamiya again, I'm sure for F4's 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg B Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 9 minutes ago, jenko said: The one thing you can guarantee.......................................... it will be idiot proof. Question will be .... will they introduce other marks in time like they did with the F14 ?? Dick I want one ................NOW !!!!! An N is pretty easy to do. Mk7 seats (if its an early B it will be Mk 5's), minor stuff in the cockpit and the ECM lumps and bumps and jobs a good un. Loving the ZM Kits, built the Academy B which lags behind the ZM. ZM doesnt look like its going to release a flat wing B/N so this makes me a happy bunny. However, I would still have loved to have seen a new tooled USN F-4 in 32 from Tamiya. Oh and closed so it can branch off into individual threads here 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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