I recognise them as Tamiya poses, but the assortment (only five figures; no prone MG) is wrong, nor does the base
spring-out as instantly recognisable, so I suspect copies, and 1:35th? So possibly not Bandai's 1:48th (they had little square bases I think), but maybe Aoshima? Nitto cloned them in 1:76th, quite crudely.
The only clue is No.58 1972
[and a] 1 [and] 2 (part sets?) and the star down the bottom of the sheet; which could be Tamiya's, or an asterisk! The reverse is
blank, but that may only be because it's a photo-copy.
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Around 1972, a Japansese kit manufacturer released one or two kits to (as I recall) 1;30, including an early Panzer III. There was also a box of German infantry to go with them- I suspect the sheet may be from these.
Thanks Andy, a clue is a clue is a CLUE! Might we be in 'Crown' territory?
I have that awful little pamphlet/catalogue thing somewhere - where everything is alphabetical by type and all the makers are code letters you have to refer-to the front page for . . . is it the IPMS yearbook or something? World Kits, World Models? I'll see if I can't find something in there?
Cheers
H
I tthink these are 1/30 scale Nichimo from the early 1970s (I've got set in my stash somewhere).
Cheers Cosmocat; I looked up the pamphlet following Andy's suggestion yesterday, and it's the only likelihood, it was the IPMS/MAP list of kits for 1973, and if it's not Nichimo it has to be Bandai's 1:48th, and I'm sure it isn't them!
I'll add Nichimo to the tags anywhoows!
H
Glad to be of help - I'm very enamoured of the early 1970s figure and AFV kits, especially the many one-off like the Nichimo German infantry or Fujimi's 1/35 - 1/40 US infantry (entirely pirated from Revell and Monogram !).
Cosmocat - I have a box of unknown kit figures which has all the Monogram-SNAP-Hawk-UPC-Aurora-Revell-Pyro-Lifelike (et al) figures in, or at least those I haven't tagged, and I hope to sort them all out one day and do them as a seperate ID'ing/Comparison page.
If you know more about them, I could use your help/advice? Ping-me your eMail and we'll see what we can do? It's a long-term thing, so no panic!
H
This instruction sheet is from Nichimo 1/30 scale German Infantry, made in 1972.
Thanks for the confirmation Steven!
H
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