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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Showing posts with label Nitto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nitto. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Q is for Question Time - Instruction Sheet

Anyone recognise this instruction sheet? The archive includes a folder of unknown HK stuff and an A4, 9-litre Really Useful Box full of unknown or 'mixed' cuttings, this is among them.

Aoshima?; Bandai?; Fujimi?; German Infantry; German Soldiers; German Toy Figurines; Model Figures; Model Kits; Modelling; Nitto?; No.58 - 1972 - 1 - 2; Polystyrene Figure; Polystyrene Toy Soldiers; Question Time; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tamiya?; Unknown; Unknown Model Kit; Unknown Toy Figures; Unknown Toy Soldiers;
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.

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

G is for Good Gun, Gormless Guys...

Quick box-ticker from the Winter photo-session. With everyone doing the dreaded '88, it was a nice touch for Nitto to provide a model of another Flak type.

This model is now in Fujimi's stable, and still has the horrid figures attached!That's it really, should make it up, but haven't got round to it yet.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

L is for Languishing

The armour have not been forgotten in the 'forgotten' pile, in fact there are more tanks than anything else but most are still in their boxes.

I built the Esci command Pz.I years ago and wanted to build the other main body types, here - in pieces - are another Esci chassis, the Fujimi SPG and a Nitto (?) turreted version. The Esci is going to be an engineering version when I find out how they treated the hole where the turret went, it will also get a spare wheel rack. The Nitto (?) tracks are as bad as early Airfix when it comes to melting styrene.

Hasegawa tracked tractor strait from the box, I just want to do it justice paint-wise. And the Fujimi Jagd.Tiger II, a while ago while still suffering 'forum disease' I bought the new Dragon Tiger II with German Para's and promised to build it as a project here, what was I thinking...it'll take me another 10 years to finish this one! But it will be nice to compare them one day!

These two aren't even started yet, but I'd like to identify them if any one's got any idea...bought from Dorking Models about 10 years ago, they were all ready old stock, made from old-school resin with hot-water malleable track sections....BT 5 and BT 7 ?