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stingray-63 wrote:

andyaus wrote:

I really should get my 1/8 version completed

Kyosho??? Miomiommmmhhhhh

Yes Kyosho

Yeahhhhh

Darn! I used to dream about those as a kid, drooling at the pics in the Graupner and Kyosho catalogs

I found one in very nice condition with a new body on the bay but the budget was too short.

40+ years of History now have '76-'05 and '07

Nice catalogs!

It funny to see how mention of their first RC model is stuffed away in the back, both Sherman tank and the Porsche.

I think you can say that Tamiya had a skeptic approach to the RC scene. The book of Mr. Tamiya also indicates this. The guy (can't remember his name) who "introduced" RC to Tamiya were looked upon as a weird guy because of his RC interrest. Remember Tamiya came from making wood models end evolved into plastic scale models. RC was a stretch from where they were.

waterbok wrote:

It funny to see how mention of their first RC model is stuffed away in the back, both Sherman tank and the Porsche.

larbut wrote:

I think you can say that Tamiya had a skeptic approach to the RC scene. The book of Mr. Tamiya also indicates this. The guy (can't remember his name) who "introduced" RC to Tamiya were looked upon as a weird guy because of his RC interrest. Remember Tamiya came from making wood models end evolved into plastic scale models. RC was a stretch from where they were.

waterbok wrote:

It funny to see how mention of their first RC model is stuffed away in the back, both Sherman tank and the Porsche.

I think it was a guy from book keeping, thats like IT, W E I R D.

Didn't he convert an scale model Elfer and started driving it in the parking lot?