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I've been out of the modelling and R/C scene for about 25 years but after recently buying a new in box Tamiya Rothman's Porsche 956 (it was the first kit I ever got, I put it together with my dad) I've sort of gotten back into it. Browsing around on eBay, many of the Tamiya kits seem to be listed as "very rare" with crazy markups even though there may be pages of them.

One question I has was is it possible to view the entire catalogue in the catalogue database section? It just seems to list a few pages from each. I used to be a member of the Tamiya Model Club and I'd like to flip through the old back issues just for nostalgia's sake.

Welcome on board John. The RM01 is a very nice small chassis. And nib is still better. We love pictures and it should be cool to share some of yours.

You can find a lot of models in the car database. With many details on each.

Very rare is usually reference to the sellers attitude.
And hi welcome

Welcome to TamiyaBase, JohnEnglish,

JohnEnglish wrote:

One question I has was is it possible to view the entire catalogue in the catalogue database section? It just seems to list a few pages from each. I used to be a member of the Tamiya Model Club and I'd like to flip through the old back issues just for nostalgia's sake.

The Catalogue and Guidebook database does, as you say, only contain scans of certain pages. I have for a while thought about scanning them completely, but so far I have not found the time to do so.
I will keep your request in mind when I find some time and an A3-sized scanner

-Lars

That's understandable, it's a fair bit of scanner. I've searched around but haven't found anywhere else with back issue of the catalogue or TMMI magazine.

I think blackholesun.fr also has some of the catalogue
They also appear frequently on eBay and such for not to crazy prices if you are patient. Got most of them that way.