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Taisho – revival of a vintage white metal figure kit

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Most of you will have followed the “long” negotiations between Gustavo and me about the loan of the original Taisho kit here. and some might be quite exited about the closure of the deal. The kit is now ready and I got a first copy (OK … part of the deal).

Head with helmet

Head with helmet

Detail of the face with it's features

Detail of the face with it's features

So, for those of you who are interested in purchasing this kit it is available on E-Bay by Gustavo under his seller name “miniatnapoleon“. He does have quite some other good figures listed there as well, so if you are interested in figures and are looking for some great and inexpensive figure kits, pay his auctions a visit … it’s well worth it. Even with the very moderate (!) shipping costs on top you get a great kit for a fraction of the price of an original!

British infantry on Patrol … assembly started

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

I started the Brits from Tamiya already, like I wrote. Here are at least some images.

Frontside of the figures

Frontside of the figures

Backside of the figures

Backside of the figures

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British infantry on Patrol … in 1:35

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

I bought this Tamiya set while we where on a visit in Italy. And, since our neighbours had a long house-warming party I started assembling the figures. The kit consists of 2 bags. The first bag contains the figures themselves. The parts are grouped together by figure. That means no long search for parts. The second bag consists of 2 sprue of the same kind, the accessories. Cool, we will have some leftovers for the spare parts box.

The front of the box

The front of the box

The back serves also the instruction sheet

The back serves also the instruction sheet

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Odo – Star Treck Deep Space 9

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Odo is the Security Chief of space station Deep Space 9 of the extended Star Trek Universe. This kit here is a 12″ (30cm) plastic kit by AMT/ERTL. Since it is completely wrapped I can not open it at this moment. But this also gives me the certainty that I will be dealing with a complete kit and not with bunch of loose parts.

Currently it is quite hard to find anything about this kit except of shopping sites. At least a couple of nice image slices can be seen here. I will get at least some original images of my box up shortly.

Taisho – a Ray Lamb original

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

This is most probably the 1 kit I will never do or at least no in the near future. My Dad bought this kit in the UK in the 70s or 80s. It’s a 6″ white metal kit of a Japanese Samurai.

Taisho - a Ray Lamb original - komplete Box

Taisho - a Ray Lamb original - komplete Box

Taisho - a Ray Lamb original - Paint Chart

Taisho - a Ray Lamb original - Paint Chart

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