Beschreibung
In modern modeling, some of the best model companies are located in Japan:Tamiya, Hasegawa, Aoshima, Fine Molds, Pit-Road, Bandai, etc. lt is not strangethat Japanese vehicles occupy a part of their catalog, to satisfy the demandof their local market. In the rest of the world there is also a growing interestin Japanese vehicle models, mainly in Europe and the United States. Otherbrands with large sales in the Asian country have not neglected their offeringsof Japanese vehicles either. The Japanese theme in figures, airplanes,cars, ships and military vehicles is present in any model store around the world.
The Japanese identified their vehicles with a "Type" number, coinciding with the yearin which it was put into service according to the Japanese calendar, far example 2595(1935 according to the Western calendar). Following the "Type" number, they wereasigned a name, consisting of the tank's category designation followed by thecorrelative letter of the Japanese alphabet. There were a multitude of vehicles, andin this publication we are going to see some of the more interesting ones from themodeling point of view as well as some very useful techniques to make the models.
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