Monthly Archives: February 2019

Honda Adventure Days 2019 winners getting Tamiya 16042 1/6 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin kits

Make it drool, this Honda Africa Twin model kit hears the price of Rp. 5 million!


Author: Ditta Aditya Pratama
GridOto.com – Relying on the future rally concept with gadgets is indeed a differentiator for the Honda Adventure Days 2019 event with other events.

Participants must follow the waypoint and there are no boundaries. But because this is not an official competition, for those who still want to relax while fun is also not a problem.

Roughly I want an hour of coffee and coffee, stop by the food stall, and eat first too ok!

But it turned out that the committee gave a shock of shock for participants who finished the fastest on stage 1-2 which started from Brown Canyon Semarang – Kampung Rawa Ambarawa – Bukit Grenden.

The fastest finisher of each class turned out to be given 1 unit of Honda Africa Twin you know!

Uh, not a real motorbike, but a Honda Africa Twin model kit from Tamiya with a scale of 1/6.

Honda Adventure Days resmi ditutup di Jurang Jero, Magelang, Minggu 24 Februari 2019

There is Yustira Ramadani from the Wing class who successfully finished fastest with 5 hours 51 minutes.

While in the Big Wing class, there was Om Diki from South Tangerang who successfully passed the finish line with a time of 6 hours 5 minutes 12 seconds.

Well it’s pretty good even if I don’t have a real Honda Africa Twin , at least I have a model kit that is very similar to the original!

Appreciation for the fastest finisher, model kit Honda Africa Twin with a scale of 1/6


Source in Indonesian language: GRIDOTO.COM

Some more future Tamiya RC parts

47421 Toyota Yaris WRC LW Body Parts Set
54868 OF 5mm Adjusters M *8
54869 OF 5mm Adjusters L *8
54870 Stab. End 5mm Adjusters *4

More official product photos of some upcoming Tamiya hop up and spare parts

51614 Ford Mustang GT4 Body Parts Set


Tamiya Mini 4WD is on the mask of a tribe? A solo exhibition that displays and sells the body made by collaborating stickers


By Murakami Nomoto

The artist Funny Dress-Up Lab, who creates works from mini 4WD’s dress-up stickers, will hold an unknown tribal mask of the mini 4WD body at the art gallery “TOMIGAYARRD” in Tokyo / Fudagaya from February 23rd We hold a solo exhibition that sells and sells the work “mask series” that I regard as ” Until March 10th.

The limited time mini 4WD shop “Tomigaya model store” is also open at the venue. You can also purchase mini 4WD, optional parts, scale model with Tamiya model.

The artist ‘s Funny Dress – Up Lab was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1978 and lives in Kyoto Prefecture. It is fascinated by the color, shape, version misalignment etc. of the sticker for dressing up the mini 4WD, and uses only stickers that do not process, creating a collage work.

■ Funny Dress-up Lab Exhibition & Tomigaya Model Store Pop-Up @ TOMIGAYARRD
Date: February 23 – March 10
Time: Thursday and Friday from 15: 00 to 20: 00, Saturdays and Sundays from 13: 00 to 20 : 00, Monday Tuesday – Wednesday 1
Place: TOMIGAYARRD
Address: 2-44 – 12 – 1 F, Futagaya, Shibuya – ku, Tokyo

Source in Japanese language: WWD Japan

First official product photos of some upcoming Tamiya hop up parts

47407 WR-02CB L/N Parts (Yellow Green)

47408 WR-02CB M-Parts (Bumper) (Yellow Green)

54864 Multipurpose Driver Figure


54864 Multipurpose Driver Figure
With a new driver figure launched for the first time in the Dual Rider (57407), “Wild Willy” will be released into a well – deserved retirement after almost 40 years as a Tamiya fun car driver.
The new figure Multipurpose Driver is very variable and gives the modeller different possibilities for presentation. Thanks to the different positioning of the hands, the use as a motorcycle pilot as well as a driver can be realised.
Detailed information
– hands can be mounted twisted by 90 ° (handlebar or steering wheel)
– versatile helmet (vintage or modern)
– contains 4 different pairs of eyes as decals (female / male, concealed (sunglasses)
– handlebar & steering wheel included
– fittings for cars / bikes included as a decal
Compatible with the following types of chassis
T3-01
WR-02 (except WR-02G)
GF-01 (except heavy dump truck)

Tamiya Eurocup Austria

The Tamiya Eurocup Austria is one of the oldest RC Racing series in Austria, continuously from the 80s to today.
It has 3 classes for beginners up to pros, M-chassis racing and race truck series.
The new Championship 2019 just began. The new champions are determined in 10 races.
Cups and championship prizes are waiting for the participants, you can be part of it!

More information at www.tamiya-eurocup.at and www.facebook.com/TamiyaEurocupAustria/

Flashback Friday – Tamiya Mokei Thunder Bolt from 1961

I have kept you waiting so long, it is resuming research in earnest. Our laboratory has been delayed in updating for about 1 year due to the editing of “Tamiya model whole job”, but for the time being we will update mainly the information compiled in the editing course. Tamiya ‘s first term kit “Thunderbolt” that we switched to a plastic model maker will be picked up this time.

Release is about June 40, 1961, almost 40 years ago. Speaking half a year ago from that Panther Tank’s release, you will find out how old it is. In May 1960 Tamiya launched the first plastic model battleship “Yamato” but lost to rival Nichimo and have a big deficit. The situation that I could not recover monetarily for a while, and I had to return to the wooden model against the era, I am familiar with the “Tamiya model work”, but the first story made by Styrofoam kit made into a product by struggle High-speed “boat is also released in June 1961, exactly this” Thunderbolt “is a product of a difficult age.

In conclusion, this “Thunderbolt” is the second work of a shining plastic model product following the battleship “Yamato” in Tamiya. Tamiya who lost after the business failure of the virgin battle ship “Yamato” could not set out the second work of the plastic model requiring a huge initial investment in the mold and replaced the boxed battleship “Musashi” (1960/10 ) And “Baby Truck” (1961/05) in the mold we received from the toy maker, we will barely connect the intention to switch to the “new material” plastic model. In the meantime, we continued to announce new products of wooden models of tanks and cars one after another. In the January 1, 1961 issue of Japanese Model Newspaper, Tamiya model teaching material company president Yoshio Tamiya said “… It is not an exaggeration to say that it is at a crossroads for wood manufacturers by the current plus offensive …. Please continue to look forward to my wooden model for a long time in 1961 … “and I feel the sense of urgency in the end.

And almost one year after the release of the battleship “Yamato”, this Thunderbolt will be released to the world. For the battle ship “Yamato” which is the first work of the complete Tamiya original, the second work in a situation where failure is totally unacceptable has become a copy kit is an unreasonable story from the point of the initial investment amount . It was the monogram “firebolt” that became the basis. There is a thing that is compatible with the Nautilus submarine of Marsan around here, but Tamiya has made its own major improvement on the driving system. The original of the monogram was also made of plastics, but the grip power is much different, replacing it with a real rubber tire. Furthermore, although the original uses propulsion by corotorion or solid fuel (!) As propulsive force, this is improved to the driving form using TKK Mabuchi 15 motor and gear box which Japan boasts boast. In the advertisement of those days, I sang up a high degree from the original (though most kids did not even know its existence) that “rubber tires fit in plastic foil caps and around good-fit legs around the style” Gear, Mabuchi Motor No. 15 AA 3 dry cell battery with 2 trios, the power surface is perfect. “We will show you the confidence of the part cultivated with the wooden model.

Actually Tamiya has modeled over this “firebolt” for over a year. It appears in the wooden model “Firebird” which was released in September 1960. As I already had the all-plastic model battleship “Yamato” in the world, it seems that this wonderfully designed “firebolt” was naturally developed in the same form, but for the reasons stated above it is obviously impossible to comprehend that it is inevitably a wooden model itself I made it into a kit. With a wooden model with difficult curved surface processing, its reproducibility did not wait for a theory, probably it was released with a desperate thought, it also appears in a box painting. Unfortunately we do not own this wooden model “Firebird”, but we have exhibited both boxes and finished items at the Tamiya History Museum in Shizuoka and introduced it to p154 of “Tamiya Model Task 2” So please have a look if you have one.

Let’s return the story to “Thunderbolt”. The book “Tamiya model whole job” is a book that sticks to putting all of the kit’s “finished product” and “box art”, but “finished goods” of this Thunderbolt is not in Tamiya History Museum in Shizuoka. So my assistant handmade a kit owned by our laboratory. It was supposed to keep the basic principle of editor-in-chief of Hirano “painted painted to tell the state of the time, without remodeling”, but sometimes you have to put a decal on the top and bottom of the body, putty putting and surfacer (In this respect, Saji 1 of p147 which is the work of the editor-in-chief of Hirano leaves the original completely and is a wonderful thing with things finished with delicate painting).

Deadline On a night when it is dangerous, Mr. Takami of the product which is in the cat which praised its purpose and assembled his own kit pleasantly, he visited with “Bluebird” which is not in the history hall again, It became a commemoration shoot of. After that, after finishing the studio shooting, when the next “Tamiya model whole job 3” visit to Shizuoka, the assistant himself brought it and decorated it in a corner of the historic hall show window. Is drawing to their close one of your helps was the in and feel the moment of bliss (* ^ _ ^ *)

By the way informed of the pagination of the “Tamiya model all work 2” when I was in the kit production, this “Thunderbolt”, ” Bluebird ‘finished color photos are too big compared to other kits so we protested to Hirano Editor-in, “I’d like to stick to one series with a double-page, this book has too much information Since I’m stuffed, I’ve been impossible at various places in the page layout, but I just wanted to stick to this page as a conscience as editor-in-chief “and it is up to it. Um, that ‘s why I did not become a big picture because my family made it separately.

By the way, there are excellent courses in contemporary Mini 4WD and Dangun Racer, and old slot racing cars had a wonderful course, but as a way to play this straightforward single spear sudden monk Speed ​​Record Breaker, Is introduced. Actually, the kit has mold threading holes for rotation for the left side and straight for the lower part of the car body. How many children really played like this? It is an interesting place.


Source in Japanese language

Tamiya Special Racing Buggy and the Terminator movie

Tamiya radio control gearbox has been diverted (right and left) to the most distinguished name “gobcha meka” at the head of the end skeleton. The one owned by T – STUDIO is a 21st – century version (some old specifications must be obtained one day …) with some specification changes. Because many Japanese parts made of plastic parts have been diverted inside, so also on occasion.

What makes movie props fun is that these ready-made items are diverted. Twenty years of hardship to identify this part …. I found out that it is still available in home country, and ordered in large quantities. Until now, we have made our own by guessing the dimensions, but at last this “finally the same spec as authentic” comes true. A world of complete self-satisfaction.

Parts that should originally play the core of radio control, parts that should play an important role of tank …. In the early 1980s, they might have felt “It was not born to be used like this” at the beginning of Hollywood’s studio in the head and chest of the terminator. However, it gains “another existence value” and it is now proud as a part of the symbol of masterpiece movies [complete]

The basic silhouette is handmade by clay, but ready-made items are being diverted in detail parts where sharpness is required

Source: T-STUDIO Hatanaka Makoto @ Twitter