NEW MODEL KIT THREAD

Hiro's passing is a shock. He raised the game for everyone; I doubt any maker will ever top Model Factory Hiro (although I'm sure opinions differ). It will be interesting to see how the company moves forward without him. Condolences to Kyoko as well as all his friends, family and employees.

A legend gone.

 

Ouch!

 

When will Tamiya make a new Ferrari kit?

The SF-23 in 1:20 or the SF-90 XX Stradale in 1:24 would be nice.

 

It's been ages, what was their last new Ferrari release.

Wasn't it like a 1/20 Schumacher F1 car ?

 

Tamiya made a 1:24 kit of the LaFerrari.

The SP3 Daytona in 1:24 would be cool.

 

Tamiya have been a pretty big disappointment to automotive modelers for quite some time now. Speculation that the success of Meng, Beemax, Nunu, et al might get Tamiya going again has, so far, not produced even rumors of new automotive kits.

 

Looks great!

 

Just found this thread, looks like some nice models been build by some people here, been doing it myself couple years back, now i just cant bring myself to start anymore, and i got some (in my opinion) very cool sets still laying around (including a Tamiya Williams FW14B in 1/12 scale)...

 

Never seen a race car version of a 308GT4 before.
How's the location of the fuel filler....weird.

 

Who built those? They look great.

 

Instead of the twin tanks of the stock 308GT4 the race car has a single tank, probably moved for weight distribution, and totaling more than 2x the capacity of the street car. 180 liters according to https://girardo.com/features/the-spellbinding-story-of-the-unique-ferrari-308-gt4-lm/

 

Nice. I think I used to have the old FDS turd, errr, I mean white metal kit of this car. Always had a big soft spot for the 308GT4.

 

Thank you! I thought they might possibly be his builds.

 

Any idea how many kits they produced? And what their average production run quantity is on their 1:12th kits?