Flying Tanks and Pancake Planes: Shinkigensha Secret Weapon Toys

[Roebeast45]

I recently posted scans of a little book I got while living in Japan that shows a line of collector toys of concept vehicles from the 1940s and 50s. There might be some good ideas for markings and such.

Note: there are some markings on the German vehicles that might not be acceptable in your country. Please be warned.

http://roebeast.blogspot.com/2014/07/flying-tanks-and-pancake-planes.html

[Gun bunny]

complete awesomeness 

[harleyface]

Hello
Do you have already the translation of the motto....
Its in traditional bavarian german .
Gwant for example is a old word for cloths.
Maybe it could be translated like this.
Sell my cloths im going to die (Heaven)
The sentence has a kind of romantic, poetric feeling in german
Greetings from bavaria
Florian

[Roebeast45]

Hello
Do you have already the translation of the motto....
Its in traditional bavarian german .
Gwant for example is a old word for cloths.
Maybe it could be translated like this.
Sell my cloths im going to die (Heaven)
The sentence has a kind of romantic, poetric feeling in german
Greetings from bavaria
Florian

Excellent! Thank you Florian! I wonder how a Japanese toy company came upon that phrase.

[harleyface]

It seems to be a phrase of an old poem...
but i never heard it before.

[Evil Steve]

Excellent! Thank you Florian! I wonder how a Japanese toy company came upon that phrase.

The Japanese hobbyists are hardcore.  Nothing less than every tiny detail is acceptable.

[Roebeast45]

"The Japanese hobbyists are hardcore.  Nothing less than every tiny detail is acceptable."

So true.

[S_P]

I've got one of the super heavy tanks- it's about 1/600th scale, always meant to use it in a what if air wargame as a target but never got round to it....

[Xenomrph]

These things look great, where could one buy them?

[Roebeast45]

These things look great, where could one buy them?

They pop up occasionally on Ebay but the prices are often ridiculous. Here's a listing that's not too bad:
http://tinyurl.com/kx6g9kj

[The_Beast]

Excellent! Thank you Florian! I wonder how a Japanese toy company came upon that phrase.

I've noticed in some older anime, Harlock and Legends of Galactic Heroes [Heldensagen vom Kosmosinsel apparently makes real German speakers tear their hair out], for instance, German history and culture is a strong influence.

Doug

Edit: Crickies, I failed to mention S.F.3.D.!