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Lu,
Boy where did this come from....looks great, bet you can see the scene already...sort those Zero's now huh.
Just one question....Have Tamiya, intentionally left the "S" out of the logo on the model.as with the Opel Blitz? Just a thought..
It looks very nice, though adding the "S" in "Komatsu" will be a bear..... I applaud this bit of creativity. With the Hasegawa Japanese trucks, this would make a nice airfield or road construction diorama. I hope they do a Caterpillar D7 for the Seabees..... I assume this is in the same series as the US Navy tug and pilots set.
When you guys have successfully managed to rebuild the makers name with an 'S' in it, don't whatever yuo do have a closer look at that photo of the real machine a couple of posts above..... You won't like what you see!
I am on business trip, I write it hastily.
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About KOMATU
I asked a question to public information of KOMATSU Ltd., but did not become clear very much.
It is to have changed it in a current "Komatsu" for 1990 years firstly to plan global development.
Probably read by general (English notation) pronunciation.
There is a Roma-ji in one of the Japanese notation.
The Roma-ji is Roman letters (Latin alphabet), but calls we use Roman letters in Japan, and writing Japanese or notation, the only thing that we wrote it a Roma-ji.
I should be right in "KOMATU" when I think about the time.
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About Body
"G40" which was produced (1943) in Komatsu Ltd. Kuritsu factory of Ishikawa-Pref., in July in wartime 1943. Because the mark of a golden anchor of the radiator front engaged in airport construction as the naval construction corps.
It is December (1942) in 1942 that Komatsu received a request from the naval institution headquarters. It is January (1943) in 1943 that it was completed. It was speed development of only one month what. It had no room for the new design and put on a blade before the gasoline tractor which I had already produced, but accumulation of the technology of then meant a lot, and the first domestic production bulldozer was born as the epoch-making model that adopted oil pressure type in Japan.
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Just.....
Best regards,
Masanori Sato(Toku)
just leave me speechless ... ;-O
huy .. I see near my house to prepare the ground for some .. Zero or Corsair
more news like this and gives me a nervous breakdown
There are 3 type of Japanese notation, Hepburn romanization, Kunrei-shiki Romaji and Nihon-shiki Romaji.
They have the difference in some character notation, and one of that is word "tsu / tu". "Tsu" is Hepburn romanization and "Tu" is Kunrei-shiki Romaji.
There was an unbridgeable gulf between natural Japanese notation for an English speaker and for a Japanese speaker.
Having been enacted to solve it in 1937 is Kunrei-shiki Romaji.
After World War II, GHQ tried to spread Hepburn romanization and it caused confusion of notation. So new standard was provided in 1954, but confusion is continuing now.
Anyway, the spelling "Komatu" is correct considering historical fact.
G'day Guy's,
Wow!!! The question needs to be asked......... what next does Tamiya have up their sleeve?
It was'nt that long ago that there were rumours Tamiya were not doing any more quarter scale subjects.
I wait with baited breath for future releases.
Maybe a JagdTiger, some motorcycles a Famo some Italian subjects or maybe a Matilda?
All hail Tamiya.
regards.
Alan.
sell by the boxcar load and finance loads of other new kits. I do love the bulldozer, and it allows a number of interesting diorama possibilities, but ignoring top selling kits just reinforces the idea that 1/48 doesn't sell. I do not understand Tamiya's marketing sometimes, and wonder if they would even have done the SdKfz 251 if AFV Club had not released one first. I have no doubt that a decent M3 halftrack and a crew of troops for it would be an excellent seller, given the number of Allied vehicles available in their line already.
That said, there is no doubt to me that Tamiya's molding has improved. The Marder III M and Komatsu G40 are both beautifully molded and both will be outstanding examples of 1/48 model detailing. We live in hope.....
Re: How about a bleepin' M3 halftrack they could.....
March 5 2010, 3:58 AM
I was hoping for a 1/48 version of their venerable Type 97 medium tank but I'll take this in heart beat! Normally I don't build much that didn't have a gun mount of some sort but this dozer is just too cool to pass up!
One very nice thing about the Tamiya G40 dozer.....
March 5 2010, 1:56 PM
is that you can leave off the dozer blade and gear, and you have the basic G40 tractor, which was used in many areas by many IJN units for general towing purposes.
Re: One very nice thing about the Tamiya G40 dozer.....
March 5 2010, 5:50 PM
Would these things be used as a prime mover for artillery or anything of that nature? I have to admit the idea of a bulldozer leaves me pretty cold, but if I can have it tow something interesting (like an artillery piece), I could see picking one up...
In May 1937, the G40 was put up against a range of othe tractor from other producers around the world in trials in Manchuria. The G40 out-performed all competitors but its gasoline engine was 'just a tad' less economical than the Cat RD4 which was its main competition. From these trials, the 'word' came down from the Japanese government that all agricultural tractors for Manchuria were to be diesel-fuelled. Komatsu began working on producing its own high-speed diesel engines. Their first diesel powered crawler was the G35, apparently released the same year.
Some years ago, what is believed to be the only surviving G35 was found on a farm near Griffith, New South Wales, DownUnder, IN WORKING CONDITION. It was shipped back to Japan where it now resides in a display of tractors at a Komatsu factory.
God love Australian Farmers
Luke Pitt.....yea a us Halftrack would have been better ...but brother this thing is different!...one has to wonder ...how may airfiled dios can you do?
1943 and onward, so no Guadalcanal or early Solomons at all. Possibly the G40 tractor alone would be OK, but the dozer model would be mid-1943 on. And, they built fewer than 200 of the bulldozers.
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I applaud this bit of creativity. With the Hasegawa Japanese trucks, this would make a nice airfield or road construction diorama. I hope they do a Caterpillar D7 for the Seabees.....
I assume this is in the same series as the US Navy tug and pilots set.
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