In modern modeling, some of the best model companies are in Japan: Tamiya, Hasegawa, Aoshima, Fine Molds, Pit-Road, Bandai, etc. It is not strange that Japanese vehicles occupy a part of their catalog, to satisfy the demand of their local market. In the rest of the world there is also a growing interest in Japanese vehicle models, mainly in Europe and the United States. Other brands with large sales in the Asian country have not neglected their offer of Japanese vehicles either.
The Japanese theme in figures, planes, 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 year in which it was put into service according to the Japanese calendar, for example 2595 (1935 according to the Western calendar). After the “Type” number, they were assigned a name, composed of the name of the tank category followed by the correlative letter of the Japanese alphabet.
There were many tanks, in this publication we are going to see some of them that are very interesting from a modeling point of view, as well as some very useful techniques for making models.
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- TYPE 95 Ha-Go
- TYPE 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha
- TYPE 97 Te-Ke
- TYPE 89 Chi-Ro
- TYPE 2 Ka-Mi
- TYPE 4 Ka-Tsu
- TYPE 4 Ho-Ro
- TYPE 98 Shi-Ke
- TYPE 1 Ho-Ni