Hello Woodsy
Further to your installments regarding Japanese candy toy, this post and this post I am attaching some related imagery.
Model Graphix #10 vol. 96 from 1992 contains an image showing an assortment of assembled/painted candy kits from the Furuta and Morinaga Thunderbirds lines.
Further to your installments regarding Japanese candy toy, this post and this post I am attaching some related imagery.
Model Graphix #10 vol. 96 from 1992 contains an image showing an assortment of assembled/painted candy kits from the Furuta and Morinaga Thunderbirds lines.
Included too is a scan of the
front and rear of a Furuta Thunderbirds vol 3 box showing the full range of
model kits to be found inside.
From an issue of Hobby Japan #282 of
November 1992, I've included images showing the earlier range of Furuta
Thunderbirds vol 2 kits, the Morinaga "real" and compact deformed lines of candy
kits, and the Bandai line of ten simple kits, a collector card related to each
and one of five Tracy brothers in uniform.
I own complete sets of all four lines of these candy kits. The confectionery component of each line ranges from tiny nutty nougat candy or sugary "pills", to candy-coated puffed wheat or puffed rice. None of these little kits have yet been built by me or likely ever will. The technology of producing such tiny models has advanced during the past twenty years to a point where more-authentic, preassembled, and realistically-weathered examples of nearly all of them have become easily and inexpensively available to anybody with an inclination in obtaining such.
FAB
Bill Earle
Beautiful collection Bill! I do love Japanese miniatures. Is the painted Zero X a Morinaga one?
ReplyDeleteThese are really neat. I do like the small side of collecting and mention it from time to time on my blog. It's a terrific solution for people with little room for collections.
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