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Looking for some original issue dates for Japanese kits

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  • Member since
    June 2004
  • From: Pumpkin Harbor, Vermont
Looking for some original issue dates for Japanese kits
Posted by Dave DeLang on Friday, July 23, 2010 9:13 AM
NorEastCon is going to have a special catagory next year honoring the contest's 40th anniversary. It is for entries built from kits first manufactured inor before 1972. If you're dealing with Airfix, Revell, Frog or Lindberg it's pretty easy to find these dates because of the rabid fan base those brands have.

Japanese kits are harder. I've been trying to see if some old Japanese kits are eligible and have had no luck with google. Can anyone here confirm if any of these kits qualify?

Hasegawa 1/32 F-104 - kit number S-1
Tamiya 1/48 A6M5c - kit number 6427
Otaki 1/48 J2M3 - kit number OT 2-9

  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Sydney, Australia
Posted by Phil_H on Friday, July 23, 2010 9:26 AM

Dave DeLang
Tamiya 1/48 A6M5c - kit number 6427

Does not qualify. I would put this one at somewhere around 1974/5 

Kit 6418, the Mitsubishi Raiden/Jack pre-dates the A6M5c kit and is dated (on the sprues) 1973

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