A new form of subliminal messaging perhaps.

Could be worse, at least it's not Girls und Panzers...

Not nearly as concerning as you knowing the names of the stuffed characters sir LOL, WOW that is a special box. I had a Trumpeter 48th Condor that came with a 2 1/2 foot long human hair in it, figured someone was trying to get out of China one piece at a time. I have a friend who build 16th, is that kit available in the U.S.?

ACK! When I first saw the man on the box end-flap there I thought it was Gary Busey. When I see Gary Busey looking back at me from any packaging I'll go check myself into the nuthouse.... 

Armornut: I hope hair at least was black. If it were blonde or red I'd want to know who's opening my stuff from China and poking around in there! 

LOL Gamera, yea it was black lol, couldn't be so lucky as to have a Swedish......model.....lol. That would be tough to explain.

Oh, you got the Special Edition Jagdtiger boxing!  Lucky you, Mr. Contest Winner!    Cut out and mail the oddball printed areas back to China and you will receive a genuine 2-1/2' long strand of hair from a real Chinese person!!!

Hee hee, I don't know what's going on over there.  I got a Trumpeter 1/35 S-Tank that had GUNPOWDER in it.  When I opened the box, I immediately thought I smelled firecrcakers, so a quick inspection of the contents revealed some silver-grey powder in the hull.  For fun, I collected the powder onto a small square of aluminum foil and lit it.  Yep, gunpowder all right!  Wow, so authentic!

I guess Trumpeter and their suppliers print all kinds of packaging, run hair salons, and manufature firecrackers!  So THAT'S why they have no time for research...

OMG! Gunpower!?! Wonder how on earth THAT got though customs!

Gamera,

With the thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks (rockets) that get to Hawaii every year, I am not surprised.  But they always poke a hole in every package I get from overseas, to get their endoscope to look inside.  But I bought my S-Tank from a LHS, so maybe it got through with a shipment of illegal aerial rockets!

But that Jagdtiger box is pretty funny!  The closet I can come to that one is the Hobbycraft CF-105 I got with the FokkerTriplane decal sheet.  It was printed alongside the CF-105's markings, but the majority of the correct portion of the decal was cut (diagonally!), leaving mostly Iron Crosses and such.  So glad that only happened once.

I can only sumise that the extra pictures are colour tests. Also I can't believe that as kits are boxed and checked that this one got through quality control, never mind the printers themselves, but as the very front part of the lower hull of my Jagdtiger is warped and will be a right pain to fix and won't let me alter the front end for display options that this kit was done and put together on a Friday Afternoon just after a skinful of rice and some strong chinese alcohol!

However, I did manage to get this off ebay and sent from Germany with about £80 under the official UK RRP so a bargain like that is not to be sneezed at at all and any problems or mysteries are secondary to actually making such a saving on a kit that has such a huge box you can use it to go abroard for a fortnight with!

This one has been at the top of my list along with the Tiger II ever since it was announced and when idly surfing Ebay it popped up them buy it now was a total no brainer!

As a treat for you all, here is a picture of how my large workbench currently looks!