News from the Tokyo Model Show

Pit-Road announced the following 1/700 Scale Ships
USN DD-421 Benson and DD-605 Caldwell to be released November2002 samples were displayed.
IJN CA Furutaka is to be released in December 2002 but only the mock-up was at the show.
JMSDF Towada is also to be released December 2002 but no sample was shown.
IJN Unryu is to be released December 2002 and a pre-production model was shown.
USN BB-44 California is to be released December 2002 as a resin kit and a sample was shown.

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Aircraft and Others:
Modern Russian Aircraft set is to be released as injection molded kit including several versions of Su-27s, Mig-23/27/31 etc.; A-1 Skyraider, F9F, F11F, Mig-15/17-19, IJN Experimental Aircraft, Japanese Army Aircraft, German army armoured trains set with Tiger 1 and Panther, Soviet T-35/BT-5. WW1 Mk4 are to be released in white metal and the samples were shown.

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JMSDF SS-501 Kuroshio (Ex-Gato class), IJN midget sub Kairyu, French Deep Submersible Archimedes will be released this year and the samples were shown.

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IJN Type 89 12.7 cm AA gun will be released this year.

1/700 Parts
Etched metal parts for the following are to be released this year:
IJN Kimikawa Maru/ Mogami/ Mikasa/ Izumo,JMSDF/ Tachikaze/ Hatsuyuki/ USN Iowa Modern Version.

Tamiya
Tamiya showed the samples of Mikuma and Mogami.

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Hasegawa
Hasegawa showed the samples of the Ise & Hyuga Hybrid BB/CV class.

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