2012-12-01, 00:14
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I like how the model company just added a whole bunch of completely non-show related kits to tag along with the licensed kits. If they had been more on the ball, they would have had some new box art and decal sets and marketed all of the tanks in the show. These must have been the cheapest ever licensed model kits for the model company to produce. The only added parts seem to be the sashimono for the StuG III.
Then again, I suppose that nobody expected Girls und Panzer to catch on like this. It also gives them the opportunity to come up with more customized kits (model heads?) if the current model line has good sales.
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2012-12-01, 01:18
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Here's the link. (Danbooru, probably NSFW for ads, though of course if you're looking at the original picture you're already going to have people wondering.) |
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2012-12-01, 02:19
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The model companies you're trying to talk about that make the kits, so far have four licensed model kits in the list, the three kits released by Platz: the Stug III, the Panzer IV and the 38(t) which were originally made by Dragon/Cyber Hobby which aren't cheap and some of their kits are the best in the armor modeling market. Dragon/Cyberhobby is from Hong Kong and Platz as their distributor in Japan, could use their plastic kits with added GuP decals. And we have the Type 89 by Fine Molds, which is produced by themselves and isn't some cheap or low quality model kit company either, if you search for Star Wars or some Ghibli model kits you'll find all over the internet that the best ones are from Fine Molds. In a sense both companies aren't going cheapest for the GuP tank kits. Also they aren't releasing all the tanks that have appeared in GuP with decals because no single company has every single model tank ever created in model kit form. Platz released whatever tanks they had in their catalogue or Dragon's catalogue which matched the ones in the anime and added the GuP decals, same for Fine Molds. Other companies might have the other tanks in kit form but aren't jumping in the GuP Licensed product bandwagon. The tanks with decals are the first batch of products that are coming out for GuP because this companies already got the tank kits, and designing and manufacturing decals isn't time consuming as making a figure be it injection plastic or prepainted PVC. If you ever looked at release dates for figures, you'd find out that they usually come out months after an anime ended airing, because it takes time to design, sculpt, send to china to make mold, test production, QC, send test to Japan for the OK, manufacture and send back to Japan for sale and so on. Last edited by Kamui04; 2012-12-01 at 03:26. Reason: fixed some info |
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2012-12-01, 06:37
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This is a most interesting image showing the kind of research the production team does for the tanks. It shows the interior of the tanks along with the crew arrangements in isometric view.
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2012-12-01, 08:08
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characters are really important and the fact that you could probably buy regular versions of those tanks and paint them yourself for less than half the price. That said, id pay like $50 just for a 1/35 Kay or Darjeeling. hopefully they make more models or at least sell emblem decals. |
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2012-12-01, 09:35
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2012-12-01, 10:10
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Not really sure where the two other names come from, though supposedly they also come from the same code-digging from which Caesar's and Erwin's names come from:
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2012-12-01, 10:48
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Y'know what's a downer? Looking at your own post in Preview Post and suddenly seeing in the thread history that Sumeragi has posted the exact same image while you were writing your reply.
 I was writing comments regarding the artist's variations on the subject. Large/small, clothes/no... Regarding the production art, it does remind you how small some of these interiors are. The models: Modification kits to just have the crewmembers' head sticking out would be simpler, but that would probably still require nearly as much effort as trying to roll out entire figures. I don't think the WWII armor model market was prepared for the popularity of Garupan... |
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2012-12-01, 11:04
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Also, in response to Sumeragi's image:
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2012-12-01, 11:20
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Senshadou does have the right idea though, tanks too cramped? Use smaller crewmembers! |
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