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slodder
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Posted: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 03:39 AM UTC
I got my Squadron flier in the mail today and HOLY COW - there are FIVE pages of car products

- old cars
- new cars
- diorama accessories (figures, tools, garage equipment)
- race cars
- trucks

wow
blaster76
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Posted: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 06:38 AM UTC
They do stock cars. Though more a sideline. They ar big wholesalers to hobby shops and they go by the name of Military models something or other.
WeWillHold
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Posted: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 06:49 AM UTC
Received mine also today Scott. Again, the flyer seems to pack a lot of diversification into not a whole lot of pages, --basically a lit bit of everything with some nice canopies, decals, 1/48 armor, naval, lots of armor, mags, and as you mentioned a load of cars. A fun read-- only problem is the wallet's going to get lighter as a couple of kits in there look pretty tempting.

Steve
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Posted: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 12:29 PM UTC
Lots of car goodies. The Fujimi garage have been on my wishlist for a long time.
If only more manufactures would make 1/24-1/25 scale figures and accessories.
Snowhand
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Posted: Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 01:19 AM UTC
You can tell they're more bent to the military: They can't tell a Chevy Camaro and a Ferrari Testarossa apart :-)
mother
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Posted: Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 05:23 AM UTC
Darn I haven't recieved mine yet, how are the prices. Are the better than your LHS's.

Joe
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Posted: Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 06:43 AM UTC
The Revell and Tamiya prices are better than the LHS. Couldn't tell you about Fujimi - I've never seen teh kits.

Anyone else purchased any Fujimi cars?
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Posted: Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 09:35 AM UTC
Haven't gotten mind yet either, I just peruse through the PDF at their site.
Eventually it arrives, usually mid month.
Snowhand
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Posted: Friday, November 03, 2006 - 02:01 AM UTC
I have some unbuilt Fujimi kits at home. A Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII, A Subaru Impreza WRC STI and a Honda Integra Type R.

As kits, they're basic though.. curbside, and without the things you get used to when buying/ building Revell or Tamiya kits.

Still, sometimes, they are the only game in town...
Sabot
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Posted: Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 01:21 AM UTC

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Anyone else purchased any Fujimi cars?


I have a Fujimi Infinity Q45 that I bought at Toys R Us for $2.90. Nice curbside kit with right hand drive.

Many years ago when I first started using Squadron (1988), they had cars, sci-fi, dinosaurs, monsters, etc. in their catalog. It wasn't until the last 5 years that they started adding them back into the catalog. I could look at some of my old annual catalogs and figure out just when they stopped.
Grumpyoldman
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Posted: Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 02:40 AM UTC
Fujumi's Porsches' are excellent, their older 356's are excellently detailed, especially considering the molds are close to 20 years old. Built a few years ago for a friend that's a Porsche fanatic.

You just need to read the discription of their car kits carefully, some are curb side, others fully detailed.
Snowhand
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Posted: Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 03:49 AM UTC
Oh, I am sure it says it's curbside on the box, in Japanese allright..

Except, my Japanese isn't what it used to be.
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