Tamiya Corporation

The company Tamiya is a Japanese manufacturer of model kits and remote-controlled vehicles and ships. The company is located in Shizuoka. Sales in Germany via the Simba Dickie Group.

Models

The model series go by various military vehicles on ships and civil aircraft to motorcycles and cars. The scale ranges from 1/ 700 to scale 1/5.

The remote-controlled vehicles and ships are operated either by electric motors or internal combustion engines; but also remote-controlled sailboats will be made ​​.

However, in aircraft and marine area of ​​focus is on kits lifelike exhibition models in high quality. In the shipping sector TAMIYA is represented by models in the known 1/700 waterline series (initially mainly by Japanese models, meanwhile selection of American, British and German ships ), but also offers large-scale models in 1/ 350 ( whole body ) to, including the " Bismarck " and the U.S. aircraft carrier " Enterprise ". Plane kits, there are mainly in the scales 1 /32, 1/48, 1/72 and 1/100 (essentially military models ). As a manufacturer of plastic kits for Scale models TAMIYA has become known by the extensive series of military vehicles in 1/35 (also available in 1/48 for some time ) as well as by individuals, vans and racing cars (in 1 /20, 1/24 and 1 / 12) and motorcycles (in 1/ 12 and 1/6).

History R / C

The history of radio-controlled models began on 4 December in 1976 with the appearance of a faithfully recreated Porsche 934 Turbo RSR, which is a sought-after collector's item today. The first model in the offroad segment is the American military vehicle XR311 that came on 16 December 1977 on the market. Other milestones in the development of remote-controlled replicas of real vehicles represent the first so-called "Special Racing Buggies" Rough Rider and Sand Scorcher is ( end of 1979 ), to be paid for today also high prices among collectors.

Another point in the development of detailed replicas of real vehicles in 1:10 scale models are the Toyota Hilux 4 × 4 Pick Up and Blazing Blazer, the American is that for the first time a real functioning 3-speed gearbox realized. To this end, in addition to gas / brake and steering another channel on the RC system was necessary in order to select on the remote control between gears can.

Until that time, the kits consisted mostly of metal parts, soon the first models appeared on the market in which the chassis was made ​​of ABS plastic to reduce weight. Examples of these "plastic " era of funny Wild Willy, who was able to drive on the rear wheels, or the Porsche 959 with its detailed lexan body shell that emulates the Paris -Dakar car. Examples of racing buggies are the Frog, Grasshopper, Hornet, or Fox. The first four-wheel drive " competition buggy ", the Hot Shot, presented a performance advantage in the offroad segment dar.

In addition to the development of the 3-speed models with the Toyota 4 × 4 Pickup Bruiser followed several models on plastic chassis, which can be referred to as the first "Monster Trucks". Again, cheap entry-level models were available, some of which are still manufactured today, eg Midnight Pumpkin or based on the same chassis Lunch Box.

Under the name Tamiya Fighter Cup a racing season is held annually for young drivers remote controlled electric cars, whose Germany - finals takes place in Sonneberg since 1997.

Miscellaneous

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