Military Illustrated Modeller – August 2019

AFV Edition 

MIM takes the trip to

'model-kit city' in Japan

to find the new armour

products from this year's

Shizuoka Hobby Show

T

his year's Shizuoka Hobby Show

followed the familiar format of

past years, with a presentation

of Tamiya's new items at

company headquarters, allowing

Tamiya's loyal group of international

agents to see the products first-

hand and before anyone else. The

1:35 German Heavy Self-Propelled

Howitzer 'Hummel' Sd.Kfz.165 (Late

Production) was the new release

this year and is hotly anticipated by

armour modellers. The kit is mostly

all-new, with just the lower hull,

suspension bogies/road wheels taken

the 2014 Sd.Kfz.164 'Nashorn' kit

(35335). Read on to see some of the

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Tamiya 1:16 RC Sheridan

It was a while coming, but the big, full-option

radio control M551 is now here!