Tamiya Master Modeler. Creating the Tamiya style Tank Sherman making a saving to buying

making a saving to buying it all individually

The solution came in the form of a completely new generation of military vehicles

a back pocket

height: 85mm

their main purpose was to knock out enemy tanks

Tamiya Master Modeler. Creating the Tamiya style Tank Sherman making a saving to buyingThe blue and red star logo of Tamiya is now recognized internationally as the mark of model kits of unrivalled quality and precision. It was not always so. In the 1950s Shunsaku Tamiya joined the family firm a debt ridden lumber business in an air raid flattened city. He started manufacturing wooden models only to have that business wiped out by the arrival of plastic model kits imported from America. This autobiography shows how he responded to that