http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/afvclub/afv35079m.htm
Check out what it says on this PE set. Notice anything odd? It says Tigger 1, like the Winnie the Pooh character.
That’s funny! I’ll have to pass that on to a friend who I build kits for who happens to be a Tigger maniac. [:D]
My favorite typo was for the Monogram Bf109 Messerschmitt. It identified the pilot by the last name of “Scheiss” which is German for the four letter word for poo-poo. Somebody transposed the E and the I.
So, the AFV Club Tiger likes to bounce? [:D] How about painting it like Tigger?..haha
I love reading the histories included on foreign kit instruction sheets or even the instructions themselves.
Watch out well for fire!
PS-although their english is MUCH better than my japanese.
Dan
Has anyone here ever built a “Science Treasury” kit? (reboxings of old Hasegawa 1/72 armour kits)
The translations on their instruction sheets are absolutely -hysterical-.
The instruction sheet for their Churchill Mk.1 (their other kits are equally as bad!) lists a “turnplate fundus”, “left notor pate fork”, “thief barrel”, “gharry gate”, “endo left carwheel” or “lefe outside cartwheel” along with many other equally incomprehensibly-named parts. (As far as I can work out, these are the turret base, left sprocket mount, coaxial MG barrel, top hull hatch, and outer left idler wheel half respectively).
And the various “health and safety” warnings on the instructions are even worse. For example: “TEAR JPAND THROW THEPIASTIC BAGSCONTA NGKIT PARS AS CHLDREDMAY SUFFOCATE BY SWALLOWINGOR WEARING OVER HEAD” and “DO NOT USE NEAR FIRE TO ANOID FLAMMABILITY”
Thankfully the kits are of better quality than the translation, I have built the SU-85 and the GMC fuel tanker which are both quite good models, and have a few others in my stash, all bought for £1.50 each at a kit sale.
To think there is someone being paid to translate and write those instructions…
maybe they’re not. at least maybe they’re not any more
It’s not a typo…the Tigger I was the most feared armored vehicle in all the Reich. The very sight of this instrument of destruction was enough to strike terror in the hearts of allied troops.
(I suppose now we should start referring to the Ardennes as “the Hundred Acre Woods”?)
…for obvious reasons, this picture is Not To Be Used For The Other Use.
Fantastic picture. Tigger I’s rule!!! [:D]