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I think he meant what’s more commonly called Fantasy and Sci-Fi at most contests (a pretty broad designation, not always accurately applied, to be sure).
Quite, he decided that he wanted to flush all modeling down to 5 categories and called Scifi ‘mythical’ for some reason.
To our new friend asking the questions I would make one more recommendation. WWII is a fairly covered topic there is not much you can do that will not have been done by at LEAST three companies, two in Styrene and one in Resin. If you want to stand out look elseware in subject matter
One mans mythical is one mans sc-fi, one mans garbage is another mans treasure.[aln]
I for one would love to see more Russian stuff, and I am always up for more IJN/IJA stuff
heck, yeah! I’d LOVE to see Halo kits come out in styrene! [::DD0]
… Uh because it makes sense! Its a good fit in a very high categorization of model genres.
Air, Sea, Land, Space and Mythical. 
Anyway… back to the topic at hand.
I think the Halo vehicles would make awesome kits. I know I would definitively buy them.
That makes sense, a lot of the popular Sci-Fi of today have taken on a mythical status. And I’m sure the Odyssey was the sci-fi of it’s day.
Now back to the topic at hand:
Here’s some ideas:
WW1 stuff - Tanks, ships and aircraft. with the 100th anniversary coming up, there would be a market for affordable, well designed kits.
Video game models would be a good idea as well, start with snaps to get the kids building, then offer kits that could be customized to what they play (ex modern cars packaged like the old AMT 3in1 car kits for a popular driving game)
I’m very curious to see what you have on the drawing board and hope this helps.
Bandai’s 1/35th scale Batman Begins/The Dark Knight Batmobile Tumbler is by far one of the cooler movie based models in that scale.
1/48 armor seems to be taking off in popularity. Tamiya’s line of WWII vehicles are nice, but the selection is still fairly limited. Even with other companies like Hobby Boss in the mix, there are still a lot of subjects that have not yet been covered in 1/48 injection moldings. And Post War, Cold War, and Post Cold War have been completely ignored in 1/48, save for some horrid R/C toy ones by Academy.
Thank you all for your valuale tips.
I personally wonder of how you think of Mythical category of Japanese model kits.
Hasegawa is going to release Cosmo Fighter kit from Reiji Matsumoto’s Captain Harlock.
Fine Mold released Laputa’s robot in scale kit a while ago.
About Mythical and Car category, it is difficult to nail down the appropriate subject
for Asian / US / European market.
As I can see from your comments, MM might be a common caetgory for overseas market.
No one has mentioned it, but I, and more than a few other US Army and Marine Corps veterans would like to see STYRENE kits of 1960s-1980s era “Soft-Skinned vehicles”, or what’s officially known as Tactical trucks in 1/35th scale to compliment the towed howitzers, and command-post vehicles.
We’re talking about the M1008/1009 series of CUCVs (Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicles) basd on the Chevrolet Blazer and Pick-Ups, M35A2 Series 2 1/2 ton trucks, with both cargo bed and communication van-bodies, and M39, M40, M54, Truck 5 Ton, 6x6 series of Cargo (Heavy Artillery prime movers), Wreckers (from Transportation Companies), and Dump-trucks (Combat Engineers) Also, the M151A2 series of 1/4 ton jeeps… Add to that list the “Gamma-Goat” M561 6x6 truck
Start with the CUCVs, M1008/1009 CUCVs and the M561 “Gamma Goat”… And keep 'em under 45.00 USD…
1.I think most folks welcome any new kit as long as it is good quality
- It must be of a good subject
2a.Priced consistent with what it is.
in other words don’t price it to a point where I have to hide the kit with nine other things to get it past my CFO
That’s exactly what I did after the iraq invasion. I had to have a Abrams and Bradley. I’m not a modern armor builder, but my son is.
For Japanese manufacturers, my favorite are Tamiya for armor & Hasegawa for planes.
Fummy, the term used in the US for what you call ‘Mythical’ category is ‘Sci/Fi - Fanatasy’. Thought you may want to know.
Stickpusher, Airfix has announced Land Rovers used by UK forces in Afganistan and Iraq in 1/48.
My friend I can tell you personally I would LOVE to have larger scale figures and kits from Japanese Mythos and their Feudal - Medieval period.
I would go out of my way to buy a figure kit of Benkei and Minamoto no Yoshitune.
Figures in the Feudal-Medieval period Japanese or European are VERY rare in scales outside of 1/72nd and I know alot of people who this is just to small to do and the details are just subpar because of the size.
I want the Laputa Robot, I already have Bandai’s full line of Nausicaa kits they re-released.
I would suggest staying away from cars, the market is FLOODED just completly saturdated. Unless you can do something noone else has done before with them, I would suggest stay away.
The new Blade Runner hover police car in 1/24 is cool. Revell’s 1/32 Arado and Hawk are steps in the right direction. Good quality, well made , large kits at reasonable prices.
One thing I’ve never understood about one genre of military modeling… In the case of the afore-mention CUCV kits… A 1/24-1/25th scale kit of a 1988 Chevy Silverado Pick-up or Chevy Blazer would run about 18-25.00 USD…
But put an “M-Number” in the name (M1008 or M1009 for instance), leave out a “complete” engine (only showing the bottom of it molded into the frame and maybe adding a separate part for the exhaust system), and mold it in 1/35th scale, it’s now gonna be running 40-50.00 USD…
Someone from Japan (or even a US Manufacturer) want to explain that?
My money would be on them just being greedy and not thinking you would notice.
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…and, as long as we keep buying them the price will keep going up. Simple economics, supply and demand.
Thanks, waikong, but we don’t really call it the “mythical” category, at least, it’s not a term generally used at shows and in publications. It was one poster’s choice of words. You are correct, generally, mythical figures are lumped into Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
How about a car? Do you have a dream car to be recreated into plastic model kit?