Just placed a pre-order for 3 models with HLJ.
They are all made/released by Pitroad:
JGSDF Type 82 Command & Communication Vehicle
http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?PITG-02
JGSDF Type 87 Recon Combat Vehicle
http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?PITG-03
JGSDF Decontamination Vehicle
http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?PITG-04
I just love wheeled armored vehicles.
Now I have just to wait for them to show up in the Mail. Grrrr[V]
those look like beautiful kits
I can’t wait to get them as well. I hope Tamiya remembered the grab handles and front headlight guards this time.
Those are NOT Tamiya kits. [;)]
Looks like Pitroad will include 2 figures per kit.
Doh!! I can’t believe that screw up. [banghead] I think I will go to bed now.
Those will be my first Pitroad Kits, I always thought they only made ship related stuff.
From what I hear their quality is very good.
I have the Pit Road JGSDF Type 89 IFV. It’s a very nice kit, but is in need of some p/e sets as some of the detail is softly moulded, IMO. The styrene is very similar to the new plastic currently being used by Trumpeter.
HLJ lists 2 kits one with PE and one without, plus a extra PE & barrel set under Pitroad.
Never even heard of the manufacturer. Either way, the vehicles look pretty cool. Maybe I’ll give that decontamination vehicle a try.
I think they are very typical of many of the japanese Kit companies, small and hardly known outside of Japan or their specialised fields.
Here is their Homepage, quiet a few interesting items there:
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~pitroad/
Pit Road makes good stuff. Those new JGSDF vehicles are indeed pretty cool!