OK we are grumbling about Tamiya Importer prices. Lets make a comparison! What does a Tamiya 1/35 Late Tiger 1 cost where you live. No special sales prices please.
$110.96 from squadron. Probably cheaper in Asian countries near Japan
real price is $124 [xx(]
man are you kidding me?!? 110.96?? sounds like the cost of their RC one… the static one here in NY is around 50 or 60 dollars
$40 here in Memphis
You need to specify a kit number!
Are you talking about their straight original kit or one of the new updated kits?
The original Late Tiger (#35146) is no longer available around here, but in the LHS it ran $45.00 when it was available.
The semi-updated Late Tiger (#89566) is available and costs $49.00 in the LHS.
The full blown Late Tiger (#89628) with metal tracks, PE, metal barrel and crew, costs $127.00 in the LHS.
Needless to say, I don’t buy model kits at the LHS.
Jin is thinking about the one that comes with a metal barrel and friul tracks…
That’s what I’m thinking since he lives in Ohio. You can get them off of ebay for low $20’s. Wait until Dragon finally gets on the market, then you can get them even cheeper.
[:D]hi,i have tamiyas Churchill mk-vii ,and i think i payed about $40.00 can for it[2c][:D]
Just under $40 in Indianapolis.
To really have a full appreciation of how expensive (or cheap) things are we need to state the price of the item together with the minimum daily wage in the area. This is to give us an idea if the kit prices are affordable or not.
Here in Manila that Tamiya 1/35 Late Tiger 1 would cost about US$22.
Cheap right? Yeah sure…
The minimum daily wage is US$5.
Now you can complain about the prices in your areas…
[:D] good point Dwight,i most of use dont think about the wagesthat alot of folks get,myself im on a pension and i get too much.[:(] oh well cant complain,nobody listens anyway.[:D]
Tigerman, I think that US$7.50 you mentioned is the HOURLY wage, right? That will make it US$60 per day. (Now I would be in heaven if I can earn that in a day…[:p])
The US$5 I mentioned is the DAILY rate. That 1/35 Tamiya Late Tiger 1 would cost about 4 days work here…(hmmm forget about eating for 4 days…[:D])
[;)]
But plastic kits from ANY company consumes oil.
And today’s world consumes a ton of plastic, and oil.
Just look at all the wasted oil that goes into plastics! I bought a mem chip for a digi camera the other day, and it was packaged in enough plastic - so no one could shoplift the monster-sized box - to make an Academy 1/25th Panther! What a freakin waste!
That, plus us Amurikens insatiable gluttony for monster-sized gas-hogging SUVs. It’s a freakin arms-race on our highways as size=safety. I’d be happy to drive a little Suzuki, but not when the lone soccer mom commuter in the other lane is applying makeup at 60MPH in her Tahoe; I have no choice but to drive a mid-sized car if I expect to survive her running into me.
And GeeeeeeeDub didn’t make it any better by handing out tax breaks for SUV buyers either, the freakin pizza delivery boy drives an Escalade. Sheesh.
You want cheap plastic prices again? Let’s get back to returnable bottles and paper-based containers again. And have the DC dimwits enforce the CAFE regs on Detroit.
Here in Canada , the Tamiya M1A1/A2 Abrams , and the Yamiya Tiger 1 ( Late ) , cost about $ 55.00 , and the Italeri M1A2 goes for $ 50 . Most DML kits , I can buy for under $ 40 .oo .
Frank
" PERSEVERANCE "
here in England the Tiger 1 is £34.99 = $63.96
i cant find the one with metal barrel or tracks
the Panzer IV with PE zimerate is £39.99 = $73.12
the FAMO with trailer is £99.99 = $182.83
Italeri Tiger 1 is £12.50 = $22.86
Revel Jagdtiger £19.99 = $36.56
Airfix 1.24th STUKA is £49.99 = $91.42
ive picked kits that i would think are availible World wide
it would be good to see the prices of these,
ive put the Airfix (UK), Italeri (Italy) and Revell (Germany) as there from near here
The price of that Tiger here is almost the same price as what Dwight Ta-ala said. However, the minimum daily wage per day is way higher than US$5
52.95 from Military hobbies in Toronto and that is with free shipping
The semi-updated Late Tiger (#89566) costs 55.95USD.
i can get it for $49.00 here in tasmania australia…jazz