Master Modeler

Creating the Tamiya Style

By: Shunsaku Tamiya, Giles Murray (Transcribed by)

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Hardcover | 1 February 2002

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The 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 challenge, successfully switching from wood to plastic before producing a series of hit products-1/12 formula one cars, slot racing cars, military miniature tanks, warships, radio control and 4-wheel-drive cars-that continues uninterrupted to this day.
Model maker, craftsman, photographer, machinist and accidental businessman-this book is the self-portrait of a man whose energy, curiosity and love of perfection created a new standard in modelling and gave pleasure to millions of fans the world over.

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.,." a classic Japanese business success story that can be summed up in three words: imitate, innovate, annihilate." -The Daily Yomiuri

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A Happy Encounter with the World of Wooden Models	p. 17
My first experience of modeling	p. 19
So that's what a reverse gull wing looks like!	p. 25
Son and heir to a modeling "business"?	p. 28
Size matters!	p. 33
The painful switch to plastic	p. 37
You call this a model?	p. 39
Lost at sea with plastic model-making	p. 43
Battleship Musashi steers us into the red	p. 49
Back from the brink	p. 54
A new year, a new order for the Panther	p. 61
Komatsuzaki provides me with my right-hand man	p. 66
Our Zero fighter is praised to the skies at a Ginza restaurant	p. 69
Molds: The Life and Soul of Models	p. 73
At the mercy of the mold makers	p. 75
Sayonara to mold makers: Tamiya begins in-house mold making	p. 79
Technician training before mold making	p. 80
Business revs up with our in-house slot cars	p. 85
From Japan's no. 1 to world best: A new goal	p. 88
The crash of the slot car craze	p. 92
Research: The Key to Model Manufacturing	p. 95
Revelations at the Aberdeen Tank Museum	p. 97
Tamiya Hall at Bovington Tank Museum	p. 105
Lending a hand to airplane restoration at the Smithsonian	p. 110
Bound for Israel to check out a Soviet tank	p. 112
Freezing fieldwork at the Patton Museum	p. 117
Colleagues I'll never forget	p. 121
Tamiya News: the Japanese version of Airfix Magazine!	p. 123
Military figures push the envelope of model expression	p. 126
Learning the tricks of the trade with a master animator	p. 129
A starring role for the Schwimmwagen, supporting actor of the battlefield	p. 130
Tales in tableaux: The appeal of dioramas	p. 134
The enduring appeal of tank models	p. 138
Tank models: Accessible to all yet meaningful	p. 143
The maiden voyage of the unique Waterline Series	p. 147
How I met the Waterline Series artist	p. 149
Hobbyists Do Things Seriously	p. 153
If a tread pattern's worth doing, it's worth doing well!	p. 155
Kudos for the Honda F1 model at the world's top toy fair	p. 164
Models: More than mere miniatures	p. 168
Buying--and dismantling--a Porsche for the sake of research	p. 171
The man from accounts develops a quiet-running R/C car	p. 174
The development of our battery-powered R/C car provides a lesson in valueing employee independence	p. 179
Tamiya R/C cars kick up dust in California	p. 182
Even Stephen Hawking shops for Tamiya	p. 185
F1 turns Tamiya into a worldwide name	p. 186
Mini 4WD Cars: Eighteen Years of Ups and Downs	p. 193
Wanted: An easy-to-assemble model	p. 195
Children shun the first-generation Mini 4WD cars	p. 199
Wild Willy's baby brother	p. 202
Changing tack by adding speed	p. 203
Children: Natural inventors and masters of customization	p. 207
Plummeting popularity: Is slot car history repeating itself?	p. 212
Fully cowled 4WD cars resuscitate the craze	p. 214
Ingenuity and resolve: The heart of Mini 4WD racing	p. 218
Mini 4WD cars: Encapsulating the Tamiya spirit	p. 222
Afterword: Under Western Eyes: A Gaijin's View of Tamiya	p. 227
Tamiya in the twenty-first century	p. 229
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