Thanks. The last comment I got on this old video was some dingus whining about how my camera shook around too much. It was an old camera from 10 years ago or so and he was complaining about the quality.
I noticed you looked interested in that display turntable when you picked it up. Man that must have been so much fun. Thanks for taking the time to post this. I also heard you say you had been carrying the camera all day. I am sure many of the people who watch your videos really appreciate you taking this video, like all of your videos. Thanks so much for posting these. They are a lot of fun to watch.
Yes, the model train company. I was trying to remember where Kato was located when I was writing the first post. I guess geographically an open house was out of the question, lol. What is your primary modeling interests? Mine is military armor, some military planes, N scale model trains, etc. Thanks for sharing the video, appreciate it, nice to see the tour, going to watch your other video next.
I absolutely love and prefere anything Tamika the models are top notch and the quality of each car shell is amazing only a few mould lines to remove and off we go lol great quality I’m truelly jealous mate I’d love to go here
the headquarters of our company our in Shizuoka . I asked the president of our company I would like to visit the tamiya factory . He pulled some strings . Next thing you know we are inside the factory . We met the CEO of tamiya . We even got business card . I have pics of there displays . We actually walked inside the manufacturing plant.
Thanks for the reply Steve, I'll check out your channel. I've always been into the trains, ended up having a career as a conductor and later locomotive engineer, don't do the real trains any more, back to the models....less stress, lol.
Tamiya model cars go together really nice I am currently working on a Tamiya Honda City Cabriolet I see there is one in the display case in this video and yes they do make a lot of a Honda City Models haha
Well, they didn't want any filming in the graphic design room or in the factory downstairs. I started recording the graphic designer guy using his computer before I saw the sign about no cameras, so I cut that part out. I asked permission to film the artist drawing on the aisle. The factory downstairs was very impressive. The models are designed on a computer, and parts are precisely cut out using X, Y, and Z coordinates. The machine could make anything, I bet.
all those armor kits at the 10:00 mark. it's almost impossible to find any hobby store in my city in Florida with any in stock im stuck ordering via amazon. I would have went crazy. they literally have everything. every paint, wash, tool, accessory, model. omg I just...I just. I need a towel ;-)
I suffer the same fate, Johnny. I have to drive nearly 50 miles to the north on I-95 to find a good hobby shop, Michael's and Hobby Lobby can not hold a candle in the wind to Riverside Hobbies in Sebastian! It's worth the trip because there is NOTHING in the south lands.
stevethefishdotnet yeah it makes me cringe too, I hate it in fact! I watch a lot of modelling channels and so many guys get it wrong. Many openly admit they simply don't care! I've been rewatching all your hobby shop visits recently as it really takes me back to my childhood when we had some great, well stocked model shops in the U.K. All seem to be sadly gone now😭. Thanks for the great channel.
I appreciate the kind feedback. Sometimes I get the worst feedback on these types of videos, with nitpicking jerks getting angry apparently because I did not upload a 5 hour video cataloging the store's entire inventory. They're a bunch of self-entitled buffoons and sometimes I have to just delete their comments. I have the opportunity to do another one of these videos for a model shop in Fujioka. I have had a few very long conversations with the owner and he is welcome to me doing a video of his store. I just don't make it down there very often.
stevethefishdotnet I'll certainly keep my eyes open for that possible future video, I'm looking forward to it. It's great that you can chat to the owner at length, I'm guessing your Japanese must be pretty fluent by now? I vaguely remember you say you're an English teacher in one of your videos (sorry if I've got that wrong), did you move there for work, family/wife, or just for the love of the hobby? (cheap paint!!!) Thanks again for the videos, I'll stop bothering you now!
No, feel free to bother me. I've become friends with people who've "bothered" me. I wouldn't have made this channel if I didn't like interacting with other hobby enthusiasts. To answer your question as to why I moved to Japan, it's all of the above. My wife and I weren't happy living in America and wanted to move back to Japan. After our house was broken into and the police couldn't be bothered to even look into it, that was the last straw. I am an English teacher. I worked at Aoshima for about 7 months but that's a long story. I like the company, but I'm glad I'm not there anymore. That was 3 years ago, and my Japanese study has stagnated since then. I am nowhere near fluent, but I can get by better than most.
sad but true. My generation 18-30. or millennial as they call us. I exclude myself being raised by my grandparents i was taught better. Anyways this generation does not have the intellectual means or the pride in craftsmanship to take sprues and turn them into master works of art. Much less just assemble them. There are exceptions mind you. This is the real reason though.
I used to be into model trains when I was a kid. Now I am primarily interested in science fiction models and car models. I have some model build video series on my channel if you're interested in seeing what I've worked on and what I am currently working on.
Kato? The model railroad company? I saw a lot of model railroad exhibits at the Shizuoka Hobby Show. Kato is based in Tokyo and Saitama-ken. They may have been at the Shizuoka Hobby Show, but I don't know. Tamiya is just down the street from where the Shizuoka Hobby Show was located.
I really enjoyed your Vid, It would really rock if you took a tour (with your camcorder) of Toho. I heard that Legendary Pictures bought the rights to make another american Godzilla movie, it suppose to be a complete reboot. Peace
So I see that you did visit the mothership. Quick question: When walking through the museum, and the area where the TamiyaCon winners were, I saw Dale King's Porsche, and Brian Jocelyn's USS Missouri, but I didn't see the F-16CJ I was looking for. Do you happen to remember if it was there anywhere?
You are correct. I've never cared for R/C, and I always skip past this as well as airsoft gun replicas at the stores I visit. I can't pretend to be everything for everybody. I just point my camera at what interests me and everyone is invited along for the ride.
No, I've never really spoken much with anyone from Tamiya. I've gotten to know people from Fine Molds, Aoshima, Hasegawa, and GSI Creos, but I've never really known anyone at Tamiya.
+guner9824 Спасибо за информацию! У меня к Вам вопрос есть, может ответите или нет. Вот меня интересует, а правда что сборные модели ЗВЕЗДА,MODELIST,TAMIYA, REVELL,и т.д. , выпускают в Китае или это брехня???
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late to this video , but this was an amazing tour of a great company Greg . very pleased with what you showed all of us .
Thanks. The last comment I got on this old video was some dingus whining about how my camera shook around too much. It was an old camera from 10 years ago or so and he was complaining about the quality.
This would have been an awesome experience
thanks for taking us on this trip with you, excellent! Could spend an entire day in there easily
this video rise my adrenaline to build more models . thanks for upload.
I noticed you looked interested in that display turntable when you picked it up. Man that must have been so much fun. Thanks for taking the time to post this. I also heard you say you had been carrying the camera all day. I am sure many of the people who watch your videos really appreciate you taking this video, like all of your videos. Thanks so much for posting these. They are a lot of fun to watch.
Thanks for going there and showing us what it would be like, great job.
I enjoyed every second of that. Thanks for filming and posting. I want the Tamiya bus.
Yes, the model train company. I was trying to remember where Kato was located when I was writing the first post. I guess geographically an open house was out of the question, lol. What is your primary modeling interests? Mine is military armor, some military planes, N scale model trains, etc.
Thanks for sharing the video, appreciate it, nice to see the tour, going to watch your other video next.
I absolutely love and prefere anything Tamika the models are top notch and the quality of each car shell is amazing only a few mould lines to remove and off we go lol great quality I’m truelly jealous mate I’d love to go here
What a great place, thanks for the video!! I feel like I've been there
That was the paradise!
the headquarters of our company our in Shizuoka . I asked the president of our company I would like to visit the tamiya factory . He pulled some strings . Next thing you know we are inside the factory . We met the CEO of tamiya . We even got business card . I have pics of there displays . We actually walked inside the manufacturing plant.
Would you stop making me so bloody envious!!!
Tamiya Top quality always :)
Thanks for the reply Steve, I'll check out your channel. I've always been into the trains, ended up having a career as a conductor and later locomotive engineer, don't do the real trains any more, back to the models....less stress, lol.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Tamiya model cars go together really nice I am currently working on a Tamiya Honda City Cabriolet I see there is one in the display case in this video and yes they do make a lot of a Honda City Models haha
Good video!
Cool vid Man!!
Wow, awesome... Tamiya model nirvana :)
Well, they didn't want any filming in the graphic design room or in the factory downstairs. I started recording the graphic designer guy using his computer before I saw the sign about no cameras, so I cut that part out. I asked permission to film the artist drawing on the aisle. The factory downstairs was very impressive. The models are designed on a computer, and parts are precisely cut out using X, Y, and Z coordinates. The machine could make anything, I bet.
all those armor kits at the 10:00 mark. it's almost impossible to find any hobby store in my city in Florida with any in stock im stuck ordering via amazon. I would have went crazy. they literally have everything. every paint, wash, tool, accessory, model. omg I just...I just. I need a towel ;-)
John B why don't you Order from any of the online Hobbyshops?
I do unless amazon is cheaper. but ordering online vs having a hobby store especially like that is no comparison lol
I suffer the same fate, Johnny. I have to drive nearly 50 miles to the north on I-95 to find a good hobby shop, Michael's and Hobby Lobby can not hold a candle in the wind to Riverside Hobbies in Sebastian! It's worth the trip because there is NOTHING in the south lands.
Johnny Bones try andys hobby headquarters for armor. He has a CZcams channel and you can order online
Yes, I bought a model display turntable. Pretty nice.
Ah, no worries. I've just never got a chance to see where my Viper ended up.
Thanks!
Yes, I bought that turntable. It'll look great in the display case I will eventually get. Too bad it isn't solar powered.
Great video, great channel and you pronounce Tamiya correctly!!!! 😉👍🏻👏🏻
Ha! Yes, I live in Japan, so at least I can pronounce Tamiya correctly. I sort of cringe when I hear people mispronounce it all the time.
stevethefishdotnet yeah it makes me cringe too, I hate it in fact! I watch a lot of modelling channels and so many guys get it wrong. Many openly admit they simply don't care! I've been rewatching all your hobby shop visits recently as it really takes me back to my childhood when we had some great, well stocked model shops in the U.K. All seem to be sadly gone now😭. Thanks for the great channel.
I appreciate the kind feedback. Sometimes I get the worst feedback on these types of videos, with nitpicking jerks getting angry apparently because I did not upload a 5 hour video cataloging the store's entire inventory. They're a bunch of self-entitled buffoons and sometimes I have to just delete their comments. I have the opportunity to do another one of these videos for a model shop in Fujioka. I have had a few very long conversations with the owner and he is welcome to me doing a video of his store. I just don't make it down there very often.
stevethefishdotnet I'll certainly keep my eyes open for that possible future video, I'm looking forward to it. It's great that you can chat to the owner at length, I'm guessing your Japanese must be pretty fluent by now? I vaguely remember you say you're an English teacher in one of your videos (sorry if I've got that wrong), did you move there for work, family/wife, or just for the love of the hobby? (cheap paint!!!) Thanks again for the videos, I'll stop bothering you now!
No, feel free to bother me. I've become friends with people who've "bothered" me. I wouldn't have made this channel if I didn't like interacting with other hobby enthusiasts. To answer your question as to why I moved to Japan, it's all of the above. My wife and I weren't happy living in America and wanted to move back to Japan. After our house was broken into and the police couldn't be bothered to even look into it, that was the last straw. I am an English teacher. I worked at Aoshima for about 7 months but that's a long story. I like the company, but I'm glad I'm not there anymore. That was 3 years ago, and my Japanese study has stagnated since then. I am nowhere near fluent, but I can get by better than most.
Heaven on earth...
thanks. Dreaming World !!!
The scale modeling hobby is nearly dead and buried here in America but in Japan....it's alive and well! We are clearly falling behind.
sad but true. My generation 18-30. or millennial as they call us. I exclude myself being raised by my grandparents i was taught better. Anyways this generation does not have the intellectual means or the pride in craftsmanship to take sprues and turn them into master works of art. Much less just assemble them. There are exceptions mind you. This is the real reason though.
TAMIYA IS MY RELIGION , MAIN TAMIYA OFFICE BUILDING IS MY CHURCH !!!
Holy shit there's a lot of things i wanted to buy there
I used to be into model trains when I was a kid. Now I am primarily interested in science fiction models and car models. I have some model build video series on my channel if you're interested in seeing what I've worked on and what I am currently working on.
Kato? The model railroad company? I saw a lot of model railroad exhibits at the Shizuoka Hobby Show. Kato is based in Tokyo and Saitama-ken. They may have been at the Shizuoka Hobby Show, but I don't know. Tamiya is just down the street from where the Shizuoka Hobby Show was located.
omg,AVANTE!!! I bet it's zero chassis!!! That's rare!!!!
I really enjoyed your Vid, It would really rock if you took a tour (with your camcorder) of Toho.
I heard that Legendary Pictures bought the rights to make another american Godzilla movie, it suppose to be a complete reboot.
Peace
So I see that you did visit the mothership. Quick question: When walking through the museum, and the area where the TamiyaCon winners were, I saw Dale King's Porsche, and Brian Jocelyn's USS Missouri, but I didn't see the F-16CJ I was looking for. Do you happen to remember if it was there anywhere?
Did any of these events coincide with Kato being open for tours also, or was this strictly model cars, airplanes and armor?
Did you get anything from the open house other than the freebie?
At 15:00 Everclear started playing lol havent hread that since I was a kid :)
You must not be much into R/C? Some of those models would have stopped an R/C collector in their tracks and you breezed by them pretty quick. ;)
You are correct. I've never cared for R/C, and I always skip past this as well as airsoft gun replicas at the stores I visit. I can't pretend to be everything for everybody. I just point my camera at what interests me and everyone is invited along for the ride.
wow!!!
Um, I saw some models there. Really, it's been nearly a year ago. I have no idea.
Heaven on earth LOL
lucky you
I am looking for king Blackfoot RC truck parts Front and partsFor that truck or the whole truck comment back thank you
I'm not a store, and I really do not know anything about RC stuff.
where to buy tamiya mini 4wd in philippines
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wish in here america tamiya office store should be open house and buy shopping...
how come dont have 1/10 cheetah
while my plastic models gently weeps.
pengen ke Tamiya tu..beli rc
Do you know TAMIYA？
No, I've never really spoken much with anyone from Tamiya. I've gotten to know people from Fine Molds, Aoshima, Hasegawa, and GSI Creos, but I've never really known anyone at Tamiya.
Это где в Китае или где???
это в Японий.
+guner9824 Спасибо за информацию! У меня к Вам вопрос есть, может ответите или нет. Вот меня интересует, а правда что сборные модели ЗВЕЗДА,MODELIST,TAMIYA, REVELL,и т.д. , выпускают в Китае или это брехня???