"Fujimi 1/76 German artillery?" Topic

I spotted yesterday that one store here had acquired various Fujimi 1/76 German stuff.

One kit that caught my attention was some sort of German artillery weapons kit, that seemed to contain Nebelwerfer, frame launched rockets, 20mm AA-guns (single and quad barreled) and a motorcycle with a side-car.

Anyone familiar with this kit, or Fujimi artillery and figures in general? My understanding is that a lot of their models tend to be pretty old.

Griefbringer

Moro!

Old indeed.

I have recollections from mid-70's when I bought and bashed together these old Fujimi kits. At least I had the bridge and guard booth thingy but this set does ring a bell too.

Can't say anything worthwhile about the quality though since at the time that really wasn't something wee-Lönkka paid any mind ;)

Probably worth the pittance you pay for it…

Most of the Fujimi kits came out in the period 1970-80 – I always though the quality was pretty good. Though at the time they were originally on the market they were on the pricey side. Still lots available on ebay.

I have both, they aren't to bad considering the quality of injection moulding back in the day. I have a number of their kits. The 38T and King Tiger they came out with were very good. Though at the period Hasegawa was the hands on leader IMHO, but they were producing 1/72 scale kit.

Good luck with the motercycle and sidecar. I find it a horror.

The thing I remember about Fujimi kits, back when they came out (mostly mid-1970's) they were sometimes the only kits of those vehicles.

When the Fujimi King Tiger came out, I don't think there were any other King Tiger kits in 1/76 or 1/72 scale. Certainly when the Fujimi KV-I and KV-II kits were introduced, there weren't any other KV kits in any scale.

I thought they were pretty good kits at the time, but then again the only other games in town in 1/76 or 1/72 scale were Airfix, Hasegawa, Matchbox, the early ESCI kits, and the oddball Nitto/Entex kits.

I liked the Airfix kits (weren't they sold in littloe baggies for about 1-2 dollars?).

Never mind--we're way off topic. Actually, I recently built an old Matchbox kit of the JagdPanzer IV--tracks fell apart so I was forced to use zip-ties. I hadn't realized that Revell has re-released these old Matchbox kits, though. I might pick up the comet, as I had one of those way-back-when and lost it in one of my many moves since.

Rob

Thanks for going off subject!
I am 72, and bought my first Roco minitanks for $.25 USD US each. Later, in the 1970's and '80's, I gamed using Roco main battle tanks like the Sherman, Pzkw II (rougly 1:87 scare), supported by 1/76 Fujimi pzkw 251 3/4 track personnel carriers. I loved the Roco StuG III as well. The Roco Pzkw IV in those days was awful. KB Hobbies was selling off Roco's for $1 USD a piece and I bought lots of US Halftracks, Shermans, towed 105's and 155's to build up to division strength as roughly one model representing 5. The Roco Opel "Blitz" was an excellent model as well.

I remember that German motorcycle with side car, and it was awful to put together!

This mix of scales worked for us, for there wasn't enough variety in the 1:87 scale. Matchbox made a marvelous US M3A1 "Honey" light tank in 1:76 that looked small enough with the Roco Shermans. It was one of the easiest models to assemble.

We enjoyed simple "conversions", like putting gun assemply of the the German 75 mm towed anti-tank gun into the gun position of the Matchbox German "Wespe" 10.5 cm self propelled gun to make a passable Marder II ('though no such weapon existed). We then put the 10.5 on the wheels/trail base from the 75, and cut plastic card stock to form a gun shield, and had towed 10.5's for the German artillery.
Matchbox also made the German 251, but with an oddly longer "nose" than the Fujimi model. All the 1:76 main battle tanks were just too big to mix with the 1:87. Roco made a good British Cromwell, but the ?Matchbox? Comet was far too big to mix.

"Thanks for the memory!"

GdeP

Good luck with the motercycle and sidecar. I find it a horror.

Difficult to assemble or bad looking?

Griefbringer

I found the motorcycle with sidecar difficult to assemble. I tried to build a couple, but never finished – ruined some detail with too many attempts with the solvent.

The picture on the box – and is was included with several of the smaller German vehicles – showed a good looking unit. Frankly, as I was into wargaming, I used the Roco sidecar motorcycles, put the coal skuttle head on the drive, and put a German seated into the sidecar!

GdeP

The 38T and King Tiger they came out

Really nice kits, especially the 38(t). Fujimi actually put out a 2 vehicle combo with both these kits (what the logic was, I'm not sure) with a not bad vacu-form piece of terrain which I still have, somewhere.

Garde de Paris, rock on man, I hope you are still wargaming in those scales. I'm a bit younger, but I too mixed Roco with 1:76 stuff until recently when I compared a 1:72 Soviet BT-7 model from Unimodel (Ukraine) with my Roco (actually mine are Premo) BT and then went on a spree to replace the last of my 1:87 models. Several of the gaming reports on my site ( ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal ) feature some of the Roco/Premo, but aren't available at the moment as I'm in the (long) process of migrating reports from my main site to another.
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Tim

the kit you are talking about is from the 70's but was made by nitto,it may be produced by fujimi now i dont know . it was a nice kit but is very fragile due to all of the thin pieces, I still have several of them built and used over the years,but they were alot of trouble to build.