An amazing Tamiya moment 30 years in the making

[Andyfish2000]

Just flicked through a vintage Tamiya catalogue for the first time in nearly 30 years. What a fantastic walk down memory lane.

As a kid I used to look through my old catalogues all the time and dream. Did a similar thing this evening having just got a 1984 catalogue included in a purchase!

[Wooders28]

I wish I hadn't cut the catalogues up when I was a kid,to put the pics on my bedroom wall!! 😳

[Saito2]

I love those old catalogs and guidebooks. I spend hours with a magnifying glass as a kid studying the mechanicals of the various cars and seeing which parts interchanged. I also always had one open at night before bed, diligently trying to reproduce the tiny boxart images in my sketchpad. Those books always seemed so grown-up and professional-looking to me (still do, actually).

[moffman]

59 minutes ago, Saito2 said:

I love those old catalogs and guidebooks. I spend hours with a magnifying glass as a kid studying the mechanicals of the various cars and seeing which parts interchanged. I also always had one open at night before bed, diligently trying to reproduce the tiny boxart images in my sketchpad. Those books always seemed so grown-up and professional-looking to me (still do, actually).

Those catalogues I think made tamiya the photo's were perfect me and my cousin back in the day used to spend all our weekends with our car's and while batteries were charging (remember even quick chargers were slow!) We would have our head's buried into them catalogues! 

[Gruntfuggly]

I can't remember how many times I've read my catalogue from 1984...