More Kit Description Fun

Just obtained the Trumpeter 1/500 Nimitz -

here is what they wrote about the kit on the side panel:

"Model Brief" This is the largest electrical warship model in the world at present. Scale in 1/500,.....it is an excellent produce for sight enjoyment and collection. The deck is composed by more than one thousand carving pattern and like a alive; The various warship include: F-4 ghost fighter plane, F-14 tomcat fighter plane, F/18 wasp light attacker, A-6 medium attacker, EA-6B wander electronics alarmer; S-3 sea theive antisubmarine plane, E-2C eagle eye air alarmer, SH-3 haiwong helicopter. The number on the warship and the identification can be stamped. If is for the sight enjoyment, the stamp below can be laid.

Not sure what to make of the last sentence....

Craig

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crw59
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snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net wrote: : Just obtained the Trumpeter 1/500 Nimitz - : --- SNIP --- : : Not sure what to make of the last sentence.... : If you apply the "any landing you walk away from..." to the description, it works. This description is also from our chicom friends:

Produce at the same time in the kv-1 model 1941 ,the KV-

2( Also be called the year in KV-2 model 1941) also threw in the production. The KV-2 characteristic is its quick-fried tower shape. The quick-fried tower that equip 152 mm howitzer reports the hexagon keeps the square form, resembling an enormous box. But, it is said because of the excess, if not on the horizontal plane, dry by heat the tower connect to revolve all and very difficult. Because of such weakness, KV-2 is in actual battle, only used for proceeding to the virtuous soldier the thermodynamic power inhibit, but need not in the battlefield that hour of backstroke break war.

Ummm, okay. What he said. :-)

Bruce

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Bruce Burden

S/he must be who the spammers use to write their nonsensical subject lines...

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Al Superczynski

Thermodynamic power inhibit! Love that phrase!

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Jack Bohn

Dodgy translation : "Our virgin soldiers walk behind our sexy tanks, so hot to trot"

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Andrew

Some of this reminds me of the strange translations from Japanese on the early Tamiya model kits back in the early 60's.

Bill Shuey

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William H. Shuey

I still think that the best ever was Nitto's series of 1/76 scale "Diolamas".

Great kits, too.

I always thought that they should have produced a set including a Tibeten scene with a holy man as the center piece.

It would have been a "Dali Lama Diolama".

Tom

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maiesm72

No, it would have been a "Dari Rama Diolama"... ;-p

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Al Superczynski

And, if Judy Geeson had wed Jackie Gleason....

Bill Banaszak, MFE ;)

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Mad-Modeller

That still goes on. I recently came across a series of Japanese mini-models of dinosaurs from Konami. They are generally sold in Japan in vending machines and there are loads of series including real and anime figures, tanks, aircraft, real space spacraft and Star Trek spacecraft. These items can't be sold in this country because "the children" might eat them and die (honest, that's what I was told). Anyway, there's a critter known as an Oviraptor that came out in Japanese as the Ovilaptor.

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Old Timer

I remember the italian version of a kit description (think it was Hasegawa's MiG-25, but I'm not sure) that would translate to something like "pneumatical superiority fighter" :)

On the other hand, in my office we once got a video card on which you could set the "frequenza di rinfresco" that, instead of "refresh rate", means only more or less how often you have a refreshment break...

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Yuri

In the mid 70s, Eric Clapton's album "No Reason To Cry" was released in Japan cedited to "Eric Crapton".

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Enzo Matrix

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