I saw the Zhengdefu 1:72 weapons set today, not only are they the exact same weapons as Hasegawa'a 1/48 Weapons B set but they stole the boxart photo and the paint & glue ventialtion warning cartoon too. Maybe they want to us to know they at least pantographed their ripoff from a good set......
talk about blatant
Aug 15, 2003
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Or maybe they paid Hasegawa a tidy sum to copy and downsize it....
As far as I know, they have stopped the production already.
Actually it's 'accurate replica', i.e. what every other model compnay claims also :-) And hey, I bought a couple of the cheapo airliners, and they were nice to build! So there...
How did the company UM come up with their name?
They were sitting around the table trying to come up with a name and one guy kept muttering "Um. Um. Um."
So they named it Um just to shut him up. :-)
Tom
He was probably chanting 'Om' but he had an accent. :) What do they make?
Bill Banaszak, MFE
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