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Marui Amerang Flyer - December 1985






You may note the wrong description on the Hunter page, which is mentioning rugged four wheel drive system     

Congrats marc

The artwork in some of the old r/c manuals is amazing, when you consider it was mostly hand drawn.

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The artwork in some of the old r/c manuals is amazing, when you consider it was mostly hand drawn.

In early nineties, it was quicker to do drawing using paper, pencils, gum and ink than to do it computer based. And any technical drawer would be able to do as much, as long as there is the proper views to be able to reproduce the perspective views...
... And at that time it was even required to be able to plot your stuff in a computer. That sounds prehistoric compared to now

Until recently, I was taking the article from BlackHoleSun on rc4on ( The complet story of Marui models | RC for Old Nuts (rc4on.com) ) as the reference for the Marui cars release dates.
The Amerang flyer was indicating something different for the Samurai : the Samurai was likely introduced in December 1985 all over Europe.

It triggered some interrogations in my mind, and I went to do some research on those car release dates...
The Marui catalog of 1986 (you can find it on rc4on :  1986 Marui Catalogue RC Holy Grail| RC for Old Nuts (rc4on.com)  ) was an eye opener for me.
On this catalogue, there is the Marui kit reference number. They are actually number with a specific sheme
Hunter - Kit #3 - Reference MT59-RC3 - Release 1984
Big Bear - Kit #4 - Reference MT59-RC4 - Release 1984
Galaxy - Kit #5 - Reference MT60-RC5 - Release 1985
Galaxy RS - Kit #06 - Reference MT60-RC6 Release 1985
... until the Samurai 4WD - Kit #10 - Reference MT60-RC10 Release 1985

I did an assumption about the kit reference scheme :
MTxx-RCyy
with :

• MT for Marui Tokyo
• xx for the year of release with 59 corresponding to 1984
• RC as the kit is in the RC series
• yy for the number of the kit in the RC series

I did two checks to confirm this assumption :

• Kit #1 and #2 Super Wheelie CJ-7 and Super Wheelie Land Cruiser were released in 1983 in their 6V versions, and had MT58 in there reference numbers
• Kit #11, Ninja 4WD was referenced MT61-RC11, indicating a release date in 1986

I did not found the reference of the kits for

• Marui Thunderbird Coors (kit#12). However, its JP instructions manual I found on the repository of manuals from dirt-burners.com indicates a date in August 1987
• Marui Shogun 4WD ( kit#13). However, the JP instructions manual found in the same repository indicates a date in December 1987.

Both kits should have been referenced MT62-RC12 and MT62-RC13.

That is serving no purpose, it is just useless, but seems to be fact. I'm just doing some aRCheology :-D

 

For the coors melling thunderbird, it can't be earlier of 87. It is the bill helliot 87' version. So it can be edited in 87 or early 88.

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The manual of the Shogun (JP version) on Tamiyabase have the part list included, and it is dated 12/1987
The manual of the Coors on Tamiyabase doesn't have the part list. This is where the date appears on the dirt-burners repo downloaded manual, and it is 08/1987. So it was actually edited in August 1987

Japanese copist monks were working fast apparently.

I went to a friend's place today to gather a Galaxy RS roll cage as my son would prefer a Galaxy instead of a Hunter...
I'll need to model the Galaxy specific parts (shock stays, super structure and roll cage stays)...


And the Galaxy roll cage came with something else :-D

that is a very lucky find! Well done.