Just saw these on Hobbysearch- reissuing the Easy 8 and the M4A1 with some stowage, similar to what was seen in Fury.

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10305845
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10305846

Looks pretty cool!

Did you read the translated item description? How do you even begin to make sense of that? Hilarious.

The disclaimer under the translated text is pretty good....
But what I really like, aside from the fact that these two are once again available, are the prices.

Wow... I might actually be able to afford a Tasca Sherman now..

Hopefully there are some dealers here that don't suffer from shipping prices

Hopefully from the title saying it comes with accessories means that they come with everything seen in the images. Would be nice to have Fury and Co made easy from the box..

I have never understood why all the Pacific Rim hobby manufactures now think they can write correct American English caption copy and titles in their cover art, advertisements and instruction sheets. Their product offerings continue to prove that they simply cannot write proper English.

(Sorry if the expression "American English" offends anyone. The statemet is accurate so live with it!)

The Eastern European manufactures and publishers are not as bad but their writings still suffer in translation. I offered to read over the Polish to English translations of a fairly well known Easter European publisher FOR FREE and still they turned me down - and I was writting for them at the time!

I get rankled everytime one Eastern European resin manufacturer calls his much improved substitute resin radiator grill a "cooler shield". That translation is technically correct but colloquily WRONG!

It is just not what a radiator grill is called in the rest of the world so the advertisement is very confusing and makes the manfacture look stupid!

OK, I am now stepping down off the soap box!

You should write to them in your best Mandarin and explain the problem!

So I'll get up on the box now and strongly agree with Mike. "machine translation" my a**. It's nearly 2015 and you'd think any "machine" with a sixth grade education could do a better job. Besides, with the US being a major slice of the market pie for most manufacturers, the effort required to make sensible descriptions & instructions for their kits should be a non-issue. I don't imagine that Toyota, Kia, or Honda would send such gibberish in their repair manuals to US car dealers.

Other then the logs, the rest of the stowage looks like it comes from Tamiya - from the "Allied Vehicles Accessory Set" No.35229.

No doubt a result of the recent cooperation between the two companies.

I'd love to see our attempt at translating "Pacific Rim" languages, but I guess we are too comfortable them learning "American" or "British" English so we don't have to make that effort. (Being half British, I guess I am entitled to comment without simply being "a Swede criticizing the English speaking community").

After visiting China for many years and seeing the total disinterest of most westerners stationed there to bother to learn the language, I guess I know a little from experience.

(Yupp, I am aware that Hobbysearch is Japanese, but that is irrelevant).

Machine translations suck between most languages that don't share the same core structure, that's life.

Cool releases anyhow, since that is what the post is actually about :-)

I agree that there are probably more Chinese/ Japanese speaking people in the world than English speakers....however, the language of Modern Business is, and has been for some thime, English. How many Europeans, South Americans, Africans, etc. speak Chinese or Japanese? I'm sure a little effort to make the product details understandable to the rest of the world would have a positive impact.

That being said.....these are great kits and I'll probably get one!

Jeff

I was over at the Lucky Models site and it seems that Asuka is issuing many of the Sherman series originally issued under the Tasca name that ceased distribution for a time. With the strength of the US dollar perpaps -- the list price is lower than what the Tasca kits used to go for.

Excellent!