flieger

Hi,

recently I was able to get a F-15A from Tomica Superwings.
These are very interesting models, style close to Ertl, but quality superior. They came with a stand and plastic weapons to add.

And the box is nice as well.

There was also a F-14 and F-16 from same series, unfortunately they are really hard to find.

flieger

Scale is 1/100

PH-LKK

I'd say this looks precisely like an ERTL mould, and the printing looks remarkably like the printing used in connection with the Gulf War I issue of the F-15. Still, these are fun toys to play with.

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flieger

The idea of Ertl and Tomica is the same, the mould not. The Tomica appeared about 8 years before the Ertl and the casting is little larger. Issue date of the Tomica was 1979.

I like those Japanese toys, since their character is of hybrid nature, inbetween toy and model, of course more shifted to "toy" according to today's standards.

This stuff was expensively sold in the early 80's in Europe. The model character took it's price. Success was low, and it was soon taken again out of catalogue, because there was no real market for this "hybrid-stuff".

Except the Aero Mini planes, today the other Japanese toy planes do not play a significant role, since the volume on the antique toy market is too low to raise up the interest of the collectors.