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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...quality and precision of the models was the subject matter. Tamiya and Hasegawa were the only companies that made scale models of Japanese imperial navy vessels. The American companies were squeezing out endless reproductions of the aircraft carrier Enterprise and the battleship Missouri: model kits as cookie-cutterish as the ships they represented. American naval vessels seemed mass produced - Yorktown-class carriers, Iowa-class battleships, Portland-class cruisers. Credit Henry Ford for the assembly lines that won the war. But blame him for the blandness of the fleet. What was the difference between the Enterprise and the Yorktown? The Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Japanese Model | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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