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Zoukei-Mura: Pro-Model C Airbrush
Merlin
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Posted: Saturday, January 09, 2016 - 03:44 PM UTC


Zoukei-mura have announced their own-brand trigger-action airbrush. This high quality tool is used by their in-house modelling team.

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Posted: Sunday, January 10, 2016 - 07:01 PM UTC
Just what we don't need from a plastic model company, their name on someone else's air brush. I already own two Iwatas and my old Paasche H.

I really can't imagine too many modelers buying this airbrush just because ZM uses it.

Joel
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Posted: Sunday, January 10, 2016 - 09:31 PM UTC
Hi Joel

I expect they think if it's good enough for Tamiya, why shouldn't they have their name on an airbrush too.

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Monday, January 11, 2016 - 05:31 PM UTC
The market for AB's is quite a bit larger than just us modellers, and that's why our local AB shops are so well stocked with simply needed spare parts of the brands that know a very diverse user base. I would appreciate it if companies cooperate and fuse knowledge to produce better tools for us to use. I hope that that idea will catch on...because I'll try and never spend my money on a product branded just because somebody else spend their marketing money that way as well.

Long live google;-)


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Posted: Monday, January 11, 2016 - 10:53 PM UTC
Joel,
Don't forget that Tamiya, Revell and Italeri all have their own airbrush range and just recently Meng also announced an airbrush over on the sister site Armorama.
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Posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 04:05 AM UTC
I'd be curious to see who uses what. Is there a mechanism for making a survey?

I'm a Harder Steenbeck convert myself.
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Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 12:54 AM UTC

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Joel,
Don't forget that Tamiya, Revell and Italeri all have their own airbrush range and just recently Meng also announced an airbrush over on the sister site Armorama.



Luciano,
I didn't forget that, and I never saw any rational reasoning for this other then pure greed. It's like Tamiya already doesn't make enough on selling their Branded name.

What we really need less of is useless duplication, so that online vendors can carry full ranges of the nationally known products.

Joel
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