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Old 04-29-2010, 04:17 PM
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Re: Odd thing about new Tamiya SLR 722

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Originally Posted by ZoomZoomMX-5 View Post
It sure is odd; there are so few differences between the standard SLR kit and the 722; just the front bumper, the emblems/decals, and the wheels. Everything else is the same. The revised chin splitter couldn't just glue over the smoother one from a standard SLR, but I hardly can figure why this required making it in 3 pieces, since the draft angles/depths of the overall parts is almost identical. Perhaps Tamiya's better mold engineers have left for greener pastures?
Don't know what the tooling looks like, but it could be that within the limits of this tool, this was the only way possible to tool this part, again I'm assuming things here...
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