Few mentions indeed! Not even Swintec catalogs mention them; and a long time Swintec dealer I know had never heard of them until I told him about them. Having said that -- they're still Nakajimas, and in terms of getting the job done versus writing laboriously by hand for school work they fit the bill but they're not the greatest.
I always try to remind myself though that not nearly everyone could affort a Silent-Super or some such, and that's why there are droves of Royals around like the Jet, Mercury, Gemini, et al made by Silver-Seiko, and the Nakajimas, and on and on.
I'm reminded of passing on a Grant's 737 very very early in my collecting career, only to decide maybe I should have gotten it. By the time we made it way back out to where it was, it was long gone. It took a while to find another one, which I did.. and bought. That first look (on which I passed) was my first exposure to a Nakajima, even though at the time I hadn't figured that out yet.
Few mentions indeed! Not even Swintec catalogs mention them; and a long time Swintec dealer I know had never heard of them until I told him about them. Having said that -- they're still Nakajimas, and in terms of getting the job done versus writing laboriously by hand for school work they fit the bill but they're not the greatest.
ReplyDeleteI always try to remind myself though that not nearly everyone could affort a Silent-Super or some such, and that's why there are droves of Royals around like the Jet, Mercury, Gemini, et al made by Silver-Seiko, and the Nakajimas, and on and on.
I'm reminded of passing on a Grant's 737 very very early in my collecting career, only to decide maybe I should have gotten it. By the time we made it way back out to where it was, it was long gone. It took a while to find another one, which I did.. and bought. That first look (on which I passed) was my first exposure to a Nakajima, even though at the time I hadn't figured that out yet.
-Will Davis
Argh, no picture? We still need a Swintec manual in the database :D
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