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New tokyo BDC member

Posted on 08.12.09 4:35AM under Uncategorized

The latest member of the Black Dog Clan is the manager of our building. He’s been the president of a large construction company in Fukui Prefecture. He now spends a lot of time making military “pro” models. He makes a lot of planes and really likes the American planes, which is interesting because when the B-17 Flying Fortresses flew overhead, he had to hide in the rice paddies, neck-deep in the water to reduce the chance of getting hit with shrapnel.

In the background, you can see a completed garage kit of the Battleship Yamato. Those battleships were a huge investment for Japan in WW2 — and as it turned out — a costly one…
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Just a few of his warplanes.
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