Yes @Chepster, Tamiya rarely seems to ever issue any variants.
- The Famo would be an easy kit of offer as a crane and as some sort of SPG mount.
- The Dragon Wagon could easily be offered in a soft cab version. (I have already bought three and the soft cab would most certainly have to become my #4)
- Then there are SO MANY possible variants to the Opel Blitz truck. (It seems only Italeri has seen fit to explore that avenue.)
- Why to never have produced a hard cab variant of the CCKW? Then there are all the CCKW shop trucks, compressor trucks, dump trucks, radio trucks.
- Tamiya did actually offer TWO versions of their Steyr (what were they thinking??) However there a lot more versions out there!
The list of opportunities missed is a long one.
Perhaps Tamiya is just a benevolent society that wants to leave some things for the resin manufacturers and the kit-bashers to produce. I guess they are not interested at all in making money???