Great news either way
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Bo-105
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I wonder what scale! Would love a Bo-105 in 1/35
If it’s 1/35 don’t really mind; a Gazelle has been done as a 3D printed model by Hachekaprints, but if this is injected plastic, and one would assume a lower price, then bring it on(!)
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It´s a Gazelle Anti-tank Version. The Bo-105 has 6 HOT missiles.
Bo-105
https://www.panzerbaer.de/helis/bw_pah-1_bo105p-a.htm
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It’s a Gazelle for two other obvious reasons
A 1/35 scale Bo-105 PAH-1A1 would be ubercool. The 1/32 scale dog from is Italeri/RoG is wrong in many aspects.
When I built the Bo-105 the name of the comany was still Italaerei.
THAT old? 
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You start builing models at 5 or something??
First model with my mom was a Nautilus sub. Four or five.
I do know I had built a few Aurora bipanes at seven. I had to call someone at the radiological barge (emergency numbers on fridge) at Pearl Harbor to ask someone what the port side was.
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And by which company will this Gazelle be?
Takom? Just a guess. 
Italaeri kit is from 1978 according to Scalemates. A brief history of Ital(a)eri.
ITALERI
The Disney Nautilus I guess? Which company made them?
This kit is confirmed to be 1/35, and is from “Beacon Model” - seems to be a newish Chinese entrant. Announcement on their page here: https://www.facebook.com/p/BeaconHobby-61577352472116/
Post details for those unable to access the link:
After all this time, we’ve watched our R&D colleagues run themselves ragged while the rest of us could only look on, wishing we could do more to help.
But today—we’re here! With a brand-new 1/35 scale helicopter, we’re officially announcing that this Beacon Hobby project has entered its final stage. After being kept under wraps for so long, it’s time for us to take a look together!
For now, it’s still shown only as a silhouette, and our R&D team hasn’t given away all the answers. A product truly worth waiting for doesn’t need to be defined too early.
From here on, we’ll gradually reveal more about it, and together we’ll slowly lift the veil of mystery.
The next time it appears, we’ll start sharing concrete answers and details.
Thank you so much for reading this far—we hope you’ll like it.
Let’s take a peek at its silhouette together!
PLA has a small contingent of Gazelles. So it makes perfect sense toi use these as templates for a model kit.
Funny you should ask. For years, I’ve said that it was the Revell kit, which came out in 1953. The Aurora kit also came ot in 1953, but I don’t think it was that one, because none of the box art shows the missile or the tank.
It could also be the very first Japanese plastic model kit ever produced - by Marusan. That company reverse engineered the Revell kit, so it has the (incorrect) missile and tank as well. Marusan even mimicked the Revell logo.
So now that I’ve gone back to research this again, I believe I may have actually built the Marusan kit. The only image of the Revell parts shows they were molded in black, That certainly could have changed. But I do know the kit I built was molded in gray.
The other reason it may have been the Marusan kit - we lived in a pretty Japanese neighborhood before we moved to Pearl City. (which had a Japanese neighborhood of its own right before you entered the Navy Housing area) Most of the toys I can remember owning were Japanese. I watched Gigantor on TV, all of my teachers through third grade were Japanese. I even took Japanese language lessons after school. That’s how Japanese the 'hood was. So it seems the local five and dime probably sold Marusan kits.
So, in answer to your question - no, not Disney. Either Marusan or Revell, which were the same incorrect model.
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Ah, you mean the model Nautilus sub. I was distracted by the Disney movie and the most recent miniseries. My bad. O.K. Subs have never been my favorite subject.
