Ultimate Colt .32 modelgun

It's out, and it's only 260400 JPY (3300 USD)
http://www18.ocn.ne.jp/~uncle/32auto.html

Looks lovely, BUT... :-)

I visited that shop when I was in japan recently!! Prices were in general VERY VERY High!!!
But it does look a nice model! (though strikes me that someone else would make one for that money>>>)???

Brass, machined model by "ZEKE" (Hobby Fix). Nice but way too expensive. I would be some deacts as those brass model does not have firing function, usually idle hammer too.

S

What is relationship of ZEKE and HF?
I know that ZEKE made (or still makes) a lot of airsoft after-market parts.
HobbyFix did modelguns.
Is it that ZEKE is manufacturing, and HF design/marketing, like in past of modelguns (Marushin just manufacture, Nakata design/marketing)?

smootik wrote:

It's out, and it's only 260400 JPY (3300 USD)
http://www18.ocn.ne.jp/~uncle/32auto.html

Looks lovely, BUT... :-)

you can buy about five or six real colt 's 32 handgun for this money..
iurweqt acrazy price for me..

luchs wrote:

you can buy about five or six real colt 's 32 handgun for this money..
iurweqt acrazy price for me..

The point is... you can't! At least in Japan.
Price is crazy though, at that price I would have enough to pay for a weapon license and get a real one, as you noted. I think this is more a work of art than a model, at such a price.

Strange choice of firearm to put so much work into.
Neither very handsome, potent, accurate, iconic (no movies or literature heros) or desirable?

Now a 1902 Colt auto .38 Super - would be cool.

Or a Webley Fosbery, or even a Mars automatic.

But why a firearm in a deadbeat caliber, that was the choice of guys with hands too small for a 1911?

Sometimes the choice of weapons some of the Japanese companies "go to bat for" baffles me.
The least useful SMG of all time, the weapon you'd choose for your enemy if possible, the M11 Ingram, is still getting produced. Actually that had a burst of popularity in the 1970's and many of the molds date from that period, so forgivable.

But, there are other examples.

Shoei's dedication to creating in incredible detail the FG42, a rifle that was probably produced in far less numbers (5000 or so) than the number of replicas that now exist. Not only that, but they produce both the early and later variants, they were never actually called first or second models, and there were other variants, but it is interesting.

The MG42 or MG34 would have been excellent projects, and if not belt fed (for obvious reasons) the Bren or ZB26/30 - they could all have been tooled off the same master, and were used in fair more numbers than the Fallschirmjaeger rifle.
Or a dozen Tommy gun variants and no BAR's at all.

Ranting, I guess, lovely craftsmanship, regardless. That in itself makes the 1903 model more valuable than a real one.
Like the miniature Italian (Uberti?) Colts that are more valuable than their shooter brothers.

Rant over - JJ

the colt 1903 cal 32 acp handgun was the distintive weapons of japan's army generals..
http://www.coltautos.com/cagotm200502.htm
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=71672

Not only that: also from what I've learnt - this was the standard sidearm for Japanese police officers during the 60s~70s (also a very popular metal modelgun model back then until the first metal modelgun ban imposed)...some kind of "police-gun affection" in gun-control countries...

Ah ha, then it makes sense!

Thank you.

JJ