“With the ships and bottles, they stem from my interest as a youth in making model ships. I started out making plastic ones and then later on I started making wooden ships,” Goodwin said.

As injection-molded plastic rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s, Tamiya made the move to the new technology, and the first plastic Tamiya kits began to appear on store shelves in Japan.

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