{"id":2342,"date":"2025-07-11T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T02:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2025-07-11T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:06:56","slug":"a-look-at-modeling-magazines-and-books-at-bookmans-academy-in-maebashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/a-look-at-modeling-magazines-and-books-at-bookmans-academy-in-maebashi\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at modeling magazines and books at Bookman’s Academy in Maebashi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On the last Friday of June, after dinner in Maebashi we went to Bookman’s Academy, a nice two-story bookstore on the road straight south from the sushi restaurant we ate at. This bookstore not only has a great selection of modeling magazines, but upstairs in the “subculture” category, there are many books about modeling. First I’ll show you the magazine section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here you’ll see Armour Modelling with Umi Shinonome gracing the cover with her own color of paint (as shown above), Artpla, a Model Art mook on painting, Model Cars, a mook on modeling tools (I believe by Model Art), Figure King (covering pre-painted figures as well as kits), Macross Mechanics (a mook devoted to Macross modeling), a mook on painting techniques for WWII camouflage patterns from various countries, and something about the Yamato. To the far right you’ll see a couple of magazines about firearm replicas, which I am really not into. Looking down, you’ll see this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are issues of Hobby Japan, Model Graphix, Scale Aviation, and Model Art. Oh, but that’s not all. I actually didn’t show you the row of modeling mooks on the shelf between these two pictures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a look at the Macross Mechanics modeling mook. This is the summer issue. Alright, now let’s head upstairs to the subculture section. This should blow you away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are the magazines along the top. Gundam Archives is put out by Model Graphix magazine. These are mooks that are collections of Gunpla builds featured in the magazine. They also have Macross Archives and Votoms Archives that I’ve seen. In the middle is the SD Gundam Perfect Modeling Manual, and to the right is one on Ultraman models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look at all of these Gunpla modeling books! Here they have the Gundam Sentinel book, a compilation of the Sentinel articles once featured in Model Graphix magazine. Lots of other stuff too, like Hobby Japan Vintage, Hobby Japan Extra (these are mooks focusing on different subjects), more Gundam Archives issues, a book on Gundam MSV, and I spot a Scope Dog Votoms book. Looks like it might come with a model, the way it’s in a box like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lots of other stuff, too! Model lighting, AFV, a book on building an F-14 Tomcat which actually covers the work of an American modeler building Tamiya’s Tomcat, various 72nd scale plane modeling books, and so on. This is the store where I bought the book showcasing modeling workbenches of several famous modelers, as well as the model lighting book by Dorobou Hige.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s the Votoms Archives mook I mentioned, with a look inside. I love the paint scraping detail on the legs, from the armored skirt. Fantastic detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a book called “Soul of the 1\/72 Scale” (\u30ca\u30ca\u30cb\u30a4\u306e\u9b42) which covers multiple plane subjects in that scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bookman’s Academy has such a fantastic selection of modeling books. I always enjoy going to this store with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the last Friday of June, after dinner in Maebashi we went to Bookman’s Academy, a nice two-story bookstore on the road straight south from the sushi restaurant we ate at. This bookstore not only has a great selection of modeling magazines, but upstairs in the “subculture” category, there are many books about modeling. First … <\/p>\n

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