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The Brazilian Aerospace conglomerate EMBRAER develops their first regional jet, the ERJ145 in the late 1990s. The actual Embraer 170/175 model series is
larger and could carry up to 84 passengers in an spacious cabin with four-seat-rows. This together with LCD cockpit display, fly-by-wire, fuel conserving winglets and noise reducing nozzles made the airplane
into a world-wide selling record. I had received this kit from a friend who got it directly from Japan. I was very amazed, because I had not heard of any airliner from Tamiya and of course not in this unusual 1:100 scale. And since the Embraer 175 was first presented for the European market at the International Toy Fair in Nuremberg in February 2017, I am
sure, I was perhaps the first private model builder in Germany to build this great model. The decal sheet was a color explosion. Ten(!) different schemes for each of the colorful originals from Fuji Dream Airlines. So much rest for the spare Box!! Gerd Wilcken
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Photos and text © by Gerd Wilcken