The Shinsei Kogyo Co., LTD known as Shinsei or シンセイ in Japanese was a Diecast and toy manufacturer from Japan. During the mid-1970's they orginally released 32 Diecast & Construction Pieces of multiple scales called the Mini Power Series. The Mini Power Series later rose then rose to a total of 56 pieces by the end of the 70's. Shinsei also introduced more series such as the Mini Power Wide Series, and also several other product lines as well. Shinsei based much of their products based on their what their rivals where producing including Grip Zechin, and Diapet (short for DiamondPet) which included Construction Equipment, Trucks, and Cars. Although they where originally sold in Japan they where distributed in the United States, and other Countries around the world. They were mostly sold in Department Stores and hobby stores, but where later sold in Toy Stores including K.B. Toys in the United States. They were distributed by Cox Hobbies in the United States, and other companies such as Fischer of America as well. Bachmann a manufacturer of trains sold several Shinsei products under the Bachmann name using the “B-Line” name. All of their Diecast pieces where of high quality and detail for the time. They stopped producing models in the late 80's, and where absorbed by a company called Goodswave during the 90's. Goodswave continued to produce Diecast models including several Shinsei pieces into the early 2000's. It is later believed that Goodswave was acquired by Replicars who re-released some of their pieces (Such as the Cat 992C, 777 and the D9G). Most of their tooling was sold early on and reproduced in China as low quality and cheap knock off pieces.
Here are the Shinsei Pieces I own. Even though Shinsei was way before my time I have always liked collecting Shinsei for some reason. It is almost the same as collecting Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars since your are trying to complete a series collection rather then collecting only pieces you liked or thought where interesting.
#4101 Mitsubishi Fuso K201 Aerial Ladder Fire Engine 170th Scale
#4102 Mitsubishi FUSO/ Kobe P&H Mechanical Truck Crane 1/110th scale from Bachmann. This casting is possibly any Ex-Grip Zechin piece since they made a Mitsubishi carrier very similar to this.
Pics to come soon
#4103 Hitachi Bucket Wheel Excavator 1/100th scale, bought loose, it is missing the rear warning stripe label, but is in otherwise good condition
#4104 Mitsubishi FUSO Snorkel Fire Engine 1/80th Scale
#4105 Mitsubishi Fuso T911 Aerial Work Vehicle 1/80th scale
#4108 Mitsubishi FUSO Chemical Fire Engine 1/80th Scale
#4109 Mitsubishi FUSO Snorkel Chemical Fire Engine 1/80th Scale
#4110 Heavy Dump Truck 1/82nd Scale
#4111 TCM 45 Tractor Shovel 1/50th Scale from the Bachmann Series
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#4112 Hitachi UH04 Hydraulic Excavator 1/60th scale
#4113 Bulldozer 1/60th Scale (Caterpillar D6C/D) From the Bachmann Series
#4114 Komatsu D65S Dozer Shovel 1/53rd Scale (more like 1/50th or 1/48th scale to me)
#4123 TCM FG25 Lift Truck Roll Clamp 1/50th scale (slightly larger than 1/50th scale)
#4125 Motor Scraper 1/95th scale. From the Bachmann Series
#4126 Mitsubishi LG2 Hydraulic Motor Grader 1/68th Scale From the Bachmann Series
4127 Hitachi KH180 Pile Driver 1/96th Scale
#4128 Sakai R1 Macadam Roller 1/53rd Scale (One of Three) I think this one is my personal favorites from Shinsei
#4129 Hitachi UH20 Loader Shovel 1/85th Scale
From the Bachmann Series
#4130 Hitachi KH180 Hydraulic Crawler Crane 1/96th Scale
From the Bachmann Series
Loose one
#4165 Peterbilt Refridgerated Van 1/128th Scale
#4215 GMC Dump 1/60th Scale
#4216 GMC U.S. Cement 1/60th Scale
#4602 Komatsu Hydraulic Excavator 1/48th Scale
#4604 Jib Crane 1/70th Scale (I have two one loose incomplete and one Mint in Open Box)
The following two pieces are from the M-Series. The M-Series was released during the mid to late 80’s and consisted of 25 pieces (most of them where included in the Mini Power series). Each vehicle included the accessories shown. The M-Series was not released in English, it was all in Japanese writing. Shinsei Also had a T-Series that only consisted of cargo trucks.
M-04 Kobe/Shinko 955 (#4107) 1/93rd Scale. They made this piece in 4 different colors. The first one was all green. The second was blue and had a yellow boom. The Third was Blue with a black boom. The most Rarest was yellow with a red boom, and a blue undercarriage (this one can be found in a set)
M-21 Komatsu D155W Amphibious dozer(#4136) 1/60th scale. This is a well done peice by Shinsei, it is very heavy.
-Mike, Collecting 1/50th Construction Diecast Since 2003.
View My Collection Here, As of 10/19/24
