Model kit text

[Mario_Wens]

One of my 1960's Tamiya kit model boxes has a text on it Google translator doesn't seem to be able to understand:

日本傑作航空機シリ一ズNo.4

The first seven kanji translate as something like "Japanese Masterpiece Aircraft", but it's the four katakana that don't make sense. My hunch is they intend to indicate a "constant scale" or something like that. Google translates the last two as "singleness of purpose", which makes little sense to me.

 

[lincstreff]

It shows up in my google translate.
It's "series".

 

[lincstreff]

Ah, got it. You input the wrong dash character. Try this:
シリーズ.

 

[Mario_Wens]

Ah, got it. You input the wrong dash character. Try this:
シリーズ.

oops! Thank you for spotting that one...

 

[thomas]

@Mario_Wens , would you mind posting a photo of the box? I used to be a aircraft model kit builder and collector myself.