Rog Lightning?

[AeroplaneDriver]

Hey fellas-

I'm starting to think about what I will build for my UK vacation build this year.  I've been out of the modeling loop for several months and was wondering if anyone ever determined if the RoG 1/72 Lightning F.6 is a Hase reissue or a new kit?

Thanks!

[Radish]

Hasegawa re-issue.....but don't let that stop you.

[AeroplaneDriver]

Hasegawa re-issue.....but don't let that stop you.

I wont...I built a Hase F.6 years ago and thought it was an OK kit.  I thought it probably was a reissue since a new Lightning matching the quality of the Revell Hunter probably wouldnt have slipped under my radar.  I havent been THAT out of modeling  

So...if I pack some USAF decals....

[Jennings]

No, it isn't.  The one Revell released in 1996 was a cleaned up Frog/Novo kit which is almost identical to the original Hasegawa release but has cruder panel lines.  It's an early F6 without the belly tank guns.

Okay, to clear up masses and loads of ancient confusion - the Frog and Hasegawa Lightning F.6 are the SAME MODEL.  I'm not guessing that, or surmising it, or theorizing it.  I got that straight, directly, in hot moist breath out of the mouth of the people AT Hasegawa, while standing in their engineering department about 10 years ago.  I had always wondered, so I asked.  SAME model.  There were probably two sets of molds made from the masters way back when (I believe it was around 1970), and one of them migrated to the USSR (the Frog set), and that one may be what Revell has inherited.  But the basis for them is the same set of masters, and both were cut at the same time, by the same shop in Shizuoka.

J