Hasegawa Egg Planes

[Mossie]

I've just found out (belatedly) that Hasegawa's egg planes are now available in the UK.  I think they were released earlier in the year in a limited capacity & quickly sold out.  Hannants seem to have a new stock.  We've been deprived until now!

I think they're a great bit of fun & worthy of whiffing, I've seen that Nev whiffed a twin boom F-86 Egg Plane.  You could have all sorts of fun by swapping parts around & adding a few parts from the bit box.

Here's a list here of all Hannants stock & all that's available in the UK as far as I know.  I think there's plans to introduce more, apart from the F-86, does anyone know what these might be?
http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?CATEGORY=&DIVISION=&MANUFACTURER=&CODE=&TYPE=&SCALE=&KEYWORD=egg+plane&NUMPERPAGE=25&order%5B%5D=arrived+desc&order%5B%5D=code+asc

Another question, are these Egg Planes just Hasegawa messin' about or do they come from some kind of animie series?

Simon.

[pyro-manic]

They're not from any series as far as I'm aware. They're in a similar vein to many "super-deformed" figures available, which have small bodies and large heads etc.

[Aircav]

Cool, been after the F-16 for ages

[nev]

Here is my EF-86T which Mossie refers to (kindly sourced by the ever-helpful Aircav)

[Damian2]

Here is my EF-86T which Mossie refers to (kindly sourced by the ever-helpful Aircav)

Must be one of them stealth planes people bang on about! 

D

[dragon]

Oddly enough there's precisely 12 varieties of them available.

If one took the egg FW-190 and put its decals on the egg space shuttle, is that "whiffing" or scrambled eggs?

[nev]

Ooops!

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,7138.0/highlight,ef-86t.html

[Aircav]

Hmm....................F-16 Eggobatic team 

[noxioux]

Hmm....................F-16 Eggobatic team 

It would be cool to grab some of the F-16 and -18's and do up both the T-birds and Blue Angels.

[Mossie]

Good look masking the T-Birds scheme!!!  You know, make a few minor changes to that F-86 of Nev's & you've a real world XF-85!   I wonder if that's how they were inspired?

A fairly simple conversion would be a Hawker Typhoon or Tempest from the P-40.  Make minor changes to the intake & tail, add cannon & the canopy from the P-47 & Bob's your Uncle, Fanny's your Aunt!

[philp]

There are also some Resin Sci Fi Egg models out there.
The Eggstar
Eggs-Wing
Tiegg fighter
Beggspin Twin Pod Car

The last two are still available from http://www.2fatguysmodels.com/catalog.htm
The Eggs-wing might still be available from http://www.starshipmodeler.biz

[kitnut617]

CanMilAir have some alternative decals for the F-18:
http://www.canmilair.com/products.asp?cat=19&pg=9