Same Old Kit....jacked Up Prices !

[Captain Canada]

Stopped by my local shop, and Hasegawa has re-released ( unless it's always been available ? ) the S2F Tracker.

Same old kit, looks like a Tracker, semi-buildable, not much in the box....and now, only $35 !!!!

Crazy ?

When is somebody gonna do a good Tracker in 72nd scale ?

[Alvis 3.1]

Same old Tracker, but at least the rivets aren't too deep!


Maybe Dragon might do one....



Alvis 3.1

[John Howling Mouse]

Is the Hobbycraft Tracker just a reboxing of the Hasegawa, then?

[Captain Canada]

The HC Tracker is a cheap rip-off of the Hasegawa one, which itself is a cheap rip-off of the real thing !

 

[anthonyp]

There's a RoG S-2F at Old Guard for like $22 US.  Is that the same kit as the Hasegawa one?

[Captain Canada]

Good question !

[The Rat]

Does anyone make a Canadian Tracker, you know, the one with the shorter fuselage? Alternately, is anyone in posession of diagrams showing exactly where to trim existing kits?    

[Captain Canada]

Hiya Rat !

I've got an article from an ipms Canada R/T mag, that shows exactly whatcha need to do, to both the fuselage and the rear of the engine nacelles. Give me a few ( insert days, weeks, months or years here ) to dig it out ( ie : try and find it ! ) and I'll post or scan one to you.

Cheers !

[upnorth]

There's a RoG S-2F at Old Guard for like $22 US.  Is that the same kit as the Hasegawa one?

Yes it is the old Hasegawa kit.

Someone told me once that the Hasegawa Tracker actually was done by Frog and the Hasegawa got the molds after Frog went belly up.

I know Frog and Hasegawa had a mold swapping deal back in the 70s, but I've never heard of a Tracker coming out under the Frog label. Anyone know for sure?

As for the Canadian Tracker: did Belcher Bits not make a Canadian conversion for that kit at some juncture in time?

[The Rat]

Hiya Rat !

I've got an article from an ipms Canada R/T mag, that shows exactly whatcha need to do, to both the fuselage and the rear of the engine nacelles. Give me a few ( insert days, weeks, months or years here ) to dig it out ( ie : try and find it ! ) and I'll post or scan one to you.

Cheers !

Thanks buddy! I thought of just going in to TAM and checking out theirs, but without a standard one beside it there wouldn't be much point, too easy to get it wrong.

[Jennings]

The RoG Tracker is the Hasegawa kit.  The only two Stoofs that have ever been done are the "not bad for its age" Hasegawa kit and the HC ripoff thereof.  

I'm *REALLY* looking forward to the upcoming MPM 1/48 kits of the S2F and the WF-2!

J

[Jennings]

When is somebody gonna do a good Tracker in 72nd scale ?

What's exactly wrong with the Hasegawa kit?  Granted it has (gasp, horrors!) raised panel lines, but the shape and dimensions are great, details (especially given the kit's age) are quite nice, and it goes together just fine.  Aside from engraved panel lines and possibly a little wheel well detailing, it really would be hard to better the old Hasegawa kit.  Put a Falcon canopy on it and you've got a real cracker of a kit.

Just my little old opinion...

J

[upnorth]

When is somebody gonna do a good Tracker in 72nd scale ?

What's exactly wrong with the Hasegawa kit?  Granted it has (gasp, horrors!) raised panel lines, but the shape and dimensions are great, details (especially given the kit's age) are quite nice, and it goes together just fine.  Aside from engraved panel lines and possibly a little wheel well detailing, it really would be hard to better the old Hasegawa kit.  Put a Falcon canopy on it and you've got a real cracker of a kit.

Just my little old opinion...

J

I do believe Eduard made a couple of PE sets for it too

[Geoff_B]

Well you can always get a Gannet instead as quite of few of them out or soon will be  .

As for the Tracker yeap it is a 60's kit that could do with a revamp or better yet re-design considering the number of users over the years and its length of service. Maybe MPM will scale down thier expected 48th versions eventually.

G

[Maverick]

This is one of the major reasons I hate Hasegawa and the sheer hypocrisy of the hobby where they slate Airfix for continually rereleasing the kits that time forgot yet forgive Hasegawa for doing exactly the same thing - eg the Spitfire mk 1 that is now a tenner yet was superseded by the Airfix one in the early 1970s! - is something that totally sickens me.

Oh, but then I forgot - the hobby is too busy wanking over Hasegawa's shadow to look at their kits objectively.

Wooksta,

You must be a mind reader or a clone of mine, the whole Tamigawa thing has given me a decided case of the shites since I was a kid.  They can happily bag out Matchbox for releasing something with 'trench-like' panel lines, but then Revell re-releases it and everybody says 'oh yes, good to see it again'.

Just look at the Chinese and examples to find decent modelling for the modeller, good pricing, good options, MULTIPLE decals not expecting you to buy ten kits to get ten options like Hasegawa and releasing fricking ancient moulds and having the audacity to call it a 'new release'.

Hasegawa's F/A-18 comes to mind (not the E/F of course) first the A/B.... Then every release after that is A or B,  then a C or D, but wait, did they retool, of course not, they just dropped a couple of extra parts in.  And do any of these Uberkits these plonkers go on about come with stores??  Hell no, just buy half a dozen weapons kits to fit out the bird in question.  Granted the weap sets are very nice but still... if it was Italeri or Airfix you mightn't think they're that accurate, but at least you can guarantee a load.

Then take Dragon's 32nd Mustang, all I've read is how poo-poo (with an english accent) the kit is (omg we've been waitiing sooooooooooooo long), well hell, I've been waiting for a Boulton-Paul Overstrand but I doubt there'll ever be one in plastic unless Trumpeter or MPM do it.  I mean how many fricking P-51s do we need? But back to it... now every site speaks of the wonders of the kit and how well some bone-head is going with his progress of same... (if it's that flawed, why are they building it since it has to be micromillimeter perfect?)


Rant off...

Mav (grumpy old man when it comes to Uberkits & the plonkers that rave about them)