Hasegawa

[albeback]

Hasegawa has announced the next kit in their 1/72nd scale Creator Works series after the Space Wolf SW190 from anime Captain Harlock and the Santa Cruz Seaplane from Anime movie The Princess And The Pilot. Don't know what it's called as everything is in Japanese but it's a JASDF forward-swept wing/canard jet fighter from the Ace Combat video games series and damn it looks fine!
http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/hp/catalog/cw_series/cw3/index.html
Personally I want ten but can't afford Hasegawa prices!

Paul Harrison

WOW!!! Only 10??? that has got Whiffability written all over it!!. Of course, the downside as you say is Hasegawa prices!! However, for anyone who is interested, I recently bought a pair of Hasegaw 1/72 VF-1A Valkyrie (Macross) kits from Modelarena in Hong Kong. Total cost ( including postage to UK) - £28.88! There are some on evilbay right now

[albeback]

Talking of Hasegawa prices, just check THIS out



Just THINK of the WHIF potential though!!. Just to ppint put though, there ARE cheaper examples on evilbay!!
!!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hasegawa-Macross-Zero-1-72-SV-51r-w-Twinbooster-Valkyrie-Fighter-Model-Kit-/220893712422?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item336e4a9026

[The Wooksta!]

Has anyone seen the current modelzone price for the 72nd Hasegawa Fw 190D9?  A cool 25 notes.  I could buy two Tamiya ones for that and they're the best D-9s in the scale.

[PR19_Kit]

Does anyone actually buy them at that price, and if so why?

Surely Hasegawa are pricing themselves out of business, at least in the UK anyway?

[pyro-manic]

The importers add on a big chunk, so it's not really Hase's fault, even if their prices are on the high side, that they end up so stupidly expensive here. I'd just buy 'em from Japan or HK, and cut out the middleman. But plenty of people seem willing to pay these silly prices. Same for Dragon and their armour kits, etc.

[ChernayaAkula]

Surely this also hasn't got anything to do with it...

UK Pound Sterling vs Japanese Yen


The Yen almost doubled in value since 2007. Before that it continually lost value since a high mark in the early 2000s. If you look at the prices on the Hasegawa boxes (*), you'll see the prices for their home market they didn't go up that much. If you compare it to how Revell kits got continually more expensive in the past, the Hasegawa price hikes are not in any way special. What importers/retailers/whathaveyou do with that is a different story.

(*)Some give the RRP at the bottom right of the bar code on the long sides of the box. As on the 1/72 AV-8B+ combo kit (two kits). There's #009936:003200, with 09936 being the kit reference number and 3200 the RRP in Japanese Yen. Others have the RRP on the short side. Again, there's the kit reference number and then the RRP, such as #00862:3000 for the 1/72 RF-4E "501 SQ ACM Special".

[RotorheadTX]

Am I the only one that didn't get them memo on the Santa Cruz, or has it just been completely overshadowed by the Shinden2??
I was browsing through the HLJ site today and realized that I had missed the Creator's Works #2...
I've got one of the Space Wolves, and the Shinden2 is on order, but it suddenly dawned on me that I had missed "HSGCW-02".

Paul's earlier post not withstanding, this one seems to have gone completely below the radar....

I think it would look great in Russian green w/ red stars - in an early Sukhoi way (Su-2 or 4).

[RussC]

Am I the only one that didn't get them memo on the Santa Cruz, or has it just been completely overshadowed by the Shinden2??
I was browsing through the HLJ site today and realized that I had missed the Creator's Works #2...
I've got one of the Space Wolves, and the Shinden2 is on order, but it suddenly dawned on me that I had missed "HSGCW-02".

Paul's earlier post not withstanding, this one seems to have gone completely below the radar....
I think it would look great in Russian green w/ red stars - in an early Sukhoi way (Su-2 or 4).

  What scale? I saw these about two years back in 1/144 as prepaints. There was a kind of Yak-Spit in the group of 4 plus a really boss looking floatplane, and something of a Shinden "Sky Crawlers" type also.

   

[Daryl J.]

1/72.    With the way the floats are moulded, one could convert it to a land plane relatively easily by the looks of it all.   

Mid twenty dollar range from a major Japanese online purveyor plus shipping to the U.S.



HTH

[RotorheadTX]

It has panel lines for the landplane gear doors on the underside of the wings, but they would have to be cut out, and undercarriage scratchbuilt.
There's a build-up of it over on ARC, and that's pushed me over the edge to getting one!

http://s362974870.onlinehome.us/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=247181&st=0&p=2351436&hl=santa%20cruz&fromsearch=1&#entry2351436

http://s362974870.onlinehome.us/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=248506&st=0&p=2362630&hl=santa%20cruz&fromsearch=1&#entry2362630

[Steel Penguin]

going back to #242 and #243 ( prev page)  acording to the hasa web page its out and at a rough ( ie via google) cost translation would be abought 16 quid. alowing for import and stuff hopefuly around 20 ( ish maybeee) so i may be going for 2  on to real world and one to kit bash into my ( now defunct) Revell ISS for a deep space explorer.

[NARSES2]

going back to #242 and #243 ( prev page)  acording to the hasa web page its out and at a rough ( ie via google) cost translation would be abought 16 quid. alowing for import and stuff hopefuly around 20 ( ish maybeee) so i may be going for 2  on to real world and one to kit bash into my ( now defunct) Revell ISS for a deep space explorer.

Think your'e being a tad optimistic there. I'm convinced that the UK importers take the US dollar price and simply put a £ sign in front. So I reckon £30 to £35, hope I'm wrong for your sake

[MiB]

Excuse me, what kind of plane is this interesting model?
Thank you

[jcf]

The pricing works both ways.

The Revell re-release of the old Matchbox Stranraer lists for ¥4620 in Japan, thats £36.88.

Innerestin' aint it that a commodity, plastic model kits, that is listed as tariff free in the standardized
tariff tables used by all the relevant parties, suddenly doubles in price when shipped from one place
t'other. Yeah, fuel rates are higher and exchange rates don't help, but they certainly don't account
for 80 to 100%+ increases.

[lenny100]

Hasegawa has announced the next kit in their 1/72nd scale Creator Works series after the Space Wolf SW190 from anime Captain Harlock and the Santa Cruz Seaplane from Anime movie The Princess And The Pilot. Don't know what it's called as everything is in Japanese but it's a JASDF forward-swept wing/canard jet fighter from the Ace Combat video games series and damn it looks fine!
http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/hp/catalog/cw_series/cw3/index.html
Personally I want ten but can't afford Hasegawa prices!

Paul Harrison

that is the dreamstar as described in the dale brown books down to a t even the swing tail mount and the elastic wings