Hasegawa

[rickshaw]

From your second link:


Pity the text is in Japanese.  Do you know what it is referencing?

[Steel Penguin]

that looks like one of the o`neill space station designs, for the Lagrange points
google image shots here https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1052&bih=876&q=o+neil+space+station&oq=o+neil+space+station&gs_l=img.3...1203.12089.0.12458.20.7.0.13.0.0.151.932.0j7.7.0....0...1ac.1.28.img..14.6.811.QUFtxIP_bs8

stopping off points for the High Frontier.

[The Wooksta!]

That Hanebu looks tempting.  I was planning on scratchbuilding something similar.

[Weaver]

that looks like one of the o`neill space station designs, for the Lagrange points
google image shots here https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1052&bih=876&q=o+neil+space+station&oq=o+neil+space+station&gs_l=img.3...1203.12089.0.12458.20.7.0.13.0.0.151.932.0j7.7.0....0...1ac.1.28.img..14.6.811.QUFtxIP_bs8

stopping off points for the High Frontier.

Wasn't there a Japanese Giant Robot series or film that featured an O'Neill station? I seem to remember Syd Mead paintings of giant robots fighting in one of them?

[PR19_Kit]

According to an entry about the O'Neill Stations in an Orbiter Forum the full size one was intended to be 50 km long!!! 

That makes any potential model a very small scale!

[kitnut617]

According to an entry about the O'Neill Stations in an Orbiter Forum the full size one was intended to be 50 km long!!!  

That makes any potential model a very small scale!

Well that's only about 2278 feet in 1/72 scale Kit  ----  doable I think        

[PR19_Kit]

According to an entry about the O'Neill Stations in an Orbiter Forum the full size one was intended to be 50 km long!!!  

That makes any potential model a very small scale!

Well that's only about 2278 feet in 1/72 scale Kit  ----  doable I think        

The Wiki entry makes them a lot smaller, only 35 km long........... 

[Steel Penguin]

there were several version proposed of several different sizes, pick the one you want 
and you could put longer solar wings on it as well Kit 

[Green Dragon]

Most of the various Gundam anime series had O'Neill style space stations. The Wave Space Settlement kit design dates from 1970.
Wooks they're doing an Adamski UFO version too (without all the guns).

Paul Harrison

[pyro-manic]

Yep, it's a Gundam staple. They're even used as weapons - at the start of the One Year War, a colony is de-orbited and aimed at Earth Federation HQ in South America. However, it is pushed off course and instead annihilates a good chunk of Australia (including Sydney). It's also done or attempted several other times (directed at both Earth and at lunar cities) during the timeline. Key events also take place on colonies (the 0080 "War in the Pocket" series takes place almost entirely inside one).

I may well have to get one of the Wave kits.

[Weaver]

This looks worth having if you're into Jags: a single seater and a two-seater in one box with pretty neat paint schemes for £22 in the clearance sale at Hannants:

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HA02008

[Captain Canada]

Still seems pricey. I haven't bought a Hasegawa kit in forever.....I would like a decent 72nd scale Jag or two tho. Maybe Mr. Airfix will makes us one !

[darthspud]

Just ordered my twin kit from Hannant's, even with postage they're a bargain.
Thanks Weaver

[Weaver]

Still seems pricey. I haven't bought a Hasegawa kit in forever.....I would like a decent 72nd scale Jag or two tho. Maybe Mr. Airfix will makes us one !

They're £11 each: if Airfix did a new tool Jag, I'd expect it to be dearer than that. By way of rough comparison, the New Lightning F.2, which is about the same size as a Jag, is £14.99.

[Captain Canada]

I guess you're right ! I always think of a pound as being $2...but it's closer to a buck fifty