Hasegawa

[Mossie]

I'd have guessed it was Rick Wakeman's golf cart...

Not as funky, but there is a tractor to partner it:
https://www.plazajapan.com/4967834660052/

[NARSES2]

If someone were to ask me what that was I would never have guessed in a million years!

Nor me, that is truly weird.

Looks like something from the "Anime" or whatever they call it universes. Looking at it carefully I can just about figure out how it works, but part of me expects to see it racing around Suzuka ?

[zenrat]

Click on the pic and look at the tyres full size.  They are wild.
It looks to me like something made up from a modellers spare parts box after all the good spare parts have been used.
Or, something from Wacky Races' Prof Pat Pending after the LSD incident...

[kitnut617]

Click on the pic and look at the tyres full size.  They are wild.

I would imagine they're designed to work in flooded fields and mud.  Have you ever seen the swamp racers used in the deep US south, very tall skinny wheels just like those, but bigger diameter.


Now I had wondered where the wheels and tires came from, I couldn't imagine they were custom made just for a few racers.

[Dizzyfugu]

IIRC, these are so-called "(Rice) Paddy Tires" - more or less standard equipment for vehicles operated in flooded rice fields and similar wet enironments, frequently seen in Asia. Some of these can be very narrow, almost like discs!

[chrisonord]

IIRC, these are so-called "(Rice) Paddy Tires" - more or less standard equipment for vehicles operated in flooded rice fields and similar wet enironments, frequently seen in Asia. Some of these can be very narrow, almost like discs!

And the rednecks like putting 1000 horsepower through them

[Rick Lowe]

IIRC, these are so-called "(Rice) Paddy Tires" - more or less standard equipment for vehicles operated in flooded rice fields and similar wet enironments, frequently seen in Asia. Some of these can be very narrow, almost like discs!

And the rednecks like putting 1000 horsepower through them

Don't they always?

[zenrat]

IIRC, these are so-called "(Rice) Paddy Tires" - more or less standard equipment for vehicles operated in flooded rice fields and similar wet enironments, frequently seen in Asia. Some of these can be very narrow, almost like discs!

And the rednecks like putting 1000 horsepower through them

I have no problem with that.  It looks like fun.

[kitnut617]

IIRC, these are so-called "(Rice) Paddy Tires" - more or less standard equipment for vehicles operated in flooded rice fields and similar wet enironments, frequently seen in Asia. Some of these can be very narrow, almost like discs!

And the rednecks like putting 1000 horsepower through them

I have no problem with that.  It looks like fun.

Do a search of swamp buggy racing Fred ---- When Speed Channel was still around, they would show it on TV.

[zenrat]

IIRC, these are so-called "(Rice) Paddy Tires" - more or less standard equipment for vehicles operated in flooded rice fields and similar wet enironments, frequently seen in Asia. Some of these can be very narrow, almost like discs!

And the rednecks like putting 1000 horsepower through them

I have no problem with that.  It looks like fun.

Do a search of swamp buggy racing Fred ---- When Speed Channel was still around, they would show it on TV.

I've seen it.  Hence my comment.  I  am a keen observer of all the weird and obscure forms of motorsport.
Just today I was thinking about Unimotorcycle racing.

[Rick Lowe]

Now that's just nuts - but they do look like thy're having fun.

[elmayerle]

I have to say I was less than fully pleased with Hasegawa's 1/72 F-15EX kit.   The basic F-15 moldings are as good as ever, but they totally neglected one of the most obvious changes, the two additional wing stores stations, both in the kit itself and in the loadout chart in the instructions.  Nice try, but....

[Weaver]

Had a wander into Hobbycraft the other day (like you do...) and noticed that a) they're stocking Hasegawa, and b) the prices seem pretty reasonable by modern standards. The ones that have stuck in my head are £16 for an F-15C and £20/£22(?) for an F-15E.

You can see them all on their website.

[Gondor]

Elsewhere it has been mentioned that there will be promotion of a "Core Range" of Hasegawa kits that will be available rather than the specials that they have been doing in recent years. I would just like them to produce some new kits for a change. Most of what is available I remember coming out in the 70's and 80's!

Gondor

[zenrat]

Can we guess which kits?

I'm going to say Phantom, Starfighter, F-100, F-105, F-106, F-15, F-16...
The usual suspects.

The Mitsubishi MU-2J would be nice.

They should revert to the 70's/80's box designs with the painted box art and creative fonts.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/albums/72157688413164824/