Hasegawa

Green Dragon · December 03, 2009, 09:01:05 AM

Damn, that's one lumpy aeroplane!

Paul Harrison

B777LR · December 03, 2009, 12:45:30 PM

Quote from: Green Dragon on December 03, 2009, 09:01:05 AM
Damn, that's one lumpy aeroplane!

Paul Harrison

Indeed. Beats the Matchbox grooves/trenches, and will probably sell for quite a bit too...

Ian the Kiwi Herder · December 05, 2009, 08:18:32 AM

Absolutely NOT a fan of the F-22, but d*mn that kit just looks wrong

Ian

pyro-manic · December 05, 2009, 09:36:25 AM

And yet it will still sell by the bucketload just because it's Hasegawa....

chrisonord · December 05, 2009, 09:57:17 AM

It looks like the instructions were moulded into it in Braille so blind people can build them too

Chris.

nev · December 05, 2009, 10:37:40 AM

Quote from: pyro-manic on December 05, 2009, 09:36:25 AM
And yet it will still sell by the bucketload just because it's Hasegawa....

In Japan yes, elsewhere......not so sure. Its gunna be expensive, cost more than the (already expensive) Academy F-22. Its also a model of a plane that is used by one country, in one dreadfully dull scheme.

Ian the Kiwi Herder · December 08, 2009, 12:23:36 PM

Discovered something odd yesterday.....

Hasegawa's 1:32 P-40M has just been built/revewed by Tom Cleaver over on www.modelingmadness.com, and he has thanked HLJ for the review sample.... I immediately checked Hannants to see if there was a date that they would be available here in the UK; (there isn't, it's still on the Future Release list).

Jumped onto HLJ and found that it was (already) out of stock and discontinued !!

- What the h*ll is going on ? - Really hope that this is some sort of administrative foul-up, because I REALLY want this kit.

Ian

nev · December 08, 2009, 10:47:18 PM

If it was one of their limited edition releases (and almost everything they do these days is), the entire production run may have sold out in Japan and none even reached the export market.

jcf · December 08, 2009, 11:12:28 PM

Hasegawa website doesn't indicate its limited edition (unlike HLJ) and Rainbow Ten has it in stock.

http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/e-w/NEWDETAIL/0911/08199.html

http://www.rainbowten.co.jp/english/
0020103208199,HASEGAWA,4600YEN,08199 1/32 P-40M WARHAWK

Jon

Green Dragon · December 10, 2009, 09:59:20 AM

In-box review of the 1/48th F-16F today on Cybermodeler. http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/has/kit_has_07244.shtml
Looks like a little flash is starting to appear on the parts. http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/has/images/has_07244_parts6.jpg

Paul Harrison

kitbasher · December 10, 2009, 02:30:57 PM

Modelzone Holborn (London) - Hasegawa Lancaster ASR.3 £55.99. £56!!!! Outrageous.
That's 3 Revell Lancs plus almost £5 change!!!!!
Rant over.

Barry Krell · December 10, 2009, 03:49:46 PM

If it's any consolation, our Modelzone has the standard Hasegawa Lancaster for £39.95.

Look, if you don't like the prices, don't buy. If the majority of modellers did this, prices would soon start to fall. The retailers would have to shift the stock somehow and putting prices up in the midst of a recession is suicide.

jcf · December 10, 2009, 05:28:21 PM

The ASR version is limited production and includes a new sprue for the larger tail and the lifeboat is resin.
The kit lists in Japan for 6,200 yen (around 42 GBP). SAL shipping is around 9 pounds, if not more, so
the overall price would be little different. The kit retails in the US for $105.

So you see its not simply a matter of the retailers "putting up the prices" and modelers not buying kits would
more likely drive local stores out of business rather than lead to lower prices. Most brick & mortar shops operate
on a very slim margin.

Barry Krell · December 10, 2009, 06:51:19 PM

The larger Lincoln tail is also in the Post War and Canadian Rescue boxings and Hasegawa did the tooling for the compete Merlin Lancaster family in injection, so using the inclusion of one small sprue as a justification for putting the price of one kit up is bobbins.

The Canadian Rescue kit is/was about £33 and is exactly the same plastic as the ASR kit but includes some resin bits for the Canadian options. Which if it were aftermarket would probably be a fiver, but an extra £23 for a single lifeboat? Someone is having a laugh as there's about £2 worth of resin in it.

Kitbasher is right, the price of this kit is a total rip off.

Thorvic · December 12, 2009, 04:06:03 AM

Just found this on a warship modeling forum :-
"According to current issue(Jan. 2010) of Model Art magazine, Hasegawa will release a 1/350 Agano next year. Frankly I am more excited about other planned new Hasegawa releases on the same page--1/72 F-35A, 1/72 Ju-188E-1, 1/72 Israeli F-16."

So finally a proper F-35A, which means were likely to see the B & C variants follow. Now why does the cynic in me see this fit being issued as seperate boxings for each user....

G

Hasegawa

B777LR