Hasegawa

[The Wooksta!]

By way of rough comparison, the New Lightning F.2, which is about the same size as a Jag, is £14.99.

£14.99 for a new tool Lightning?  Cheap.  How much was the Hasegawa F6 combo?  £30+ for a 40+ year old tooling?  You're having a giraffe, mate.  How much is the ill shaped abortion from Trumpeter?  Nigh on 20 notes.  The Airfix kit is bang on the money, shapewise.

[Weaver]

By way of rough comparison, the New Lightning F.2, which is about the same size as a Jag, is £14.99.

£14.99 for a new tool Lightning?  Cheap.  How much was the Hasegawa F6 combo?  £30+ for a 40+ year old tooling?  You're having a giraffe, mate.  How much is the ill shaped abortion from Trumpeter?  Nigh on 20 notes.  The Airfix kit is bang on the money, shapewise.

Couldn't agree more.  My point was that there's no way a new tool Jag from Airfix would be less than the £11 each the Hase ones cost at the Hannant's sale price. If they were at the regular Hase rip-off price of £40 they'd be a lot less attractive.

[Daryl J.]

1/72 Su-35.
There will be much fodder it seems in the near future for fans of 1/72 Flankers!

[Weaver]

Remember the little research sub that was built up for an article in Airfix mag a few months ago? Hannants have it in:

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HASW01




All sorts of whiffie potential, since it's a decent scale. The first thnig I thought of was have it slung under a Skycrane helicopter.....

[Spey_Phantom]

in GTA5, there was a mission where you had  similar looking sub, slung under a CH-47/CH-53 hybrid 
that would make in interesting and awesome diorama 

[Weaver]

Heh - cheesy monster movie diorama:

A Skycrane of the JMSDF is lifting the mini-sub out of the sea with a diver (who's just attached the cables) standing on top of it while using it's main gear-mounted minigun turrets to shoot at the tentacles rising out of the water.....

[Captain Canada]

Or launched from a mothership sub......

[ChernayaAkula]

Heh - cheesy monster movie diorama:

A Skycrane of the JMSDF is lifting the mini-sub out of the sea with a diver (who's just attached the cables) standing on top of it while using it's main gear-mounted minigun turrets to shoot at the tentacles rising out of the water.....

Sounds like a plan!   Maybe something Pacific Rim-ish?

[kerick]

More like the watcher at the doors of Moria!

[Dizzyfugu]

I know at least of two projects where is is to be combined with a scientific carrier ship in 1:72 scale. IIRC, one of these is to be based on a Matchbox Flower Class Corvette, the other is to be scratched from an RC boat and will probably be floating and cruising when finished.

BTW, there are two kits of the Shin-kai available - they have different propulsion arrangemenst (early and late type).

[Captain Canada]

Can you point us in the direction of these two projects ? Especially the Flower Class Corvette one !

[Dizzyfugu]

Unfortunately not. One is a project of a SF modeler in another forum (no pics to be posted/linked, it was mentioned there), and the RC project is a friend's who ALSO started with a Flower Class Corvette, but found it to be unsuited and too small(!) as a base ship, esp. since he plans to integrate a helipad... I know that the thing is almost 5' long, based on a 2nd had RC ship, but I haven't seen it in persona. Surely a huge project, in both cases! 

[Weaver]

Don't know how long it is since this has been out, but given how big it is, £37 doesn't actually seen unreasonable by modern standards:

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HA02069

[PR19_Kit]

Given Hasegawa's usual pricing these days, that's almost CHEAP for the amount of plastic you get! 

[Dizzyfugu]

Yeah, be sure that a double combo ("limited edition") at thrice the price is also in the pipeline...