Hasegawa

[The Wooksta!]

Bearing in mind it's a 1960s tooling - I had a Frog boxing - it's overpriced. £20 is more reasonable.

[Green Dragon]

Agree with you Lee £20 is fair, won't be paying £37 for one! Saw a pic somewhere of an Egg V-22 Osprey coming from Hase.

Paul Harrison

[ChernayaAkula]

Bearing in mind it's a 1960s tooling - I had a Frog boxing - it's overpriced. £20 is more reasonable.

And Hasegawa's RRP is for the kit is 3400 Yen, which, going by current exchange rates, is the princely sum of..... *cue drum roll* ............ £20.11!

[Thorvic]

Got a Hasegawa F-35A on order from Japan, yes I know its got no open weapon bays and it hasn't any pylons but its pretty cheap for a Hasegawa kit and I wanted to compare it to the size, shape and details to both the Italeri and Academy kits to see how much it differs and which will be the definitive F-35A kit in 1/72.

The other two kits are quite different so it will be an interesting exercise to see which the Hasegawa kit matches in size and shapes or if its completely different again. I have a feeling we may have to wait a few years to see a sanctioned and accurate scale model of the F-35

[PR19_Kit]

Bearing in mind it's a 1960s tooling - I had a Frog boxing - it's overpriced. £20 is more reasonable.

And Hasegawa's RRP is for the kit is 3400 Yen, which, going by current exchange rates, is the princely sum of..... *cue drum roll* ............ £20.11!

Now why doesn't tthis surprise me?

I'm getting more and more convinced that the exhorbitant price of Hase's kits in the UK is due to the monumental greed of the importers or their agents. Hopefully this can't last long as it must be having a catastrophic effect on Hase sales here and they'll either dump the importers or read them the riot act.

[Captain Canada]

You'd be better off buying an Italeri Sunderland and painting it green 

[pyro-manic]

Bearing in mind it's a 1960s tooling - I had a Frog boxing - it's overpriced. £20 is more reasonable.

And Hasegawa's RRP is for the kit is 3400 Yen, which, going by current exchange rates, is the princely sum of..... *cue drum roll* ............ £20.11!

Now why doesn't tthis surprise me?

I'm getting more and more convinced that the exhorbitant price of Hase's kits in the UK is due to the monumental greed of the importers or their agents. Hopefully this can't last long as it must be having a catastrophic effect on Hase sales here and they'll either dump the importers or read them the riot act.

I suspect that Hasegawa really doesn't care. Britain is not a primary (or even secondary, I suspect) market for them. And the fact that people still seem to be willing to pay Amerang's stupid prices means that it's not likely to change. Import direct from HK or Japan, it'll be much cheaper.

[Weaver]

Interesting one from Hase:



http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HA07369

Is it a whiff or did they actually get some?


ALSO:

Hannants are listing a range of Hase kits as DOWN IN PRICE. Not sure what's going on, but it looks like this isn't a Hannants sale, rather it's an actual reduction in RRPs to sensible levels. Here's the list:

Hasegawa HUGE PRICE REDUCTION ON SELECTED HASEGAWA KITS!!!
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAA01 1:72 Nakajima Ki-43-II Oscar 'Hayabusa'
Down in price.  £5.99  £4.99
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAA01

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAA03 1:72 Kawasaki Ki-61-I 'Tony' 'Hien'
Down in price.  £5.99  £4.99
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAA03

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAA07 1:72 Nakajima B5N2 'Kate'
Down in price.  £5.99  £4.99
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAA07

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAA08 1:72 Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
Down in price.  £5.99  £4.99
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAA08

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAB02 1:72 Lockheed-Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon
Down in price.  £6.99  £5.83
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAB02

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAB04 1:72 Dassault Mirage F.1C
Down in price.  £6.99  £5.83
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAB04

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAB13 1:72 Grumman X-29 Advanced Technology Trainer
Down in price.  £6.99  £5.83
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAB13

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAB15 1:72 BAC/EE Lightning F.6
Down in price.  £6.99  £5.83
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAB15

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAC02 1:72 McDonnell F-4E Phantom
Down in price.  £7.99  £6.66
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAC02

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAC06 1:72 McDonnell F-15C Eagle
Down in price.  £7.99  £6.66
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAC06

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAC08 1:72 Grumman A-6E Intruder
Down in price.  £7.99  £6.66
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAC08

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAC09 1:72 Vought F-8E Crusader
Down in price.  £7.99  £6.66
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAC09

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAC11 1:72 Convair F-106A 'Delta Dart'
Down in price.  £7.99  £6.66
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAC11

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAC12 1:72 Lockheed-Martin F-16N Fighting Falcon Fighting Falcon Top Gun
Down in price.  £7.99  £6.66
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAC12

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAD03 1:72 Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk
Down in price.  £9.99  £8.33
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAD03

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAD15 1:72 Lockheed-Martin F-16N Fighting Falcon
Down in price.  £9.99  £8.33
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAD15

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAD17 1:72 Lockheed F-104S / Lockheed F-104G Starfighter
Down in price.  £9.99  £8.33
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAD17

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAD20 1:72 Kyushu J7W1 Shinden
Down in price.  £9.99  £8.33
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAD20

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAD24 1:72 McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier Plus Harrier II
Down in price.  £9.99  £8.33
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAD24

Hasegawa
Aircraft kits (injection)
HAD25 1:72 North-American P-51D Mustang
Down in price.  £9.99  £8.33
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAD25

[PR19_Kit]

And not before time if they are really reducing them.

Isn't that Japanese Me-109 similar to the one that Airfix did in 1/48 for the Club Special last year?

[Old Wombat]

And not before time if they are really reducing them.

Isn't that Japanese Me-109 similar to the one that Airfix did in 1/48 for the Club Special last year?

Interestingly the Hasegawa kit is also 1/48 & Limited Edition.

Airfix & Hasegawa aren't in cahoots, are they?

[Dizzyfugu]

Bearing in mind it's a 1960s tooling - I had a Frog boxing - it's overpriced. £20 is more reasonable.

And Hasegawa's RRP is for the kit is 3400 Yen, which, going by current exchange rates, is the princely sum of..... *cue drum roll* ............ £20.11!

Now why doesn't tthis surprise me?

I'm getting more and more convinced that the exhorbitant price of Hase's kits in the UK is due to the monumental greed of the importers or their agents. Hopefully this can't last long as it must be having a catastrophic effect on Hase sales here and they'll either dump the importers or read them the riot act.

It's not (only) the importeurs, it's also the fcat that there seems to be an audience that actually buys the stuff for THAT price tags.

[NARSES2]

Yup I noticed those prices at Hannants. For once they are reasonable but remember some of them are old kits. Nowt wrong with them but they aren't new tools

[Thorvic]

http://www.hasegawausa.com/product-pages/hsgs3515.html

Modern Euro Weapons set - finally !!!

[PR19_Kit]

http://www.hasegawausa.com/product-pages/hsgs3515.html

Modern Euro Weapons set - finally !!!

Excellent news, if they're affordable of course....

[Dizzyfugu]

http://www.hasegawausa.com/product-pages/hsgs3515.html

Modern Euro Weapons set - finally !!!

Excellent news, if they're affordable of course....

What makes you think THAT?