Hasegawa

[McGreig]

The Hasegawa I-153 is a reboxed ICM kit

Are you sure ? They've had one in their catalogue for an age. Long before we could get ICM kits I'm sure.

Positive - I've got one

They once sold (mid Nineties, I think) the Heller/Smer kit in a Hasegawa box with a photo of the completed kit as box art and a small Smer logo in the top corner.

[ChernayaAkula]

Is it Hasegawa themselves who are being pigheaded and greedy, or their importers?

Hobby Link Japan (LINK!) gives a list price of 3600 JPY, which is 18.54 GBP currently.

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I just find their (or the importers) pricing ridiculous. The He 51 must be 40 years old and shows it. Yet in a dual combo boxing it goes for £23.49 and as a singleton for £13.98 ! I've two in the stash that I probably paid a couple of quid for back in day

Yeah, they were only a couple of quid back in the day, but then again, a quid was worth much more as well. And Hasegawa has to pay their employees in 2015 money, not in 1975 money.
It wouldn't surprise me if, in relation to previous wages/"commodity bundles"/"market baskets", prices of kits haven't increased a whole lot. Sure, the number on the price tags may be higher, but they will take the same bite out of your budget.

[Librarian]

Is it Hasegawa themselves who are being pigheaded and greedy, or their importers?

I regularly buy Hasegawa kits from Poland, kit and P&P being sometimes under half the cost here of just the kit. Really want to support our shops but you can't beat those prices.

[NARSES2]

Yeah, they were only a couple of quid back in the day, but then again, a quid was worth much more as well. And Hasegawa has to pay their employees in 2015 money, not in 1975 money.
It wouldn't surprise me if, in relation to previous wages/"commodity bundles"/"market baskets", prices of kits haven't increased a whole lot. Sure, the number on the price tags may be higher, but they will take the same bite out of your budget.

I know what you mean and maybe I'm being over hard on them. The how long do you have to work to buy something calculation is always an interesting one and I may well get down and do it. Take me back to work days  I've done it before whilst at work a few times and it throws up some interesting answers and certainly came in handy whilst giving a presentation to customers on a few occasions 

[Green Dragon]

Hasegawa is releasing a new tool Kawanishi H8K2 "Emily" flying boat, yep you read that right, all new tooling, including crew figures. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10410642
UK price quoted as £56.77.
The old tool has been reissued in the Creator Works series. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10384216
Current UK price from Hobbysearch is £27.32

Paul Harrison

[NARSES2]

For something the size of an Emily £56.77 doesn't sound a bad price, especially considering the price the importer charges for some 40 year old tools.

[PR19_Kit]

For something the size of an Emily £56.77 doesn't sound a bad price, especially considering the price the importer charges for some 40 year old tools.

Except that the similarly sized Italeri Sunderlands are around £40 UK price...........

[Captain Canada]

I was thinking the same thing. And the Sunderland is a way cooler aeroplane 

[NARSES2]

For something the size of an Emily £56.77 doesn't sound a bad price, especially considering the price the importer charges for some 40 year old tools.

Except that the similarly sized Italeri Sunderlands are around £40 UK price...........

True

[elmayerle]

And now for a bit of thread necromancy.

Hasegawa has released a limited edition of their excellent 1/72 V-22 molding (only good 1/72 one in my book, and I worked on them before retiring) in the markings of N204TR, the Bell-Boeing testbed (aka. ATTR for Advanced Techmology Tilt-Rotor) in the trial configuration for the air tanker demonstration.  Since I was intimately involved with this bird, I had to buy the kit.  Beautiful job on the markings decals, which would be a pain to otherwise, but they totally flubbed it on the experimental inlet on the LH nacelle (where I was intimately involved).  If you go for this variant, look for good pictures of that inlet because you'll need to scratchbuild it (good news is that the parts breakdown makes this relatively easy).

[Weaver]

This is awfully tempting...

Hasegawa 1/48th T-3 Jrs display team set AND the Blue Impulse set both 3 x 'planes') currently discounted at Hannants.

T-3 :  £7.33 (2/3rds discount) https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAX4821
Blue Impulse : £8.65 (1/3 discount) https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HAX4822









Look what somebody on ARC did with these two sets  :

[JayBee]

I have seen these two kits before but resisted the temptation.

That dio. is wonderfull>

Jim

[PR19_Kit]

Hehehehe, they're hilarious! 

[Spey_Phantom]

another Area 88 kit is to be released by Hasegawa in 1/72.
this time its the Nguyen's F-105 Thunderchief 

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/1137633-hasegawa-64764-f-105d

[strobez]

Yah! I've snatching these up as soon as they've hit the shelf. I'm still waiting on the F-8E and the A-10, but looking forward to this one for sure.

Does Hasegawa ever sell spare decal sets?