Hasegawa made a prominent show of some kits they are re-releasing. |
The Kawanishi Type 2 Large Flying Boat (Emily) is one of my favorate planes of all time. |
There was no notice about new decals or new parts, so this will probably be just a regular re-release. |
I dream of being able to build this kit as well as it has been done here. |
The Kawanishi Type 97 Large Flying Boat (Mavis) will also be re-released. |
No new markings or new parts for this kit was well. |
They really should include add some parts and new decals to release the H6K2-L, the translaport version which saw service as JAL's aircraft before WW2. |
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The Shinmeiwa US-1. Kawanishi became Shinmeiwa after the war and produced the PS-1 as a anti-submarine aircraft. The US-1 is the rescue version of that same flying boat. |
So this will be the re-release of the US-1 kit, not the PS-1. |
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Here are the resin parts that will be included in this release. The injection plastic parts are for the PS-1, so you need these parts to make the US-1. |
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My quest for new 1/72 kits from Hasegawa was rather dismal. |
This was all that they had to show to prove that Hasegawa is still doing 1/72 kits. There was no news of any new products for the MT range... |
Hasegawa is currently concentrating on maritime subjects. Last year, it was the Mikasa, and this year it is the Soya (pronounced Sohya.) |
The Soya was the vessel that was employed as part of Japan's first Antartic scientific expeditionary mission. Here are the sprues of the kit. |
This is how the kit will look if you use the photo-etch parts that will be offered. |
Here is the kit built without the photo-etch parts. |
The scale is 1/350. |
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Here's how the kit will look like built but unpainted. |
They had this unpainted verion on offere for people to hold and appreciate up close. |
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This release of the Soya will include two fully tracked snow vehicles made in the same scaleas the Soya. The vehicles will be made in pewter, I believe. |
Another series of Hasegawa products that you don't see often. These are pre-built and painted plastic vehicles that have wind-up motors inside. |
While this line of vehicles are some what toy like, I think this truck would look pretty decent if you gave it a good paint job and tweaked some things. |
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Just to let you know, the price for these units are about 1000 yen each (less than 10 USD.) |
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Ju-88 G-1 Night Figher. New tooling! I think this is a completely new kit |
Here's the kit built straight out of the box without any paint. |
The sprues for the kits. |
Hasegawa has been expanding into the realm of giant robot kits, and this is their line of of the Virtual-On series. |
Virtual-On is a sega game. Here is their web page. |
Hasegawa's new release this time was the TF-14A Fei-Yen w/VH. |
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The sprues. Quite a lot of parts for a kit that's not too big. |
The kit straight out of the box without a paint job. |
The decals are simply stunning. But having details like this makes it easier to give Fei-Yen a paint job with the proper stripping and such. |
Reactive Armored VF-0S from Macross Zero. |
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A friend of mine told me that this was not a new release. |
Almost looks like a destroid more than a battleroid. (If you don't understand the reference, don't worry about it. It's a Macross thing. (smile)) |