Hasegawa model kits
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"George" is the name of my New Year's baby 2023: Kawanishi N1K1-J Shiden /"George"
The fingers of one hand are enough to list the representatives of an extremely rare group of aircraft: those that have been converted from a seaplane to a land plane! If one narrows this group even further to those constructions that have [...]
1/72 Hasegawa UH-60A Black Hawk
The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine utility helicopter originally developed for the US Army in the mid-70’s. It serves primarily as a troop carrier (fitting 11 combat-ready soldiers) and logistic support aircraft. [...]
Nakajima Ki-44 tojo
This my first posting, since I joined.The kit was built oob , they only after market items , were a set of seatbelts from eduard. The kit fit well and was an enjoyable build.
It is finished as plane flown by Capt Teiichi Hatano, 3 [...]
Sabre Mk. 6, JG 71 Richtofen
I just ran across this model, which I built 12 years ago. I've rephotographed it for this article.
When the North American Sabre flew in 1947, it attracted attention throughout the West’s aviation industry. In 1948, the Royal Canadian [...]
Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero 261st Kokutai - Japanese Top Gun Squadron – Hasegawa 1/48
Hi,
this is the first of the year,a home-based Zero in a squadron dedicated to training the fighter pilots of the IJNAF...some glitches here and there,but those stripes really are something!
Hope you like it.
Thank you for visiting,and all [...]
A Review of 2022
This year seems it was a blur. With uncertainty with the pandemic here not here, masks no masks, economy was in disarray, gas sky high especially here in California. The year was cruising along but in April I received a note from the new [...]
RF-101C McDonnell Voodoo, 1/72 Hasegawa
This might be the first boxing of Hasegawa's Voodoo kit. Done up in an early camouflage scheme circa 1964, where the Voodoo had already been operating in Southeast Asia. I used some of the kit's decals, [ which is from an AMT boxing] and [...]
Minicraft/Hasegawa 1/72 EA-6B Prowler – Desert Storm
This is a rather old kit, but did include engraved panel lines. My experience with Hasegawa engraved lines is they can be a bit too shallow to hold panel line wash well, so I deepened them a bit. The intakes are just solid blanks, as the [...]
1/72 F-35A LIGHTNINGⅡ "65th Aggressor Squadron"
Tamiya's wonderful 1/48 kit has just been released, and now I have put together Hasegawa's 1/72 kit.
Hasegawa's 1/72 F-35A can be easily assembled with a small number of parts.
This time, I assembled this Aggressor-specification thing to [...]
Hasegawa, 1:48 Scale P-400, "Airacobra"
This is the Hasegawa 1:48 scale P-400. Nice kit. Goes together very well, has really nice detail inside and out. Even the doors fit without too much tweaking. A friend of mine, Nick Buro, was a crew chief on these birds. He was asked [...]
