Hasegawa model kits
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A gift from a friend,the good old Hasegawa (Mania?) mould,finally finished after being retrieved from the 'as is' piles...
A night-fighter from the 5th Fighter Regiment, Maj. Yoshiaki Yamashita, Kiyosu Air Base, June 1945. What can I say, it's Hasegawa. Minor filler needed but that was possibly due to over zealous sanding. Two issues with the build. The first [...]
On a recent trip to Colorado, I visited the Weisbrod Aircraft Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. While there I noticed that their Lockheed Neptune had been repainted and looks pretty nice for an outdoors display aircraft.
It inspired me to [...]
North American Mustang P-51D J-2064 Training Course Aviator
21 Squadron Dübendorf 1949. Kit 1:48 Hasegawa
This is the Hasegawa kit which was first released around 2001. I built it when it was a brand new release, but never shared it here, or anywhere else for that matter. I actually just unpacked it from a moving box last month. The decals [...]
Weathering patterns of Japanese WWII aircraft fascinated me more than the aircraft themselves. However, due to the scarcity and low quality of photographs from that era, it is very difficult for me to nail the core of a weathered surface [...]
Hi folks,
this was an old building,overall gray,so I decided to bring it back to the bench and camouflage it as flown during the Solomons Is. Campaign...different gray underneath,and green above...
As to better camouflage them in the [...]
ust finished this 1/72 Hasegawa Hurricane MkIIc today. I added Quickboost antenna, cannon and exhaust, a resin ventral position light and wheels from Aires, some Eduard PE here and there (belts, radiator grills and gun sight bead), and [...]
Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3 J-374 Air Company / Squadron 6
Avenches Airfield 1941
Kit: Hasegawa 1:48, Eduard Wheels and Decals from Models.
Messerschmitt 109 E-3 J-374, serial number 2355, flight hours 2:10 a.m.,
Engine number 10901, [...]
Rehab of an old KI-44 from Manchukuo AF into the famous - at least for its camos - 85th Sentai,facing the Allies in the China skies...
Hope you like it...
Marcus