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After building Revell's 1:32 Me 262, I thought I'd start on this one. This Fw 190A-3 is the original new tool version that would spawn so many boxings by Hasegawa. The plan is to build it as Black 13 with the Eagle Head on the nose. Decals look great on the sheet. Hopefully they won't breal when placed in warm water. The Eagle Head will also be a test to try my Mr. Mark Softer. Here's a photo of the box.

I'll be building this once I get around to starting it, trying to up the number of 80/90s Japanese saloon cars in the GB! I've previously built the rally version but will be doing this in homage to a car I once owned (unfortunately mine was the GTI version which had all the 4WD/4WS bits but not the turbo or bonnet vents). I'm not sure if I'll sand out the bonnet vents, since I won't be able to find exact replicas for wheels etc. I might just do it in the colour my car was (a dark red I think they described as Bordeaux) - though the actual VR4s from around 89/90 I've only ever seen photos of in white or black.

My entry for the Century series fighters GB is the Hasegawa 1/72nd Starfighter kit from the early 1990s. I built another boxing in 1990 when they first came out, and it was delightful kit as I recall. The kit decals don't look to have aged well, and so the Belcher Bits sheet will be used. As I have a couple of Canadian aircraft planned for other GBs,, the 104 will be in the overall Green scheme that I remember seeing them in the seventies. my fairly old copy of the Detail in Scale on the F104 will be useful as well as Wings of Fame Vol2

Hasegawa 1/72 Mitsubishi F-2B DXM decal set "JASDF Matsushima A.B. Viper Zero Anniversay set. JASDF Mitsubishi F.2B 21.Sqn 30th Anniversary Matsushima A.B. 2006 Wolfpack update set - seamless intake wheel bays & exhaust. Pavla ACES2 seats. MrColor JASDF paint set. Half way through building this researching the airframe, I found that this aircraft crashed. No fatalities, but I think the first F-2 crash but the second model I've built this year which crashed. My other build earlier this year, the Czech MiG-21UM crashed as well.

My recently finished builds are mostly Hasegawa 1/200 kits,and these are the first that came off the assembly line. This was one of Hasegawa's 2in1 kit releases and offers to build 3 ANA versions to be build,although you have to decide which one of the Triton Blue version you want to build. The bare metal underbelly or the all grey underbelly, like the TriStar was before retirement in 1995. I opted for the very first TriStar in the "Mohican" scheme as they were delivered in 1973 and the "Triton Blue" last flight livery with the all grey underbelly As for all Hasegawa LL200 airliner kits,the build is straight forward with no issues at all. I really love those kits as they offer easy,fun builds with quick results. The only thing I changed were the engine exhausts on the Triton version,which had to be shortened to match the later version engines. The Mohican version was left with the longer exhausts as offered in the kit. Painted entirely by airbrush using Revell and Testors enamels and coted with my Media Range Color protection spray. The windows were filled with Krystal Klear.The cockpit windows were painted inside black as the empty cockpit looked a bit off through the clear cockpit windows. Thanks for looking.... And group shots of the 2 TriStars...

Hi all, looking forward to participating in my first group build. The kit I'll be building is the Hasegawa F-20 Tigershark. Here is is... I'll be building it in a ROCAF/Taiwanese scheme, the premise here being the F-20 was purchased to replace the ROCAF's ageing fleet of F-5s like the one seen below. The decals I'll be using are from Xtradecal, and are the low-visability ROCAF markings used on their F-5s in the early 2010's. Can't wait to see everyone else's work, thanks for looking in!

Hi all, here's the latest off the bench- Hasegawa's Tankbuster Hurricane. Picked this one up off @Julien a while back with lots of extra goodies including Mastercaster exhausts and wheels, Blackbird decals, resin 40mm's, Basic line harness and masks to which i added a Squadron vac form canopy so i could display it open. I've always wanted a tankbuster version so made up to have finished it and have it sitting proudly in the cabinet. Went with old BP188 from No.6 squadron and have shown it just back from a sortie with the gun covers shredded and oil leaking everywhere! Tried a new approach for the fabric gun covers by cutting out a couple of squared from some very thin self adhesive foil and then poking holes though and painting them. They're a touch too thick and rumpled but think they look ok. Really pleased with the paintwork, the azure blue is MRP and rest Tamiya. I tried something i'd seen someone else do on here (I'm sorry i can't remeber who!) but i copied and pulled off the scouring pad from a sponge and teased it apart to use as a highlight/distressing mask. I've got the Uschi splatter masks but think the scouring pad method is much more random and effective (plus you can bend it into those corners much more easily) so will be using this on my next build. I've definitely over weathered the reverse sides of the prop but all those forward operating strips in the desert wouldn't have done them much good I'm sure! Thanks to @Troy Smith and @pacificmustang for some guidance on a few details and for providing some inspiration! Thanks Graeme Spotted after i took this that some black pigment had made its way on to the side- luckily managed to wipe it off before it smudged in!

Hello guys I am from China and I like corsair very much.These corsairs were build by me between 2010-2013, when I had a lot of personal time. Most of these kits are Tamiya products, and a small part is Hasegawa.All of them are 1/48 scale and OOB. USMC's-1A,I forgot which squadron it was from, but everyone should have seen a photo of her. F4U-2,I've always had a question about the F4U-2 - where is its radar display? I haven't found the answer for ten years VF-17,jolly rogers are very popular in Asia, but seem to be less popular in Europe? F4U-1"Gus's gopher",considering the actual usage scenario, I tried to simulate heavy usage traces. F4U-5N VMF-513, I experimented with various dark greys to complete the layering, only solid black was used on the radar fairing. Exhaust pipes look ridiculous, excuse my laziness. The last one,F4U-5N VC-3 I heard the Japanese call the Corsair and Hellcat's midnight blue the king's blue, so wanted to embellish the midnight blue with a more luxurious shade, unfortunately it failed, the blue looks so weird. I've shared many works at once, hope this didn't bother you guys, and if it does, I'll fix it. These F4U were build ten years ago, and many traces now seem a bit deliberate. But I can still vividly remember the joy of making it. Hope you like it. Best wishs Yuebin

Joining with this kit. Hasegawa F-20 Tigershark. Which I've built previously. I might repaint that model properly now. Instructions. Parts, removed from the bag just this morning. Crisp grey plastic, Engraved panel detail. Classic Hasegawa. To be built in 2-tone grey scheme, an bit like

For my entry I will be building the following: I won’t be using the kit decals but these rather nice Rising Decals: This one, Capt Shogo Takeuchi, 2nd Chutai, 68th Sentai, Cape Gloucester. Build will mostly be OOB, but I’ll add a bit of detail to the rather sparse Hasegawa cockpit. The camouflage should be a test of my airbrushing skills (or lack of..). I’ll make a start after aI finish the Falklands Sea Harrier, not sure how far I’ll get before I go away to the Northern Territory for the whole of May, first holiday away in two years! AW

Recently completed in the Turning Japanese Group Build, Hasegawa 1/72 Nakajima Ki-43-II Army type 1 Fighter Hayabusa (Peregrine Falcon) Allied reporting name “Oscar”. Built OOB with the fuselage bands and tail arrow from Berna Decals sheet 72-117 Oscar Part II. I had to use the kit decals for the Hinomarus as the Berna ones were out of register. Model completed as the aircraft flown by Capt. Yasuhiko Kuroe while acting CO of the 64th Sentai based at Toungoo Burma in March 1943. Painted with AK interactive acrylics, the heavy waring around the wing roots was done using the hairspray technique, smaller areas of chipping done with a toothpick. The Dead Design canopy mask set was also used. Thanks for looking. AW

Hallo I have two Hasegawa kits in 1/48 scale. I have two options of kill markings: 57 (in red &black, or on white background) 82 in red & black Both of them I want to build. The a/c with 82 kills is the overhauled Emil in 76/75/74 colors. The a/c with 57 kills is this still the a/c with original colors 02/65/71? The spinner? When did it change to the pointed version? Which details I have to be regarded too? Happy modelling

Hello all, another of the three projects (F-86D, TF-104G, Su-17) from the shed which have all come to completion around the same time. The kit is from the box and went together very well. It was an ebay purchase that came with a microscale sheet and a resin detail set which I didn’t use (it was for a single seater ). Had a bit of a mare with the rear end as I unknowingly got thinners onto my neoprene gloves, this stripped off the metal paint work where I was holding it while doing final touch ups. This meant masking and respraying with decals already on so it’s not as I would have liked but will have to do. It’s finished with Humbrol 27002, darkened for the rear end metalwork. The decals are from all over the shop, Microscale, Aeromaster, Fantasy Print Shop, with a few from the kit sheet. The aircraft depicted is a TF-104G from the 418th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron. Hope you like it. Thanks for popping by Pete

Hi all. This is the Hasegawa 1/48 F-4G Wild Weasel, my latest finished model. For this build I used an Aires cockpit set, ResKit engines, Master Pitot tube and Speed Hunter Graphics decals. A few underwing parts came from various Hasegawa weapons sets. The pylons were rescribed and detailed a bit as these still have raised panel lines. The same goes for the underwing fueltanks. The intake covers were scratchbuilt from plastic card and strip. The pull handles on the ejection seats were made from twisted yellow and black painted copper wire. As usual, I painted the model with MrHobby paints, in this case H305 and H306, over a black primer from Alclad. Weathering was done with Abteilung 502 oilpaints and Tamiya panelliner. Thanks for watching.

So, now there is something new from me again. It is a Hasegawa F-117A. In addition, etched parts and masks from Eduard and an ejection seat from Quickboost. The paintwork is again from the Idolm@ster series with decals, some of which are glued on in up to five layers. As gray I used MRP136. I hope the model pleases.

Dear fellow Britmodellers, here's my 1/72 Hasegawa B-25J in colors of the Soviet Air Force (VVS) in 1945. Built with addition of PART photo-etch and CMK resin parts. Painted with Gunze/Mr.Hobby acrylics. Photographs by Wolfgang Rabel. Thank you for your interest in this topic. Best greetings from Vienna, Roman

After seeing David H's progress on his new Tamiya 1/48 F-4B I decided to get to work on my F-4 stash to make way for the Tamiya kit. Maybe, someday, when I save up some $$. I have 8 1/48 Hasegawa F-4 kits of various types, 2 of which are the RAF FGR.2. I have one Hasegawa and one Revell rebox of the same kit. I started on the Revell since I wanted to trash the crappy box anyway. Somewhere over the years I picked up some aftermarket including a set of Aires seats and the Eduard photoetch cockpit upgrade. I also have a couple of reference books and some additional decals. I want to build these jets as they may have looked serving in 23 Squadron. One in green/gray and one in the grays (Falklands deployment). I think I have enough decals to cover any standard RAF Phantom. The Eduard cockpit set was fine. Sorry, no photos at this time, but I'm not convinced it's a huge upgrade over a well painted kit cockpit here. The seats were another story. The Aires resin is very nice. A huge improvement over the kit seats. But the PE belts are a nightmare. I finally got them in some semblance of order and attached where they should be, but they look a bit oversized. I have another set for a second kit and will probably leave off some of the belts just to make it less complicated. I did use the kit face curtain pull rings since the PE versions don't look right (flat). The kit itself is well known to most cold war modelers since this is the only FGR2 in 1/48th. The main components are together and ready for gloss for decals and weathering. My daughter and family are coming for a 10 day visit so I'll be away from the modelling desk for a bit. Hope to update this in a couple of weeks. Paints are Testors Model Master, since I still have a lot of them. Green is RAF Dark Green, Gray is Medium Gray FS36270, and the lower gray is Light Gray FS36492. The white patches forward of the main gear wells are the pylon sway brace arms. Since I'm painting the pylons white I figured these should be white also. They are part of the pylon, even if Hasegawa didn't make them part of the pylon on the sprue. The belt sticking up vertically on the right seat will be bent over the cockpit side console once the seat is in place. I did not add the leg restraint garters to the lower front of the seats.

Built for the Turning Japanese group build here is my Hasegawa 1/72 Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (Swallow) finished as Ki-61-1-Ko serial 263 of Captain Shogo Takeuchi leader of the 2nd Chutai, 68th Sentai, Cape Gloucester, September 1943. This airframe was later captured intact and taken to the States for evaluation. Airbrushed in acrylics, decals by Rising Decals from Emperor’s Eagles Part V set 72049. The “palm frond” camouflage was airbrushed freehand, the first time I’ve attempted something like this. Some comparison shots with other Axis DB engined fighters the Hien was confused with, the Bf-109 and MC 202. Interestingly the Ki-61 is rather larger than the German and Italian aircraft. Thanks for looking. AW

More than 20 years after finishing my last model I felt I wanted to try out some modelling again! Last time I was "active" was in 1999-2000 or so, when I moved out from my parents house. Out of my old builds nothing is left except for some photos, but I recall some fun builds like the revell F101-B Voodoo in 1:72 and the Airfix S A Bulldog in the same scale, and of course also the Airfix Bf109 in 1:24. So, after many years I want to get off where I left and as a start I will try out with something rather easy where I can focus on trying out some new techniques. This turned out to be the Hasegawa P-47D in 1:48, so here we go! I started this build already in january 2020 but it was first now I decided to publish a build log of it - for this reason not all steps have been documented. The pace has not been the most rapid one, but I will drop some posts on the current progress and hopefully things will move faster now when I have the tools etc in place. The first thing I did was to replace the exhausts in the front with new ones that I made from beer can aluminium. The parts provided in the kit (seen on top of the exhausts in the photo) were not too convincing. The new ones were somewhat better even if the openings in the end felt a little too large. The rear (intercooler?) openings were good in shape but of course too thick as they are moulded parts. I considered removing them and replace them with brass, aluminium or crash moulded / vac formed plastic sheet, but in the end it turned out I could just carve them out and still get a decent result.

Hi mates! Here is my entry, the Hasegawa 1/72 Oscar, and its DEAD canopy masks: I really like Japanese WWII aircraft, and I hope this great GB will help me discover where my mojo went 🙂

Just to prove I am mad, a couple of hours after saying I probably would not have time to build another kit for this GB, here I am again! The first Tornado I built was the Airfix MRCA prototype one, and later I built a Gulf War one for my son who got the kit via a magazine - I suspect it is probably Italeri. Back in 1990, having been made redundant for the first time, I picked up this, a Tornado F.3 and and F-15E from Beatties in Cardiff - the label says it cost me the princely sum of £9.99 and it apparently had been released the previous year. For some reason I never got round to building it though I did eventually build the F.3 in the Gulf GB. I make no promises as time is relatively short and I have a lot of other kits either on the go or lined up, but I will try - at least I am fairly familiar with the plastic as it is almost the same as the F.3 although for some reason there is no mention of ballast and yet the F.3 with a longer nose specified 5g! It comes with decs for 4 RAF and one Saudi Squadron, but like the Jaguar I am building in parallel it is a bit short on choice of payload. Hasegawa provide 2 each of drop tanks, Sidewinders, Sky Shadow jamming pods, one of which I will replace with a BOZ chaff/flare pod, and a pair of JP 233 dispensers. In case you are not familiar with it, this was a product of the Cold War intended for "runway denial". Each pod carried 30 small parachute retarded bomblets rather cleverly designed to penetrate a runway before exploding, breaking up the surface and forming craters, together with 215 nasty anti personnel mines to discourage any attempts at repair. The idea was that the carrier aircraft such as a Tornado would penetrate low and fast under the enemy radar and run low down the centre of a runway sowing its seeds of destruction in a fairly narrow swathe - the pod remaining attached to the plane for possible re-use. It worked well enough but as the Tornado crews found in the Gulf War it was a rather frightening experience flying through hails of flak and missiles, but contrary to some reports they suffered little damage by all accounts, and stopped after 6 days as the Iraqi airforce was proving noticeable by its absence. Like most things it is a trade off - go in high and you stand a good chance of being hit by a missile, low and fast and it is light flak that may hit you. After the war it was decided that it would perhaps be better to develop a stand-off weapon for the mission! The Luftwaffe developed the MW-1 which is somewhat similar but a lot bigger/deeper and can take half a dozen different types of "bomblet" which were ejected over a large area - anti armour, HE, anti personnel etc - videos of it being tested are impressive! The US were originally partners in the development of the JP 233 but pulled out and instead intended to use Durandals on their F-111, which would make larger holes if they hit the target, but a dozen Durandals might produce a few large holes whilst 2 JP-233 dispensers should have created many more albeit smaller ones. The modern Storm Shadow is perhaps a replacement with long range and the ability to carry cluster munitions and I believe some variants of the Tomahawk missile had/have similar cluster payloads but I doubt either it is half as good at digging up runways as they can't beat a "manned missile" for laying an accurate and compact pattern. This somewhat highlights a problem I have mentioned before with kits of "modern" aircraft. The weapons and colour schemes are probably correct when they are released but before too long they are out of date. I have a decent selection of alternative loads, but most of them would require a change to the all over grey colour scheme and/or conversion to the later GR.4, which would mean spending money on parts/decs. I have various more modern sensor/targetting pods such as TIALD and the like, and ditto weapons such as Paveway, Alarm, ASRAAM and Storm Shadow but I think I will stick with the JP 233, albeit perhaps the rather better detailed ones from the Airfix "Hi Tech" weapons set, and go for a wrap around grey/green machine from 617 Squadron, though I may change my mind later. Wish me luck! Pete

So, Down in the depths of the vault I have found this ancient 1/32 Hasegawa Spitfire VI, missing most of the cockpit contents and without a canopy... Apart from the canopy, the circled items are missing... Also in in the vault, is this modern but flawed Revell 1/32 Spitfire Mk.IIa I was wondering whether I could use the Revell kit as an ~(imperfect but acceptable) donor of spare parts/sources for scratch building/vac-forming? My plan: 1. Build the Revell cockpit. 2. See if it fits with manageable fettling into the Hasegawa fuselage. It won't be 100% accurate, but as the Mk VI canopy is fixed close this probably won't matter. I will also add the Hasegawa pilot 3. If the cockpit does not fit, I will proceed with the Revell kit, having to accept the incorrect spinner and underwing air intake 4. If the cockpit fits, I will continue with the Hasegawa kit 5. I will then use the Revell canopy as the master to make some vac-form replicas 6. The replica will be needed as I try and work out how to modify the canopy to correspond to the Mk VI version. What could possibly go wrong? Either way, there be some sort of 1/32 Spitfire at the end of this Odyssey! Icarus

Hi All, This is the second in my "Promise Made, promises fulfilled" project. I had this model over 30 years ago when it was first released. When I saw that Hasegawa had re-released it, I knew that I just had to get it. My memories of the first time was that it was a rather good model, with crisply moulded parts, and reasonably easy to build. My biggest mistake was to use automotive cellulose paints to paint it. The end result looked very good for about 6 months... Then it started to crack, and look rather shoddy. I removed the body from the floor pan, stripped the cellulose paint, can't remember with what, re-primed and sprayed it with enamels. However, that cellulose had attacked the plastic rather badly, even though I had primed it first. I could never get a good finish on it after that. Still, paints have moved on. I tend to use Zero paints these days and with care, they are much kinder to polystyrene. So, here we are so far: The obligatory box top. This kit comes with a finely detailed engine. Here are the first stages of the build. That's just eight parts to get to this stage, The fit is superb. I painted the block and cylinder heads with Tamiya XF-16, and the cam-covers with my own satin black concoction (One part Tamiya X-1, Two parts Tamiya XF-1 + three parts Mr Color levelling thinner). This seems to make a satin black that is easy to paint and with a finish not as glossy as X-18. I mix up about 25 mL and store in a glass bottle. This gives me enough to spray, if I need to, and it will brush paint well as well. One thig that I though looked a bit naff about the kit was the front disc brakes. For some reason, Hasegawa had moulded them on the 'chrome' tree. Some parts look right in high chrome, like the bumpers, and headlamps/tail lamps. But the front discs and callipers? I think not. This is what they looked like: A touch garish, I think. So out came the tub of caustic soda solution I keep in the garage, and I popped the offending items in it for about 50 minutes, and the result was: Completely stripped. They do seem to be coated in some kind of high-gloss varnish which the caustic soda won't touch, but the removal of the "chrome" seems to reveal more of the moulded detail. So, a quick priming with my 'grey primer' concoction followed by the right kind of colours, will make them more realistic, I think... That was where I stopped taking pictures, as I was making such good progress on the model. Anyway, this where I have got by early this morning... The sharper-eyed of you may have noticed that one of the air filter chambers is not yet fitted. That's because I forgot to cut it from the sprue and fix it on. For small parts, I tend to prime and paint them on the sprue then tidy them up on removal before attaching them to the assembly. This is nearly done. I'll show the images soon. Thanks for looking. Cheers, Alan.

The 1983 animated feature "Crusher Joe" is chock-full of great mechanical designs by Studio Nue; this is the 1000 m battleship Cordoba, designed by Shoji Kawamori ("Macross"), crushing space pirates acrosss the galaxy. The Hasegawa kit from their Creator Works line is as good as it gets, with ultra-fine details across the surface. Some seams required a hint of putty, but overall, it's a straightforward build. I imagine this ship also would look very cool in a Chris Foss inspired scheme. This is the main character's ride, the Fighter 1, also designed by Kawamori:

Hi folk's thought I would again attempt building this pair I think I had entered them in a GB last year but nothing progressed.With a whif of Jaguar about it the F1 is a beautiful looking aircraft and this boxing offers three nice scheme's with the bonus for me of not ever building the kit or aircraft type before.