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Here is my 6th finished Harrier model - this time 1:72 AV-8B Plus Harrier II of Spanish Navy. Aircraft VA.1B-37, side no. 01-925 in a special livery for Royal International Air Tattoo 2019. Hasegawa kit D24, Eduard PE set, Brengun nozzles, Series Espanolas decals and some scratch. Thanks for watching!

#21/2018 After some pause, now a new Japanese subject from my dad. Hasegawa kit, Fine Molds seat belts, EZ Line for antenna wire, Gunze and Tamiya acrylics used, selfmixed orange-yellow. Build thread here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/ind ... ainer-ijn/ Model depicts a 21st Kokusho, Tsukuba Naval Flying Group aircraft in 1944. DSC_0003 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0002 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0003 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0004 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0005 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0006 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0007 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0008 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0009 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0010 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0011 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0012 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0013 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0014 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0015 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0016 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0017 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0019 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0002 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr

Nakajima B5N 'Kate' IJN Soryu December 1941 I've built a lot of WWII Japanese aircraft but nothing new for a l-o-n-g time. So when a good friend here in NZ (an American ex-pat) announced he was selling off some of his Hasegawa IJN/AF kits, I was first in the queue. Other than the seat harnesses from masking tape, what you see here is exactly what you get in the box, the aircraft was part of the first wave off Soryu on December 7th 1941. Yes the brown mottle was probably more dense on the actual machine and there is some question as to whether the undersides were unpainted (like this one), painted aluminium dope or grey, but I've used a little artistic license, because why not ? Build was virtually faultless like so many Hasegawa kits from the 1990's, mnimum amount of filler and sanding needed. Essential IMHO is the Eduard mask set - wouldn't like to guess how much time that saved me !. All the best from NZ, please feel free to ask any questions or make any comments. Ian.

F-16C Fighting Falcons of the 86th Tactical Fighter Wing Ramstein, Germany, 1987 Red/Black - 526th Tactical Fighter Squadron Green/Black - 512th Tactical Fighter Squadron Hasegawa 1/72 kits

Here's my finished Finnish Draken Kit is Hasegawa and the scale is 1/72. Decals are a mix of Galdecal and couple other random sheets to get most of the decals I wanted or close enough correct decals. Plane in question is Finnish J35S Draken in march 1984, DK-215 - this is the same individual plane that later got painted in rather striking black and yellow farewell scheme in 2000. Quite faded paintjob apart from the tail section which has been recently replaced. Aftermarket parts include resin seat, Kuivalainen PE parts and Maestro pitot tube. Painted with Vallejo acrylics and weathered with Flory washes and oil paints.

Hello all, Here is my 1/72 Hasegawa Skyraider double build. This started with the Vietnam-era A-1J, that I built in "The Salty Sea Dog GB" and finished a few weeks ago. I used Airwaves PE for the cockpit, a Squadron vacform canopy, Master brass gun barrels & pitot and Reskit main wheels. Scratchbuilt details: some additions in the cockpit, canopy actuator mechanism and brake wires. Armament consists of Eduard Zuni's and Hasegawa rocket launchers. The very nice resin/PE towbar is from Brengun, wheel chocks are from Verlinden and the Aero 12C bomb cart was also scratchbuilt. Painted with Tamiya/Gunze acrylics, Alclad for the metal parts and weathering with oils. Decals are mostly from an old Microscale sheet, with a few taken from a Hasegawa sheet and some spare numbering. Link to the WIP: This was actually a great GB, with some spectacular ships, aircraft and other things being built! .... As I really enjoyed building the Hasegawa Skyraider, I took another one from the stash to finish it as an Airforce aircraft of around the same era. I used the remainders of the Airwaves PE set, a Taurus canopy, Master pitot and guns, the remaining Reskit tailwheel and again scratchbuilt items around the cockpit, canopy actuator, brake lines and some antennae. For the extensive set of ordnance I added scratchbuilt napalm cannisters, more Hasegawa LAU-3 launchers, scratchbuilt "Willy Pete" M47 WP (White Phosphorus) smoke bombs, CBU-25 from the kit and SUU-1 miniguns from the Special Hobby AH-1G kit. I came across reference pictures of the particular 6th SOS aircraft I was building, showing one of these miniguns with its front cover removed, so I scratched these interior parts also. For those interested: check out the top 3 pictures on the Skyraider.org website, here is a link: https://skyraider.org/skyassn/otherpics/ludwig/ludwig.htm Paints are again mostly Tamiya/Gunze acrylics with airbrush shading and oils for weathering. Decals are from a Superscale sheet, although I chose to mask and airbrush the red, white and blue tail. To finish, I added just a little bit of pigment dusting on the wheels and bottom of the tail. OK, on to the pictures: Credits background picture: designed by Freepik, photo by Ninjason1 https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/body-water-cloudy-sky-during-sunset_13139232.htm#page=7&query=body of water under cloudy sky during sunset&position=45&from_view=search&track=ais Credits background picture: designed by Freepik: https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/cloudy-sky_4089674.htm#query=cloudy sky industrial building&position=2&from_view=search&track=ais ... the MD-3 Ground Power Unit accompanying the A-1H is a CMK item by the way ... Many thanks for looking! Comments always welcome - all the best! Patrick

This is my first build here. About a year ago I managed to buy such a kit from hands. And I got guns by Master this week. But I want to build A3's variant in Tamiya's kit 61037. First I installed the wheels bay. I cut the plastic incorrectly and cracks formed. I will remove them later. It was also difficult to install the bay in the center. I was upset when I found a stumps on the cockpit floor for his legs. So I made a elements that, in general terms, repeated the original. I will install leg bindings after painting. Edward's photoetch is often flat in cases where it is not. I made a handle instead of a flat piece. Engines are always my headache. Only if you are building a large scale model you are not be cut with a scalpel and your desk will not be covered in your blood when you remove the pushers of cylinders. I had made the pushers out of copper wire. My set is A4, but I want A3, so I had made new panels with holes. I wish you a enjoy watching

Yanmar YT5113A Hasegawa 1/35 Hasegawa's new Yanmar Tractor, the first release from their agricultural range which sits alongside the construction machinery range they launched a couple of years ago. It's a fantastic little kit with some amazing detailing, particularly in the cab. The only thing I didn't care for was Yanmar's rather gaudy colour scheme of candy red metallic body panels and gold wheels, so it had to get muddy, as any self-respecting tractor should be. The kit's also rather good value if you order it from HLJ, less so if you get it in the UK where it's almost double the price. Thanks for looking Andy

Hi All. Haven't posted for a long time. This is the first in the series of post about recently completed models. I've started these a few years ago, then stopped, then decided to just finish them as fast as I can (with tradeoffs of course). This one is Ki-61 at Kobe Port Terminal. As you see from actual plane photo it's heavy weathered. I've tried to replicate that as best I could. I think it's ok considering the time I put in but could've been done better.

Hi comrades! Built more than year ago, but photographed recently. All markings masked & painted. Thanks for looking.

Not sure if this was the best choice for this GB but it is a old classic Japanese kit that was still being kitted into the noughties if not the teens, I'd have been gutted if I'd bought a new kit anytime in the last 20 years & found myself with one of these. I did have plans to use the decals from an Airfix Top Gun Skyhawk but upon delving into the box I figured I'll keep them for a better kit, so this one is going to be utterly OOB, probably in a Marine Skyhawk unit scheme, that of VMA-211 Wake Island Avengers. The decals for this were in the box when I bought it but are from another boxing of this kit so still qualify as OOB to my mind. The sprue shot. Steve.

Hi Comrades! Here is my recently completed Spitfire IX. The kit is Hasegawa, decals from Eduard's special edition "Operation Velveta". The Spitfires in Tayeset 107 were from Italian surplus, so they had the non-cripped "c"-wing, unlikely to the Chech originated Spitfires from Tayeset 101. Thanks for looking

My second build is Hasegawa’s 1/48 A-7E Corsair II. The boxing decal option is all over grey, will be looking to use some aftermarket decals to produce something a little more colourful.

Hello Between some warlike aircraft I have spend time building this couple of air racers. This is a special duo box from Hasegawa with these 1/72 North American P-51B/C flown at the time by the famous female pilot Jackie Cochrane. These kits are nice except the depth of the undercarriage which is not enough, but never mind as this is underside. Here is the box which seems unavailable now but somewhere around a modelling show you can hope. First is #90 P-51C and next is #13 P-51B when the aerial mast has disappeared. For each of them I had to cut the propeller blades according to the available pictures. Patrick

G'day all. Just finished this one this afternoon. It's the 1/48 Hasegawa A6M2b Zero from the Rabaul boxing. The interior is dressed up with a Quinta cockpit set and the roundels and tail codes are painted using masks. The cowl gun barrels were replaced with aluminium tube. This one was built for a group build on our club display. Cheers Mick

Well, this kit certainly is big, the biggest I've attempted for sometime. First released by Hasegawa in 1979: My kit is the Revell 2006 re-box: The kit doesn't look that complex, although such size always brings its own (potential) issues: I will probably go for the USN aircraft. The prospect of hand-painting the entire airframe with two coats of paint is one of the reasons why I am allowing myself as much time as possible for this build.

Well this will be my first official GB/STGB of the year……..well we don’t talk about the 1/32nd Kingfisher!!! I have been a bit quiet of late, been mega busy with work, plus trying to clear some of the backlog of builds I have, mostly AFV’s….I have a very low completion rate with these, but have a Rhino & Rooikat done and another 3 or 4 more almost, so it has been time well spent when I have it. So this is just a nice straightforward build for me, with Hasegawa’s lovely 1/48th F-8E Crusader being the build of choice for this one. I picked this up a little while ago for the really nice price! It’ll be as close as I can do to a straight out of the box build……….so AM bits will be included …. …..a Wolfpack Cockpit set and Eduard Exhaust set…. …plus Aires Engine Duct Bay and ResKit wheel set……photos to come. The scheme will be straight out of the box, a VF-191 “Satan’s Kitten’s” bird. This will be something nice and simple to get me back into the GB groove……plus I may have a 2nd off-topic build going on at the same time (an Eduard VF-6 Wildcat), so photo-bombs away!!

This is the second one of Hasegawa's 1:8 Scale Museum Series Camels that I have built. The kit remains the most enjoyable that I have assembled and the multimedia aspects of it call on a lot wider skills than I tend to employ on polystyrene kits. The aircraft is completed in the colours of one flown by the American RFC pilot Elliot White Springs, after he transferred to 148th USAS. I've built it as an 'engineering example' so deliberately haven't gone in for any weathering or chipping. Likewise the aircraft isn't a 100% copy of EWS' as he had the upper wing cutout enlarged as well as a few other mods. The model has actually been built for a guy in America who liked my first build, detailed on my blog, and asked if he could buy it. Instead I agreed to build the Hasegawa kit he had in his stash for him. Close up the second model has come out quite a bit better than the first, dammit. I thoroughly enjoyed the build though, even second time around, and at least I don't have the storage problem to worry about. Space on the modelling desk can become a bit tight towards the end of the build. And here it is with its temporary stablemates. The other half wouldn't have gone for a third hanging up in the lounge anyway!

Hello, I'd like to join this groupbuild with a 1/72 build of this subject: I have both the original Hasegawa boxing and the later Revell rebox with Cartograf decals, will decide which to start after inspection. Need to clear a bit the bench so don't expect a quick update. Thank you!

Here's my latest finish which I started for a Falklands 80 group build last year but was a hangar queen until very recently. It's my effort at a 1/72 Argentine Dagger converted from a Hasegawa Kfir. This involved removing the canards, reshaping the tail fillet and wing leading edges and some other plastic bodging. It's definitely not one for the purists and I admit some of the finer details are not 100% accurate for a Dagger. But happy how it turned out and looks ok from across the room. The paints are by Mr Hobby and the decals are from Xtra Decal. Thanks for looking, take care and happy modelling. Der 1_72_Hasegawa_Dagger_Conversion_done (16) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr 1_72_Hasegawa_Dagger_Conversion_done (3) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr 1_72_Hasegawa_Dagger_Conversion_done (5) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr 1_72_Hasegawa_Dagger_Conversion_done (7) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr With the Argentinian Airfix A-4 Skyhawk and ex-Heller Super E 1_72_Hasegawa_Dagger_Conversion_done (12) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr 1_72_Hasegawa_Dagger_Conversion_done (14) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr 1_72_Hasegawa_Dagger_Conversion_done (8) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr

This one took a long time, especially the painting. I was struggling with a good method of chipping at such a small scale. All hairspray, chipping medium etc. were producing way to coarse chips. I think they're fine for 1:35 but not 1/72. I've experimented a lot on some cheap Armourfast models and finally found a good one that served me well. Instead of any chipping medium I've coated the primed model with Alclad lacquer. After long curing I've sprayed the main yellow coat and gray-ish camo over that. Then I used very little airbrush cleaner, just to soften the paint and scratched the paint carefully with a needle, toothpick and small hard brush here & there. The advantage is that I could slowly wipe off the paint in some places creating this sort of 'gradient'. It looked like it was naturally worn off. Took a lot more time that a 'normal' method but at least I was satisfied with the result. After all that a normal enamel wash & pigments weathering came on. Another problem was the tracks. Those rubber ones gave a me a real headache as the paint was peeling off them so easily. Finally I've found out the painting the directly (without primer) with Mr. Hobby metallic paints stops peeling. They hold on the the rubber pretty well. I'm quite pleased how it came out. Some people may say it's a little bit overdone but I kinda like those heavy weathered models. The stowage comes from various resin packs I've gathered Here are some pictures And some un-photoshopped ones Thanks for viewing, comments welcome

I have a Draken! It's the Hasegawa 1/72 - rather nice looking kit. Some light reference material too. I have a proper book about Finnish Drakens too (I think) - I just need to find it. My hobby room is a mess at the moment due to some renovation. Plastic parts. I will be doing DK-215 which is 35S variant. DK-215 is the same plane which flew the Draken's final flight in Finland in a rather striking yellow scheme with a big european bison painted on top. But I will be doing it in normal service era camo. Some aftermarket stuff - PE inside the cockpit, pitot tube and a resin seat.

Hello Please check out my newest project. It's Akagi in 1:350 scale from Hasegawa plus tones of PE. Cheers

I will call this one Would have, Could have, Should have(edit). Started later 2022 and rested in my Halfway house of models before being dusted off and finished just in the last few weeks. Thank you's go to @Steve in Ottawa @Sabrejet and @Gene K for advice, guidance and encouragement. Always appreciated. As well a modelling Yoda http://soyuyo.main.jp/index.html whose in depth study of the Hasegawa kit was valuable to this build. Decals are Leading Edge with stencils from Gene. Thank you for viewing and comments always welcome.

I currently have four ongoing builds in this groupbuild. Three are approaching the final furlong. It's a long groupbuild, so why not start another? This one is a true classic. The Hasegawa Mirage F1C, from 1983. I love this kit and have built numerous models from it over the years. It has been surpassed by the recent Special Hobby kit but in my opinion it is still very worthwhile and stands up well in comparison to the SH kit. A few years ago I had a number of these in The Stash (mostly the Revell boxing) but I have built them all. This is my last one. The kit is typical Hasegawa fare from that period, with raised panel lines and a very sparse cockpit. But it's a pure joy to build. This is gonna be fun!