Homebee Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 (edited) Hobby Boss is to release in 2018-2019 a 1/72nd Kawasaki T-4 kit - ref. 87266 Source: https://www.facebook.com/TrumpeterModel/photos/ms.c.eJxFkdGRRTEIQjvaUVGj~;Te2czHmfTJROJhWQVhLnOo~_8tefdtVWg5Zdbfm9F3w0kOaR0Xr1Eeo4d16KWnu0VY~;~;zjfol3cewjzrmwcbHpfV~;vmlYPMP5yN3nzxp6w8M3~;I6~_Vt9~_3Bf8~_5bkz~_xPDH5uvk6~;rr~_ciZv74Wk3~_vv8b37735GHom9j7P~;4y~;6xet7gv20lof3anl8xXdcPyTvW~_8~;qumHWp7J0~;wHK7NkWQ~-~-.bps.a.910352652456662.1073742118.103526326472636/910352895789971/?type=3&theater V.P. Edited May 31, 2019 by Homebee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted March 30, 2019 Author Share Posted March 30, 2019 (edited) Release expected in China in late May 2019 Source: http://www.hobbyboss.com/index.php?g=home&m=article&a=show&id=135&l=en 3D render V.P. Edited March 30, 2019 by Homebee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoops Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 It's really going to be hard to top the Hasegawa kit, that one is pretty good. Cheers, Hoops 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted May 31, 2019 Author Share Posted May 31, 2019 Released in China - ref. 87266 - Kawasaki T-4 Source: http://www.hobbyboss.com/index.php?g=home&m=product&a=show&id=1485&l=en V.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kampartiger Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 (edited) The Hasegawas T-4s in both popular scales are plentiful on the market and cheap too.Why take the trouble of having another one unless Hasegawas are banned from chinese hobby stores!Should spend the money on more rare to find kits such as the TA-4 Skyhawk version or those early French jets. Edited June 1, 2019 by Kampartiger wrong words 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT7567 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 13 hours ago, Kampartiger said: The Hasegawas T-4s in both popular scales are plentiful on the market and cheap too.Why take the trouble of having another one unless Hasegawas are banned from chinese hobby stores!Should spend the money on more rare to find kits such as the TA-4 Skyhawk version or those early French jets. Two related answers to this: 1) The Hasegawa kit may not be as "plentiful and cheap" as you perceive it to be, especially if you're considering secondary market (e.g. "Bay of E") or old stock still on the shelves of your local shop(s). 2) As is frequently observed when comments like this come up, Hobby Boss makes £0.00 (or ¥0.00) from sales of Hasegawa's. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackman Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 (edited) 20 hours ago, Kampartiger said: The Hasegawas T-4s in both popular scales are plentiful on the market and cheap too.Why take the trouble of having another one unless Hasegawas are banned from chinese hobby stores!Should spend the money on more rare to find kits such as the TA-4 Skyhawk version or those early French jets. I agree. Is there really a huge demand from chinese modelers for the Japanese T-4? HB should have instead invested the tooling for something that's more exotic such as downsizing their 1/32 & 1/48 kits into 1/72 Mig-19s, FTC-2000, F3H Demon , FJ-4 Fury, etc. Heck, if they're competing with Hasegawa, a line of 1/72 F-111s will fly off the shelves! They already have the 1/48 CAD drawings. They just need to downsize to 1/72. edit: 1/72 Hasegawa T-4s go for less than US$10: https://hlj.com/search/go?p=R&srid=S1-6IADP&lbc=hobbylink&w=1%2f72 t-4&url=https%3a%2f%2fhlj.com%2f1-72-scale-kawasaki-t-4-jasdf-blue-impulse-2002-hsgd11&lgsku=HSGD11&rk=2&uid=437078542&sid=1&ts=custom&SLIPid=1559452931687&lgkey=https%3a%2f%2fhlj.com%2f1-72-scale-kawasaki-t-4-jasdf-blue-impulse-2002-hsgd11&rsc=M670rVaH7bUKIEAC&method=and&af=selectmanufacturer%3ahasegawa&isort=score&view=grid https://hlj.com/search/go?p=R&srid=S1-6IADP&lbc=hobbylink&w=1%2f72 t-4&url=https%3a%2f%2fhlj.com%2f1-72-scale-kawasaki-t-4-j-a-s-d-f-hsgd12&lgsku=HSGD12&rk=3&uid=437078542&sid=1&ts=custom&SLIPid=1559452931687&lgkey=https%3a%2f%2fhlj.com%2f1-72-scale-kawasaki-t-4-j-a-s-d-f-hsgd12&rsc=rOPr%3a-gHTNraxAbb&method=and&af=selectmanufacturer%3ahasegawa&isort=score&view=grid Edited June 2, 2019 by Jackman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pollie Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 The (minor) downside to the 1/72 Hase kit is the lacking centreline pylon + fueltank. The Hobby Boss boxtop does show a T-4 with the centreline fueltank but is that also in the box? Some JASDF T-4s have been spotted flying around with some kind of 'sniffer' pod on the centreline, would be great if that was included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 Sprues: http://www.hobbyboss.com/index.php?g=home&m=product&a=show&id=1485&l=en V.P. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinBK Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 The display stand is a good idea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulcrum@ Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Is it available ? i can't find it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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