Homebee Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 (edited) Hobbytime Model Kits ( link & link) is to release a 1/72nd Northrop R/RF-5A Freedom Fighter (plastic ESCI) - ref. 058 Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/greenmats/permalink/3411015518957966/ Box art V.P. Edited October 15, 2020 by Homebee 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted August 24, 2020 Author Share Posted August 24, 2020 (edited) Decals - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1242915152726403&set=p.1242915152726403&type=3 V.P. Edited August 24, 2020 by Homebee 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sroubos Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 (edited) This is the same ESCI tooling as recently released by Wolfpack I think? Good to have it available again, hopefully the price is a bit better than the Wolfpack kit. Edited August 25, 2020 by sroubos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain goat Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 4 hours ago, sroubos said: This is the same ESCI tooling as recently released by Wolfpack I think? Good to have it available again, hopefully the price is a bit better than the Wolfpack kit. Indeed - Italeri will also release the ESCI F-5A later this year I believe. Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Still a very nice kit, I built one a while back (sadly destroyed in a house move, my made up kits looked liked Eindhoven on 1/1/1945) and have at least another in the stash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenDragon Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 (edited) If the price is reasonable might get some but I still have a load of Esci & Italeri kits in the stash. Paul Harrison Think I have several F-5B's in a Revell boxing too. Edited August 26, 2020 by GreenDragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 2 hours ago, Mountain goat said: Indeed - Italeri will also release the ESCI F-5A later this year I believe. That was the plan. Hopefully, that production run wasn't completely dedicated to this one... (i.e. why release/package your own kit at extra cost when you've just sold plastic to another company to release it as well) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayhawk Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Hooray! I've wanted a couple more of this kit and especially since they've included the marking I've wanted. Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain goat Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Perhaps this has already been mentioned on their Facebook page, I don't know - but I just noticed the two sets of both Turkish markings on the decal sheet. It would reasonable to assume there will be two kits per box... Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 On 8/25/2020 at 8:46 PM, alt-92 said: (i.e. why release/package your own kit at extra cost when you've just sold plastic to another company to release it as well) quite often because you have come to a territorial marketing agreement, and lowered the unit production cost for both companies 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 Schemes Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/215551215532252?post_id=1051788005241898 V.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Excellent news. The old Esci kit is excellent IMHO. I shall be stocking up on more with this release. Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 I hole that the release of this one and the Italeri box will convince a few companies to offer some aftermarket parts. There is very little today for the F-5A 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 On 8/27/2020 at 3:14 PM, Mountain goat said: but I just noticed the two sets of both Turkish markings on the decal sheet. It would reasonable to assume there will be two kits per box... Three, actually. Per that logic, three kits. But look at the stencil set: just one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 They just need to add the two-seater to the range Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trenton guy Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 On 8/28/2020 at 2:05 PM, Giorgio N said: I hole that the release of this one and the Italeri box will convince a few companies to offer some aftermarket parts. There is very little today for the F-5A Wonder if Sword still has the molds for the very decent resin canopy mechanism that was included in their T-38 kits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airjiml2 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) Ugh, and more poor Canadian decals. Luckily in this case, the issues with 116744 are easy to fix, just leave off the wing markings. The earlier CF-5 scheme didn't have any! Jim Edited September 8, 2020 by airjiml2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted October 15, 2020 Author Share Posted October 15, 2020 Released - https://www.hobbytime.com.tr/urun/f-rf-5a-freedom-fighter V.P. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 162.96 TRY =17.50 EUR / £16. That's if you can get it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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