1/32 Hasegawa Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden (Jack)

[JohnT]

According to Cybermodeller web site it looks like being a new tool Raiden in 1/32 soon. Looks interesting and might look quite nice against a Tamiya 1/32 Pacific Theatre P51 ?

Sorry if this is "old news"

http://www.cybermodeler.com/news/hasegawa.shtml

JohnT

PS How did they "lose the original mouldings in a shipwreck"???????

Edited August 1, 2011 by JohnT

[Jon Kunac-Tabinor]

According to Cybermodeller web site it looks like being a new tool Raiden in 1/32 soon. Looks interesting and might look quite nice against a Tamiya 1/32 Pacific Theatre P51 ?

Sorry if this is "old news"

http://www.cybermodeler.com/news/hasegawa.shtml

JohnT

PS How did they "lose the original mouldings in a shipwreck"???????

Hi John - A 1/32 Raiden was originally released by Revell in the late 60s/early 70s ( together with a KI-61 and an N1K1-J). After a few runs the moulds were being shipped by sea to another country when the ship was lost. Ergo the moulds went to see Davy Jones, and these 3 kits have been rare as ever since fetching pretty high prices for pretty basic models .

With the release of the Raiden, and its previous Ki61 Hasegawa are finally consigning the Revell models to the kit-collectors market. I bet we'll see a Shiden in a few years form them too.

cheers

Jonners

[JohnT]

Thanks for that Jonners. I did wonder if "shipwreck" was a euphamism for some other catastrophe but it really was a shipwreck. Suspect you are right about the shiden.