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| New tool Kawanishi H8K Emily from Hasegawa | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 22 2016, 11:18 AM (3,390 Views) | |
| Zemmix | Aug 22 2016, 11:18 AM Post #1 |
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One of Hasegawa's new reveals for the Tokyo show is going to be a new tool H8K2 Emily kit. https://www.facebook.com/hasegawamodel/posts/889390074538550 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| InchHigh | Aug 22 2016, 01:13 PM Post #2 |
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It's a good day to build.
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Outstanding!
A new tool Emily has been on my want list ever since reading the Aero Detail volume. With any luck the Mavis will follow as well.
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Jeff Time spent modeling is not deducted from your lifespan. I spent most of my money on beer and women. The rest of it I just wasted. | |
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| Greenshirt | Aug 22 2016, 01:24 PM Post #3 |
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Tim Holland, Southern MD - USA
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By Hasegawa...I applaud their effort to renew their range and this is certainly a large subject that needs retooling.
From the engineering drawings of the kit, it appears they'll put detail in it, unlike the past with 1/72 kits. That at least may keep the a/m necessities to minimum. Regardless of the quality I'll likely wait to buy it on the secondary market, or on sale. I suspect it may be a very expensive kit if their single engine repops are any bench mark. Tim |
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Tim Holland I'm a "green shirt" because I work on the carrier's flight deck and maintain US Navy aircraft. Safe sorties are my life so we can be anywhere, anytime -- from the Sea. http://greenshirt-modeler.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Steve N | Aug 22 2016, 06:05 PM Post #4 |
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I literally just logged on here to ask about this! Someone posted this Hasegawa catalog page in a Facebook eggplane group this morning. ![]() The Emily immediately caught my eye..unfortunately the pic was too low-resolution to tell if they were simply re-popping the 40-something year old rivet monster or not..the inset pics seemed to indicate some features not present on the old kit. I thought maybe they were doing like Italeri and upgrading some older kits with a few new bits. There doesn't appear to be anything on the Hasegawa website about it, although they do mention a "limited edition" re-pop of the old Emily. If this is an all-new tool it is most welcome! Now, could you pretty please give us a new-tool Ki-21 "Sally?" And while you're at it, a new-tool early Betty (G4M1) would be nice too.... SN |
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| dixieflyer | Aug 22 2016, 10:18 PM Post #5 |
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Hero
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Wow! This is awesome news if it's a new tool, and yeah, looking at the prices they charged for their Lancasters and B-24's it'll be pricey. And what Steve said too, a Ki-21, a G4M1, etc. t'would be extra nice. Warren |
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| InchHigh | Aug 22 2016, 10:46 PM Post #6 |
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If you blow up the picture the ad shows a price of 8,800 Yen. That's about $87.00 US at the current rate. Following their usual mark down that would be about $70.00 from Hobby Link Japan. I'm already saving my Yen. |
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Jeff Time spent modeling is not deducted from your lifespan. I spent most of my money on beer and women. The rest of it I just wasted. | |
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| Zemmix | Aug 23 2016, 02:39 AM Post #7 |
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A higher resolution pdf can be found on their site now. http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/hsite/wp-c...NRSP_SCALE2.pdf There will be an accompanying photo-etch set for 2,000yen (or 1,600 yen on HLJ). |
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| Mark Schynert | Aug 23 2016, 04:16 AM Post #8 |
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That looks fun. If it's really a new tool, and not the grapefruit-rivet kit I've already got.
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| jimmy brown | Aug 23 2016, 05:56 AM Post #9 |
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Wanted one of these for a long time. For some reason I thought Frog made the Mavis & Emily |
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| Zemmix | Aug 23 2016, 06:12 AM Post #10 |
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Available for order on HobbyLink Japan now: http://hlj.com/product/HSGE45 And the PE Set: http://hlj.com/product/HSGQG67 |
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| Chuck1945 | Aug 23 2016, 03:15 PM Post #11 |
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Hero
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Back in the 60s Frog boxed some Hasegawa kits for sale in at least England. I had an Emily in a Frog box years but finally unloaded it. |
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Chuck Eastern WA, USA Finished 2018: Eduard Spitfire IXc, VIII, Monogram/Starfighter BFC-2 On the active bench: Eduard Bf 110C, Hasegawa B-24D, SH P-40E | |
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| Graham Boak | Aug 23 2016, 04:17 PM Post #12 |
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Frog also reboxed the G8N Renzan, plus a range of others. |
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| ww2nut | Aug 23 2016, 04:21 PM Post #13 |
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Hero
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Great news...sold my old tool kit years ago as the amount of work involved to build it didn't match my desire to have one built in my collection. This one is another story...maybe the Mavis will get the same treatment at some point. Joe |
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| Zambudio | Aug 24 2016, 04:55 PM Post #14 |
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Hero
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This is great news and quite a bold move by Hasegawa. I am very happy to see this large flying boat being released as a modern kit and will save some money to order it from Japan. Btw, I built the original Hasegawa 'rivet monster' Emily from 1972 around 1990/91, so I am fully sympathetic to Joe's reluctance to upgrade his sample to modern standards...
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"Don't tell my mother I'm a banker, she thinks I play the piano in a brothel" Great Depression joke | |
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| Graeme H | Aug 25 2016, 12:08 AM Post #15 |
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Hero
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Well if this is a new mould, I will get one, Significant aircraft for me, as the only aircraft type to bomb my city, back before my time though |
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A new tool Emily has been on my want list ever since reading the Aero Detail volume. With any luck the Mavis will follow as well.


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