Last week I ordered a Hasegawa F8E on the Rainbow Ten website.
It arrived today.
A MONOGRAM crusader in a hase box.
I kept the decals - the kit - Straight in the bin!!!
NOT HAPPY!!!
That had to be an old release by Hasegawa before they released their own tooling. I think these releases were intended only for the Japanese market, not for export. But, I’d get it out of the bin if I were you. It’s really not a bad kit & if nothing else the ordinance may come in useful on other builds.
Regards, Rick
I bought the Hasagawa F-8E when it was first released. It is definately not the Monogram model. The only fault I had with it was it did not have any missiles with it. It did have the “Y” launchers and the rocket launchers included though.
As stated above, it had to be a mistake some how. The Monogram kit can be built into a nice model. Try and find the correct seat for it. One nice feature is you can model it with folding wings.
Hasegawa did import plenty of Monogram stuff for the Japanese market (I just picked up a Hasegawa boxing of a 1/48 He-111), so it certainly could be a Hasegawa rebox of a Monogram kit. They are clearly marked as Monogram on the boxes, however…actually, the Hasegawa logo is less apparent than the Monogram logo, and in general it’s the original Monogram box art and design.
I can’t imagine Rainbow Ten would unscrupulously sell a Monogram kit as purely Hasegawa. Was there no indication whatsoever on their site as to which specific kit this was? I just scoured their site, but could find no Crusaders at all.
I had already built 2 Hasegawa E’s and thought this would be the same.
The only reason I picked it was for the VF162 ‘Hunters’ decals.
The kit did come with a white metal seat, which I didnt bin.
I have a problem with monogram kits.
I dont like the way they mould the pieces so that they they fit like they came from two totally different kits, and lets not talk about the decal sheets!!! ( the VF162 decal sheet definitely isn’t monogram BTW)
I bought a phantom kit once along,long time ago & i think it was monogram.Nice kit from what i can remember apart from the seat pans in the cockpit was moulded into the cockpit shell! A nightmare to paint!!
I think kit makers should list on the box what other manufacturers they sell/supply/mould for.
Merv
Hasegawa does, as I mentioned in my previous post.
The landing gear and wheels are so weak on the AMT/Ertl, A-10 Thunderbolt, that they tend to bow outand makes the model look ridiculous. I bought this off of E-Bay and realize that this is an older model. I wonder if anyone has had this same problem and solved it in some way. I would really be interested in hearing from you.
The best fix for your problem with the bowing gear is to get the stiffest fine wire you can (it’s available usually where they keep the brass strut and sheet stock and comes in long, clear tubes). You have to bend it with pliars and if you don’t have to bend it that way it’s not stiff enough. Then, use it as the hydrolic lines on the landing gear going down to the brakes. This should help. If you are really amibitous (and I don’t consider the old kit in question worth this) you can scratchbuild gear legs with various sizes of aluminum tubing. They look great, and are not as hard to make as you might think, especially on an A-10, where there are no curves on main gear.
TOM
The stiff wire tom is talking about is commonly called “piano wire”. it is commonly used in flying models for the connection between the radio servos and the control surface or the control connection for control line models. It comes in various diameters, is very stiff, and a bugger to cut.
If you really want to stiffen up the landing gear legs drill down through the middle of the strut and press in a piece of the piano wire. That gear strut will not bow with the wire inside it. rangerj
Do’nt waste a perfectly good unbuilt kit. If nothing else you can use it plain relaxation and as paint test bed when assembled.