Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - 08:03 AM UTC
The Bf 109F has been in the limelight recently thanks to Zvezda's excellent quarterscale version, but largescale modellers look set to be in for an equal treat next month with the release of Hasegawa's exciting new 1:32 kit.
The Messerschmitt Bf106F-4 Trop is new-tooled except for the wings, and includes a seated pilot figure with a choice of three heads. The initial release of this kit will also include a resin-cast figure of German Luftwaffe fighter ace Hans-Joachim Marseille.

Item #HSGST31T is available for pre-order priced ¥4,600 at HobbyLink Japan, whose copyright pictures appear here.

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Hi Rowan, This looks really good, I wonder who will be the first to slag it off? I for one am really looking forward to this, as I have moved up to 1/32 scale and this is perfect for masks I won't be able to get one for a while though as I still can't do any modelling
JUN 01, 2010 - 08:14 AM
Hi Mal Yep - the "Experten" will be lining up to check this out when it appears! Of course, even if they hate it, I think this is almost guaranteed to be a huge commercial success. I can foresee a few subjects for Miracle Masks ahead... All the best Rowan
JUN 01, 2010 - 09:26 AM
Hi Rowan, Isn't that spinner wrong? Yep loads of masks, the subject pictured, Marsellies(Spelling?) yellow 14 is the same as I have in 1/48 scale with a piece of the port wing cross missing, far better depicted when painted on Easy for me to say
JUN 02, 2010 - 08:19 AM
I think the prop is 1/10 mm too large... Painted on markings when perfectly good ones are in the kit?? ** throws arms in air and runs away screaming **
JUN 02, 2010 - 10:10 AM
Looks pretty interesting Cheers Nick
JUN 03, 2010 - 06:02 AM
At a glance the first thing that struck me...no seperate control surfaces? if the 2nd pc is a sprue schematic...which these days suprised me. I hope its better that Trumpies E 3 at least it looks like the right cockpit at a glance.
JUN 04, 2010 - 04:37 AM
22 years of Hasegawa F/G/K Me-109s (since the 1/48th ones) and 22 years of them having a nose that points UP in either scales through all the variants... Note to Hasegawa: The nose of a mid/late Me-109 does not point UP... Also the fuselage cross-section is probably the usual fictional height/width ratio that combines to visually fatten the thing by something like 4-5 inches over the actual fuselage width of 24.5... The 1/32 scale Hasegawa Me-109Gs are even shallower in profile than their 1/48th ones: Why spend all this effort on something that will be totally outdated in short order? Eduard's upcoming Me-109F will likely beat the daylights out of this garbage, even if Eduard keeps the 6 mm error on the lenght of their "E", which is unlikely... Sorry for the rant, but there are better things to do than build this outdated crap... This is just my opinion mind you, but it took me over 10 attempts to fix one single Hasegawa 1/48th kit, with a marginally less awful Otaki nose tacked on it and other parts from several other kits... If you don't care enough about the accuracy of the F to wait a few months for the upcoming Eduard kit, then please just build something else... Gaston P.S. I don't know anything about other existing 1/32 scale Me-109s, as I am a 1/48th scale guy, but they could hardly be worse than any of those from Hasegawa... G.
JUN 04, 2010 - 07:34 PM
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