Re: the Frog 1/72 Gloster meteor Mk IV is a nice starting point to convert it in a decent model ?

Hasegawa dont do a Meteor, sure you not meaning the English Electric Lightning?

Gondor

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But Hasegawa -did- do a Meteor. Hasegawa issued a number ex-Frog kits in the late '60s and early '70s.

The Hasegawa kit number for its re-issue of the Froggie Meteor IV was JS-59.

Cheers and all,

This is a cool bit of model kit trivia I was unaware of.

This makes some kind of sense since FROG and AMT were reboxing Hasegawa kits in the late '60-early '70s.

This seems to parallel Tamiya's release of several 1/72 Italeri modern jets in Tamiya boxes. I first saw these at an IPMS regional this year when the vendor who was selling them indicated that Tamiya wanted to get into the 1/72 aircraft field and initially didn't have a significant product line of their own yet. So to launch the product line, they reboxed several Italeri kits (e.g. Kfir) to get started. They would eventually fill in the line with more of their own kits, which they did.

Martin

Back in the '60s the only Tamiya 1/72 kits that I recall were the Mitsubishi J2M and the J7W1 canard fighter. There may have been others but they don't surface in my dusty memories.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.