Revell Lightning

Anyway wanna see some pics of my Lightning stash?

YES!

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Jules is close to the mark, just a little off, when he says that the Hasegawa kit is actually a Frog original. If you have a Hasegawa Lightning it's an original Hasegawa mold. If you have a Frog F266 Lightning produced between 1968 and 1974 it's Hasegawa. If it's produced between 1975 and 1977 it's from a modified Hasegawa mold available only from Frog. The latter is also harder to find.

Tom

Those panel lines look like metal cables that have been welded on!

Yes, i have both sprus to compare, slight differances, the Revell boxed ones dont look as good

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ditto

Rob

Definitely have to file that under important info. I've noticed that the Frog kits have the same parts but different layouts. Those moulds are the ones that went east to the Soviet Union. I have a kit moulded in a reddish-mauve with lots of release on the parts. IIRC, it was moulded in the Ukraine. The decals had the same subjects, just not as well done as Hasegawa's sheets.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

There was a PR11, which was a GA11 withn the PR nose. There were not many of them, but they existed!

The early Hunters did NOT have a smaller tailpipe! The pipe was the same width on all versions.

What they DID have was a slightly longer rear fuselage (externally) which curved up to the tail pipe. For the F6, the outside fuselage was cut back slightly which did away with the up-curve and gave the illusion of the tail being wider.

Much debated point, but someone measured it last year.

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No, the only alterations to Matchbox kits I've seen are modifying the Lynx so that the door is production standard (Pity about the mock up tail boom!) and polishing some of the geodetic out the Wellington due to mould corrosion.

Hasegawa did modify the Lightning mould to add a new cockpitt and other parts. Interestingly, Revell also re-boxed the Novo/Frog kit a few years back!

Just to throw a wildcard in here, there is a rumour that it is a co-operation with Hasegawa, but on a NEW TOOL Lightning, rather than the old one. Look at the suggested price - £12.99??

Also, the mock up is Hasegawa/Frog, but so is the Gannet - and we know that is a new tool.

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Thanks very much for that! That makes a lot of sense. It also means that the early tailpipe can be represented quite easily with an application of filler!

If memory serves, it looks like the Hasegawa Lightening F6, straight from the box.

Don H.