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I just wondered when somebody would ask this!
Pat Macguire
- posted 14 years ago
Revell Lightning
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- posted 14 years ago
I'd never even heard of Hasegawa in 1968. Frog were still owned by
Triang-Rovex at the time.
(kim)
(kim)
- posted 14 years ago
It is definitely the Frog:
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(kim) - posted 14 years ago
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They were so great they had my name on the box :-)- posted 14 years ago
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What a shame. I definitely wn't be buying it. Not at that price.So, we still don't have a modern kit of the Lightning F6. There is a forthcoming F3 from MPM.
So here's a thought. MPM also produce kits for Xtrakits (Hannants own brand). The MPM Meteor FR9 is also the Xtrakits Meteor F8. The forthcoming Sea Vixen will be boxed by MPM as the Mk1 and by Xtrakits as the Mk2.
Given that MPM will be producing a Lightning F3, what at the chances of Xtrakits releasing an F6? Careful mould design could ensure that the wings and belly tanks all fit on one sprue. This would allow seperate sprues for the F3 and F6.
- posted 14 years ago
Frog had one? Airfix had one out shortly after the design became known.
Pat
Pat
- posted 14 years ago
Which wasn't much to get excited about in its own right.
Pat
Pat
- posted 14 years ago
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That sure looks like the old Hasegawa one I had, right down to the
above-wing fuel tanks, and Red Top missiles.
Way, way, back I had this very poor model of a Lightning that was molded
in silver and predated the Airfix one, at least in its MPC U.S. issue.
It also had Red Tops on it, but no wingtop tanks. That may have been a
Frog one, although I associate with some Japanese company, and the scale
being smaller than 1/72.Pat
- posted 14 years ago
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Okay, here we go:
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Hasegawa one is the same as the Frog one as they both were marketing
it simultaneously.
I think the other one I remembered was a Eldon Match Kit model of a
Lightning F.2.Pat
Pat
- posted 14 years ago
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no the Revell/Frog is differant to the Hase, compared them both next to each
other, could be a updated copy, but there are small differances- posted 14 years ago
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I remember that one from the RiKo ("Richard Kohnstan") catalogue. It was
listed as 1/100 and was a Japanese brand. There was also a F-104 and MiG-21
in the same series which I would have bought but for the small scale.(kim)
- posted 14 years ago
Not until 1967 according to this list...
(kim)
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...but for whatever reason my favourite model shop had only the Frog kit in
stock in 1968 when I bought mine. From reading reviews I think it was the
same one marketed by Revell until recently with wings that didn't mate with
the fuselage properly? And it was twice the price of Airfix!(kim)
- posted 14 years ago
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Good heavens! There's a Blast From The Past!Didn't they also do MiniTanks?
- posted 14 years ago
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Probably. Almost every brand that was imported into the UK was distributed
by RiKo.(kim)
- posted 14 years ago
I think that he's thinking of the ROCO line of armor....
- posted 14 years ago
If it was the Eldon one, and the others were as good, you were wise not
to buy them. They were very crude kits.
I had some others in the Match Kit series (a He-111, Ju-87, Ju-88,
Lancaster, B-17, Zero, Fokker D-7 and a few others I don't remember)
scale was determined by what would fit in the over-sized matchbook, so
all the models were about the same size.
The fact that they were sold at our local Holiday gas station didn't
exactly argue in their favor either.
Pat
Pat
- posted 14 years ago
The first time people first knew it was the delta, not swept-wing,
MiG-21 that was being mass produced, was due to it's use in the 1963
Arab-Israili war. It had been seen at Soviet airshows but everyone
though it was the swept-wing "Faceplate" that had been selected for mass
production. No one got a really good look at one till the 1967
Arab-Israili war.
It may well have been the Hasegawa one being co-produced by Frog; like I said, it was a pretty crude kit of a MiG-21F early model like the Airfix one. Neither it or the Airfix one was very good, but the Airfix was probably the lesser of two evils, as it was a bit more detailed looking. The interesting one was the IMC version of a MiG-21PF, which gave you the option of showing the aircraft after a missile hit with the pilot ejecting:
It may well have been the Hasegawa one being co-produced by Frog; like I said, it was a pretty crude kit of a MiG-21F early model like the Airfix one. Neither it or the Airfix one was very good, but the Airfix was probably the lesser of two evils, as it was a bit more detailed looking. The interesting one was the IMC version of a MiG-21PF, which gave you the option of showing the aircraft after a missile hit with the pilot ejecting:
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Revell of Germany version is apparently a new molding, and it has a
_lot_ more parts than the early Hasegawa one:
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Pat
- posted 14 years ago
I don't remember that one but I do remember other IMC kits, especially the
bullet-ridden A4. They cost quite a lot more than a dollar by the time they
reached England. My walk to school took me past a shop that specialised in
American imports such as Monogram and Aurora so I spent a lot of time
looking in the shop window.
(kim)
(kim)
- posted 14 years ago
They had a Super Sabre, RF-4C Phantom II, and Skyraider as well as the
Skyhawk and MiG-21
The Skyraider had a transparent molded plastic "spinning" prop included,
witch didn't look as good as the transparent sheet plastic discs that
MPC used.
Pat
Pat
- posted 14 years ago
According to this article it's the exact same model in different boxes:
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