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PREVIEW
Hasegawa 1/72 weapons set #2
by Steve Bamford (ARC Staff)
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Hasegawa makes many aircraft model kits, but one sad surprise when you open their jet kits is the lack of ordnance. Hasegawa instead prefers to sell the ordnance separately in ordnance kits. As you can see by the picture above of the boxart....there is plenty of "stores" in this one box.
This set mainly covers a little bit of everything from a gun pods to smart bombs to laser range finders/target locators. Included are two Suu-30 gun pods, two Mk. 20 Rockeye, four GBU-8 TV guided bombs, two GBU-15 TV guided bombs, two GBU-10 laser guided bombs, two GBU-12 laser guided bombs, two HIPEG 20mm gun pods, two SUU-23 20mm guns pods, two Pave Spike laser rangefinder pods, two Pave Knife laser designator pods, two Multiple Ejector Rack and two Triple Ejector Rack.
Also included is a quite complete decal sheet....the clarity of the text is not all readable due to the scale, but the decals are crisply printed. The instructions include painting instructions using Gunze Sangyo Aqueous Hobby Color line of paints. Considering there are only 7 basic colours mentioned in the paint guide in the instructions and the 3 most used are white, silver and olive drab, I doubt anyone will have any problems using their favourite brand of paints.
The casting of the grey plastic is typical Hasegawa high quality. Beautiful panel lines although some are recessed and some are raised and only a microscopic amount of flash.
All in all a good set to have when you want to add these stores to your latest kit.
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The complete kit. |
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Decals are clearer than this.....this is a low resolution scan. |
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| Two of each of these sprues are included |
Review sample kindly supplied by North American Hobbies.
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