2010 is really looking set to be the year of the Friedrich with Hasegawa's new-tool 1:32 kit due for release next month.

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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

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

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

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 **

Looks pretty interesting


Cheers Nick

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.

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are even shallower in profile than their 1/48th ones: Why spend all this effort on something that will be totally outdated in short order?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Sorry for the rant, but there are better things to do than build this outdated crap...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.