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And then there's Hasegawa's 1:72 F2A-1 (and again B-239, same plastic again in both kits).
Does the Hasegawa 1/72 have raised or engraved panel lines? Might like to do it and am hoping for engraved...
Thanks.
Leon
Hasegawa's kit came out in late 90's and has engraved panel lines.
I built the Finnish version for FUMS. A typical Hasegawa's 1:72 kit, nicely done exterior but pretty spartan cockpit. That shouldn't matter much if the canopy is closed. For an opened canopy, I used Pavla's F2A-2 cocpit & canopy set. The cockpit fits to the F2A-1/B-239 nicely, only the lower instrument panel section and seat need to be modified. You can replace the instrument panel section with a piece cut from the styrene part. The seat is even easier, remove the shoulder belts and add the armor plate either from the kit, or better, make from a piece of scrap PE.
But there's one major flaw in the kit that you can either fix or choose to live with. I chose the latter.
It's the nose. The opening in the cowling is round, not slightly oval as it should be, making the nose taper too sharply. In the front the difference is 1.5mm, quite much in 1:72 scale. I read an article about correcting the nose, supposedly it's not overly tricky, but I chose to live with the error, having already assembled the nose section. It's not that the finished kit doesn't look like a Brewsters, but comparing it to drawings and photos reveals the flaw.
If you're wanting to build the finnish version (or F2A-1), Hasegawa is the only game in, at least to my knowlegde. Special hobby's new F2A-3 and British Mk.I look very nice, having superb resin interiors.
Here's review of the F2A-3 version:
Click!I've heard that no F2A-1/B-239 kits are planned, but who knows if they'll release one eventually.
Or just enjoy the pictures 
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