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                        Hasegawa 1/48 Japanese

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Hasegawa 1/48 Japanese
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:48 PM
                        I've always wanted to try a Japanese aircraft, since I want to practice with extremely weathered paint. I bought 2 Hasegawa 1/48 kits today. One is the Nakajima kate and the other is the Saiyun (Rainbow Cloud). From the look of it, the kits seems very well engineered and molded. But just out of curiosity, is there any aftermarket parts or is their any deviations from the kit instruction that I should follow? I know sometimes the instruction booklet aren't very accurate...
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                        rjkplasticmod
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                          February 2003
                        • From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State
                        Posted by rjkplasticmod on Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:20 PM
                        I've built 2 of the Kates. Excellent kit with no significant problems. Only aftermarket I used were PE seat belts from Eduard. Kit instructions are fine but I always modify to suit my building habits.

                        Rick
                        RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:52 PM
                        Why are there so many darkened "parts unused" on the parts diagram. Do Hasegawa just make one mold for an aircraft and just change the decals/instructions for a particular model?

                        The booklet just provided marking and decal for the "green" version, but I want to do a "gray" version. Is it possible?
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:24 PM
                        For those 2 kits I bought, the instruction only has closed canopy. What about opened canopy!?
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 25, 2003 9:27 PM
                        Okay nevermind the above 2 postings. Problems solved. Anyway, I wonder if all the Japanese aircraft in WW2 had poor paint which always chipped...

                        Those 2 aircraft I bought are really small and the instructions is only a couple of pages...really simple build. I wonder if anyone can win IPMS with any of those...
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