First, she's Academy, not Hasegawa :-)
I wish I could swing the money for that kit, I was looking at it on a hobby shop shelf today, at $200.00 Canadian, its way over my budget for plastic fun :-(
Perhaps if they come out with other variants, say older A and B variants with Canadian and Australian decal options I might loosen up my wallet just a slight bit.
What I really would like to have seen was some international markings on the decal sheet of this kit, according to the review, the kit included the spotlight for night intercepts present on Fin, Swiss and Canadian machines. The Fins and the Swiss are C model users so why not include them. The Kuwaitis are also C models users and I'd say have the most attractive standard paint scheme of any Hornets I've seen.
Yeah, I know someone's saying "Wait for the aftermarket stuff, it'll be there." Let me remind you this is $200.00 worth of kit here in Canada, at that price we shouldn't need to go running our spending higher with aftermarket anything.
She's a beauty of a kit though and well past time for us to see a 1/32 Hornet on our hobby shop shelves. I'll keep wishing for my lottery numbers to come up!