a 1969 vintage kit that cost around a tenner, it's difficult to find fault given it's age, went together well, a bit fiddly in places and primitive to kits just a short time later, I assume styrene injection molding in those days was still being perfected as the ejection pin and small sink marks show with a tiny bit of flash. Hasegawa seemed to be pretty much 'state of the art' back then at least and better than the likes of Airfix Revell and of course Frog with whom they shared molds with.
If I were to criticize anything, that would be the instructions, a little confusing and decal placement and paint call outs vague at best, this is where a Google search is your friend. The most impressive part of the kit, as with the F-104 built recently, despite being decades old the waterslide transfers behaved magnificently!
One Hasegawa 1/72 Lockheed T33A as a flight calibration aircraft licence built by Kawasaki in 1958
Miko (the T33A was still in service with JASDF until june 2000!)
If I were to criticize anything, that would be the instructions, a little confusing and decal placement and paint call outs vague at best, this is where a Google search is your friend. The most impressive part of the kit, as with the F-104 built recently, despite being decades old the waterslide transfers behaved magnificently!
One Hasegawa 1/72 Lockheed T33A as a flight calibration aircraft licence built by Kawasaki in 1958
Miko (the T33A was still in service with JASDF until june 2000!)
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