1/48 Hasegawa Hayate, 'Frank'

by Andrew Holloway (kaysersoze)

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This is a 'cut away' version of the standard 1/48 Hasegawa Hayate kit. I used CA glue for the seams and as a sanding compound, so I washed the sprues with future/klear before assembly to prevent hazing.
The kit was built over a period of nearly 2 months, not that it took that long to build, just that after I had made the fuselage framework from the photo-etch the kit comes with, I was scared to death of it and put it all away! When I finally got the courage to restart it, it only took a couple of days to go from off the sprues, to the final touches for painting.
The kit is built OOB, except for the big yellow oxygen tank, that was a bomb from a P-47 kit leftover....     The kits decals were used, and I used a mixture of Humbrol and Revell enamels for the colour scheme. After that had dried, on went the decals and a couple of coats of future/klear later, job done.

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I did make some mistakes on this kit, but those are known only to me and my cat!
I have to say that this is up there with my favourite aircraft, as it looks every inch the fighter that it was designed to be.

Andrew

Photos and text © by Andrew Holloway