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Tag: Hasegawa

  • Another High Flyer

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    Spitfire HF VII, MD114/DUoG, No 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, RAF, Skeabrae, 1943. I hadn’t yet built a Hasegawa Spitfire, and since I didn’t yet have a Mk VII on my shelf decided I’d do this one. The Subject I’ve come to understand that frontline squadrons would rotate on occasion to airfields in the North and East,…

  • Hasegawa F4U-1A Corsair

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    Vought Corsair, F4U-1D, VF-17, Lt Ira Kepford, Solomons, 1944 This is one of those subjects in my “must do” category. Ira Kepford racked up 16 kills in 5 months, 4 in one day protecting a local carrier task group. When he left the combat zone he was the highest ace with the US Navy. This…

  • Hasegawa Spitfire Ia

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    This is a kit I purchased back in the early ’90’s and started shortly after, but didn’t finish until 2009. When I started it I thought it was a good kit. Well, okay the definition of “good” meant “easy to build” and “bad” meant “impossible to build”. At the time this was a good kit,…