New Hasegawa kit: Ferrari 312T2

[nniemi]

Hasegawa has confirmed that the kit previously known as "unknown F1" -kit is Ferrari 312T2.

http://happy.ap.teacup.com/applet/ru...1/archive?b=10

-Niko

[jano11]

Excellent news. I pre-ordered it hoping it will be a Ferrari!

[Eric Cole]

The engine detail looks excellent. The wire mesh covers over the trumpets, the "fiberglass" parts molded in clear is an awesome touch. Now, I can make them look like fiberglass instead of just painted plastic.

This (and the upgrade set sure to follow) is a must have for me.

[DasWiesel]

Fantastic! I do not even dare to hope it´s 1:24 !?? Can anybody tell me?

[allnie]

AMAZING. JUST AMAZING. Quality and super detailing look likes something from MFH. I am already waiting for the next kit to appear. It looks too good to be true. Much, much better than the 1:24 F1 kits we saw years ago from Hasegawa.

[jano11]

Originally Posted by DasWiesel

Fantastic! I do not even dare to hope it´s 1:24 !?? Can anybody tell me?

It's a 1:20!

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

Originally Posted by DasWiesel

Fantastic! I do not even dare to hope it´s 1:24 !?? Can anybody tell me?

1/24 would be corporate suicide. That would be like Tamiya announcing a new Bugatti Veyron road car in 1/32 scale. 1/20 is the standard/proper scale for F1 models. Don't forget that an F1 car is pretty small compared to a street car. 1/20 scale F1 models are roughly the same footprint and size as a 1/24 street car. Revell 1/24 F1 kits look tiny. Probably the same reason that the meat of the motorcycle model market is 1/12 scale...the model ends up being about the same size as a 1/24 scale model car.

Looks like Hasegawa did a great job on this. Sure wish the US manufacturers had the balls to tool up a new kit and surprise the world with it right before selling it, unlike the standard "announce it now, wait for preorders to trickle in, then decide whether to green light the development and tooling" method that guarantees at least a 1 year wait for anything new they claim to be selling.

[MPWR]

Tamiya seem to be rereleasing some classic Porsche kits.

http://www.tamiya.com/japan/hobbysho...ews2.htm#24310

The 1/24 956, 935, and 1/12 934.

[Seamus McRae]

And 1/20 scale too by the looks

[DasWiesel]

Originally Posted by ZoomZoomMX-5

1/20 is the standard/proper scale for F1 models.

I don´t want to disagree with you about the reasons, but i don´t care about "standards", because i want all my models to have the same scale.
1:20 is just useless for me Thanks for the info anyway!
I´ll better stick to the older Hasegawa F1 kits.

[huff-puff]

Great news!
I really like the 312T2, and Niki Lauda.
I hope they will release more F1 cars.
Maybe Lotus, McLaren.. Tyrrell..

[Veyron]

1/20 gets my vote for F1 scale.

[Fangi0]

...add a different cowling and you've got a 312T, or an early 1977 T2 (with the small NACA ducts...)

I can see Hasegawa getting a lot of mileage out of this tooling..... and if they don't I'm sure the after-market will

[teoteo]

Also Fujimi will release 248F1 next year.

[jano11]

Originally Posted by teoteo

Also Fujimi will release 248F1 next year.

Are you sure of that? It's a pretty recent car and I'd love to see it as an affordable plastic kit, but I would still be surprised.

PS: You were saying something about a 412T2 some time ago, will that still happen (in the near future I mean)?