Totalize Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 (edited) Looks like 1/32 P-40N's are as scarce as hens teeth. Hasegawa and the Eduard Kit (rebox of Hasegawa?) are either OOP or those that are available need a king's ransom to acquire them. Are P-40's in general popular because of all the interesting nose art they had? Tamiya would make a killing if they came out with any P-40 except the E. What say you? P.S. feel free to add you own cliche's to this thread Edited April 6, 2019 by Totalize Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyChris Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Agree with you mate, been looking on evil bay at the prices for the Hasegawa P40, too rich for me! Be great if tamiya tackled it in 1/32 scale... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 I bought one years ago sort of on auto pilot. I liked the other variants. Kinda weird that this is the "scarce" kit. Other variants are still around. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Williams Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Actually, I think the P-40M is the rarest boxing. The N was reissued twice by Hasegawa, and then once again by Eduard in their special boxing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 How true and I forgot but still goofy business IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 I remember the first time the N kit came out. I only picked it up because HLJ offered free shipping on your entire order if you bought one. I think that was the only time they did something like that. So I wonder if it wasn't as popular in Japan as the other variants which may be why they have reissued as often. Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Don't think it was about popularity. The first release was "Special Version" and the second was "Limited Edition". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 i didn't think they were that rare? Totalize 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Isn't the M an E with a long tail? That you could cobble together. I managed to get two N's, one of the Hasegawa ones (I think thru HLJ), and another of the Eduard variety. LSP_K2 and Troy Molitor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 They were very rare in Europe as well. Even when they were 'available', I never saw each mark I purchased twice! I bought each one separately from different resellers and at model exhibitions. I succeeded in finding six different ones but that was far from easy. Similarly, I missed the Hasegawa Zero A6M7 as I never saw one in Europe. I know that some were imported but the number was probably even lower than the P-40s! Distribution of Hasegawa new kits is a pity... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Luckymodel is still showing the 1/32 Kitty Hawk Mk.1/Mk.3 (kit 08204) as in-stock. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Williams Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Rick Griewski said: Luckymodel is still showing the 1/32 Kitty Hawk Mk.1/Mk.3 (kit 08204) as in-stock. Rick Do you have a link? Searching for the kit number gives no results, and it doesn’t show up if you search for 1/32 Hasegawa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBrown Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 33 minutes ago, Dave Williams said: Do you have a link? Searching for the kit number gives no results, and it doesn’t show up if you search for 1/32 Hasegawa. Lucky Model P-40 Rick Griewski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1to1scale Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 That’s a false in-stock. You can make an early N out of the M kit. They came out of the plant with 4 wing guns, but all were field modified back to 6. The very late N’s were given the new high visibility canopy, but the early ones had much more interesting paint schemes. I have a P-40M I’m willing to sell if you are interested. I have build a few, so I don’t really need the last one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Williams Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 1 hour ago, RBrown said: Lucky Model P-40 Theres something very weird about that page. Many of the buttons and graphics aren’t loading, including the availability status. It almost seems like it’s a cached page that’s no longer active. I’m not having problems with any other LM page, and as I said it doesn’t come up when using their search engine. Rick Griewski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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