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also, another thing I remember about Hasegawa's Shimakaze kit is the photo etch for it, made by Hasegawa, was some of the nicest, well designed etching I've ever used. They actually design their photo etch to be easy to attach, for example most photo etch handrails that you see for scale models are like pic related on the left, just a flat piece that is thin as fuck that you're somehow supposed to glue to a flat surface, something that ends up never working the first time because the part will inevitably fall over on its side while you try to let the glue dry, leaving glue smeared all over the place and forcing you to get a hobby knife to scrape the part off the plastic damaging it in the process.
While with Hasegawa's photo etch, they design each hard to attach part with these little photo etch bend ends that might slightly mess up the aesthetics, but actually secure the piece to the model easily. It just blows my mind that out of all the photo etch kits from companies like Flyhawk, Pontos, Infini, Lionroar, eduard, and trumpeter that I've used over the years, not a single one of the other brands I've ever used have ever thought to incorporate this kind of design into their photo etch. It's such a simple thing and yet I've only ever seen it in a Hasegawa kit.
Anyways not sure why I went on this rant but as someone that uses a fuck ton of photo etch there's surprisingly little innovation in the design.
